Home / Music / Otis Redding's Greatest Hits was released after his death in 1967Music linernotes album music otis-reddingOtis Redding's Greatest Hits was released after his death in 1967The album was released in 1967 on Atco Records, shortly after Redding’s death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesHow Otis Redding’s ‘King & Queen’ Pushed the Rolling Stones Toward Choirs and French HornsHow Otis Redding Turned Stones' 'Satisfaction' Into a Soul Anthem in 1965Otis Blue is one of the definitive soul albums of the 1960sOtis Redding recorded Otis Blue in under 24 hoursThree of the eleven songs on Otis Blue are Sam Cooke covers — a tribute to a friend killed months earlier.ExploreRay Charles' The Genius of Ray Charles dropped in October 1959Ella Fitzgerald's five-LP Gershwin Songbook arrived in December 1959The Ghost in the Shell soundtrack arrived with the film in 1995George Jones' The Grand Tour was his fifth album for Epic RecordsBeethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata culminated his late piano periodPrevious Pete Townshend wrote all of Quadrophenia himselfNext Otis Redding was the 'King of Soul.'