Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967)
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 songs by popular R&B and soul artists, 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.[1]
The tracks....
| 1. | "Ole Man Trouble" | Otis Redding | 2:55 |
| 2. | "Respect" | Redding | 2:05 |
| 3. | "Change Gonna Come" | Sam Cooke | 4:17 |
| 4. | "Down in the Valley" | Bert Berns, Solomon Burke, Babe Chivian, Joe Martin | 3:02 |
| 5. | "I've Been Loving You Too Long" | Redding, Jerry Butler | 3:10 |
| Side two | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |||||||
| 6. | "Shake" | Cooke | 2:35 | |||||||
| 7. | "My Girl" | Smokey Robinson, Ronald White | 2:52 | |||||||
| 8. | "Wonderful World" | Cooke, Lou Adler, Herb Alpert | 3:00 | |||||||
| 9. | "Rock Me Baby" | B. B. King | 3:20 | |||||||
| 10. | "Satisfaction" | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | 2:45 | |||||||
| 11. | "You Don't Miss Your Water" | William Bell | 2:53 | |||||||
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