Just found out that song was written in 1932 and had been around for a long time before Otis covered it. I heard the song first when it was a hit on the radio for a band called Max Merrit and the Meteors and though I was a bit of a Glam fan in those heady days of the seventies I could tell that Max was singing a great song.
But that was nothing compared to what I heard when someone finally played me Otis Redding. A slow build up that takes you right to the top and then it's over and you want to play it again straight away. When I finally got my hands on my own copy of the record and it did take me awhile to find the single I played it to death. And never got sick of it. Even when it was all over the place when the Commitments pushed it back into the limelight in the eighties.
Just a totally fab song that gave me my first real taste of soul. I was one of those saddos who carried Otis Blue to parties to show how hip I was. And it was the love of this music rather than electronica which made it important that the Mods of 1979 had to establish our own clubs.
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