For many year, I didn’t have a lot of Otis Redding records in my collection. A couple of singles and a best of, but this changed in 2015 when Rhino decided to put out the great man’s albums in a box set called Soul Manifesto 1964-1970. This contained all of the albums he released during his life time, and the most of the posthumous albums with the exception of 1992’s Remember Me. What was most surprising about this posthumous releases was the high quality fo the music that was on them. When an artists has died, these releases can be seen as a cash grab for the record label and full of substandard material that the artist had felt was not worth releasing at the time. Not so in Redding’s case. He seemed to have a knack of writing a good tune, but also picking out awesome ones to cover. Hence this three disc set. I set out to make a single or double disc compilation at most, but there was so much good material, it was hard to keep it to three. The story of Redding’s life and untimely death have been told many times so I came going to let his music do the talking, especially as I am still putting the finishing touches to my next post and that one is taking a lot longer to research and put together than all of the other posts I have put together before this put together. Well, that is the way it seems anyway. Enjoy.
Disc 1
- Shake
- Love Man
- Any Ole Way
- Pain In My Heart
- Tramp*
- Chained & Bound (Single Version)
- Direct Me (Mono)
- Hard To Handle (Mono)
- Security
- That’s What My Heart Needs
- These Arms Of Mine (Single Version)
- (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
- Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
- Come To Me
- Down In The Valley
- You’ve Made A Man Out Of Me
- Tell The Truth
- 634-5789
- That’s A Good Idea
- Your One & Only Man
- Nobody Knows You (When You’re Down & Out)
- Bring It On Home To Me*
- It’s Growing
- I’m A Changed Man (Mono)
- Don’t Mess With Cupid
- Tennessee Waltz
- When Something is Wrong With My Baby*
- For Your Precious Love
- Change Gonna Come
Disc 2
- Stay In School
- The Boston Monkey
- Trick Or Treat
- Look At The Girl
- Home in Your Heart
- A Woman, A Lover, A Friend
- I Love You More Than Words Can Say
- I’m Coming Home To See About You
- The Hucklebuck
- Got To Get Myself Together
- I Got The Will
- Lovely Dovey*
- Johnny’s Heartbreak
- Remember Me
- I’m Coming Home
- Open The Door
- Groovin’ Time
- I Can’t Turn You Loose
- Let Me Come On Home
- You’re Still My Baby
- Free Me
- Are You Lonely For Me Baby?*
- Give Away None Of My Love
- The Happy Song (Dum-Dum-De-De-De-Dum-Dum)
- Champagne & Wine
- Everybody Makes Mistakes
- You Don’t Miss Your Water
- Amen
Disc 3
- Demonstration
- She Put The Hurt On Me
- Tell It Like It Is*
- Rock me Baby
- Don’t Leave Me This Way
- I Need Your Lovin’
- It Takes Two*Living By The Pund (Take 1)
- The Dog
- I’m Sick Y’All
- Something Is Worrying Me
- I Want To Thank You
- Keep Your Arms Around Me
- You Got Good Lovin’
- Mary’s Little Lamb
- The Match Game
- You Left The Water Running
- Sweet Lorene
- A Lover’s Question
- Nobody’s Fault by Mine
- A Little Time
- Love Have Mercy
- Think About It
- The Glory of Love
- That’s How Strong My Love Is
- My Lover’s Prayer
- I’ve Been Loving Too Long
- Try A Little Tenderness
* Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
Only Disc 1 could be reproduced on Spotify to some of the songs not being available on that platform.