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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Shout Bamalama - (with The Pinetoppers)
2. These Arms of Mine
3. That's What My Heart Needs
4. Pain in My Heart
5. Come to Me
6. Security
7. Chained and Bound
8. Mr. Pitiful
9. That's How Strong My Love Is
10. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
11. Respect
12. Ole Man Trouble
13. Change Gonna Come
14. Satisfaction
15. Down in the Valley
16. Shake
17. My Girl
18. You Don't Miss Your Water
19. Cupid
20. I Can't Turn You Loose
21. Just One More Day
22. My Lover's Prayer
23. Cigarettes and Coffee
24. It's Growing
25. Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
26. Try a Little Tenderness
DISC 2:
1. You Left the Water Running
2. Trick or Treat
3. Tramp - (with Carla Thomas)
4. Lovey Dovey - (with Carla Thomas)
5. Let Me Come on Home
6. I Love You More Than Words Can Say
7. Merry Christmas, Baby
8. Glory of Love
9. Tell the Truth
10. I've Got Dreams to Remember
11. Happy Song, The (Dum-Dum)
12. Hard to Handle
13. Amen
14. Direct Me
15. Love Man
16. Look at the Girl
17. I'm a Changed Man
18. Match Game, The
19. Dock of the Bay, (Sittin' On) The
20. Shake
21. Respect
22. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
23. Satisfaction
24. Try a Little Tenderness
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Otis Redding (vocals, guitar); Carla Thomas (vocals); Booker T. Jones (guitar, piano, organ); Steve Cropper (guitar, piano, bass); Johnny Jenkins (guitar); Charles "Packy" Axton, Andrew Love, Joe Arnold, Gilbert Caples, Gene Parker, Tommie Lee Williams (tenor saxophone); Floyd Newman (baritone saxophone); Wayne Jackson, Sammie Coleman, Gene "Bowlegs" Miller, Ben Cauley (trumpet); Isaac Hayes (piano, organ); Lewis Steinberg, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Wayne Cochran (bass); Al Jackson Jr, Rick Hall (drums); Phil Walden (tambourine); William Bell, David Porter (background vocals); The Pinetoppers.
Producers include: Jim Stewart, Steve Cropper, Al Jackson Jr, Nesuhi Ertegun, Lou Adler.
Compilation producers: Gary Stewart, David Gorman, Bill Inglot.
Recorded in Macon, Georgia, Muscle Shoals, Alabama and at Stax Studios, Memphis, Tennessee between 1960 and 1967. Tracks 20-24 on disc two recorded live at The Monterey International Pop Festival, Monterey, California on June 17, 1967. Includes liner notes by James Austin and Bill Dahl.
Digitally remastered by Bill Inglot & Dan Hersch.
If you're not prepared to shell out the big bucks for Rhino's earlier four-CD OTIS! box set, this sensibly put together two-disc set may be all the Otis you need at a more reasonable price. Everything of note is here, including an early Pinetoppers track recorded when Redding was a Little Richard wannabe, and then all the hits from 1963's "These Arms of Mine" to the posthumous 1967 "Dock of the Bay." You also get two terrific duets with Carla Thomas, including the extremely down-home "Tramp," and five cuts from the Monterey Pop Festival, with Redding, backed by Booker T. and the MGs, laying the assembled hippies out in the aisles.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #147 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - DREAMS offers the full spectrum, from hard-driving soul stomps such as 'I Can't Turn You Loose' to heartache ballads including 'I've Been Loving You Too Long'...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
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