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Track Listing
1. Respect
2. Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
3. These Arms of Mine
4. Pain in My Heart
5. Come to Me
6. Security
7. That's How Strong My Love Is
8. Mr. Pitiful
9. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
10. Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)
11. Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
12. Try a Little Tenderness
13. Chained and Bound
14. Shake
15. Ole Man Trouble
16. Let Me Come on Home
17. Open the Door
18. That's What My Heart Needs
19. Tramp
20. I Can't Turn You Loose
Album Notes
Personnel: Otis Redding (vocals); Steve Cropper (guitar); Andrew Love, Floyd Newman, Joe Arnold, Packy Axton (saxophone); Wayne Jackson, Gene "Bowlegs" Miller (trumpet); Booker T. Jones (piano, organ); Donald "Duck" Dunn, Lewis Steinberg (bass); Al Jackson, Jr. (drums).
Producers: Otis Redding, Steve Cropper, Jim Stewart.
Recorded between 1962 & 1967.
The title isn't exactly accurate; frankly, given the uniformly high quality of Redding's output before his tragic death at the age of 26--the ultimate Otis would have to be a box set of every single note he ever recorded. On the other hand, he already made an album called THE DICTIONARY OF SOUL (the only other title that seems apt), so let's not quibble. THE ULTIMATE OTIS REDDING is, in fact, an extremely well-chosen one-CD best-of by the greatest soul man of them all, highlighting his immense skills as a songwriter ("I Can't Turn You Loose," "Respect"), interpreter ("Try a Little Tenderness," "Satisfaction"), and singer ("That's How Strong My Love Is," "These Arms of Mine"). '60s R&B doesn't get any better.
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