Otis Clay

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Trying To Live My Life Without You 02:52 Tools
Since I've Been Loving You 06:25 Tools
That's How It Is 02:40 Tools
When the Gates Swing Open 06:03 Tools
The Only Way Is Up 04:44 Tools
I Die a Little Each Day 02:45 Tools
Holding On To a Dying Love 00:00 Tools
I Can Take You To Heaven Tonight 04:40 Tools
Wild Horses 06:30 Tools
That's How It Is (When You're in Love) 02:40 Tools
Precious Precious 03:17 Tools
Too Many Hands 02:50 Tools
Working Hard 00:00 Tools
Hard Working Woman 00:00 Tools
If I Could Reach Out (And Help Somebody) 00:00 Tools
Precious, Precious 03:17 Tools
Don't Burn the Bridge 00:00 Tools
Leave Me and My Woman Alone 00:00 Tools
I Testify 00:00 Tools
I Can't Make It Alone 00:00 Tools
Home Is Where the Heart Is 00:00 Tools
Piece of My Heart 00:00 Tools
I Love You, I Need You 00:00 Tools
You Can't Keep Running From My Love 02:51 Tools
Walk a Mile in My Shoes 00:00 Tools
You Hurt Me for the Last Time 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know What To Do 02:52 Tools
I Can Handle It 00:00 Tools
Brand New Thing 00:00 Tools
Have Mercy Jesus 00:00 Tools
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man 02:38 Tools
Baby Jane 03:43 Tools
Wonderful Tonight 00:00 Tools
Pouring Water On A Drowning Man (Remastered Single Version) 02:38 Tools
I Can't Take It 00:00 Tools
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man 00:00 Tools
Too Much Mystery 00:00 Tools
When Hearts Grow Cold 00:00 Tools
Slow And Easy 00:00 Tools
Nickel and a Nail 00:00 Tools
It Was Jealousy 00:00 Tools
Here I Am (Come and Take Me) 00:00 Tools
She's About A Mover 00:00 Tools
Thanks a Lot 00:00 Tools
Pussy Footing Around 00:00 Tools
Got to find a way 00:00 Tools
That's How It Is (When You're In Love) - Original 00:00 Tools
Gonna Take My Heart's Advice 00:00 Tools
Sho Wasn't Me 00:00 Tools
You're The One 00:00 Tools
A Nickel and A Nail 00:00 Tools
Pouring Water On A Drowning Man - Remastered Single Version 00:00 Tools
I Didn't Know The Meaning Of Pain 00:00 Tools
I'm Satisfied 00:00 Tools
Love Bone 00:00 Tools
Banks Of The Ohio 00:00 Tools
On My Way Home 00:00 Tools
Let Me Be The One 00:00 Tools
I've Got to Find a Way (To Get You Back) 02:54 Tools
I Testify - Original 00:00 Tools
Save A Seat For Me 00:00 Tools
If I Could Reach Out 00:00 Tools
That Kind of Lovin' 00:00 Tools
I'm Qualified 00:00 Tools
I Wanna Testify 00:00 Tools
For The Good Times 00:00 Tools
Respect Yourself 00:00 Tools
You Did Something to Me 00:00 Tools
Is It Over 00:00 Tools
Nothing to Look Forward to 00:00 Tools
Show Place 00:00 Tools
That Woman Don't Live Here No More 00:00 Tools
Keep On Loving Me 00:00 Tools
You Don't Miss Your Water 02:48 Tools
Love Don't Love Nobody 00:00 Tools
House Ain't a Home (Without a Woman) 00:00 Tools
I Paid the Price 00:00 Tools
You Can Make It 00:00 Tools
Cryin' 00:00 Tools
A Flame in your Heart 00:00 Tools
Every Road (Got To End Somewhere) 00:00 Tools
is it over? 00:00 Tools
His Precious Love 00:00 Tools
Born to Be With You 00:00 Tools
Back Away From It (Or Leave Me Alone) 00:00 Tools
Turn Back the Hands of Time 00:00 Tools
Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do 00:00 Tools
A Lasting Love 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know What I'd Do 00:00 Tools
Love And Happiness/Soul Man 00:00 Tools
Love's After Me 00:00 Tools
Sending Up the Timber 00:00 Tools
Don't Pass me By 00:00 Tools
I Lost Someone 00:00 Tools
Believe That 00:00 Tools
It's Easier Said, Than Done 00:00 Tools
Standing in the Rain 00:00 Tools
