Things Have Changed

 It's that time of the year again when THC posts the Otis Redding version.  

From Otis Redding's last Stax recording session just before his death in a plane crash at Madison, Wisconsin in December 1967.  Composed...

 It's that time of the year again, and Otis Redding has a message for you.

 Time for annual posting of my favorite Christmas song, Otis Redding's version of Merry Christmas Baby.

Composed by three English songwriters, Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, and Harry M Woods in 1932, first recorded by the Ray Noble Orchestra be...

Composed by Lou Baxter and Johnny Moore in 1947, covered by lots of artists, but this is the perfect version.  From Otis Redding and the Sta...

A great cut from Otis Redding, a song he co-wrote with Alvertis Isbell and Allen Jones.  During a two week studio session in the fall of 196...

A companion to the Motown Playlist , but with some differences.  The Motown Playlist is exclusively artists who recorded in Motown Studios a...

 . . .  to stop now The great Otis Redding.

Now this is high energy!  Otis Redding from the Stax All-Stars Europe Tour of 1967.  Song written by Sam Cooke.

Otis Redding , Wilson Pickett , Sam & Dave , Booker T & the MGs (with Steve Cropper and Duck Dunn ), Carla & Rufus Thomas...

On January 8, 1968 Stax Records released (Sittin' on) The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding .  It became his first #1 single, holding th...