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Otis Redding
I've Been Loving You Too Long and Other Hits
Genres: Pop, R&B

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Respect - Otis Redding, Redding, Otis
2. Mr. Pitiful - Otis Redding, Cropper, Steve
3. These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding, Redding, Otis
4. Security - Otis Redding, Redding, Otis
5. That's How Strong My Love Is - Otis Redding, Jamison, Roosevelt
6. Satisfaction - Otis Redding, Jagger
7. Pain in My Heart - Otis Redding, Neville, Naomi
8. My Lover's Prayer - Otis Redding, Redding, Otis
9. Glory of Love - Otis Redding, Hill, Billy [1]
10. I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding, Butler, Jerry [1]

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CD Details

All Artists: Otis Redding
Title: I've Been Loving You Too Long and Other Hits
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Rhino Flashback
Original Release Date: 1/1/1997
Re-Release Date: 6/10/1997
Genres: Pop, R&B
Styles: Oldies, Soul
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 081227266226, 081227266240

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CD Reviews

It Feels All of a Piece

Stephanie DePue | Carolina Beach, NC USA | 06/16/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

""I've Been Loving You Too Long," (1997) is a posthumous, skimpy, best-hits of the late, great Otis Redding, released by Rhino Records. The Georgia-born Redding, who left us, tragically, way too young at 26, in a crash of his private plane, was an influential singer/songwriter. He was a practitioner of gospel-derived, deepest fried southern soul, and an exponent of the best music Memphis-based Stax/Volt could produce, with its wailing horns, and strong, pounding house band backing, by Steve Cropper's Booker T and the MGs. Redding's instrument, his voice, was an exemplar of soul: hoarse, passionate and gritty, yet he could produce aching ballads, and party tunes that still carried emotional content.

He wrote the album's title tune with Jerry Butler; too, he wrote "Respect," a big hit for Aretha Franklin; his intense version of the song is on this album. He also co-wrote many songs with Steve Cropper. His biggest, mainstream hit while alive was "Tramp," a duet with Carla Thomas. He also wrote his biggest, immortal, posthumous hit, "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay;" he recorded it three days before his death. (The version released includes his famous whistled verse; he hadn't written the words yet, but intended to soon.) Neither of these signature songs is included here. But you do get several wonderful songs: a driving "Mr. Pitiful," and a yearning "These Arms of Mine," his earliest R & B hits. His famous, pounding, mispronounced take on the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction." A prayerful "Pain in My Heart," and an exultant, churchy "Glory of Love."

This album, you can see, does not have all his greatest hits: there are others on the market that do, if you want them all in one place. But the album coheres better than some greatest hits compilations do, feels all of a piece, and we sure get to hear plenty of "Dock of the Bay" elsewhere. Your call.

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