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On the first day of recording for the album Otis Blue, Otis Redding records a stereo version of I've Been Loving You Too Long for Volt Records at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.Full article:
Tom Dowd (record producer) : He was a pussycat. He was a lover. He was a great human being. I recorded Otis for Stax once or twice on singles, because they were doing them alone themselves. When they were going to do the Otis Blue album, they called me up and said, "Hey, you gotta come down. Otis is only going to be here for two days. We have to do an album." So we did the album in two days. That was it. Boom. Done. Everything was live, on the fly.
Nobody could read (music). "Sing me the song. Play me the song." It was head charts for the horns.
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Wayne Jackson (trumpet player, Stax Records] ) : Otis used a guitar to write songs and would use open key. So he could just bar it put a bar on his finger and play up the scale and chords. He could easily write with it. When I was with Otis he was on another energy track. Otis was like a 16-year old boy with a hard on all the time. Because all he could think about was writing a song and getting into a studio. That was his life. Zelma and those kids and the farm and his music in that order I think. But outside of the farm he didn't think of nothing but his career. Otis did an amazing body of work in the six years he was recording.
(Source : interview with Harvey Kubernik, 2007)
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Nobody could read (music). "Sing me the song. Play me the song." It was head charts for the horns.
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Wayne Jackson (trumpet player, Stax Records] ) : Otis used a guitar to write songs and would use open key. So he could just bar it put a bar on his finger and play up the scale and chords. He could easily write with it. When I was with Otis he was on another energy track. Otis was like a 16-year old boy with a hard on all the time. Because all he could think about was writing a song and getting into a studio. That was his life. Zelma and those kids and the farm and his music in that order I think. But outside of the farm he didn't think of nothing but his career. Otis did an amazing body of work in the six years he was recording.
(Source : interview with Harvey Kubernik, 2007)