Hard To Handle: Black America Sings Otis Redding Hard To Handle: Black America Sings Otis Redding CD

2012 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.

1. These Arms of Mine - Albert Washington ; the Kings 2. Sister Pitiful - Judy Clay 3. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) - William Bell 4. Baby Cakes - Maxine Brown 5. Think About It - King Floyd 6. Shout Bamalama - Mickey Murray 7. Security - Irma Thomas 8. I've Got Dreams to Remember - Percy Sledge 9. Give Away None of My Love - Buddy Miles 10. I'm Missing You - Mitty Collier 11. I Can't Turn You Loose - James Carr 12. Chained and Bound - Bettye Swann 13. Just One More Day - Clarence Carter 14. Wholesale Love - Arthur Conley 15. Hawg for You - Tina Britt 16. Loving By the Pound (TK 2) - Otis Redding 17. Hard to Handle - Patti Drew 18. A Year, a Month and a Day - Arthur Conley 19. Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa (Sad Song) - Lou Rawls 20. Monkey on My Back-Jackie Hairston 21. Keep Pushing Me - James ; Bobby Purify 22. Good to Me - Donald Height 23. Respect - Aretha Franklin 24. (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay - the Staple Singers 25. I Got the Will - Etta James