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Otis Redding performing stomping versions of Satisfaction, My Girl and Respect(one of his compositions later made famous by Aretha Franklin) on british pop tv show Ready Steady Go.
An ultra tight touring band backs up Otis on these amazing renditions.
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Highlights from Otis Taylor's ("...one of the most innovative, thought-provoking blues artists to emerge in the last 20 years." Billboard) upcoming album, Recapturing the Banjo (Feb '08) featuring Guy Davis, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Otis Taylor, and Don Vappie. www.telarc.com
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Can you imagine that this song never got any higher on the Billboard charts than #35! Things would sure get better when a certain Queen of Soul released a version.
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June 30, 1958: "Willie and the Hand Jive," by the Johnny Otis Orchestra, enters the R&B chart, where it will reach #3. It goes on to become an R&B standard, cut by Eric Clapton and others.