Shake! Otis at Monterey (1987)

Otis Redding: Self

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Quotes 

• Otis Redding : We're gonna slow it down this time and sing a soulful number. This song is a song that, you know, we all ought to sing sometime. This is the love crowd, right? We all love each other, don't we? Am I right? Let me hear you say yeah then!

  Crowd : Yeah!

  Otis Redding : All right.

  [singing] 

  Otis Redding : I've been - loving you - too long - to stop now, You were tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiired and you want to be free, My love is growing stronger, as you become a habit to me...

• Otis Redding : We'd like to take time now and drop the tempo one more time. This is a song that I want to dedicate to all the mini skirts. Now, dig.

  [sings] 

  Otis Redding : Oh, she maybe weary, Them young girls they do get wearied, Wearing that same old mini skirt dress, Yeah, yeah-yeah, But, when she gets weary, you try a little tenderness, Yeah, yeah-yeah, Oh, man, they're - I know she's waiting, Just anticipating, The thing that you never, never, never possess, No, no-no, But, while she's there waiting, Try just a little bit of tenderness, That's all you got to do...

• [first lines] 

  Tom Smothers : It's been a really groovy day and a great evening. And here, let's bring out with a big hand, Mr. Otis Redding.

  Otis Redding : Shake! Everybody say it. Shake! Let me hear the whole crowd. Shake! Everybody say it. Shake! A little bit louder. Shake!

  [sings] 

  Otis Redding : Early in the morning. Shake! Late in the evening. Shake! In the midnight hour. Shake! When the time going bad. Shake! Shake with the feelin'. Shake! Shake with the feelin'... .

• Otis Redding : This is another one of mine. Something we like to do for everybody. The love crowd. This love song is - a song that a girl took away from me. A good friend of mine. This girl, she just took this song; but, I'm still gonna do it anyway.

  [sings] 

  Otis Redding : What you want, Honey, you got it, What you need, Baby, you got it, All I'm askin', For a little respect when you get home...

• Otis Redding : I got to go now. I don't want to go.