Wrapped up in Her Love 00:00 Tools
Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (Live) 00:00 Tools
You're the One I Choose 00:00 Tools
Children Gone Astray 00:00 Tools
Love & Happiness 00:00 Tools
That'll Get you What you Want 00:00 Tools
Cry Cry Cry 00:00 Tools
Three Is A Crowd 00:00 Tools
Got To Find A Way - Original 00:00 Tools
I Thought You Knew 00:00 Tools
Funny Life 00:00 Tools
Momma Didn't Raise No Fool 00:00 Tools
This Love of Mine 00:00 Tools
Tired Of Falling (In And Out Of Love) 00:00 Tools
Come My Dear 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Raisin' No Sand 00:00 Tools
Sending Up My Timber 00:00 Tools
You Can'T Escape The Hands Of Love 00:00 Tools
I Know I'm Over You 00:00 Tools
It's Hard to Love (After a Heartbreak) 00:00 Tools
Help Me Get over You 00:00 Tools
Love And Happiness 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know What To Do - Original 00:00 Tools
Lasting Love 00:00 Tools
Only You Know and I Know 00:00 Tools
You Never Miss Your Water 00:00 Tools
You Want Me to Do (What You Won't Do) 00:00 Tools
I'm Satisfied - Original 00:00 Tools
Don't You Know Baby 00:00 Tools
Somebody Help 00:00 Tools
All That's Missing Is You 00:00 Tools
Must I Keep on Waiting 00:00 Tools
Voodoo Queen 00:00 Tools
Amen / This Little Light Of Mine 00:00 Tools
This Time Around 00:00 Tools
Even Now 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Raisin' No Sand - Live 00:00 Tools
That's How It Is (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
City in the Sky 00:00 Tools
I Keep Trying (Not to Break Down) 00:00 Tools
It's Easier said Than Done 00:00 Tools
Two Wrongs (Don't Make a Right) 00:00 Tools
Showplace 00:00 Tools
Love bandit (electro vocoder mix) 00:00 Tools
Truth Is 00:00 Tools
Warm Love 00:00 Tools
Poor Little Rich Girl 00:00 Tools
Living On Borrowed Time 00:00 Tools
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted 00:00 Tools
If I Could Open Up My Heart 00:00 Tools
Steal Away to the Hide Away 00:00 Tools
Messing With My Mind 00:00 Tools
That's How It Is When Your In Love 00:00 Tools
Road Dog 00:00 Tools
Your Helping Hand 00:00 Tools
A Flame In Your Heart - Original 00:00 Tools
Even When I Win (Seems Like I Lose) 00:00 Tools
Let Me In 00:00 Tools
All That's Missing Is You (Epilogue) 00:00 Tools
God Is Standing By 00:00 Tools
All Because Of Your Love 00:00 Tools
Show Place - Original 00:00 Tools
Special Kind of Love 00:00 Tools
That's What You Ought to Do 00:00 Tools
Hallelujah Lord 00:00 Tools
Flame in Your Heart 00:00 Tools
Tired of Falling in and out of Love 00:00 Tools
A Lasting Love - Original 00:00 Tools
I Can´t Make It Alone 00:00 Tools
Nickel And Nail 00:00 Tools
Waiting for Dreams 00:00 Tools
Baby 00:00 Tools
Victim of Circumstance 00:00 Tools
On Jesus Program 00:00 Tools
His Love 00:00 Tools
Soap Opera Blues 00:00 Tools
Check It Out 00:00 Tools
You Are My Life 00:00 Tools
Cheatin' in the Next Room 00:00 Tools
Traveling Riverside Blues 00:00 Tools
I Don't Understand It 00:00 Tools
Holding On To Dying Love 00:00 Tools
All I Need Is You 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know What Do Do 00:00 Tools
Good Lovin 00:00 Tools
Pouring Water On a Drowning Man (Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Amen/This Little Light of Mine 00:00 Tools
All I Wanna Do 00:00 Tools
Nobody's on the Phone 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Hate Myself in the Morning 00:00 Tools
Heaven Is My Home 00:00 Tools
Feeling Single, Seeing Double 00:00 Tools
Love Of God 00:00 Tools
Ellie 00:00 Tools
I Adore You Lord 00:00 Tools
