The Johnny Otis Show Live at Monterey!

by Johnny Otis

The Johnny Otis Show Live at Monterey! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1971
  • Label: Epic
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:05:32
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded at the Monterey Jazz Festival on 19 September 1970, Otis's four-sided revue album lines up Big Joe Turner, Esther Phillips, Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, Roy Brown and Ivory Joe Hunter in front of his band, with his son Shuggie on guitar. Part of the performance reached cinema screens in Clint Eastwood's 'Play Misty for Me'.

Genres

Descriptors: live, party, dance, soulful, bluesy

Tracklist

  1. Willie And The Hand Jive (3:14)
  2. Cry Me A River Blues (4:50)
  3. Cleanhead's Blues (4:53)
  4. I Got A Gal (2:43)
  5. Since I Met You Baby (2:58)
  6. Baby Don't You Know (2:55)
  7. Preacher's Blues (3:13)
  8. Good Rockin' Tonight (3:44)
  9. The Time Machine (3:28)
  10. Margie's Boogie (3:43)
  11. Blowtop Blues
  12. T Bone Blues
  13. Jelly Jelly
  14. Kidney Stew (3:11)
  15. The Things That I Used To Do (4:54)
  16. R. M. Blues (3:15)
  17. Shuggie's Boogie (4:03)
  18. You Better Look Out (4:10)
  19. Goin' Back To L. A. (2:47)
  20. Plastic Man (4:52)
  21. Boogie Woogie Bye Bye (2:39)

Credits

  • Esther Phillips - arranged by
  • Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson - written-by
  • Big Joe Turner - written-by
  • Ivory Joe Hunter - written-by
  • Roy Milton - written-by
  • Gene "Mighty Flea" Conners - written-by
  • Roy Brown - written-by
  • Shuggie Otis - written-by
  • Leona Blackman - written-by
  • E. Jones - written by
  • Delmar "Mighty Mouth" Evans - written-by
  • Len H. Chandler - written-by

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