Hi, everyone. Welcome to another edition of Music Monday.

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It is hard for me to understand that today’s song was actually a demo for another singer. The fact that people did not automatically realize the sheer beauty, power, depth, passion and intensity of Otis Redding’s voice the minute they heard it is unfathomable to me. If ever there was clear tangible evidence that God exists in my world, it is because of Otis Redding.

Otis Redding circa June 1967. (Image found online.  Original source unknown.)

Otis Redding: “You Left the Water Running” (1966, written by Oscar Franks, Rick Hall and Dan Penn).

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