I Just Wanna Testify (Live) 00:00 Tools
Got To Find A Way (Alternate version) - Previously Unreleased 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know What I Do 00:00 Tools
I Do, Don't You 00:00 Tools
That´s how it is 00:00 Tools
Messin' with My Mind 00:00 Tools
That’S How It Is 00:00 Tools
If I Could Reach Out And Help 00:00 Tools
Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin) 00:00 Tools
Love And Happiness / Soul Man 00:00 Tools
Is It Over / That's How It Is (When You're In Love) 00:00 Tools
I Don’t Know What To Do 00:00 Tools
Holding On To A Dying Love (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Woman Don't Live Here No More [Raekwon - 'Rock Stars'] 00:00 Tools
Thank You Love 00:00 Tools
It Was Jealousy - Otis Clay 00:00 Tools
Love's In Need Of Love Today 00:00 Tools
I've Got To Find A Way 00:00 Tools
Mississippi Poor Boy 00:00 Tools
Precious,Precious 00:00 Tools
Nickel And A Nail (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Can’T Make It Alone 00:00 Tools
Only Way is up 00:00 Tools
The Soul Stirrers Medley 00:00 Tools
Good Lovin' 00:00 Tools
The Only Way Is Up (Dj XS Edit) 00:00 Tools
Thats how it is 00:00 Tools
I've Got To Find A Way ( To Get You Back ) 00:00 Tools
hard-working woman 00:00 Tools
Rehersal:I Die A Little Each Day 00:00 Tools
You Hurt Me For The LastTme 00:00 Tools
I Just Want To Testify 00:00 Tools
I Don't Know the Meaning of Pain 00:00 Tools
You Can’T Keep Running From My Love 00:00 Tools
Messin With My Mind 00:00 Tools
Warm Love - Otis Clay 00:00 Tools
Pouring Water on a Drowning Man - (Single Version) [Remastered] 00:00 Tools
Amen / This Little Light Of Mine (Live) 00:00 Tools
Tired Of Falling In (And Out) Of Love 00:00 Tools
Northern Soul - Otis Clay - The Only Way is Up 00:00 Tools
House Ain't A Home ( Without A Woman ) 00:00 Tools
Love Bandit 00:00 Tools
Trying To Live My Life Without You (Feat. P-Nut) 00:00 Tools
Cheatin In The Next Room 00:00 Tools
I Want To Be At The Meeting 00:00 Tools
Love And Hapiness-Soul Man (Live) 00:00 Tools
I Didn’T Know The Meaning Of Pain 00:00 Tools
Nickel And A Nail, Live 00:00 Tools
Two Wrongs, Live 00:00 Tools
I Can’T Take It 00:00 Tools
I’Ve Got To Find A Way (To Get You Back) 00:00 Tools
Trying To Live My Life Without You [Live] 00:00 Tools
Love Bandit Vocoder 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Wait 00:00 Tools
Precious Precious [Live] 00:00 Tools
I Do Don't You 00:00 Tools
otis clay - the only way is up 00:00 Tools
Too Much Misery 00:00 Tools
Thank You Love - Previously Unreleased 00:00 Tools
The Woman Don’T Live Here No More 00:00 Tools
You Can’T Escape The Hands Of Love 00:00 Tools
Your're the One I Choose 00:00 Tools
Love Don´t Love Nobody 00:00 Tools
House Ain’T A Home (Without A Woman) 00:00 Tools
Northern Soul 00:00 Tools
Tired Of Faling In And Out Of Love 00:00 Tools
Throwing Water on a Drowning Man 00:00 Tools
I Die A Little Each Cay 00:00 Tools
Here I Am (Come And Take) 00:00 Tools
That's how it is when you're in love 00:00 Tools
How is it when youre in love 00:00 Tools
Wild Horses - Otis Clay 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Hate Myself In Thr Morning 00:00 Tools
Got To Find A Way (One-Derful) 00:00 Tools
Trying To Live My Life WIhtout You 00:00 Tools
Wonderful Tonight - Otis Clay 00:00 Tools
All Need Is You 00:00 Tools
Every Road - Got To End Somewhere 00:00 Tools
If I Could Reach Out (And Help Somebody) [Live] 00:00 Tools
Take Me to the River 00:00 Tools
Pouring Water On A Drowing Man 00:00 Tools
A Nickel And A Tail 00:00 Tools
Pouring Wateron a Drowning Man (Remastered Single Version) 00:00 Tools
