James Brown was godlike in his talent, but by many accounts, not a great human being. I've no idea what his background was that may have brought about his controlling nature with music as well as in his relationships - he beat his wives...Tammi Terrell, who was his girlfriend at one point, was beaten bloody by him for "not paying enough attention" during one of his shows (needless to say they didn't stay together) but some thing's just aren't excusable. None of us are perfect and James paid his debt to society but it doesn't change the fact that it's hard to reconcile his musical genius with the fact that he was a violent domestic abuser.
@@garmisra7841 well he was pretty much in a sense I guess you can say abandoned by both parents you know it's his mother took off leaving with his father and eventually his father enlisted during world war II and from that point on it went to Augusta Georgia to stay with his aunt that ran a brothel on 9th Street which is now known as James Brown boulevard so life wasn't really easy for him growing up so you can only imagine the things he witnessed or saw instead of it having a impact on him and making him do the things right it had more of a negative impact
That is the video . The video is fuck up . The video is him only. Trust me I can't even watch. Where can you get package I'd send you his legacy documentary
Monterey Pop Festival was just as historic in 67 as Woodstock was in 69 introducing new artists to the USA Hendrix, Joplin, The Who, Otis, just simple amazing the Summer of Love. 1967
I was 11 years old living on base at Ft. Ord in Monterey in 1967. My old man was the military police and I remember driving through town at the start of the festival and seeing all these long haired people walking the streets and couldn't believe my eyes. My parents were horrified, lol. I wish now that I'd been 10 years older then.
One of the all-time SOUL classics. Otis put his heart, soul, gut & FOOT into this jam! It's his legacy. You reacted like most do when they first HEAR & FEEL it! Bravo Otis!
I've been a huge Otis fan for a long time, not only was he a great singer, but he was a great human being for the things he did for the youth in his home state of Georgia. The man had more soul in his little finger than most singers today have in their entire body.
I was so blessed to have seen Otis perform live at Woodstock in 1969.. Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix were the icing on the cake celebrating my 19th birthday there. I cried like a baby the day his plane went down. It's unimaginable what this man could have achieved if not taken so young. R.I.P Otis, your voice and music are sorely missed.. Yes thats Mamma Cass..
The only thing that makes me happier in this world than Otis Reddings "Try a little tenderness" is your reaction to Otis! 🖤 😽🖤 Thanks from STHLM, Sweden
Otis and Al Green.... man I'm 65 and just thinking of their music still touches my soul. Their music is also twofold. When times are sweet and loving it's all cuddles and loving but let it play after a breakup and it takes on an entire new presence. Lol
The reason the camera keeps coming back to Mama Cass is because Papa John Phillips put on the festival (with a ittle help from his friends) and The Mamas & Papas were Superstars at this time.
I'm 70 now but one of the highlights of my life was watching and listening to Otis perform as part of The Stax Show at the Rainbow Finsbury Park London
Otis always sang like his life depended on it. And a shout out to the great backing band Booker T. and the MGs: Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Al Jackson Jr. laying down the metronome beat on drums.
That group - Booker T and the MGs, his backing band, is one of the most important groups in modern music history. They were the STAX records house band. Otis, Sam and Dave, Wilson Picket, and so many more - they played all that music. So so important. The musicians that the rock musicians looked up to.
Cass Elliot, she's in a lot of scenes of the Monterey Pop Festival. I love her expressions, she was really surprised by Janis Joplin's performance I think.
Your right the clips they forever show of Mama Cass Elliot was of her reacting to Janis Joplin it was the first big show Janis had ever been in ~ let's not forget Papa John Phillips was the main promoter of the overall show ~ so he picked which clips would be included in the Movie
Yes that is. The lady I love when I was 3. She was even on Scooby Doo..........but HER WRECKING CREW are the ones that killed the people in a drug deal......the basis of NEVERLAND, featuring John Holmes, the porn star, portrayed by the inestimable VAL KILMER...........
