"Try A Little Tenderness" #25 1/28/1967

A signature song of Otis Redding, one he really didn't want to record at first; he said Sam Cooke had the definitive version a few years before. It was written in 1933 and covered by the likes of Bing Crosby, Mel Tormé and Frank Sinatra as well. He's backed here by Booker T. and the MG's with the arrangement by Isaac Hayes. Check out the movie "Monterey Pop" for a very intense live set by Otis that's just smokin' hot.