OTIS REDDING "OTIS BLUE/OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL" 1965 VOLT 2st PRESS VG/VG- LP

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THE PHOTO'S MAY BE A LITTLE BLURRY, HAVE A LITTLE GLARE, SOME REFLECTIONS OR IN SOME CASES YOU MAY SEE SPECKS OF DUST. BUT THE PHOTO'S ARE OF THE ACTUAL ITEM YOU ARE BIDDING ON. I DO COMBINE SHIPPING. BUT I DO NOT ACCEPT “BEST OFFERS”, THE MONIES GO TO MY FRIENDS WIDOW.

THESE ARE VISUALLY & PLAY GRADED.

ARTISTS: OTIS REDDING

TITLE: “OTIS BLUE/OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL”

TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTO'S & BELOW

Companies, etc.

• Distributed By – ATCO Record Sales
• Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation

Credits

• Design [Cover Design] – Haig Adishian
• Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Tom Dowd
• Liner Notes – Bob Rolontz
• Supervised By [Supervision] – Jim Stewart

Notes

LABEL: VOLT RECORDS

CAT.#: 412 (MONO VERSION)

YEAR: 1965

RECORD CONDITION:THE RECORD IS IN VG/VG+ CONDITION. NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES, BLEMS ETC. BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER TO THE VINYL. VERY VERY LIGHT BACKGROUND SOUND, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF LIGHT “LINES”, SMALL PAPER SCUFFS BUT THE SONGS PLAY VERY VERY CLEAN! A COUPLE OF LIGHT FINGERPRINT SMUDGES IN THE DEAD WA AREA. THIS PLAYS CLEANER THAN IT LOOKS. THERE'S SPOT ON THE SIDE ONE LABEL WHERE A PRICE STICKER WAS LIFTED.

SLEEVE CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG CONDITION THERE'S NO WRITING ON THE JACKET. NICE STRAIGHT EDGES. NO TEARS/NO SEAM SPLITS, SUPER CLEAN. LIGHT CORNER EDGE WEAR. UPPER LEFT (SEE PHOTOS).ALSO A SPOT ON THE FRONT OF THE JACKET WHERE ANOTHER PRICE STICKER WAS REMOVED, AND SOMETHING PLACED OVER THE TEAR,

MORE INFO: THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. FROM WHAT I CAN TELL THIS IS A FIRST PRESSING.

MORE INFO ON THE ARTISTS/RELEASE:

Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. He is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Redding's style of singing gained inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s. During his lifetime, his recordings were produced by Stax Records, based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia, and at the age of 2, moved to Macon, Georgia. Redding quit school at age 15 to support his family, working with Little Richard's backing band, the Upsetters, and by performing in talent shows at the historic Douglass Theatre in Macon. In 1958, he joined Johnny Jenkins's band, the Pinetoppers, with whom he toured the Southern states as a singer and driver. An unscheduled appearance on a Stax recording session led to a contract and his first single, "These Arms of Mine", in 1962.

Stax released Redding's debut album, Pain in My Heart, two years later. Initially popular mainly with African-Americans, Redding later reached a wider American pop music audience. Along with his group, he first played small gigs in the American South. He later performed at the popular Los Angeles night club Whisky a Go Go and toured Europe, performing in London, Paris and other major cities. He also performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

Shortly before his death in a plane crash, Redding wrote and recorded his iconic "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" with Steve Cropper. The song became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts. The album The Dock of the Bay was the first posthumous album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart. Redding's premature death devastated Stax. Already on the verge of bankruptcy, the label soon discovered that the Atco division of Atlantic Records owned the rights to his entire song catalog.

Redding received many posthumous accolades, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In addition to "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," "Respect" and "Try a Little Tenderness" are among his best-known songs.

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, or simply Otis Blue, released September 15, 1965 on Stax Records, is the third studio album by soul singer Otis Redding. The album mainly consists of cover versions of other R&B and soul artists' hits, and, bar one track, was recorded in a 24-hour period over July 9/10 1965 at the Stax Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Otis Blue was critically acclaimed upon release and became one of Redding's most successful albums; it reached number 6 on the UK Albums Chart, and was his first to reach the top spot of the Billboard R&B chart. Furthermore, it produced three popular singles, all charting at least in the top 50 on both the Billboard R&B and the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is considered by many critics to be Redding's first fully realized album. 

Three of the eleven songs were written by Redding: "Ole Man Trouble", "Respect", and "I've Been Loving You Too Long". Three songs were written by Sam Cooke, a soul musician who had died a few months earlier. As was the case in the previous albums, Redding was backed by house band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, a horn section of members of The Mar-Keys and The Memphis Horns, and pianist Isaac Hayes.