I knew a man who went to Vegas regularly, saw all the greats... Elvis, Sinatra.... but he always said the best live performance he ever saw was Otis Redding in Atlanta 1965
That is Mama Cass Elliot in the audience. You want to see her astonished at the same festival watch her reaction when Janis Joplin sings - the Monterey Pop Festival was the first time most people were exposed to Janis Joplin and Cass is clearly enjoying her performance. John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas was one of the organizers of the Monterey Pop Festival.
Was able to see his last live performance at Leo's Casino in Cleveland before he flew out the next day to his death. This was the last song he sang in his last set. Will never forget. Red shirt black pants with the Bar kays. A memory I will take to my grave!!!!!!
Watching this :all these people if they are still living are in their late 60,s /70’s. So you gotta 💕know we old hippies love you reacting to our music.💕💕
Yes that’s Cass Elliot. John Phillips organized the festival n the mamas n papas closed the show. Hard to believe he was that age. Yes they may seem “older”. But age is relative. It may also be true that adult people have become more juvenile
My absolute favourite male singer of all time!!!! Otis has soul in every fiber of his being. Stupendous live performance!!!! Such a shame he died so young, the music he would have given us!
I drove directly from my high school graduation to the Monterey Pop Festival in my 1953 Caddilac Hearse. It was the perfect gig. At one point i was sitting at a picnic table eating a hamburger with Cass Elliot, Pig Pen (Grateful Dead), Brian Jones (Rolling Stones), and my friend who went with me. Everybody was so mellow. The cops were amazed. No fights, no arrests. Every artist was great at Monterey.
It was said by almost every musician there that he stole that whole festival!! No one ever saw him coming and he blew the roof off!!! He was certainly our short lived gift from God!!
1967 the summer of love and the year I graduated from high school! In my lord, how the music was the soundtrack to our youth. Every song has such intense memories and i can feel every one of them just listening to Otis sing this. He was hot!! So was my boyfriend... lol 🥰 we were loving life ♡
In 1967 when Otis Redding died in a lane crash, I was a college freshman at Georgia Southern. Our room went into mourning and Otis was played over and over for days. He was from Georgia as well. King of Soul!
Anything Otis Redding touched was GOLD . One of the greatest voices EVER. This song was a remake of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra version who originally recorded it
This show always makes me tear up because of the part at the end where he says "I've got to go y'all, I don't want to..." ...and then less than 6 months later he passed. Breaks my heart. Otis IS Legend.
Damn. That intensity of performance too, that's getting close to that borderline trance state flamenco singers talk about. Transmitting the soul. It's when the audience and the artist are dancing with each other. He was masterful. He was a master. A brief flame but ecstatic and encapsulating.
Gotgotgotgottatammmgotgottatanow TRY SOME TENDERNESS!! Spelled out it looks like ridiculous nonsense, when Otis sings it ya realize it outta this world genius. What a talent God Bless him. He truly left us way too soon. “Satisfaction” from the Monterey show is a cooker too...
I am so old now I can say I had this performance on vinyl, eight-track, cassette and CD. The reverse side of the album was Jimi Hendrix, also live @ Monterrey. According to the album notes, previous artists had over extended the time allowed for a midnight curfew. They finally decided Otis and his band, The Markeys could go on, and Booker T and the MG's, the previous group decided to stay on stage and also perform with Otis and his band. Again, according to the album notes, this performance was the only one to receive a standing ovation and the crowd rushed the stage to bask in the glory that was Otis Redding. Many people remember him for "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay", but he was so much more as a live performer and songwriter. He wrote "Dock of the Bay" as well as "Respect", made famous by Aretha Franklin. Buy this album if you can find it, as well as "Otis Redding Live @ the Whiskey-A-Go-Go", both live performances that will never be duplicated.
