Otis Redding

OTIS REDDING (320kbs-m4a/245mb/1hr47mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th & 10th December 2020

Another chance to hear Stuart Maconie present the first in a two-part assessment of the life and music of American soul legend Otis Redding.

OTIS REDDING - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/123mb/54mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th December 2020

Tonight, a look at his early years including his string of early-to-mid-60s hits that advanced the Memphis-based Stax/Volt sound.

Otis Redding - A Change Is Gonna Come
Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose
Otis Redding - Respect
Otis Redding - Shake (Live Monterey Pop Festival 1967)
Otis Redding - She's All Right
Otis Redding And The Pinetoppers - Shout Bamalama
Otis Redding - Gettin' Hip
Otis Redding - Hey Hey Baby
Otis Redding - Pain In My Heart
Otis Redding - Security
Otis Redding - These Arms Of Mine
Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble
Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose
Otis Redding - Mr. Pitiful
Otis Redding - A Change Is Gonna Come
Otis Redding - Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
Otis Redding - Day Tripper
Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long

OTIS REDDING - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/122mb/53mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 10th December 2020

Tonight including a look back at his momentous appearance at the Monterey Festival 1967 and his tragic death in a light aircraft crash.

Otis Redding - Rock Me Baby
Otis Redding - You Don't Miss Your Water
Otis Redding - Ole Man Trouble
Otis Redding - Wonderful World
Otis Redding - My Girl
Otis Redding - Satisfaction (I Can't Get No)
Otis Redding - Respect
Otis Redding - Shake
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas - Tramp
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Otis Redding - You Don't Miss Your Water
Otis Redding - Shake (Live Monterey Pop Festival 1967)
Otis Redding - Respect (Live Monterey Pop Festival 1967)
Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long (Live Monterey Pop Festival 1967)
Otis Redding - Champagne And Wine
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay
Otis Redding - I've Got Dreams To Remember
Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

Soul Music: Series 28 - 10. Sittin' On the Dock Of The Bay

SOUL MUSIC: SERIES 28 - 10. SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 22nd January 2020

Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay was written while Otis Redding was reflecting on his life on Sausalito Bay in California in the summer of 1967. Its upbeat, laidback melody belies the loneliness of the lyrics. Just a few months later Otis Redding was killed in a plane crash and the song was released, becoming the first posthumous number 1 record in the US. His musician contemporaries including Booker T Jones and guitarist Steve Cropper, who co-wrote Dock of the Bay, tell the story of the song's genesis, and people in their twenties to their seventies reveal why they relate it to dramatic periods in their lives.

Booker T Jones' Time Is Tight is published by Omnibus Press

Producers: Maggie Ayre and Mair Bosworth