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This album was originally released as Volt 416 on July 10, 1967.

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1 - RESPECT
2 - CAN'T TURN YOU LOOSE
3 - I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU TOO LONG
4 - MY GIRL
5 - SHAKE
6 - SATISFACTION
7 - FA FA FA FA FA (SAD SONG)
8 - THESE ARMS OF MINE
9 - DAY TRIPPER
10-TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS

Recorded in March 1967.

Personnel: Otis Redding - vocals; Wayne Jackson - trumpet; Andrew Love, Joe Arnold - tenor sax;
Booker T.Jones - organ; Steve Cropper - guitar; Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass; Al Jackson, Jr. - drums.

....Will you help me ? Groovy, baby, groovy. Let's call him out together.
O-T-I-S R-E-D-D-I-N-G, Otis Redding!

RESPECT

What you want, honey, you've got it
What you need, baby, you've got it
All I'm asking for a little respect
When I come home, yeah now
Hey hey hey, yeah now, ooh Lord

Do me wrong, honey, if you want to
You can do me wrong, honey, while I'm gone
All I'm asking for a little respect
When I come home, hey yeah
Hey hey hey, yeah now, ooh Lord

Hey little girl
You are sweeter than honey
And I'm about to give you all of my money
And all I'm asking is a little respect
When I come home, hey girl
Hey hey hey, yeah now, ooh Lord

Hey little girl
You are sweeter than honey
I'm about to give you all of my money
All I want you to do
Just give me respect when I come home
hey girl
Hey hey hey, yeah now, ooh Lord

Hey little girl
You are sweeter than honey
I'm about to give you all of my money
All I want you to do
Just give me respect when I come home

Hey girl, hey hey, hey, yeah now, oh Lord
Watch me now

Hey little girl
You are sweeter than honey
I'm about to give you all of my money
All I want you to do
Just give me respect when I come home

Everybody sing, hey hey, yeah now
Respect is what I want
Respect is what I need
Respect is what I want
Respect is what I need
Got to, got to have it (repeat)
Give it up, give it up (repeat)
Give it to me, baby
Everything I need

Thank you so much. Thank you so much
Right now...

.....

CAN'T TURN YOU LOOSE

I can't turn you loose now
If I do I'm gonna lose my mind
I can't ever turn you loose now
If I do I'm gonna lose my mind

Well I can't turn you loose to nobody
'Cause I love you baby, yes I do
Ooh baby, hip shakin' woman I told you
I'm on love with only you
Honey, Baby, you do it
Babe, why don't you
I'm gonna give you everything
That you want, got to, got to now
Got to keep on holding on
Never gonna turn you loose
Got to keep a grip on you, baby yeah

I can't turn you loose now
I'm in love with the prettiest thing
Ooh I can't ever turn you loose now
or the joy true love you can bring me
Well I can't turn you loose to nobody

I know you think I'm gonna stop now, ain't gonna stop.
We goin' one time. Watch me now.

I just got to, got to
Got to keep on holdin' on
can't turn you loose
I got to keep a grip on you
I can't turn you loose

I got to keep holdin' on
Can't turn you loose
Early in the mornin'
I love you, woman
Late in the evenin'
I love you, woman

Got to, got to , got to (repeat)
Got to keep a holdin' on
Can't turn you loose

Lord have mercy. We'll take a break right there. Let's see what kind of feel you got.
Keep the groove goin'. Keep it goin, don't stop. Keep the groove goin'.

Got to, got to, got to
Hold on, got to, got to, I got to
Got to keep a hold, can' turn you loose
Got to keep a grip on you
I can't turn you loose
Got to keep a holdin' on
I can't turn you loose
......

Thank you so much. Right now I'd like to introduce you to a ballad song,
a song that what we call "Soul". And this is a song that we had the pleasure of recording,
and it was one of the biggest songs that we recorded in all our days. We had four years of it.
How many, four Years? And the song goes like.

.....

I'VE BEEN LOVING YOU TOO LONG
(TO STOP NOW)

I've Been loving you too long
To stop now

You are tired
And you want to be free
My love is growing stronger
As you become a habit to me
I've been loving you
A teeny bit too long
And I don't wanna stop now, no

With you my life
Has been so wonderful
I can't stop now

You are tired
And your love is growing cold
My love is growing stronger
As our affair grows old
I've been loving you
About that much too long
And I don't wanna stop now, no

This is what you tell her when the affair' gone.

