I Can't Turn You Loose
Otis Redding Lyrics

hollidayevery

robert avalon The MG's on rhythm and the Mar-Keys (sometimes the Bar-Kays) on horns!

Jeff Barley

Otis at his best, a dance floor classic!

Aleister Blacke

What makes this such a great song is the sloppy bass line and the drums. They aren't overproduced or rehearsed. They just went in and jammed it out, and it is GREAT. Otis' vocals. The horn playing wrong notes at the end... This is without a doubt one of the greatest songs ever, and is one of my permanent go-to songs.

Jane Bell

The best singer who ever lived singing one of the greatest songs ever recorded

Juan Coc

Otis hits are never out dated, always bringing love in the heart of his listeners. I list en to most of his music on utube and radio stations.

Edah Crompton

Only 295,000 views - come on! One of the greatest in the entire World - Love Otis Redding x

jeanmarie basset

May be the greatest

Survivor2002

Sad that most people only recognize the horns as "The Blues Brothers Intro Theme." Hopefully, NOW they know where it came from!

Dawn Kennedy

They also give Time Is Tight way too much credit.

Alan Wilson

@SidJustice1 And yet had so many sly rips on BLK culture in his films! Examples: films with Eddie Murphy.

Alan Wilson

@BABEPATROL1974 i was never a fan of that "Bay" song.

BABEPATROL1974

Can give another example of how old is reading was under credited and that was some or most made remember a 90s if you will remake by a group called The Counting Crows I think it was don't quote me maybe the Black Crowes but the song Hard to Handle sorry that was a notice writing original

BABEPATROL1974

@Alan Wilson somehow I don't think it was Dan Aykroyd doing that because if you paid attention to the Blues Brothers movie a lot of a quote on quote actors in that movie were not actors that all most of them were legendary musicians like Cab Calloway John Lee Hooker Aretha r e s p e c t r e c o g n i z e oh and left me not forget the Godfather of Soul himself mr. James Brown playing the minister come on now do you honestly believe that Dan and John were any kind of racist maybe there might have been some racist innuendos in those movies but I'm sure they have progressed and became best of friends with some of their black actors and actresses and Co actresses

Doreen Beckett

Big O still is the man. Love this song!

Charles Murphy

you betcha

Nina Sims

RIP, this is music.

lovely Dove

Got introduced to Otis music at 12 years old and now I am 60 and I still get chills!!!

R Good

Talk about a Mount Rushmore of soul singers Otis is up there with Sam Cooke for sure.

mrpentium

I have loved Otis for 50 years, and NEVER knew this was his, till I saw little Richard sing it at the Rock and Rock Hall of fame induction of Otis.

Dennis Derr

One of the best intros ever! Love those horns!

Michael Hackett

Fantastic sound. Rip Otis.

Greg Howard

Even though she is dead and gone after a short time of being with her I just can't turn her loose!

Craig Fazekas

"Hip shakin' mama, I love ya...."

Elizabeth Valentine

Excellent memories of bygone days unfortunatly.

Busta Bass

"...hip shakin' mama..." Laaaawwwwd Haa'Mercy! Go 'head on then man!👑

Harry Frezza

Sorry if I repeated this but there is a very good book out on Otis 'An Unfinished Life,' by Jonathan Gould. Great book

Tim OConnor

I will look for that

David Malsher

yup, reading it at the moment. It's excellent and comprehensive

Andreas Sjöberg

Harry Frezza thanks for the tip, brother. Gonna look it up. 🙏

jeanmarie basset

Steve Crooper magnifique à la guitare

Greig Bremner

Otis/ livi stubs the best black soul voices ever

Yvonne Mendez

That's right Ray I can't turn u loose and know I don't want to. Sing it Otis

cameron mcrae

never gets old listening to this.

Scorpio Sky's Well Trimmed Beard

Before my time, yet timeless. I'm 50 BTW 🤘🏾

Mary Ann Campbell

Play that bass Donald

Bhola Oates

@PatrioticPirate Donald "Duck" Dunn, along with the rest of Booker T & The M.G.'s [Booker T. Jones (keyboards), Steve Cropper (guitar) and Al Jackson (drums)] were more or less the Stax Records "house" band who played on many, if not most, of the recordings on Stax. They backed Otis and many others.

Mercedyz Marie Guion

Exactly, PLAY IT!!!!!
and btw, the drums and horns are on point, as well!!!!
this is a song you can't help but move your hips to.

Teddy S.Soprano

Donald from the blues brothers????!! Really!!!!💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Jeffrey Hunter

Donald " Duck" Dunn, baby.

dalibass

Yes

Philip Thornton

It was my idol when I was a teenager him and Smokey Robinson. Kind of two sides of the same coin
Heard this first in the Cavern Club Liverpool 1968 Electrifying!!

