I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (to Stop Now) : Rolling Stone

Written by: Jerry Butler, Redding
Produced by: Jim Stewart, Steve Cropper
Released: April '65 on Volt
Charts: 11 weeks
Top spot: No. 21

Redding and soul balladeer "Iceman" Butler were hanging out in Redding's hotel room in Buffalo, New York, after a gig when Butler sang a half-finished song he had been working on. "Hey, man, that's a smash," Redding said. "Let me go mess around with it. Maybe I'll come up with something." Sure enough, "I've Been Loving You Too Long" became Redding's first Top Forty hit, in June 1965. And when Redding performed a scorching drawn-out version at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, the single made the transition from hit to legend.

Appears on: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Atco)

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