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By Robert Fontenot, About.com Guide to Oldies Music since 2002

Guide Profile: Otis Redding

Monday July 18, 2005
Considered by many to be the greatest soul singer of all time, Otis Redding embodied the spirit and form of the music with his impassioned delivery and magnetic live performances. My latest Guide Profile offers a wealth of information about the man and the legend, who was taken from us too soon back in 1967. Want to know what role "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" played in his success? How Little Richard inadvertently gave him his start? Why "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa" has that title? Find out here.

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