Joy Carbonell

(Huh) I can't turn you loose now
If I do I'm gonna loose my life
(Ooh) I can't turn you loose now
If I do I'm gonna loose my life
I can't turn you loose to nobody
I love you baby, yes I do
Hip shakin' mama, I told ya
I'm in love with only you
(Gotta) Baby do it baby why don't ya
I'll give ya everything you want
Gotta, gotta
Keep on holdin on
Never gonna turn you loose
I can't turn you loose
Gotta gotta Keep on holdin on
I can't turn you loose now
I'm in love with the prettiest thing
I never, never turn you loose now
Because of all the sweet love she brings
I can't turn you loose to nobody
I love you baby, yes I do
Hip shakin' mama
I told ya I'm in love with only you
Gotta, do it baby why don't ya
I'll give ya everything you want
Gotta gotta
Keep on holdin on
Never gonna turn you loose
I can't turn you loose
Gotta keep a grip on you
Gotta gotta keep on holdin on
(I know you think I'm gonna stop now but we ain't gonna stop it now one more time}
Gotta gotta keep on holdin on
Never gonna turn you loose
I can't turn you loose
Gotta gotta keep on holdin on
Gotta gotta keep on holdin on
Never gonna turn you loose
I can't turn you loose
Gotta gotta Keep on holdin on
Everybody want it
Everybody can have it
Gotta, gotta Gotta, gotta soo, soo
Hold on, I'm comin
Gotta, gotta, gotta
Get a grip
Can't turn you loose
Hold on, I'm comin
Gotta, gotta, gotta
Get a grip
Can't turn you loose
Hold on, I'm comin
Hold on, I'm comin
Gotta get a grip on you baby
Gotta, gotta gotta
Gotta, gotta gotta
We're groovin, groovin
Gotta gotta keep on holdin on
Never gonna turn you loose
I can't turn you loose
Gotta gotta
Keep on holdin on
Gotta get a grip
Can't turn you loose

Alan Wilson

Marry me my luv.

Horizon Today

I love this song and don't give a damn if it sounds like "I Can't Help Myself", according to these comments!!!!!

Michael Nix Jr. Family Members

@Alan Wilson Four Tops

Alan Wilson

I was sixteen when this classic dropped, and I NEVER heard that dreadful sugar pie honey bunch crap ure spewing about. What the hell, oh nevermind!

Blue Grass

I still love it, the riddem sounds like Time is tight, by Booker T. Jones.

Jeffrey Hunter

Otis, and those Bar Kays!

Keith Philo

when it comes to soul there is only man and that man is OTIS REDDING

man in chair

Oh man , this is real music

Cosmo Energy

So good!

SylentEcho

Just heard this on the latest Sounds of the Sixties. What an awesome tune this song has!

Savvynlady

Miss you 50 years after your untimely passing

Neo-Xgray87

I actually started to hear this song when I was in Rasputin. Now, I know where the Blues Brothers intro theme originally came from.

nativeboi907

Turn the speed to 1.5 to be at blues brothers speed

japanesesen

I like it...great band!!❤இڿڰۣ-

journeystarr

So much soul and emotion in this song as only Otis can do it

1955marty

Certainly need 1.5 speed for it to sound right :0

The Quiet Revolution

Try playing this song on 1.25 speed. You'll be glad you did. 12 Degrees of Separation for Otis Redding:
Otis Redding - Wilson Pickett - Brook Benton - Sam Cooke - Bobby Womack - Al Hibbler - Roy Hamilton - Jackie Wilson - Ben E. King - Clyde McPhatter - Percy Sledge -James Carr - Al Green.

Ben Gone

This is so good I might not be able to turn it off!

Utah Silvey

That was the Tennessee sound stack records

Gareth Owen

Themorrisdracula it's used in the opening seen of the Blues Brothers film as just an instrumental at a faster pace. I think that's what you may be thinking about

Paul White

My favorite Otis record.

Grayfire Productions [James Hess]

Lots of Space in This Mall!

Harry Frezza

Sorry if I repeated this but there is a very good book out on Otis 'An Unfinished Life,' by Jonathan Gould. Great book

Ruben Delgadillo

OTIS MY MAN - ANIMAL HOUSE.

Vern Smith

hip shaking momma I love you!! The king of soul

SauceTalk TV

Playback speed 1.25x🔥🔥🔥🔥

Spencer Miller

This is pure Otis.

Bhola Oates

Greatness! The Chambers Brothers also did a great version of this song a couple of years later in 1968. As a kid back then I actually heard it before I heard Otis' version. That's why it will always be my favorite version. But Otis .... wow! Check out The Chambers Brothers' version: youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-t-6atIL0

Lost N Sixties

Many years ago I was driving I-16 thru Macon , GA listening to my eight track of Otis. I pulled off bought me a beer light up a big cigar parked in the middle of the Otis Reading bridge and cranked this song up. Heaven on earth!

大安吉日

スロットのビーキッズクラブで使用されておりましたね　最高だょこの曲！！

Jimall Killings

Those 🎸 strings

Kenneth Nyirady

BT and the MGs later recycled this bass line in Time is Tight.

Glenn Jacobs

good memory. What a studio band.

Vern Smith

Hip shaking momma I love ya!!!!

Yvonne Mendez

That's u Ray can't turn u loose

hippie dylan

brilliant !

