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The New York Times gave only four inches at the bottom of a column on page 19 to the death exactly one month ago of Otis Redding. The Times reported the plane crash and listed the musicians who were killed. In view of the awed tone of accounts of other...
Died. Otis Redding, 25, kingfish of soul music; when his light plane crashed into a lake near Madison, Wis. Otis wailed his dirt-raw blues to jazzed-up blasts of trumpets and trombones and cut loose a string of hits (Respect, Try a Little Tenderness) that took soul music out...
"I don't want to just throw it out at them," T responded, his voice approaching anger, "his is Otis Redding...CRY!" he mocked--"that's television, man."
Tuesday night T was presenting an hour-long tribute to Otis Redding, the Blues singer who died in a plane crash Sunday. A studio guest asked him to play a certain song. "No, I'm not going to play it," he said. "You could do a 16 hour show on...
Later he made his first two big recordings for Soul Records: "Pain in My Heart," and "These Arms of Mine." With these two hits, and a lot of "pap-pap--pap" movements, Redding began touring the big Eastern stops.