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The Immortal Otis Redding by Otis Redding
The Immortal Otis Redding is an album by Otis Redding, released in 1968. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Hard to Handle”, on 2 lists with a best position of #983.
The Immortal Otis Redding came out on Atco on June 15, 1968, six months after the plane crash that killed him, and it collects 11 songs from a three-week run of sessions that wrapped just days before he died in December 1967. Steve Cropper, his partner on "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", produced it, and there's nothing scraped-together about it. This is Redding at full strength, gospel-rooted and hungry, pleading, strutting and shouting the house down over those lean, snapping Southern soul grooves.
Only "The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)" had been heard before, as a single that April, but it was far from the last hit here: "I've Got Dreams to Remember", "Amen" and the swaggering "Hard to Handle" all charted too, 4 singles in all from a man who was no longer around to sing them.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Immortal Otis Redding on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hard to Handle | 2 | #983 | – | 2020–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.