Otis Redding Breathes Fire Into An Old Bing Crosby Song!

Do you know what "soul" is? Would you like a demonstration? Something that'll define the word "soul" once and all for you? Of course you do. That's the thrust of today's K-101.7 Song Of The Day. It's an authenticity, a deep down plug straight into what's it's like to be a human. It's a feeling that's gritty, and unpretentious and earthy and real. A connection to the base elements of the human experience, the mix of the low and the high that somehow speaks of the common notes in all of our lives, while creating an all encompassing, sky wide and center deep vibe of the profane and the divine within each of us. You can find it in the steaming plate of enchiladas served on a rickety table in a small strip mall restaurant or in the voice of big tall lanky Otis Redding sweating his way through today's song.

Pat Boone and John Boehner have no soul in them, as defined above. The shallow, the wan, the overly tanned, they speak only of surface, of the inauthentic. Our song today breathes soul like a fire fanned by a bellows. Hard to believe it had originally been recorded by Bing Crosby a decade before.

Yikes. Let us hear Otis have a go at it, with Booker T and The MG's solidly backing him up, Issac Hayes handling the arrangement.  From 1966, here comes your-

-K-101.7 Song Of The Day!

And oh yeah, I just remembered somebody else also kinda sorta covered this song: Ducky.

P.S: Today's song is a cover version that far outstripped any versions before and after. For ten more of such, click HERE!