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ProducerBarry Beckett^Barry Goldberg^Bert Berns^Bobby Smith^Buddy Miles^David Axelrod^Jerry Wexler^Otis Redding^Phil Wright^Quinton Claunch^Ray Allen^Rick Hall^Steve Cropper^Tom Dowd

Record LabelACE Records UK, ACI

UPC0029667052627

eBay Product ID (ePID)25046040899

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2012

GenreSoul/R&B & Soul

ArtistHard to Handle: Black America Sings Otis Redding

Release TitleHard to Handle: Black America Sings Otis Redding

Dimensions

Item Height0.35 in

Item Weight0.25 lb

Item Length5.51 in

Item Width5.01 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks25

Tracks1.1 These Arms of Mine - Albert Washington ; the Kings 1.2 Sister Pitiful - Judy Clay 1.3 I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) - William Bell 1.4 Baby Cakes - Maxine Brown 1.5 Think About It - King Floyd 1.6 Shout Bamalama - Mickey Murray 1.7 Security - Irma Thomas 1.8 I've Got Dreams to Remember - Percy Sledge 1.9 Give Away None of My Love - Buddy Miles 1.10 I'm Missing You - Mitty Collier 1.11 I Can't Turn You Loose - James Carr 1.12 Chained and Bound - Bettye Swann 1.13 Just One More Day - Clarence Carter 1.14 Wholesale Love - Arthur Conley 1.15 Hawg for You - Tina Britt 1.16 Loving By the Pound (TK 2) - Otis Redding 1.17 Hard to Handle - Patti Drew 1.18 A Year, a Month and a Day - Arthur Conley 1.19 Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song) - Lou Rawls 1.20 Monkey on My Back-Jackie Hairston 1.21 Keep Pushing Me - James ; Bobby Purify 1.22 Good to Me - Donald Height 1.23 Respect - Aretha Franklin 1.24 (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay - the Staple Singers 1.25 I Got the Will - Etta James

Notes2012 collection dedicated to one of the greatest R&B/Soul songwriters of the '60s. Otis Redding isn't always thought of as a tunesmith, but he wrote or co-wrote 20 of the 31 R&B and Pop hits that charted for him between 1963 and 1969, plus a significant quantity of his non-chart singles and numerous album tracks. Otis also wrote a good number of songs that were recorded exclusively by other singers. Otis's songs were covered extensively both during his lifetime and posthumously. The sheer number of covers is very impressive, especially as he was only five years into his career when he was killed in a plane crash in late 1967. Here, then, are just over two dozen excellent versions of Otis' songs, sung mostly by people whose names will be almost as familiar as his is to students of soul music. Individually they sound terrific; collectively they show just how respected Otis was by his fellow artists during his lifetime and how that respect has carried on following his untimely death. Ace Records.