Who Did It Better? - Otis, Stevie or Aretha (1965/1967) 

I think Stevie Wonder was just paying homage to Otis. If you listen closely to the being of Stevie's rendition it's playing Tramp by Otis.

ARETHA QUEEN 👸🏾REIGNS.. 💘 LOVE it.

Who wrote the song

@@generatoroperatordestructo1292 Otis Redding songwriter

Yes..yes sir..damn you Otis😄😄..when Otis says it u gots to do IT 😍😍

@@tiffanyfoy1039 indeed asked and demanded it

Back in the day, you could sell a lot of records with a strictly "Soul Music / Black Radio Station" hit. Otis was consistently on these charts, good for 100,000 + in sales. NEVER on the Pop Music Charts, until, of course his one big, posthumous hit. After that, at least his follow - ups were played, although they weren't as strong. I heard his version of "Try A Little Tenderness" on KGFJ - AM in Los Angeles. I HAD to buy the album "Dictionary of Soul." Great! "Hawg For You Baby" brings Modern Blues, back! Of course, 3 Dog Night had the Pop Hit. Aretha's version was the perfect result of various talented people. She & her sisters worked out the "Sock It To Me!" part, and Jerry Wexler noticed that there was no real 'Bridge.' He suggested lifting the middle instrumental break from Sam & Dave's "When Something Is Wrong With My Baby," kind of a slow part, and having King Curtis play over this. (You can hear this, if you listen with some care). To top it off, this was 'just' an album track, until Jocks 'demanded' that this be released, as a single! The result, is incendiary! And 'for the Record,' an Ann Arbor rock group, the Rationals (we could use them, in Politics, today!) had a small hit with a cover of "Respect" in late 1966. On Cameo - Parkway. Before Aretha. Listenable, O K, but nothing can beat Aretha's arrangement!

If it helped sell the record they would. You gotta remember. It was hard for black artists to break through. To the white market. In the early sixties. It's called marketing. A different time and place in music history.

Yes. Have you seen Robert Townsend’s The Five Heartbeats? Classic scene when the group gets a copy of their first Lp and are disappointed and outraged that they aren’t on the cover.

@@reelblack CHUURCH!😕

Rose Bud IT was VERY common...unfortunately😒😒😒

@@reelblack Who was on the cover instead.