Singer/Songwriter (9-Sep-1941 — 10-Dec-1967)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Geoff Brown. Otis Redding: Try a Little Tenderness. Canongate. 2003. 176pp.

Scott Freeman. Otis! The Otis Redding Story. New York: St. Martin's Press. 2001.

Jane Schiesel. The Otis Redding Story. Doubleday. 1973. 143pp.

ONLINE PRESENCE

1. Official Website: http://www.otisredding.com/

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1223)

7. Encylopedia of Pop, Rock, and Soul (pp.558-60)

8. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.601)

9. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.417)

10. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.4, p.189)

11. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.329)

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