Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology is a 1998 compilation album by American soul singer-songwriter Otis Redding. Advertised as a stopgap between the greatest hits album Very Best Of and the boxset Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding,Rhino Records online store this two-disc album offers most of Redding's greatest hits, a few album tracks and 5 live recordings taken from The Monterey International Pop Festival.
Reception In his review for Allmusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine states that while the music on the album is superb, it tries to be both a best of and a box set and so fails at both.Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology reviewed at Allmusic [ link]
Commercial performance The album sold in excess of 40,000 copies and in 2003 was voted 147th on the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone.Rolling Stone article
Track listing
Personnel Otis Redding – vocals, guitar Carla Thomas – vocals Booker T. Jones – guitar, piano, electronic organ Steve Cropper – guitar, piano, bass Johnny Jenkins – guitar Charles "Packy" Axton – tenor saxophone Andrew Love – tenor saxophone Joe Arnold – tenor saxophone Gilbert Caples – tenor saxophone Gene Parker – tenor saxophone Tommie Lee Williams – tenor saxophone Floyd Newman – baritone saxophone Wayne Jackson – trumpet Sammie Coleman – trumpet Gene "Bowlegs" Miller – trumpet Ben Cauley – trumpet Isaac Hayes – piano, organ Lewis Steinberg – bass Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass Wayne Cochran – bass Al Jackson Jr. – drums Rick Hall – drums Phil Walden – tambourine William Bell David Porter – background vocals The Pinetoppers
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