Otis would have turned 70 this Friday. I have always wondered what the world would be like if he was still with us. Photo via the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame (also gone).
William Bell - Tribute To A King
Lattimore Brown - Otis Is Gone, Pt. 1
Eddie Floyd - Big Bird
Otis Redding - The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)
This 1967 live show from the Stax/Volt tour in Norway has never been topped.
Damn fine photo.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Greg.
ReplyDeletewas an LP out in those days, LIVE IN EUROPE , on ATco, prob. with the Paris show. Similar to this. Think of Monterey as well....
ReplyDeletebye amsterdamman
Oh man, first the Liberace Museum, now I learn the Georgia Music Hall of Fame--in Otis's Macon no less--is no more. Damn. That was the last bit of sanity by Zell Miller.
ReplyDeleteA really decent collection of displays but I especially liked the 2XL 8-track machine/game near the B-52s artifacts.
How sad. They could have a museum just about Otis but the other stuff was good too.
Long live the Big O.
Great post. Thanks Debbie.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, next to the LP, there was also a DVD available in Europe, on some spooky label, of this show!
ReplyDeleteI got it at a gas station, or whatever around 2005.....that ''s in Netherlands.