OMG ANOTHER OTIS NOW KEEP YOUR LOVING ARMS AROUND ME.PLEASE PLEASE. THAT'S WHAT MY HEART NEEDS NOW. I LISTEN TO OTIS WHENEVER IM IN MY CAR. 4 CD OF OTIS
Otis Redding played the Whiskey A Go Go a few years earlier and one of the very few people in the audience was Janis Joplin. Sam Roberts said Janis just turned to him after the show and said, "I want to do THAT!" Only heard this a few years ago, but looking at Janis' live performances, it makes total sense! There is a video of Otis' whole performance of this song at Monterey on youtube somewhere. xx
Thanks for reacting to this, J! Oh, the memories! Yes- it’s Mama Cass Elliot! I wish the filmmaker had focused more on Otis! He was backed by Booker T and the MG’s!!! As well as the Bar- keys. Yes- I was standing directly beneath him but I you can’t see me.
O-T-I-S!!! He was a Monster amoung boys in the realm of 60's male soul singers!!! He is my God!!! I have worshiped Otis since the first time I heard that man Scream & Cry!!! And that's exactly what he does... He SCREAMS & CRIES!!! That how you know it's from the Soul!!! Another AMAZING performance from Monterey was Sunday Morning Church with Ravi Shankar, who incidentally is the father of Nora Jones!!! PLEASE check it out... It truly is a religious experience!!!
Otis shares my birthday and died when I was two months and a day. But he’d be a special legend in my heart no matter what. A master class in giving it your whole self.
Oh yeah, Otis the man! That last bit at the end was part of his cover of the Rolling Stones - Can't get no satisfaction. I think he sung that at this same concert 🤔 I recognise the suit. It's a bloody amazing cover. Along the same lines as the Wilson Pickett cover of Hey Jude you reacted to 👌🏼👌🏼
Don't know if anyone else mentioned it but Otis backing band was The Bar Kays. Most of the original band members also died in the plane crash Otis died in. They were reformed a few years later as a funk band, most notably known for Soul finger and Son of Shaft.
Did not know this little nugget of information.... I loved The Bar-Kays growing up but the funk band.....i knew they had a different beginning but did not know they were the backing band for Otis at one point.... Wow!!!
If you can, get hold of a copy of the Stax/Volt Revue show put on in Norway in 1967. It's got Booker T & the MGs, The Mar-Keys, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave and Otis Redding giving it all they've got.
Otis was amazing...so many died so young. Please do some Sam Cooke another amazing singer and song writer who died to young. My momma had every album of Sam Cooke. She absolutely loved every song he sang. Sam Cooke was rising so fast in music industry and making sure his songs were well compensated for which was really unheard of back then. Here is a short list of some greats: Sam Cooke 1. A Change is Gonna Come 2. That's Where it's At 3. Bring It On Home To Me 4. You Send Me 5. Cupid 6. Only Sixteen 7. Somebody Ease My Troublin- Mind 6. Good Times 7. I'll Come Running Back To You
The '67 Monterey Pop festival epitomized the wide range of 60's music that we enjoyed. There were not the stovepiped categories that seem to prevail today: from soul to folk rock to rock to blues rock to psychedelic rock to Ravi Shankar's virtuoso sitar music, and the undefinable like Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, we loved and listened to it all! A great era in music gave us hope in the midst of the chaos of the time - the Vietnam war, the protest movement to stop the war, racial conflicts, the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK
So glad you checked this one out, too, plus the bonus "Satisfaction" at the end. Shame he was so young. Regarding artists gone well before their time - Duane Allman, who started the Allman Brothers, was only 24.
AHHHH, I remember this song from the days when DJ's programmed their own set lists, you never know what you were going to get from day to day. One day the DJ decided to do original songs and their covers. He started off with Sorrow by the McCoys, followed by the Mersey Beats and concluding with Bowie. Next was All Along the Watchtower; Dylan then Hendrix. Finishing with Try a Little Tenderness by Redding then Three Dog Night. After the head to head contest he played Redding's Tenderness two more times. The DJ said the reason for the repeats was that the music got him dancing and if you didn't like it you could slag off. Don't recall if it was Radio Caroline or Radio Jackie or which DJ it was.