Clayton Hopper

Pep band be really playing this at 1.75 😂

doc2skate

Remember this song from so long ago.  Recently heard it in a commercial so get ready for more views.

Rick Vieira

Otis was so bad ass I named 1 cat and 1 dog after him ! Rip Otis kitty !

PHIL G ASHMAN

the KING of soul

Boss Bass

Amazing #!!!

baylessnow

"Do you have a Miss Piggy?" CRASH!!!

Caroline Cowen

God I miss my dansette. This tune fucking roared out of it.

Fagner Alves

Put speed 1.5 and make a close to the blues brothers

instagrump_330

"Time Is Tight" by Booker T and the M.G.s. This came first, but those guys also played on it.

W9WY Video

Booker T version sounds more like the Palace Hotel Balroom when Cab introduces the Blues Bros.

ZGryphon

Same band, for the most part.

kingkeefage

Winston Beech LOOK UP LACHY DOLEY. You're welcome! ;-)

Winston Beech

Booker Jones is my favorite Hammond player. Combined with Cropper, Dunn and Al Jackson they were one hell of a tight combo. Perhaps the greatest band that not too many people really know much about.

Winston Beech

Booker T song is "Time is Tight" - they did two versions of it. Blues brothers morphed the opening organ lick ofrom the Booker T song with the horn riffs from Otis Redding for the movie intro.

piggy201

Speed on 1.5 = Blues Brothers Intro

Claire Dalton

Holdin On - Flume, perhaps?

Nikt Znikąd

Mee too!

AllBobsAllTheTime

"I got-ta got-ta got-ta ..."

Danny Diego

Is that The Bar Kays backing Otis here?

Diane Reed

Totalllly Luvvv it !!!

Granderson Hamilton

I can't turn loose , girl 😘😘

RAMLIA1

♥♥♥

PA Florek

Love the pause but HATE when it's over!

james mcgarry

I think you might be referring to Booker T and the MG's- Time is tight

Sam Roney

"Lotta space in this mall !"

👍🏻

If this tune doesn’t get you dancing the probs nothing will. It’s class 🎤🔈🎶🎶🎶🎶✌🏻

Debra Knight

Cornelia Taylor

I read in one of his biographies that he loved to be in the room with musicians while he was recording his vocals. That those sessions would be smoking. I believe this was from a musician who played in his sessions. He said that Otis would get in the musicians' faces while he was singing songs like this - shaking his fists, etc...just rocking out - and the musicians would feed off that intense energy. The musician said that if he had lived - there was no doubt in his mind that Otis would have been a rocker. Can you imagine what this recording must have been LIKE? I'll bet it was awesome....

Alan Wilson

@Linda Wagner I was16 and had only known death once, the loss of my paternal grandfather. Otis's death hit me harder. Linda, my maternal grandmother died in March 2019. She was the oldest person in the world. Her name was Lessie Brown, born in Georgia, died in Cleveland, Ohio. Best person I've ever known!

Trent Duvall

Top Man.......

J Stepp

Go Blue!!!

Paolo

meraviglioso paolo

BABEPATROL1974

Now this is possibly one of Otis Redding's BEST songs.Yet the only one remembered is Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay.Another good song he did was featured in the movie "Road House",when Swayze and Lynch had their "moment".I was envious of Swayze in that scene.

leegenix

+BABEPATROL1974 Otis Redding's most memorable song is his best. "Try A Little Tenderness". Many critics and myself, agree it is his best work and it is the real Otis Redding to the core. His soulful singing accompanied by the best musicians, made this song a hit to be remembered for a very long time. Some of the musicians in the background are Booker T. and the M.Gs' .

rps1011

Good upload...thx!

FishingForLobster

Now "this" is SEX VIBE. *thumbs up*

Mirjana Jurisic

Vasso K Yeeessssss ✌🎤🎵🎼

Samuel Fouther

"I Broke my watch!"

mrstanbmw

back in the 70s you couldn't go to football game with that horn refrain.

Greg Qualls

His songs are short and good.

W9WY Video

Then again listen to the song Time Is Tight" (Booker T & The M.G.s)  This appears to be an instrumental of the same same!!! Or this one might be what they used as the intro at the Palace Hotel Ballroom when Jake and Elwood come out.

Joseph DiAscro III

SpiritBear12 Yes.

SpiritBear12

It's the song they played when Jake and Elwood have a car chase with the cops through the mall, but in the movie it's played faster.

Robert Moffit

Were on a mission from god

Jerry Vega

Wow dats how I feel bout u girl M.G.

Trent Duvall

Nothing wrong with this........

Michael Vaughn

Jackie I could neva turn u loose hip shakin mammaI LOVE YA yes I do I'm n love wit ya j..ev day

AmateurBarbarian

How many people came here looking for that other version? Don’t be coy, you know which one.

daworse72

This or Blue's Brothers version?

Robert Moffit

Both. " were on a mission from god"

Franek Błahy

You only have to change it to 1.5 motion and you got the Blues Brother's movie theme