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Barry Mazor

Little Miss Cornshucks - A soul forgotten

Little Miss Cornshucks - A soul forgotten

Almost everyone knows the song "Try A Little Tenderness." Most remember it as the soul ballad nailed by Otis Redding in 1966 -- based, he always said, on ideas heard in performances by Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin a few years before. Some recall its origins as a
Barry Mazor 30 Apr 2003

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