First heard and fell in love with this song when I watched the movie"Pretty in Pink"....was about 15.... have loved it since. Great reaction! Yep, I think that was a picture of Mamma Cass. You called it.
James Brown might be The Godfather but Otis was the King of Soul
That's what I've been preaching brother...
AMEN
James Brown was godlike in his talent, but by many accounts, not a great human being. I've no idea what his background was that may have brought about his controlling nature with music as well as in his relationships - he beat his wives...Tammi Terrell, who was his girlfriend at one point, was beaten bloody by him for "not paying enough attention" during one of his shows (needless to say they didn't stay together) but some thing's just aren't excusable.
None of us are perfect and James paid his debt to society but it doesn't change the fact that it's hard to reconcile his musical genius with the fact that he was a violent domestic abuser.
@@garmisra7841 well he was pretty much in a sense I guess you can say abandoned by both parents you know it's his mother took off leaving with his father and eventually his father enlisted during world war II and from that point on it went to Augusta Georgia to stay with his aunt that ran a brothel on 9th Street which is now known as James Brown boulevard so life wasn't really easy for him growing up so you can only imagine the things he witnessed or saw instead of it having a impact on him and making him do the things right it had more of a negative impact
Amen 100 %
No one sings like Otis. He's just the best.
That is the video . The video is fuck up . The video is him only. Trust me I can't even watch. Where can you get package I'd send you his legacy documentary
I thought the Commitments did it some justice.
Monterey Pop Festival was just as historic in 67 as Woodstock was in 69 introducing new artists to the USA Hendrix, Joplin, The Who, Otis, just simple amazing the Summer of Love. 1967
His name is Hendrix
Monterey Pop is better because it had Otis
I was 11 years old living on base at Ft. Ord in Monterey in 1967. My old man was the military police and I remember driving through town at the start of the festival and seeing all these long haired people walking the streets and couldn't believe my eyes. My parents were horrified, lol. I wish now that I'd been 10 years older then.
One of the all-time SOUL classics. Otis put his heart, soul, gut & FOOT into this jam! It's his legacy. You reacted like most do when they first HEAR & FEEL it! Bravo Otis!
Exactly! Otis put his whole body into this song!
One of my favourite live performances of all time. What an amazing talent Otis was.
I've been a huge Otis fan for a long time, not only was he a great singer, but he was a great human being for the things he did for the youth in his home state of Georgia. The man had more soul in his little finger than most singers today have in their entire body.
I was so blessed to have seen Otis perform live at Woodstock in 1969.. Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix were the icing on the cake celebrating my 19th birthday there. I cried like a baby the day his plane went down. It's unimaginable what this man could have achieved if not taken so young. R.I.P Otis, your voice and music are sorely missed.. Yes thats Mamma Cass..
The only thing that makes me happier in this world than Otis Reddings "Try a little tenderness" is your reaction to Otis! 🖤 😽🖤
Thanks from STHLM, Sweden
Otis and Al Green.... man I'm 65 and just thinking of their music still touches my soul. Their music is also twofold. When times are sweet and loving it's all cuddles and loving but let it play after a breakup and it takes on an entire new presence. Lol
Add Sam Cooke to the list
What a beautiful voice and a tragedy this man left us at 26 in a plane crash🙄 a great tribute to the man from you Jamel sir!
RIP Otis❤️🙏
That’s definitely Mama Cass.
It’s footage from the Monterey Pop Festival.
The reason the camera keeps coming back to Mama Cass is because Papa John Phillips put on the festival (with a ittle help from his friends) and The Mamas & Papas were Superstars at this time.
@@bobcorbin3294 Lou Adler was involved also.
@@larryn2682 yes he was and the Beatles were on the board of advisors
@@bobcorbin3294 think I saw Michelle there with Cass, too?