I've been loving you
About that much too long
And I don't wanna stop now
No, no,no
And don't make me stop now, no baby
I'm down on my knees
Please don't make me stop now yeah
I love you, I love you
I love you with all my heart
And I can't stop now
Please, please, please, yeah
Don't make me stop now, yeah yeah yeah
With heart and soul that I love you
I love love love love love
Good God almighty, I love you
I love you, I love you, Lord
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes, oh yes
I love you, I love you, baby
So many different ways
So many different ways

Thank you so much. Goin' back to the older days now.

.....

MY GIRL

I've got sunshine on a cloudy day
When it's outside
I've got the month of May
Oh I guess you will say
What can make me feel this way
It's my girl
Talkin' 'bout my girl

I've got so much lovin'
Oh the bees envy me, Lord have mercy
I got a sweeter song that I can sing
Better than the birds in the trees
Lord have mercy
Oh I guess you will say
What can make a man like me
Feel this way
It's my my girl
I'm talkin' 'bout my my girl
Ooh yeah yeah now

Hey hey hey, hey hey hey, yeah
I don't need no money
All need is my fame
I got all the riches, baby now
One big man can claim
Oh I guess you will say
Oh what can meke me feel this way
It's my girl
Yalkin' 'bout my girl

I've got sunshine, yes on a cloudy day
With my girl
I've even got the month of May
With my my my my my my h=girl
Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout
I got to, got to, got to
Tell you 'bout my my my my my girl
Talkin' 'bout, talkin' 'bout
I got a story to tell you

.....

SHAKE

You listen while I talk to you now
I tell you I'm gonna do now
There's a new thing a goin' around yeah
I'II tell you what's puttin' down
Now move your body around and around
And just shake
Oh that's the way you do it now
Shake, come on, come on, baby now
Shake, oh shake it, shake it, baby

You shake it like a bowl of soup yeah
You let it go loop the loop yeah

You put your hands on your hip now
Come on, let your backbone slip
Move your body like a whip
And just shake
Got ton got to, got to have it
Said shake, everybody say the word now
Shake, everybody one more time
Say shake

Dig it, ring a ling a ling
Honey, sahkin' is the greatest thing
But if you're ready to roll
Got to do the thing with soul

Shake it, shake with all your might now
Now if you do it, do it right now
Put your hands on your hip yeah
Come on, let your backbone slip
Move your body like a whip
And just shake
Oh that's the way you do now
Oh go go, baby, now
Shake, shake it, shake it, baby
Shake, shake it, shakeit, baby

All right now
If you want to really roll now
Got to do the thing with soul
Shake it, shake with all your might, yeah
If you do it, do it right now
Now let your body loop the light
Now say it, shake
Everybody say it, shake
Just one more time, you say
Everybody a little bit louder, go
Everybody one more time, you say
Everybody one more time, you say
Everybody say it again, you go
Say it just a little bit louder
Say it just a little bit louder
Say it with just a little bit of soul
Say it with just a little bit of soul, now
Say it with just a little bit of feeling
Say it with just a little bit of feeling
One more time a little louder
One more time a little louder
One more time a little louder, oh yeah

.....

SATISFACTION

I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
I've tried, I've tried
I've tried, I've tried
I can't get me no, oh no
And I can't me get no, oh no

Now when I'm riding in my car
And a man comes on the radio
And he keep on teling me more and more
About that useless information
White he tries to mess up my imagination
And I can't get me non, oh no

Hey hey hey
Got to, got to , got to
We got to groove
We got to have it, we got to
We got to have it, we got to
We got ti have it
We'll keep on groovin'
Keep on a groovin'
Keep on a groovin'
I know my baby

I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no satisfaction
I've tried, I've tried
I've tried, I've tried
I can't get me no, oh no
And I can't me get no, oh no

Keep on movin' and rollin' now
Keep on rockin', rockin' baby yeah
You got to, got to have it
You got to

I got to, want you here all the time
I'll stay near you, girl
Till you put me down
And I keep on walkin' round in my sleep
I keep on messin' up, I can't even eat
I keep on tryin'
To find me somebody, Lord
Somebody to love me
And give me some reaction
And I can't find nobody, oh no
Nobody to give me no satisfaction
Oh we got have it, satisfaction
Oh we got to have satisfaction
Early in the morning want satisfaction
Late in the evening want satisfaction
Got to, got to, got to get satisfaction
(repeat)
Bring it on up little bit higher
(repeat)

Thank you, right now... Sock it to you. Sock it to you ?
We're gonna ease the tempo for a minute, I'd like to sing this song here.
This is one of my favorites. It goes something like this.

