Hey everybody welcome back to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series and the series is
called What Makes This Singer Great and the next great guy coming up is Otis
Redding. I'm doing a whole series on Motown and I've, I've covered Marvin Gaye
I've covered Otis, I've covered Wilson Pickett, I covered
Al Green, Aretha and a bunch of other guys, gals and if you guys don't mind
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learning how to sing and sing well. So what makes Otis Redding great well lots
of things, one thing he's got a killer voice, his tone, his sensitivity is
amazing. He is probably one of the most influential and inspirational Motown
singers of all time I mean him, Otis, I mean excuse me Wilson Pickett, Marvin Gaye
like I said Al Green, some of the guys we're covering in this whole series.
So definitely influential. I think of songs like sitting on the "Dock Of The
Bay" right and you got guys like Michael Bolton covering it who did a great job
too by the way. In fact his band was a few the members of Journey. It was Jonathan
Cain and Neil Sean on guitar and then you've got "Try A Little Tenderness" I mean and
we're gonna do that here actually I'm gonna play it and comment along the way.
You've got "I've Been Loving You Too Long" or so long, too long "I've Been Loving You
Too Long" "Hard To Handle" right, we've seen the Black Crowes cover that. A lot
of people have covered his music. "I Love You More Than Words",
another amazing tune "A Change Is Gonna Come". Now he covered a Sam Cooke song
and it's interesting too because he did quite a few covers also and his
originals were amazing too "Cigarettes And Coffee" I mean you know he's got a lot of
stuff out but anyway let's just kind of dive right in and we'll talk about it
as we go along. Here we go.
Good note choices.
I think they're showing people like from the war, Woodstock, I don't know.
Old footage.
I want to see him.
So, so listen (sings) right. He's got a really
interesting, tubular, round sound so it's not like Wilson Pickett where it's like
really distorted you know you have (sings)
right. You listen to some of
that stuff and he's got just a real snappiness to his sound. So he's either
really tender, on a sound like this he's more tender in the sound, or he's
got kind of a a real you know kind of in-your-face, sort of snappy but not
over-the-top like not a really aggressive, distorted growly kind of
sound but just kind of like a real swaggy, soul, swaggy kind of you know
riffey kind of sound so. Let's continue, here we go.
I think this is the
Monterey Festival in 1967 or something so they've got all these people in the
60s, late 60s.
Isn't it weird to think that these kids that you're seeing in this video
right now from sixty-seven are like almost my age, they're in their 50s now.
It's kind of creepy to think about that but it's also interesting to then to say
well gosh if the music is this old, how timeless is it. It's transcends all this
time. Now I'm not saying it's like new music today, thankfully it's not because
a lot of new music isn't as cool and as soulful as this but um how interesting
that you know we're looking at something way back when and I'm hearing the video
like at 1:36, there's a kid with a headband on. That kid is probably almost my age
right now, I'm 56. He's probably 53 something like that whatever anyway and to think
that this music has transcended time to where we could look back as though it
didn't even really exist, time didn't really exist it's just great music and
we appreciate it right. I think that's really cool and he's certainly very
instrumental in making that happen because of writing timeless music and
something we could still enjoy to this day so.
Just an observation but.
Nice big, fat, warm, round vocals. Now I'd love to see his performance more just of him
singing and I, I didn't necessarily want to see all these people from the 60s
whatever but and I hadn't seen this before by the way so I have to kind
of do what we are allowed to use on YouTube to kind of whatever but anyway
with that said guys go check out his original version of "Sitting On The Dock
Of The Bay" and just the, just the, gosh the sensitivities, I can't think of a
better word, the intimacy and sensitivity and just the soul, the genuine, true soul
coming out of him and then listen to Michael Bolton's version, he did a
good job but not as soulful as Otis. Now I like, I do like the Black Crowe's version
of "Hard To Handle". Listen to that, I think Chris did a great job on that song, very
rock, blues rock kind of oriented but he did it in a way that was really cool so
I recommend that and if you guys, whatever you can think of, put it in the
comments section what you think makes Otis great and if you have a song that I
missed or something you think that really should have been showcased that
I didn't get to showcase and I'm doing most of this by request so if you can think of
something or a singer that you'd like me to do, please put that in the comment
section as well and check out my next video.