@@mrenb7 Yes you did!
This is THE MAN .. bucket full of soul . This is music that been with us for 50 plus years thumbs up to your reaction 👍
Jamel…Otis…my 1st coffee….memories….what better way to start my day!
Blessings on everyone from 🇨🇦!!
Otis is my all time favorite. I get chills every time I hear this song
I'm 70 now but one of the highlights of my life was watching and listening to Otis perform as part of The Stax Show at the Rainbow Finsbury Park London
Otis always sang like his life depended on it. And a shout out to the great backing band Booker T. and the MGs: Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Al Jackson Jr. laying down the metronome beat on drums.
Also at the 5:00 mark was both Cass Elliott and Michelle Phillips (the Mamas of the Papas).
That group - Booker T and the MGs, his backing band, is one of the most important groups in modern music history. They were the STAX records house band. Otis, Sam and Dave, Wilson Picket, and so many more - they played all that music. So so important. The musicians that the rock musicians looked up to.
Booker T made a record a few years back with the Roots as his band called Road to Memphis and it's phenomenal.
Over 300 gold records.
Green Onions. A staple.
That's what I'm saying...lol
They were also basically the blues brothers band for the movie. Minus Booker lol
The Amount of Songs this man wrote is amazing!!!! THE KING OF SOUL!!!!!!
I love when John Cryer acted out this song in "Pretty in Pink."
First time I heard this song was Duckie lip syncing & dancing to it!
I am sorry to say I am THAT person. If I saw John Cryer in a bar I'd so play this song lol
My favorite part in the movie.
Otis is, for me, the number one soul singer of all time. The master
You're totally right my friend
I love Otis Redding one of the greatest ever
Wow. That voice. That soul.
Otis was one of the greatest singers ever. It's impossible to get tired of listening to him.
Cass Elliot, she's in a lot of scenes of the Monterey Pop Festival. I love her expressions, she was really surprised by Janis Joplin's performance I think.
Your right the clips they forever show of Mama Cass Elliot was of her reacting to Janis Joplin it was the first big show Janis had ever been in ~ let's not forget Papa John Phillips was the main promoter of the overall show ~ so he picked which clips would be included in the Movie
The Mamas and papas organized the whole Monterey Pop Festival
Yes that is. The lady I love when I was 3. She was even on Scooby Doo..........but HER WRECKING CREW are the ones that killed the people in a drug deal......the basis of NEVERLAND, featuring John Holmes, the porn star, portrayed by the inestimable VAL KILMER...........
I knew a man who went to Vegas regularly, saw all the greats... Elvis, Sinatra.... but he always said the best live performance he ever saw was Otis Redding in Atlanta 1965
YESSSSS, Tenderness!!!
And yes, that's Mama Cass ❤
That is Mama Cass Elliot in the audience. You want to see her astonished at the same festival watch her reaction when Janis Joplin sings - the Monterey Pop Festival was the first time most people were exposed to Janis Joplin and Cass is clearly enjoying her performance. John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas was one of the organizers of the Monterey Pop Festival.
Thank you so much for reacting to Otis Redding, I just love his songs. So much soul, you can feel the words he's singing. ✌❤ thanks Jamel.
Was able to see his last live performance at Leo's Casino in Cleveland before he flew out the next day to his death. This was the last song he sang in his last set. Will never forget. Red shirt black pants with the Bar kays. A memory I will take to my grave!!!!!!
The greatest soul singer. Wished I had seen him live in concert.
🤯💯 Otis could flat out SANG‼🔥
RIP Mr. Redding. ❤🕊🙏
Couldn't click fast enough! More Otis!😝👍
Me too, more Otis!
Me three!!
I heard this song first in the mid 80s in the movie Pretty in Pink.He bought it live baby!💛✌
Oh Man! Otis is a GOAT! btw his induction into the rock and roll hall of fame has been one of the best.