FA-FA-FA-FA-FA (SAD SONG)

Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
One more time
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
You say it
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)
Now let me have it

I keep singing them sad sad songs, Lord
Sad songs, that's all I know now
I keep singing sad songs, y'all
Sad songs, that's all I know
It has a sweet melody tonight
Anybody can sing it any old time
It touches tour heart
Keeps you in the groove
And when you sing this song
It'll make your whole body move

It goes -
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
You say it
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)
My turn
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
you turn
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)

Dig this, all my life
I've been singin' the sad songs
Tryin' to get a message to you, honey

But that's the only time, y'all
I can sing, honey
And when I get through singin'
My message will be to you

It goes -
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
you turn
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)

Now it's a lovely song, y'all
Sweet music, honey
It gets the light on
It tells a story, baby
You got to get your message
A soul message, honey
A lonely line, baby, a pretty line

Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
You say it now
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)

Right now we're gonna get into a bag. Listen. I want, I want the band to play
just a little softer. Everybody here, do your hands, give it a hand. Now listen.
My first line, you repeat after me. Here we go now.

Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
You say it real loud
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)
One more time
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
You say it now
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)
Now you say this
Je t'aime, je t'aime, je t'aime
Je t'aime, je t'aime, je t'aime
You say that
(Je t'aime, je t'aime, je t'aime
Je t'aime, je t'aime, je t'aime)
Everybody say fa-fa
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
A little bit louder now
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa
Just a little bit louder now
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)
A little bit louder
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)

Get it, get it, get it, get it, y'all
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)
Get it, get it, get it,get it, y'all
(Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa)

.......

We'd like to do a number now, ladies and gentlemen.
This is - Right now I tell you what we're gonna do. I'm wanna sing a song,
this is my first record, first recording that I ever recorded in my whole life.
And I wanna sing this song to you and let you hear what it sounds like. It started off like this.

THESE ARMS OF MINE

These arms of mine
They are lonely
Lonely and feeling blue
These arms of mine
They are yearning
Yearning from wanting you
And if would let them hld you now
Oh how grateful I will be

These big old arms of mine
They are yearning
And burning and yearning, oh now
Burning from wanting you
These arms of mine
They are wanting and wanting
And wanting, wanting now
Wanting to hold you
And if you would let them hold you now
Oh how grateful I will be

This is the soulfullest part of it.

Come on, come on, baby
Lord have mercy
Just be my little woman
Just be my lover, oh
I need me somebody
Somebody to treat me right now
Oh my dear Lord
I need your warm loving arms
To hold me tight
And I need, I need your
I need your sweet tender lips, too
Oh tell me what I wanna know

.....

DAY TRIPPER

* She was a day tripper girl, now
I said a one-way ticket girl, now
It took me so, so very long
I found out, I found out
I found out, I found out

Took me down the road, yes she did
She give me a hard time
Told me that she loved you
But she...
I got to take the easy way out now
I said I got a good reason, sugar
We gonna take the easy way out, y'all

(repeat)

Oh god almighty, Lord
She God me a hard time
Everything about that girl
She treat me
We got to take the easy way out, y'all
I said she's a big teaser, yeah yeah
We got to take the easy way out, y'all

(repeat)

Oh God almighty, Lord
She give me a hard time
Everything about that girl
She treat me
Come on, baby, come on, baby
Do it to me, hey
Come on and sock it to me, baby
Everybody knows, everybody says

(repeat)

Good Lord
Don't mean a thing to me
She just went halfway with me, honey
She didn't even
You got to love me when I want it, baby
You got to love me when I need it, baby
And you got to go all the way with me
Not halfway, but all the way
And you got to
You got to love me when I want it, baby
You got to love me when I need it, honey
You got to, got to, got to, (repeat)
You got to love me when I want it, baby
You got to love me when I need it, baby
And you got to go all the way with me
Not half the way, but all the way
You got to, got to, got to, (repeat)

.....

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you. Right now, how do you feel? You feel all right, huh?
I do, too. Right now we're gonna sing a song that's one of my favorites.
I'll let it introduce itself. It goes something like this.
Thank you so much, this is for you.

TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS

Oh she may be weary
Young girls they do get wearied
Wearing that same old shaggy dress
Yeah yeah yeah
But when she gets weary
Try a little tenderness
Yeah yeah yeah
That's all you've got to do now

I know she's waiting, just anticipating
A thing that she'll never
Never, never possess, no no no
But while she's there waiting
Try just a little bit of tenderness
That's all you gentlemens got to do
You know what i'm talkin' about

And you say, now it might be
A little bit sentimental, no no
She has her grief and care
Yeah yeah yeah
But the soft words
They are spoke so gentle, Yeah yeah yeah
You know what I mean
And it makes it easier, easier, to bear

Oh she won't regret it, no no
Them young girls they don't forget it
Love is their whole happiness
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
But i't all so easy
All you got to do id try
Try a little tenderness

All you got to do
Is know how to love her
You got to hold her and squeeze her
Never leave her, get to her
Just try a little tenderness, yeah yeah
Lord have mercy now
All you got to do is just take my advice
You got to hold her and squeeze her
Never leave her
You got to hold her, never go
Just try a little tenderness, yeah yeah
Lord have mercy now
All you got to do is take my advice
You got to hold her and squeeze her
Never leave her
You got to, got to, got to, now now now
Got to try a little tenderness, yeah yeah
Lord have mercy now
All you got to do is just take my advice
You got to hold her and squeeze her
Never leave her
Sock it, sock it, sock it to her
You got to try a little tenderness
Yeah yeah, Lord have mercy now

Otis Redding! Otis Redding! Can't hear you!
You wanna hear some more of Otis?
Help me. Help me, convince me you've got to hear some more of Otis.
Some more, a little bit more! What?

Squeeze, never leave
You got to hold her and never go
Just try a little tenderness, yaeh yeah
You got to hold her ans squeeze
You got to hold her, never go
Try a little tenderness, yeah yeah
Lord have mercy now
All you got to do is take my advice
You got to hold her, squeeze her
Never leave her, oh never go
Try a little -

......

traduction des notes de pochette par Dror

Les gens � Paris l�ont proclam� le � chanteur par excellence � ; � Londres il a �t� qualifi� du chanteur de soul le plus groovy de tous les temps ; en Am�rique nous l�appelons le Roi du rhythm and Blues. M�langez tout �a et qu�est ce que vous avez, l�excitant, inimitable, de Macon, Otis Redding.

Le grand mec puissant, avec trop de tubes pour un seul concert, a pris la t�te d�affiche de la meilleure tourn�e jamais pr�sent�e en Europe (� juste titre) en tant que Mr. Volt Records, de l�op�ration Stax / Volt.

Otis Redding est tr�s certainement entr� dans l�histoire en montrant sa propre chor�graphie dynamique et sa gymnastique vocale.

Vous auriez d� y �tre mais, puisque vous n�y �tiez pas, vous aurez l�opportunit� (comme tant d�autres l�ont eue) d�entendre, de voir litt�ralement et, en tout, cas de sentir ce groupe de soul � lui tout seul.

Otis Redding a insuffl� une nouvelle vie dans la musique soul et a aid� � lui donner l�importance qu�elle conna�t aujourd�hui dans le monde de la musique contemporaine, o� elle �gaye les hit-parades � travers le monde.

Le Manchester Evening Post a rapport� que : � Otis Redding est bien s�r le Roi incontest� d�une �quipe qui produit la musique la plus riche et la plus naturelle des Etats-Unis. �

Le Western Daily Press dit que : � Trop souvent, la musique � soul � a �t� de la frime commercialis�e� mais il a suffi � Otis Redding et � Sam & Dave de faire voler tout cela en �clats pour faire palpiter tout le monde d�impatience en attendant Mr. Otis Redding. �

Le Bristol Evening News : � Otis Redding surpassa le tout et Satisfaction, My Girl et finalement Try A Little Tenderness furent les coups d�assommoir qui enfonc�rent les derni�res claques d�une soir�e inoubliable. �

Et nous disons : � Vous n�avez rien entendu tant qu�vous n�avez pas entendu Otis. Ecoutez ! �

DEANIE PARKER

(Deanie Parker a enregistr� deux singles chez Volt en 1963 et 64, puis elle est devenue l�un des piliers du personnel des bureaux de Stax, jusqu�� aujourd�hui)

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