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Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Work
Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul · Otis Redding had been signed by Stax Records in 1962 after the label heard him sing at an audition. His third album was released in 1965 on Volt, a subsidiary of Stax. On 9 and 10 July he recorded it, with one exception in less than twenty-four hours, at the Stax studio in Memphis, with the house band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a horn section and Isaac Hayes on piano.
Most of the material consists of covers, including three songs by Sam Cooke, who had been shot dead a few months earlier, and three original songs. So you hear the singer in Respect, in A Change Is Gonna Come and in the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction, which he plays in his own way. Ole Man Trouble opens the record, and he co-wrote I've Been Loving You Too Long. Critics see the album as his first fully successful LP and as the benchmark for soul of that time.
Listening
Track list
- 1Ole Man Trouble2:38Apple Music ↗
- 2Respect2:08Apple Music ↗
- 3Change Is Gonna Come4:15Apple Music ↗
- 4Down In the Valley2:00Apple Music ↗
- 5I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)3:02Apple Music ↗
- 6Shake2:40Apple Music ↗
- 7My Girl2:56Apple Music ↗
- 8Wonderful World3:12Apple Music ↗
- 9Rock Me Baby3:25Apple Music ↗
- 10Satisfaction2:45Apple Music ↗
- 11You Don't Miss Your Water2:50Apple Music ↗
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