For me Otis is the best singer I ever hear sing R&B..love him still play his music..❤❤❤
Everyone knows "Dock of the Bay", do yourself a favor and get a copy of his greatest hits, You won't be sorry. Pure gold.
You are so right the man was a legend in his 20s a beautiful voice taken in a plane crash at 26 just doesn't seem fair 🙄RIP Otis🙏❤️
Yep! EVERYTHING he did was epic and beautiful!
AMEN
Absolutely agree!! These arms of mine, I’ve got dreams to remember and my lovers prayer are fantastic:)
Amen!!!
Watching this :all these people if they are still living are in their late 60,s /70’s. So you gotta 💕know we old hippies love you reacting to our music.💕💕
This is what they mean when they say: "True legends never die."
Otis Redding is one of the greats that was lost too young his 67 pop fest footage is so bad ass
Yes that’s Cass Elliot. John Phillips organized the festival n the mamas n papas closed the show.
Hard to believe he was that age.
Yes they may seem “older”. But age is relative. It may also be true that adult people have become more juvenile
Otis is my first soul love, his voice has so much passion, the Otis Blue album is superb, my fave track tho is Mr Pitiful.
wonderful ...real soul ...cant say more ..just real ...we need it back ...Groove and blues ...its gone ...we need it back
Another Great Artist ~ Never Forget ! Sing From The Heart !
Yep, that's Cass Elliott from the Mamas and the Papas. We miss you Otis!
My absolute favourite male singer of all time!!!! Otis has soul in every fiber of his being. Stupendous live performance!!!! Such a shame he died so young, the music he would have given us!
I drove directly from my high school graduation to the Monterey Pop Festival in my 1953 Caddilac Hearse. It was the perfect gig. At one point i was sitting at a picnic table eating a hamburger with Cass Elliot, Pig Pen (Grateful Dead), Brian Jones (Rolling Stones), and my friend who went with me. Everybody was so mellow. The cops were amazed. No fights, no arrests. Every artist was great at Monterey.
Now you're playing my kind of music love this song💕💕💕💕💋
I think you would enjoy hearing The Commitments do this as well as other songs from that time!
Great soundtrack.
I still have the cassette 😉
Loved that film and listening to 16 year old Andrew Strong belt this out.....2nd best only to Otis!
If you have the first volume, do yourself a favor and get volume 2, also. Even more incredible sounds!
@@Bad_Wolf_Media Will do!
Oh man Love the Commitments
It was said by almost every musician there that he stole that whole festival!! No one ever saw him coming and he blew the roof off!!! He was certainly our short lived gift from God!!
Janis Joplin was the one that blew everybody away there.
"This is otis, I love Otis", great scene from Pretty in Pink
1967 the summer of love and the year I graduated from high school! In my lord, how the music was the soundtrack to our youth. Every song has such intense memories and i can feel every one of them just listening to Otis sing this. He was hot!! So was my boyfriend... lol 🥰 we were loving life ♡
In 1967 when Otis Redding died in a lane crash, I was a college freshman at Georgia Southern. Our room went into mourning and Otis was played over and over for days. He was from Georgia as well. King of Soul!
Anything Otis Redding touched was GOLD . One of the greatest voices EVER. This song was a remake of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra version who originally recorded it
When Otis caught that fire on stage and just ran with that groove...whooooooo!
This show always makes me tear up because of the part at the end where he says "I've got to go y'all, I don't want to..."
...and then less than 6 months later he passed. Breaks my heart. Otis IS Legend.
Damn. That intensity of performance too, that's getting close to that borderline trance state flamenco singers talk about. Transmitting the soul. It's when the audience and the artist are dancing with each other. He was masterful. He was a master. A brief flame but ecstatic and encapsulating.
Great song by Otis Redding excellent entertainer., I played this version in several bands, really fun to do.
One of the best songs ever recorded. Man, the feeling he puts into it. It gives me chills.
