The Very Best Of Otis Redding

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Otis Redding was one of the greatest soul singers of all time, I lent my original copy to a friend and he never returned it so the copy I just bought is to replace it and I’m very happy with it It was delivered quite quickly and sounds brilliant thank you

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THE VERY BEST OF OTIS REDDING Nice surprise stocking filler for my daughter, she's a "dirty dancing" fan, some of these songs are from that film

Otis Redding is one of those stars that has left a huge footprint on R&B music. When you play most of these songs you don't realise that has wrote or co-wrote most of these classics all before he was 27yrs old. The recordings seem to be pretty original and later artists like The Commitments have spruced up the performances even further. Never the less the original soul sound of Otis Redding is unmistakable.

I bought this cd back in 2010 but when sorting out all my cd’s I found this cd missing from it’s sleeve. I had to buy it again.

The music is really good and it’s got a lot of the best music by Otis Redding

It was the summer of 1967. Otis Redding was in the midst of the performance of his life at Monterey International Pop Festival. What he was referring to of course was the way Aretha Franklin had turned his song "Respect" into one of the biggest hits of the year. His version topped out at #35 on the pop charts a couple of years earlier. But I digress. Otis Redding was just beginning to hit his stride as summer turned to autumn in 1967. This veteran performer had been around for a while. The fact is that up until this point he had made the Billboard Hot 100 a total of 19 times although his records usually ran out of gas somewhere in the middle of the chart. His tunes fared much better on the Soul/R&B charts where 8 of them had made it into the Top Ten. It is really difficult to understand why the man had not had greater commercial success up until this point. After taking a few months off Otis Redding returned to the studio in early December 1967. There he recorded a song he had co-written with Steve Cropper. Everyone thought it was a mistake. His wife hated it. Three days later Otis Redding was dead at 26, a victim of a tragic plane crash in Wisconsin. When the story appeared in the newspaper I remember thinking to myself "Who is that?" And although I had been collecting records for about three years I had never heard of him. Despite his enormous talent Otis Redding had just not quite connected with general audiences. Less than two months later in January of 1968, Volt records released that tune his wife and friends hated so much. "(Sitting On) The Dock of the Bay" went all the way to #1 on the Pop charts and remained there for a month. Everyone was now beginning to realize just how talented this man had been. There are a few different Otis Redding collections around but I find this to be the best of the lot. You'll hear his version of tunes that went on to become hits by other artists like 1965's "I Can't Turn You Loose" and his dynamic version of the great blues standard "Try A Little Tenderness". In the meantime, you'll also enjoy the exhilirating work of the Stax/Volt house band who were undeniably at their peak during this time. For me other favorites on this compilation are the 1968 hit "The Happy Song (Dum-Dum") and Otis' high energy duet with Carla Thomas "Tramp". An informative 12 page booklet with interesting biographical information and chart data for each track is also included. Believe me you cannot go wrong with this one. Highly recommended.

Ich bin durch einen Fernsehfilm auf 3sat auf Otis Redding aufmerksam geworden und habe mir the very best of gekauft. Ich bin sehr zufrieden mit der Zusammenstellung (alle Titel wurden auch im Film angespielt) und ich habe die CD jetzt schon mehrere Male gehört. Sie bietet einen Querschnitt seines ganz eigenen Souls und natürlich den bekannten Titel: sittin' on the dock of a bay... Mein Urteil: Empfehlenswert für alle, die diesen leider so jung tragisch ums Leben gekommenen Künstler kennenlernen wollen.

Inimitabile, un tuffo nel passato in un mix di brani eccezionali

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日本のキングオブソウル清志郎のアイドル。「ガッタガッタ」いってたのがオーティス・レディングの真似とは知りませんでした。なんだかんだ、知らず知らず、のうちにオーティス信者にされていたという^^