Your Daily Song Fix

“Try a Little Tenderness” is a love song written by “Irving King” and Harry M. Woods, and recorded initially on December 8, 1932 by the Ray Noble Orchestra (with vocals by Val Rosing). Otis Redding’s live version from the amazing album Live in London & Paris starts off with a great soulful melody and then transitions into an upbeat groove backed by a fearless horn section. I put this entire album in the Daily Song Fix Store (see the tab – Listen and Shop!) because it really is an amazing album. Props to Joe @ Chowabunga for the song suggestion.
Update: The Live in Paris version stopped working so I embedded a different one below, still great!

Chicago is one of the longest running and most successful U.S. pop/rock and roll groups yet many people only know them for their most famous hit “25 or 6 to 4.” Out of 21 studio albums and 9 live albums, “Movin’ In” remains one of my favorite underplayed Chicago songs. It was written by Trombonist James Pankow and has a great melody, powerful horn lines, soulful vocals, and great horn solos.

“Cut Chemist Suite” is off of Ozomatli’s first album released in 1998. I feel a little out of the hip-hop loop for not hearing of these guys before considering MC Chali 2na and turntablist Cut Chemist were part of the group before focusing their efforts on Jurassic 5.

“The Weight” was a hit song by The Band released in 1968. In 1969 Aretha Franklin recorded a version with Duane Allman just two years before his fatal motorcycle crash. Their version of “The Weight” was the highest charted recording of the song in both the US and Canada.

It’s always nice to be informed about awesome Soul artists that I haven’t heard before. Arthur Conley may have been really popular in 1967 for his hit song “Sweet Soul Music,” but I had not heard of him until today. I look forward to discovering more of his work.

My friend instant messaged me this morning with a request for this Rolling Stones cover. Apparently when Keith Richards wrote “Satisfaction” with Mick Jagger he originally intended the guitar line to be played with horns. Well it came out a Rock song with no horns but Otis Redding gives you the Soul version. Enjoy!