Gotgotgotgottatammmgotgottatanow TRY SOME TENDERNESS!! Spelled out it looks like ridiculous nonsense, when Otis sings it ya realize it outta this world genius. What a talent God Bless him. He truly left us way too soon. “Satisfaction” from the Monterey show is a cooker too...
Otis Redding - That's How Strong My Love Is. Then Doyle Bramhall's cover of it!
Free Me , and Dreams to Remember are also...my favs with the one you mentioned....
Otis was one of my favorites! He came to Waycross Ga and performed. What a blast.
I am so old now I can say I had this performance on vinyl, eight-track, cassette and CD. The reverse side of the album was Jimi Hendrix, also live @ Monterrey. According to the album notes, previous artists had over extended the time allowed for a midnight curfew. They finally decided Otis and his band, The Markeys could go on, and Booker T and the MG's, the previous group decided to stay on stage and also perform with Otis and his band. Again, according to the album notes, this performance was the only one to receive a standing ovation and the crowd rushed the stage to bask in the glory that was Otis Redding. Many people remember him for "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay", but he was so much more as a live performer and songwriter. He wrote "Dock of the Bay" as well as "Respect", made famous by Aretha Franklin. Buy this album if you can find it, as well as "Otis Redding Live @ the Whiskey-A-Go-Go", both live performances that will never be duplicated.
I used to have this song on a 45. Great Song !! Brings back memories !!
Oh I love this thank you so much much love friend God bless
The History of Otis Redding was one of the best albums ever...and I always thought he was older when I was young....
He was a big guy...the mustache, the suit...totally looked like he was in his mid-late 30s.
OMG ANOTHER OTIS NOW KEEP YOUR LOVING ARMS AROUND ME.PLEASE PLEASE.
THAT'S WHAT MY HEART NEEDS NOW.
I LISTEN TO OTIS WHENEVER IM IN MY CAR. 4 CD OF OTIS
Otis Redding played the Whiskey A Go Go a few years earlier and one of the very few people in the audience was Janis Joplin. Sam Roberts said Janis just turned to him after the show and said, "I want to do THAT!" Only heard this a few years ago, but looking at Janis' live performances, it makes total sense! There is a video of Otis' whole performance of this song at Monterey on youtube somewhere. xx
For me, this is one of the beautiful and tender soul tracks ever. RIP Otis
Jamel, the banf behind Otis is the Booker T and the MG's!
Yes! Yes! Thank Jesus yes!
Loved this in Pretty in Pink!
This is just stunning, a brilliant performance.
Nothing like Otis.❤ Dayum!
Oh yes!! wonderful blast from my past. Otis' music is so good!!!
Love love Otis . This was in London...... if I can get away I would send you a documentary on Otis....
Three Dog Night does a great cover!!!
Thanks for reacting to this, J! Oh, the memories!
Yes- it’s Mama Cass Elliot!
I wish the filmmaker had focused more on Otis!
He was backed by Booker T and the MG’s!!! As well as the Bar- keys.
Yes- I was standing directly beneath him but I you can’t see me.
O-T-I-S!!! He was a Monster amoung boys in the realm of 60's male soul singers!!! He is my God!!! I have worshiped Otis since the first time I heard that man Scream & Cry!!! And that's exactly what he does... He SCREAMS & CRIES!!! That how you know it's from the Soul!!! Another AMAZING performance from Monterey was Sunday Morning Church with Ravi Shankar, who incidentally is the father of Nora Jones!!! PLEASE check it out... It truly is a religious experience!!!
Otis shares my birthday and died when I was two months and a day. But he’d be a special legend in my heart no matter what. A master class in giving it your whole self.
Oh yeah, Otis the man!
That last bit at the end was part of his cover of the Rolling Stones - Can't get no satisfaction. I think he sung that at this same concert 🤔 I recognise the suit.
It's a bloody amazing cover. Along the same lines as the Wilson Pickett cover of Hey Jude you reacted to 👌🏼👌🏼
Yes yes and yes it's a killer version
you gotta do These Arms of Mine and Sad Song.
