Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Tom Dowd engineered it at Stax in Memphis on July 9 and 10, 1965, about 22 hours in the studio; "Ole Man Trouble" came from earlier sessions. Booker T. and the M.G.'s backed him, Isaac Hayes played piano, and the horns were from the Mar-Keys and the Memphis Horns, including Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love and Floyd Newman. It includes covers of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "Shake", the Temptations' "My Girl", the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" and his own "Respect", which Aretha Franklin later made a standard. Singles on the Hot 100 and R&B were "I've Been Loving You Too Long" (21 and 2), "Respect" (35 and 4), "Shake" (47 and 16) and "Satisfaction" (31 and 4).

It reached 1 on the Top R&B LPs chart, 75 on the Top LPs and 6 in the UK, and Rolling Stone placed it 178th on its 2020 list. Wikipedia quotes Rolling Stone's true dictionary of soul, Christgau's first great album by one of soul's few reliable long-form artists, and Pitchfork's Nate Patrin's greatest studio-recorded soul LP of the 1960s.