Home / Music / Otis Blue debuted on Volt Records in September 1965Music linernotes album music otis-reddingOtis Blue debuted on Volt Records in September 1965Otis Blue was first released on September 15, 1965, through Volt Records, a subsidiary of Stax. 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.ExploreForest's The Garden of Jane Delawney came out April 24, 1970Ray 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 RecordsPrevious Otis Blue was Otis Redding's first album to top the R&B chartNext Noisextra is Masonna, a central figure in Japanoise