Phil Walden was his manager and after his plane crash he discovered Duane ALLMAN and the brothers. Phil loved Otis ❤️✌️
Don't know if anyone else mentioned it but Otis backing band was The Bar Kays. Most of the original band members also died in the plane crash Otis died in. They were reformed a few years later as a funk band, most notably known for Soul finger and Son of Shaft.
Did not know this little nugget of information....
I loved The Bar-Kays growing up but the funk band.....i knew they had a different beginning but did not know they were the backing band for Otis at one point....
Wow!!!
Otis Redding 👍👍👍🏴🏴
I recognised Al Jackson jr! Booker T & the MG's, and the Mar-Keys were both slightly lesser giants to Otis, but giants themselves!
Among way too many more to begin mentioning. Yea, you right.
If you can, get hold of a copy of the Stax/Volt Revue show put on in Norway in 1967. It's got Booker T & the MGs, The Mar-Keys, Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave and Otis Redding giving it all they've got.
Summer of Love. He just burned it down on this one. And his band…😍😍😍
Otis was amazing...so many died so young. Please do some Sam Cooke another amazing singer and song writer who died to young. My momma had every album of Sam Cooke. She absolutely loved every song he sang. Sam Cooke was rising so fast in music industry and making sure his songs were well compensated for which was really unheard of back then. Here is a short list of some greats:
Sam Cooke
1. A Change is Gonna Come
2. That's Where it's At
3. Bring It On Home To Me
4. You Send Me
5. Cupid
6. Only Sixteen
7. Somebody Ease My Troublin- Mind
6. Good Times
7. I'll Come Running Back To You
Sam Cooke had the greatest voice ever
Love me some Sam Cooke...
Ih yes, we have to do some Sam Cooke!!! 🤗
"I gotta go but I don't wanna go", and a few months later he was gone for good 😭 RIP brother Otis, King of Soul
Thank you sir love some Otis redding music.
Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Teddy Pendergrass, and Otis Otis Otis, we’re the soul singers of my time
Love this by Otis. He sang it with everything he had
The soul just winds its way into the very marrow of my bones. When I listen to Redding, Cocker, Chapman, Charles....
Hard to pick a favorite, but this is my favorite Otis song. ❤️❤️
The '67 Monterey Pop festival epitomized the wide range of 60's music that we enjoyed. There were not the stovepiped categories that seem to prevail today: from soul to folk rock to rock to blues rock to psychedelic rock to Ravi Shankar's virtuoso sitar music, and the undefinable like Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, we loved and listened to it all! A great era in music gave us hope in the midst of the chaos of the time - the Vietnam war, the protest movement to stop the war, racial conflicts, the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK
Otis Redding Live 1967 is his best live version of this classic
So glad you checked this one out, too, plus the bonus "Satisfaction" at the end. Shame he was so young. Regarding artists gone well before their time - Duane Allman, who started the Allman Brothers, was only 24.
Another epic performance from Otis! If you don’t tap your foot to that, you are not alive. 👏🏻
AHHHH, I remember this song from the days when DJ's programmed their own set lists, you never know what you were going to get from day to day. One day the DJ decided to do original songs and their covers. He started off with Sorrow by the McCoys, followed by the Mersey Beats and concluding with Bowie. Next was All Along the Watchtower; Dylan then Hendrix. Finishing with Try a Little Tenderness by Redding then Three Dog Night. After the head to head contest he played Redding's Tenderness two more times. The DJ said the reason for the repeats was that the music got him dancing and if you didn't like it you could slag off. Don't recall if it was Radio Caroline or Radio Jackie or which DJ it was.
Thank you Jamel. My favorite song by Otis, damn.
First heard and fell in love with this song when I watched the movie"Pretty in Pink"....was about 15.... have loved it since. Great reaction! Yep, I think that was a picture of Mamma Cass. You called it.