Edit for headphones, January 2021. This song - a name it "alternate version one" - is on the 1992 remastered compilation album "Remember Me" (Stax – SCD-8572-2). I just LOVE the guitar riffs throughout the song.
The official rele…
Edit for headphones, January 2021. This song - a name it "alternate version one" - is on the 1992 remastered compilation album "Remember Me" (Stax – SCD-8572-2). I just LOVE the guitar riffs throughout the song.
The official release is just a lame release in comparison to this one: it has hardly any guitar riffs and a church feel to the way of playing the organ. Wow wat a disappointment. Never ever again ask the sacristan to play the organ, you Stax people !
Discogs.com says about the album "Remember Me": "A compilation of alternate takes and obscure Otis Redding tapes."
I say: This album has a lot of real true stunning beauties.
The second alternate version also has the great guitar riffs, but is in much slower tempo and it has a lot of wind instruments (with probably saxophones too) interfering, and they kind of kill the song. They also skillfully murdered the intro. A bad decision to "spice up" the song that way. It is on the album - that I only found on SoulSeek - "The Otis Redding Story (The Lost Album)". Oh, I forgot to mention: Otis also sings the words "Come n'me" in a silly way (instead of "Come to me"), like Barry Gibb when he's on the squeaky tour... Obviously a studio take that was rejected for a lot of reasons.
As should also have been done to all of Robin Gibbs' stupid falsetto "performances"... please Barry, keep the squeaky songs apart from the rest of your songs, sell ratings will increase dramatically, trust me !
And what about the one and a half men and a horse's head who like your fake falsetto defects? They are already hopelessly lost...
In 1964 the official release charted #26 in the US "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs".
Experiments in my music laboratory proved: definitely a number one hit if they'd chosen to release this alternate version instead!
Curious for my music laboratory? Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/@ruudtes-60s-laboratory
COME TO ME
(Otis Redding/Phil Walden)
come to me and love me
come to me and love me
wow come to me and be my girl
I love love you so
come to me or I'm begging
come to me or I'm begging
wow darling come to me and be my girl
I love love you so
days are getting so lonely
life's all getting so blue
time has come for you and I
to get together and we'll make two, wow wow oh
come to me for I'm lonely
come to me for I'm lonely
wow come to me and be my girl
I love love you so
oh, babe I'm a begging
yeah, babe, oh babe come home
yeah, come on home ahead yeah yeah yeah
just turn me on your loving baby oh babe
babe come home yeahah
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