The vinyl pressing on this reissue of Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul is excellent and the sound quality is great as far as 1965 soul records go. The only real difference for the obsessive collector ...

“ (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” of course, was a smash hit, Redding’s only song to top the Billboard Top 100 and the first posthumous number-one single in U.S. chart history.

Redding scored five Top 5 albums and 17 Top 20 singles on the R&B charts in less than six years of recording before he died in a plane crash in 1967 at the age of 26.

'Stax: Soulsville U.S.A.' HBO documentary goes deep into the Memphis record company and artists like Otis Redding and Sam and Dave.