Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology

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,[2] 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.

Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology
Compilation album by Otis Redding
Released	August 18, 1998
Recorded	at Macon, Georgia, Muscle Shoals, Alabama and at Stax Studios, Memphis, Tennessee from 1960 to November 22, 1967. Tracks 20–24 on disc 2 recorded live at The Monterey International Pop Festival, Monterey, California on June 17, 1967
Genre	R&B/Soul
Label	Rhino
Producer	Gary Stewart, David Gorman, Bill Inglot

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

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.[3]

Commercial performance

The album sold in excess of 40,000 copies and was voted 147th on the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone.[4]

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Shout Bamalama" (performed by Redding, The Pinetoppers)	Otis Redding	1:57
2.	"These Arms of Mine"	Redding	2:33
3.	"That's What My Heart Needs"	Redding	2:40
4.	"Pain in My Heart"	Naomi Neville	2:25
5.	"Come to Me"	Redding, Phil Walden	2:47
6.	"Security"	Redding	2:38
7.	"Chained and Bound"	Redding	2:43
8.	"Mr. Pitiful"	Steve Cropper, Redding	2:40
9.	"That's How Strong My Love Is"	Roosevelt Jamison	2:25
10.	"I've Been Loving You Too Long"	Jerry Butler, Redding	3:15
11.	"Respect"	Redding	2:10
12.	"Ole Man Trouble"	Redding	2:38
13.	"A Change Is Gonna Come"	Sam Cooke	4:16
14.	"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"	Mick Jagger, Keith Richards	2:46
15.	"Down in the Valley"	Bert Berns, Joseph C. Martin, Marvin Chivian, Soloman Burke	2:59
16.	"Shake"	Cooke	2:41
17.	"My Girl"	Smokey Robinson, Ronald White	2:56
18.	"You Don't Miss Your Water"	William Bell	2:52
19.	"Cupid"	Cooke	3:10
20.	"I Can't Turn You Loose"	Redding	2:48
21.	"Just One More Day"	Steve Cropper, Redding, Robinson	3:30
22.	"My Lover's Prayer"	Redding	3:11
23.	"Cigarettes and Coffee"	Butler, Thomas, Walker	4:00
24.	"It's Growing"	Warren Moore, Robinson	2:49
25.	"Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)"	Cropper, Redding	2:43
26.	"Try a Little Tenderness"	James Campbell, Reginald Connelly, Harry M. Woods	3:47

Disc 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You Left the Water Running"	Oscar Frank, Rick Hall, Dan Penn	2:47
2.	"Trick or Treat"	Isaac Hayes, David Porter	3:13
3.	"Tramp" (performed by Redding, Carla Thomas)	Lowell Fulson, Jimmy McCracklin	3:03
4.	"Lovey Dovey" (performed by Redding, Thomas)	Ahmet Ertegün, Memphis Edward Curtis	2:36
5.	"Let Me Come on Home"	Al Jackson Jr., Redding, Booker T. Jones	2:55
6.	"I Love You More Than Words Can Say"	Eddie Floyd, Jones	2:55
7.	"Merry Christmas, Baby"	Lou Baxter, Johnny Moore	2:29
8.	"The Glory of Love"	William Hill	2:50
9.	"Tell the Truth"	Lowman Pauling	3:13
10.	"I've Got Dreams to Remember"	Zelma Redding, Otis Redding, Joe Rock	3:15
11.	"The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)"	Cropper, Redding	2:45
12.	"Hard to Handle"	Allen Jones, Alvertis Isbell, Redding	2:20
13.	"Amen"	Traditional	3:06
14.	"Direct Me"	Cropper, Redding	2:19
15.	"Love Man"	Redding	2:18
16.	"Look at That Girl"	Edward Morris, Sandy Stewart	2:38
17.	"I'm a Changed Man"	Cropper, Redding	2:22
18.	"The Match Game"	Porter, Redding	2:53
19.	"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"	Cropper, Redding	2:49
20.	"Shake [live]"	Cooke	2:57
21.	"Respect [live]"	Redding	3:00
22.	"I've Been Loving You Too Long [live]"	Butler, Redding	4:08
23.	"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction [live]"	Jagger, Richards	3:33
24.	"Try a Little Tenderness [Live]"	Campbell, Connelly, Woods	5:13

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

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Rhino Records online store Archived October 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
3. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology reviewed at Allmusic link
4. Rolling Stone article