Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul  by Otis Redding

Two days in July 1965 at the Stax Records studio in Memphis were enough to create one of the finest soul albums of the 1960s. Otis Redding presents the third studio album of his short career titled Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul and enters the pantheon of the great performers of his generation.

In Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, Otis Redding performs from his own compositions to covers of other people's songs in his own unique way. He doesn't hesitate to perform the Rolling Stones' Satisfaction, B.B. King's Rock Me Baby, or Sam Cooke's A Change Gonna Come. Of course, the support he had in the studio from the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Isaac Hayes on piano, and members of the Mar-Keys and the Memphis Horns on horns was tremendous. The album's producers were Jim Stewart and Steve Cropper, while the sound engineer was Tom Dowd (!)

The album reached No.1 on the Billboard chart concerning R&B music. Its sales in the United Kingdom reached 100,000 copies, while it reached No.6 on the British chart of hits.