Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long | Soul Sunday

When Otis Redding died in a December 1967 plane crash that also claimed all but one of The Bar-Kays—the Memphis hitmakers backing him on a Midwestern tour—the Dawson, Georgia-born 26-year-old singer-songwriter was poised for yet another phase in a meteoric and varied career. Instead, within a month, Redding’s posthumous LP On The Dock Of The Bay was topping charts worldwide. The title song, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay,” which Redding co-wrote with session ace and frequent collaborator Steve Cropper, stood apart from his oeuvre as brooding and introspective but still entered the soul canon, joining “These Arms Of Mine,” “Respect,” “Try A Little Tenderness,” “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” and other Redding blockbusters. Though shy, he was a born performer, starting with youthful days singing gospel in his adopted hometown of Macon, Georgia. When tuberculosis disabled his father, Otis quit school at 15 to help support his family. He dug wells. He pumped gas. And, at talent shows or a capella, he sang. He sang with the Upsetters, Little Richard’s former band, then joined the Pinetoppers, whose leader, guitarist Johnny Jenkins, needed a driver, a job Redding held when he rode into an on-the-fly 1962 Stax Records session.That led to a contract with Atco and his first hit single, “These Arms Of Mine.” That number showcased the manly vulnerability and rough-hewn emotive presence at the mic that marked his work onstage and in the studio during his brief life. Besides crisscrossing the segregated South to play for Black listeners, he toured Europe to great acclaim and played the Whiskey a Go Go, a reputation-making Los Angeles nightclub. In July 1967 he delivered an incendiary set closing the second night of the pioneering Monterey Pop Festival, a performance immortalized in the documentary Monterey Pop. - Michael Dolan

Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long
Album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
Released in September 15, 1965 on Stax

Written By: Jerry Butler, Otis Redding

Performed By:

Otis Redding – vocals
Booker T. Jones – keyboards, piano
Isaac Hayes – keyboards, piano
Steve Cropper – guitar
Donald Dunn – bass guitar
Al Jackson Jr. – drums
Wayne Jackson – trumpet
Gene Miller – trumpet
Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
Floyd Newman – baritone saxophone

Produced By: Steve Cropper

Recorded at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee on July 9–10, 1965

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