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Out Now: Otis Redding, THE DEFINITIVE STUDIO ALBUM COLLECTION (Article)
Friday, December 15, 2017
This past Sunday, the world commemorated the 50 th anniversary of the death of Otis Redding. In a few weeks, we’ll be celebrating the 50 th anniversary of Redding’s posthumously-released single, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay,” and it’ll only be a few months after that when we’ll be celebrating the 50 th anniversary of that ironic track arriving at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, where it remained for a total of four weeks. To sum up, we’re thinking a lot about Otis Redding lately, and if you’re doing the same, then you’ll appreciate an item that’s just landed in your local record store
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Single Stories: Wilson Pickett, “634-5789” (Article)
Thursday, December 20, 2018
52 years ago this month, Wilson Pickett – or Wicked Pickett, if you prefer – did something which always thrills the telephone company to no end: he recorded a song which featured a phone number as its title. As everyone whose home phone number was 867-5309 can tell you (particularly if their name is Jenny), a songwriter who pens a tune involving a seven-digit number is tempting fate, because it’s invariably going to inspire hundred, thousands, maybe even millions of people to dial that number, often with nothing to say beyond, “Oh, uh, yeah, I just wanted to see if it was a real number.” As
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Happy 55th: Otis Redding, THE GREAT OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL BALLADS (Article)
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
55 years ago this month, the late Otis Redding released his second studio album, an LP which offered a blend of classics and originals, spawning a top-10 hit with the Redding / Steve Cropper-penned single “Mr. Pitiful.” Co-produced by Jim Stewart and Booker T. & the MG’s, THE GREAT OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL BALLADS was recorded at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, where engineer Tom Dowd decided to install a two-track recorder during the course of recording the aforementioned “Mr. Pitiful.” The addition of this piece of equipment meant that the instrumentation is in either one channel or the
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Remembering Otis Redding: “Pain in My Heart” (Article)
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
52 years ago, the world lost one of its greatest R&B singers, and since it still stings even more than half a century later, it seems only appropriate to shine a spotlight on a lyrically-relevant song from Otis Redding’s back catalog and the album which bears its name. Penned by Redding, “Pain in My Heart” served as the opening track and the title track of Redding’s debut album, and it also went on to achieve hit-single status, but it was certainly not the only hit contained within the grooves of the LP. No, Redding also found success with “Security,” “That’s What My Heart Needs,” and “These
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Mono Mondays: Delaney & Bonnie, To Bonnie from Delaney (Article)
Monday, June 30, 2014
That’s right, faithful Rhino readers: it’s time for another installment of our Mono Monday feature! We realize this is only the second time we’ve done it, so there are probably far fewer of you who swung by the site to see what new album was being added to the catalog than those who are going, “Oh, right, I forgot that was going to be a thing,” but you’re here either way, so now you know: the Mono Monday album du jour is the fourth effort from Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, To Bonnie from Delaney, originally released in September 1970. To Bonnie from Delaney was the third studio album by the duo
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Rhino Factoids: Otis Redding Wraps Up “The Dock of the Bay” (Article)
Monday, December 7, 2015
48 years ago today, Otis Redding recorded the second and final version of the song that would become the first and only #1 pop hit of his entire career. Sadly, it would prove to be a posthumous one, as Redding died in a plane crash only three days later. Redding composed the first verse of the song in August 1967 while he was on tour with the Bar-Kays - or if you want to get specific, he wrote it on a houseboat in Sausalito, California - and as the year progressed, he continued to come up with additional lines while continuing to tour. It wasn't until November 22 that he finally had enough of
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Happy Anniversary: Otis Redding, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Article)
Thursday, September 15, 2016
51 years ago today, Otis Redding released his third album, which consisted predominantly of covers of songs originally performed by other artists, but despite the fact that all but one song was recorded during the span of a single 24-hour period, it is viewed not only as one of Redding’s greatest albums but as one of the greatest soul albums of the 1960s. Recorded at the famed Stax Recording Studios in Memphis, Tennessee under the watchful eye of producers Jim Stewart, Isaac Hayes, and David Porter, OTIS BLUE: OTIS REDDING SINGS SOUL kicks off with two of Redding’s own compositions: “Ole Man
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OTIS & ARETHA: NEW RELEASES NOW AVAILABLE (Article)
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
THE KING OF SOUL THE QUEEN OF SOUL Rhino Spotlights Otis Redding And Aretha Franklin With New Boxed Sets, The King Of Soul And The Queen Of Soul Four-Disc Collection Now Available Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin’s powerful voices continue to be the standard by which all other soul singers are measured. But they also share another bond through “Respect.” Redding originally wrote and recorded the song in 1965 and two years later Franklin’s cover version transformed it into a female-empowerment anthem known around the world. Rhino pays some respect of its own to these legendary artists during
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THE ONE AFTER THE BIG ONE: Otis Redding, THE SOUL ALBUM (Article)
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Has there ever been a more obvious title for a record than Otis Redding’s 1966 release THE SOUL ALBUM? Did Otis Redding ever record anything that was not soulful, ever perform at any function without practically sweating out soul, ever even walk down a street in such a manner that one could not tell this man was the very embodiment of soul? In reality, THE SOUL ALBUM should have been called THE SOUL ALBUM VOLUME 4, since it came after three LPs that could have likewise been titled THE SOUL ALBUM, if only because they were Otis Redding records. Titles and semantics aside, THE SOUL ALBUM was
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Mono Mondays: Sam & Dave, I Thank You (Article)
Monday, November 3, 2014
This week’s Mono Monday release features a title track which has gone on to become known to quite a few classic-rock aficionados as a really great ZZ Top song, but if you’ve never heard the original, then get ready to thank us. Sam Moore and Dave Prater had been a hot commodity in the world of rhythm and blues since Hold On, I’m Comin’, their 1966 debut album on Stax Records, which they took to the top of the Billboard R&B Charts, but it was their third studio effort, 1967’s Soul Men, that served as their full-fledged mainstream breakthrough, hitting #2 on the Billboard Top 200. As such, one
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