Talk:Otis Redding

Quote from S. Huckaby

I edited the second paragraph uner the heading "Apollo Theater and Otis Blue" to include Huckaby's description of the "big old raggedy" hotel in place of the previous wording ("rundown"), since I don't know of any other source of information about the condition of the hotel in 1963. I did not also insert a citation of the source, because the page numbers in my edition do not seem to match the pages numbers already cited elsewhere in this paragraph of the article. My source is Peter Guralnick, Sweet Soul Music, Back Bay (paperback edition), 1999, p. 143. The other citations of this souce in this paragraph refer to pages 175–179, which seem to correspond to pages 142–145 in my edition. Can anyone reconcile the difference in page numbers?

Also, I altered the spelling of Simms's name according to Guralnick, p. 145 (my edition). My impression is that Guralnick is a careful researcher and trustworthy in such details.

Jwicklatz (talk) 00:54, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

Mistaken reference

In the Monterey Pop paragraph is written: "I got to go, y'all, I don't wanna go", said Redding and left the stage of his last major concert.[35] I read the reference and the author of the book confuses the performance in the "Live in Europe" album with the Monterey Pop one. In the Monterey Pop performance of "Try a little tenderness" there is no mention of miniskirt and no "I got to go, y'all, I don't wanna go" but these are in the Live in Europe performance of the song. Listening to both recordings confirms this. Can we delete the sentence? --Paulrudd (talk) 17:19, 25 March 2017 (UTC)

Blues

Otis redding did blues-themed soul/R&B music in early-mid 1960s, like "these arms of mine", "pain in my heart", and "i've been loving you too long."

So i added genre "blues" in this page. LSM1204 (talk) 15:35, 1 July 2017 (UTC)

Dock of the Bay

This article: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/inside-otis-redding-s-final-masterpiece-sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay?utm_source=pocket-newtab claims that Steve Cropper was not present when Redding wrote the song, and refers directly to this article as mistaken. I don't know who's right. Is there an expert or does someone have access to material that can solve this? HornColumbia talk 04:20, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out. This one will be easy for you to fix. The cited source says, "He returned to Memphis and, with Steve Cropper, finished writing the acoustic ballad that would become his signature hit." So what's going on here is that someone summarized the source incorrectly. Binksternet (talk) 04:45, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

 Done Ed ^{[talk] [majestic titan]} 05:04, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks (somewhat late) to Ed and Binksternet for resolving this.HornColumbia talk 02:00, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Johnny Jenkins and Isaac Hayes did not attend, fearing their reaction would be worse than Zelma Redding's

"Johnny Jenkins and Isaac Hayes did not attend, fearing their reaction would be worse than Zelma Redding's" This is near meaningless without information about Zelma's reaction. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 22:23, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

Agreed, but the googlebooks view of the ref doesn't show the pages that cover that and my library system doesn't have that book. Tomcat7, do you still have the Guralnick book from when you added that line back in 2011? Or do you remember the context, so it can be added to the article? Schazjmd (talk) 12:57, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

"great singer"

I just noticed the article leads off with this line - "He is a great singer in the history of American popular music."

Does that sound like encyclopedic style? Shouldn't this read something like "He is widely considered one of the greatest singers in the history etc etc", with sources? It doesn't even have any citations. Otis Redding deserves better :/