Otis Blue is included in a number of "best album" lists, including Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Time magazine's list of the All-Time 100 Greatest Albums, and Robert Dimery's "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Rhino Records released a two-disc Collectors Edition of Otis Blue in 2008.

Stax Records president Jim Stewart had released Otis Redding's "These Arms of Mine" after hearing him sing it at an audition in 1962; and when it charted, he signed Redding to Stax. Following the moderately successful Pain in My Heart and The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads, both of which performed well in the newly established Billboard R&B LP chart but not in the Billboard 200,preparations for the third studio album followed soon after. The album would be Redding's third studio album and second on Stax's sister label Volt. 

Redding recorded the album with the Stax's house band Booker T. & the M.G.'s (keyboardist/bandleader Booker T. Jones, guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, drummer Al Jackson Jr.), Isaac Hayes on piano, and a horn section consisting of members of the Mar-Keys and the Memphis Horns. The album was recorded in a 24-hour session between 10 am July 9 (a Saturday) and 2 pm July 10, with a break 8 pm Saturday to 2 am on Sunday to allow the house band to play local gigs.[6][7][8][9] As was the case with the previous album, engineer Tom Dowd came to the studios to assist the recording, dubbing Redding as a "genius" next to Bobby Darin and Ray Charles. The album opens with "Ole Man Trouble", which was finished on the sessions earlier than other songs, and was later released as a B-side of "Respect". 

According to the drummer, Jackson, Redding wrote "Respect", after a conversation they had during a break in the recording session, in which he told Redding: "You're on the road all the time. All you can look for is a little respect when you come home." An alternative story is told by Redding's friend and road manager, Earl "Speedo" Sims, who states that the song "came from a group I was singing with", and that even though Redding rewrote it, "a lot of the lyric was still there"; Sims adds: "He told me I would get a credit, but I never did". Sims also states that he sang the backing chorus of "Hey hey hey".[3] The song used for the fifth track, "I've Been Loving You Too Long", had been previously recorded in mono with Booker T. Jones on piano and released as a single in April 1965, becoming a number-two hit on Billboard's R&B chart; it was rerecorded in stereo for the album.

Composition[edit]

The majority of the tracks on Otis Blue are cover versions, including three by Sam Cooke who had been shot dead the previous December. The album opens with the "mournfully harried" "Ole Man Trouble". For Claudrena N. Harold of PopMatters, the song is one of his most phantasmagoric tunes. The lyrics deal with a man, who is "unable to escape the brutal realities of the blues", and has been compared with Paul Robeson's "Ole Man River". "Respect" was inspired by a quote of drummer Al Jackson, Jr., who allegedly said to Redding after a tour, "What are you griping about? You're on the road all the time. All you can look for is a little respect when you come home." 

Essentially a ballad, "Respect" is an uptempo and energetic song, which took "a day to write, 20 minutes to arrange, and one take to record", according to Redding. Aretha Franklin covered this song in 1967 and with it topped the Billboard R&B and Pop charts.Redding shouted to a woman for more respect, while Franklin ironically countered the song and transformed it into a "feminist hymn". The next song is an energetic version of Sam Cooke's ballad, "Change Gonna Come"; a protest against racial segregation and disrespect for black people. "Down in the Valley" is a funky cover of Solomon Burke's original, with whom Redding toured before the recording. Nate Patrin of Pitchfork felt that the song "ratchets up both the gospel beatitude and the secular lust". 

The love song "I've Been Loving You Too Long" was co-written by Redding and The Impressions' lead singer Jerry Butler in a hotel near the Atlanta airport. Redding's rendition of Cooke's "Shake" is again more funky. The song is about the club dancing in the so-called discothèques, which debuted in the early 1960s. The song was described as "a hard-swinging, full-throated 2:40 of precision ferocity with a force that would flat-out explode during his live sets." The last five songs are all covers by popular artists: The Temptations' "My Girl", written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White; Cooke's "Wonderful World"; B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby"; The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction", on which Redding sings "fashion" instead of "faction" and William Bell's "You Don't Miss Your Water", which was characterized as "sorrowful country blues", and has "one of the most devastating pleading-man lead vocals in the entire Stax catalog." "Satisfaction" sounded so plausible that a journalist even accused the Stones of stealing the song from Redding, and that they performed it after Redding.Music writer Robert Christgau describes it as an "anarchic reading" of the Stones' original.

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