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The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul : Complete & Unbelievable |  | Artist: Otis Redding
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 80179
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 91707
UPC: 075679170729
EAN: 0075679170729
ASIN: B000002JO2
Release Date: June 11, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) | | • | I'm Sick Y'all | | • | Tennessee Waltz | | • | Sweet Lorene | | • | Try a Little Tenderness | | • | Day Tripper | | • | My Lover's Prayer | | • | She Put the Hurt on Me | | • | Ton of Joy | | • | You're Still My Baby | | • | Hawg for You | | • | Love Have Mercy |
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With its somewhat grandiose title, the legendary Otis Redding's fifth album maintained much of the same formula that had been used on his previous recordings for the Stax subsidiary label Volt, combining some fine Redding-penned originals with the stylized vocalist's interpretations of others' material. While Redding always lent his own special raw, gospel-edged stamp to everything from the Beatles' perky "Day Tripper" to a slowed-down, unparalleled reading of the pop standard "Tennessee Waltz," it was on his own songs--such gems as "Fa- Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)" (his 15th R&B hit single), the plaintive "Ton of Joy," and the bluesy "Hawg for You"--that Redding was at his soulful best. That said, nothing quite compares to how he turned another pop classic, "Try a Little Tenderness" into an emotive opus that became a showstopper wherever he appeared during his tragically short-lived four years as a hit-making recording artist. As an example of the horn-driven Memphis sound, Dictionary of Soul is an excellent reference, and Redding is in peak form as a true American original, whether he's giving '50s hit man Chuck Willis's "You're Still My Baby" a workover or breezing through his own almost-joyful "She Put the Hurt on Me." For the benefit of those with limited "knowledge" of Redding's specialized vocal vocabulary, the original album included some sidesplitting definitions of terms such as "gotta-gotta" ("not able to do without it") and "ou" ("ouchless excitement"), and they are reproduced in full on this reissue of what is easily one of Redding's finest recordings. --David Nathan
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Media Type: CD
Artist: REDDING,OTIS
Title: DICTIONARY OF SOUL
Street Release Date: 06/11/1991
Domestic
Genre: OLDIES
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 Otis Redding's Recordings May 8, 2009
Monnie Smith (San Francisco, CA)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
The problem with all of Otis Redding's recordings is they are all in MONO, only one was recorded in STEREO. Otis Blue is in stereo if you get the double CD version because one CD is stereo, the other the original MONO.
Personally, I hate listening to anything is MONO even Otis, and I love the man's voice.
OTIS!!! YEAH! December 9, 2007
finulanu (Here, there, and everywhere)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
While the Dictionary of Soul was written by Brown, Charles and Cooke in 1960 or so, Otis has the honor of being an editor. His cover of the ancient "Try a Little Tenderness", the only version of the song most people know, is probably his best song ever, thanks to the building emotion in the vocal that eventually explodes. He goes for the more direct emotional approach on some of his own songs, such as the soul shouter "I'm Sick Y'all", and the quiet, reserved, slow soul "Sweet Lorrane". He also writes "My Lover's Prayer", a song with a wonderful melody; the fun Willie Dixon-like blues "Hawg for You", with a fine guitar solo, and the raw "Ton of Joy" on his own; the M.G.'s co-wrote, and were heavily involved in winners like "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)" and "I'm Sick Y'all": the oft-covered soul of "Tennessee Waltz" (which he probably picked up from Sam Cooke) also gets a strong performance. A couple weak points include a bad cover of "Day Tripper", which fails where "Satisfaction" succeeded, and "You're Still My Baby", a dumbed-down "Tenderness". Even with those faults, this is still a worthy successor to Otis Blue.
 Otis Smokes! July 15, 2006
Claudia J. Darrah (Durham, NC United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Otis Redding is smokin' hot with his wonderful retinue of songs! If you are looking for burning soul with horns,flourishes and classy crooning then this is the one for you!
My favorite, Try A Little Tenderness squeezes out every possible high note there is, Sad Song is a great gut bustin' fa fa fa fa fa fabulous venue for the master of soul. Buy it and you won't regret one single instant.
that ain't no hogwash. February 20, 2005
space_antelope (Baltimore Maryland)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
i don't want to spoil anyone's listening experience but if you've never heard the first song on this album before then turn your stereo up really loud before you do 'cause the first words out of his mouth are so funny you will laugh.
Singing " Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa". September 10, 2004
Johnny Heering (Bethel, CT United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Otis Redding was one of the greatest soul singers of all time. He could rock like Little Richard, and then turn around and sing a ballad like Sam Cooke. This was his fifth album, from 1966. It contains a mixture of some classic hits like "Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa" and "Try a Little Tenderness", and fine lesser known songs like "Hawg For You". But what really showcases Otis's unique talent is the cover songs here. He could take a country song like "Tennessee Waltz", a standard like "Try a Little Tenderness", a Beatles song like "Day Tripper" and and old R&B song like "You're Still My Baby" and when he got through with them they sounded like Otis Redding songs. Fans of classic sould should dig this album.
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