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Track Listings

1	[Sittin' on] the Dock of the Bay
2	I Love You More Than Words Can Say
3	Let Me Come on Home
4	Open the Door
5	Don't Mess with Cupid
6	The Glory of Love
7	I'm Coming Home to See About You
8	Tramp
9	The Huckle-Buck
10	Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out)
11	Ole Man Trouble

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Original 1968 album featuring the watershed title track, plus earlier singles and B-sides dating back to 1965.

Product details

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.79 x 5.51 x 0.39 inches; 3.25 ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Rhino
Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2014
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 7, 2014
Label ‏ : ‎ Rhino
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NOZ3E8I
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Bill J.

Perfect for whistling to.

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2024

Great tunes.

Exactly what I wanted!

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2024

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Vinyl came exactly as I expected. Amazon went above and beyond with the packaging to ensure the album wasn't damaged in shipping!

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MagicMan1969

My Man the BIG O ( as true Otis Redding fans refer to him )

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2012

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I always loved BIG O since I heard him as a teenager
This lp cd etc Means a lot to me .. for 2 reasons
1. is its Otis (he never IMHO Sang a bad song he had so much funk soul grit energy he could do it all
ballad dance covers and make those covers like he was the original ..
I could go on and on
Tho he played his last show in my area Cleveland Ohio and wanted to see him
Tho 2nd reasons i wasn't allowed to go Dec 9th ( upbeat show was like a American bandstand tho better as in more diverse
with artist ) My dad just passed away over Thanksgiving time and also my older Sister was
having her 19 b-day party and My mom wanted to stay for it
She also said Otis will tour here in the spring
Tho that day December the 10 after his very last concert at Leos casino Dec 9th a 21 older club
Tragic Plane crash near Madison Wisconsin Dec 10 1967 RIP BIG O
So its very personal LP For me
I know its was hard for Cropper to mix it and
Atlantic wanted to rush it out etc and
And will never know what BIG O would have done since he had 3-4 LP Worth of songs to fill in that # number
songs
Tho i remember hearing the single Dock of the bay which was in mono ..
Then buying the LP and hearing him sing in stereo ( which i am one who loves stax stereo .. :)
Just blew me away ...
So I could review each song tho .. i just like the way had b- sides and 2 unreleased and
A lot of stories go on who picked what etc ...why Steve picked what he did ...
Its shows BIG O depth and the many styles he has done
Also lil side note after Janis as in Joplin seen him at Monterrey festival 67 She changed her whole
style and singing like he did she loved him
A must own for fans of BIG O and music lovers of soul and rb and funk pop\rock bluesy music
Get the vinyl excellent stereo version and mix
peace and
music always :)

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Annie Van Auken

Twenty from the King of Soul

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2011

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Otis Redding was born in Dawson, GA. His family moved to Macon when Otis was five. He sang in a choir there and as a teen won a local talent show 15 consecutive weeks. Hia earliest influence was fellow Maconite (Little) Richard Penniman. He joined Johnny Jenkins & the Pinetoppers around 1960. During one of their '62 studio sessions, Otis recorded a song he wrote called "These Arms of Mine." It was a Top 20 hit for VOLT Records but more importantly, this single launched Redding's solo career.

After much r&b chart success over the next five years, Otis Redding died in a plane crash in December of 1967. He was 26. Within a few weeks of that tragic accident, Redding's biggest hit, the title song of this collection of twenty tracks, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," reached #1 on American pop charts.

This album is a fine compilation of many of Otis's best recordings. Seven of the twenty are monaural. A faint tape hiss is evident in spots, but it's not intrusive (heavy filtering would've been, IMO). NOTE: The "live" version of "Shake" was the charting single. Included here is a studio track from the #1 compilation album, THE HISTORY OF OTIS REDDING (1967).

PROGRAM--
(** = mono; chart positions are U.S. r&b rankings)

[2:05] Respect (#4, 1965)
[2:26] Mr. Pitiful** (#10, 1964)
[2:15] Love Man (#17, 1969)
[2:45] (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (#4, 1966)
[2:33] Security** (#23, 1964)
[2:35] I Can't Turn You Loose (#11, 1965)
[2:35] Shake (1967)
[2:18] Hard To Handle (#38, 1968)
[3:00] Tramp w/Carla Thomas (#2, 1967)
[2:37] Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)** (#12, 1966)
[2:05] My Lover's Prayer (#10, 1966)
[2:30] These Arms of Mine** (#20, 1962)
[2:24] That's How Strong My Love Is** (#18, 1964)
[2:58] Cigarettes and Coffee (1966)
[2:52] My Girl** (1965)
[4:22] A Change is Gonna Come (1965)
[3:10] I've Been Loving You Too Long (#2, 1965)
[3:45] Try a Little Tenderness (#4, 1967)
[2:22] Pain in My Heart** (#11, 1963)
[2:38] (Sittin' On the) Dock of the Bay (#1, 1968)

TOTAL TIME: 54:15

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David Keymer

IT STILL WORKS

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2017

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REDDING, Otis. Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. ATCO. 1968. OR, voc; Carla Thomas, backup voc; Booker T. Jones, keybds; Steve Cropper, guit; Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, b; Al Jackson, Jr., dr; Wayne Jackson, Sammy Coleman, Gene ‘Bowlegs’ Miller, tpt; Andrew Love, Joe Arnold, Charles ’Packy’ Axton, ten sx; Floyd Newman, bari sx.

Spurred by reading the newly released biography of Wilson Pickett, Tony Fletcher’s In the Midnight Hour (2017), I ordered and listened in sequence to three collections, Pickett’s greatest hits, Etta James’s Muscle Shoals sessions, and this album, Otis Redding’s great, but alas posthumous Sitting on the Dock of the Bay. All three were good –outstanding, actually. Etta’s was my favorite but this one probably had the most direct emotional appeal to me. They all three learned their trade in a good school, the mix of Gospel and downhome music they heard all the way through while they were growing up. Redding sounds the least Gospel of the three, mostly because he sounds mellower, more laidback, which also means more in the groove for late 60s mainstream youth America –which may explain why initially he seems to have had more success as a crossover artist. (There was also his blowout performance at Monterey, which captured on video and seen nationwide. I’ll never forget his performance of “Try a Little Tenderness” at that concert.) The standout song on this album is “Sitting on the Deck of the Bay,” of course. He wrote it, he sang it, and it still works, almost fifty years after. This is a very good album, and like the albums by Etta and Wilson, it reminds us of what great music came out in those years when I, at least, was still relatively young and when people listened to their music more on jukeboxes and bistro sound systems than they did through their individual iPods. It was a communal experience, not isolated, and that somehow added a social dimension to the music that I can’t strip away even when I listen to it now, decades later.

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