Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Anthology

1998 compilation album by Otis Redding

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.

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 in 2003 was voted 147th on the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone.^[4]

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

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