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  • Release Date: 11/09/1993
  • 4 Disc Set
  • Label: ELEKTRA / WEA
  • UPC: 081227143923

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Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding

Disc 1
1LISTENShe's All Right 2:10
2LISTENGettin' Hip 2:12
3LISTENShout Bamalama 1:57
4LISTENHey Hey Baby 2:46
5LISTENThese Arms of Mine 2:33
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Disc 2
1LISTENRespect 2:11
2LISTENYou Don't Miss Your Water 2:52
3LISTEN(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 2:46
4LISTENI Can't Turn You Loose 2:45
5LISTENCupid 3:10
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Disc 3
1LISTENAnnouncement 1:14
2LISTENThe Glory of Love 2:53
3LISTENI Love You More Than Words Can Say 2:55
4LISTENLet Me Come on Home 2:56
5LISTENOpen the Door 2:25
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Disc 4
1LISTENIntroduction Live 0:37
2LISTENShake Live 2:33
3LISTENPain in My Heart Live 2:19
4LISTENThese Arms of Mine Live 2:32
5LISTENCan't Turn You Loose Live 3:28
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Anyone who wants to understand the different phases of Otis Redding's career, and the reason for his having made a major impact across the 1960s and beyond, can have no better place to start than Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding. There are 73 studio cuts here and the producers have reached back beyond the Atlantic and Stax vaults: They've included numbers like "She's All Right," cut by the Shooters featuring Otis Redding in the summer of 1960 for the Transworld label; "Gettin' Hip," which was done for the Alshire label in 1960; and "Shout Bamalama" by Otis Redding & the Pinetoppers, recorded for Confederate, all prior to Redding's signing with Stax. The selection of studio cuts suggests that the makers thought long and hard about each and every track on this disc -- the first three CDs are a mix of single A- and B-sides, coupled with important album tracks, all culminating with "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." Little or nothing that's essential is missing along the way (though one could argue very persuasively that anything on the albums that Redding released in his lifetime was essential in some respect). The fourth disc is the real killer, however; 23 live songs drawn from the complete range of his concert tapes in the Atlantic (and Stax) vaults, from the Apollo Theater in New York in November of 1963 to his final tour of Europe and the Monterey International Pop Festival in the spring of 1967, including individual tracks that were unheard until the 1980s. An extensive booklet is also included. Bruce Eder, All Music Guide

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Otis The Definitive Otis Reddingby Anonymous

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February 01, 2005: quite simply top 5 best of all times. trans-generational, emotion making music. I'm 27 have been a fan of his since my teenage years. just wow!!!!!

Otis The Definitive Otis Reddingby Anonymous

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August 15, 2002: If Ray Charles is the genius of Soul, James Brown it?s godfather, and Aretha Franklin it?s queen, then undoubtably, Otis Redding is it?s king and Booker T. & the MGs, Soul?s crown princes. He?s the only singer I?ve ever heard who sounds like he?s in the room with you. If the world was to face disaster and maybe only some would survive, we would have to place Otis?s recording of Sam Cooke?s ?Change Gonna Come?, his definitive version of ?Try a Little Tenderness? and ?I?ve Been Loving You Too Long?, a song he wrote with the legendary Jerry Butler, in a time capsule. This was soul music. It?s rare when a box set can be enjoyed by someone who is not familiar with the artist. (Another one being Otis?s Stax cohorts, Booker T. & the MGs? Time Is Tight) But Otis?s voice, along with the MGs? majesty made some of the greatest music of all time. What set Otis apart from people, and what eludes many artists, was his ability to turn someone?s song inside out and make it his own. He frequently covered songs by one of his biggest influences, Sam Cooke. Cooke?s ?Change Gonna Come? is a perfectly beautiful record. Why would anyone touch it?!? Otis and the MGs with The Memphis Horns make what could be the most gut wrenching and beautiful and ?soulful? track ever recorded. Also fun is Otis?s cover of Sam Cooke?s ?Cupid?. Cooke?s version is again, quite perferct and way ahead of its time. Redding?s version is stripped down and playful as can be. And when he sings, ?Cupid, please hear my cry?, man he?s crying. Not to be overlooked is Redding?s songwriting talents. Not many black guys are considered when the subject of singer/songwriters are brought up. But he, like Al Green later, wrote many of his best records. Otis wrote many of his songs with Steve Cropper. On the Eddie Floyd/Booker T. Jones written ?I Love You More Than Words Can Say?, Cropper?s and Redding?s musical relationship reaches its full potential. Otis sings, ?Living without you is so painful?, and Cropper?s guitar sings one of it?s most soulful responses. Another treat is the Redding, Booker T. Jones, and Al Jackson written rocker, ?Let Me Come On Home?. But the gem of this set is disc four. Twenty three live songs, edited seamlessly, so it is as if you were at an Otis show. The ?king? outdoes the ?godfather? on ?Papa?s Got a Brand New Bag?, and there?s a heartbreaking version of ?Just One More Day?. It all ends perfectly when Otis Redding and the MGs take you away from everything on a trip to soul heaven with ?Try a Little Tenderness? from Monterey Pop. Music didn?t die with Buddy Holly. It began a slow demise on December 10th, 1967, when Otis Redding passed away. Today, R&B is laughable, Country seems to come off of a conveyor belt, and there?s no such thing as Soul anymore, or Rock & Roll for that matter. Maybe it?s because the hippies grew up and began to run things, or technology, but today, there?s almost no soul left in music. Now we have people who whoop and holler, Trying to be soulful and show range. All they show me is terrible insecurity or ego. It?s like watching an awful actor. It?s pretentious. Hopefully, one day we can wade through all the garbage. The material here will stand the test of time.