Love Dont Love No One 00:00 Tools
Here I Am (Come And Take Me) [Live] 00:00 Tools
Turn Back The Bands Of Time 00:00 Tools
Believe That (Radio 1 Session, 01 May 1995) 00:00 Tools
I Can Take You To Heaven (Radio 1 Session, 01 May 1995) 00:00 Tools
Reach Out (And Help Somebody) (Radio 1 Session, 01 May 1995) 00:00 Tools
Come Sunday 00:00 Tools
I Can Take You To Heaven Tonig 00:00 Tools
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Otis Clay (February 11, 1942 – January 8, 2016) was an American R&B and soul singer, who started in gospel music. In 2013, Clay was inducted to the Blues Hall of Fame. Clay was born in rural Bolivar County, Mississippi to a musical family, who moved in 1953 to Muncie, Indiana. After singing with local gospel group, the Voices of Hope, he returned to Mississippi to sing with the Christian Travelers, before settling in Chicago in 1957. There, he joined a series of gospel vocal groups including the Golden Jubilaires, the Famous Blue Jay Singers, the Holy Wonders, and the Pilgrim Harmonizers, before making his first solo secular recordings in 1962. They were unissued, and Clay joined the Gospel Songbirds, who recorded in Nashville in 1964 and who also included Maurice Dollison who sang R&B under the name Cash McCall, and then the Sensational Nightingales. In 1965 Clay signed with One-derful! Records in Chicago, to make secular recordings. After releasing a series of gospel-tinged soul records, his first hit came in 1967 with "That's How It Is (When You're In Love)", which reached # 34 on the US Billboard R&B chart, followed by "A Lasting Love" (# 48 R&B). In 1968 the record company folded and his contract was bought by Atlantic Records, who launched their subsidiary Cotillion label with Clay's version of the Sir Douglas Quintet hit, "She's About A Mover", produced at the FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals. The record became Clay's biggest pop hit, reaching # 97 on the Billboard Hot 100 (# 47 R&B). However, follow-ups on Cotillion, including "Hard Working Woman" produced by Syl Johnson, and "Is It Over?" produced by Willie Mitchell in Memphis, were less successful. Clay moved to Mitchell's Hi Records in 1971, and made many of his best known soul blues records for the label. His biggest hit came in late 1972 with "Trying To Live My Life Without You," a # 102 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, # 70 on Cash Box, and # 24 R&B, which he followed up with "If I Could Reach Out". "Tryin' To Live My Life Without You" was later covered by Bob Seger, whose version made # 5 on the pop chart in 1981. After several more Hi singles and the album I Can't Take It, Clay moved to Kayvette Records, where he had his last national hit single in 1977, "All Because Of Your Love" (# 44 R&B). He later recorded for the Elka and Rounder labels, as well as his own Echo Records for whom he recorded the original version of "The Only Way Is Up" in 1980. He remained a popular live act in Europe and Japan, as well as the US, and recorded three live albums, Soul Man: Live in Japan, Otis Clay Live(also in Japan on Victor VDP-5111) and Respect Yourself, recorded live at the Lucerne Blues Festival in Switzerland. In the 1990s he also recorded two soul albums for Bullseye Blues: I'll Treat You Right and the Willie Mitchell-produced This Time Around. In 2007, he recorded the gospel album Walk a Mile in My Shoes. He was a nominee for a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. As a resident of Chicago's West Side, he was actively involved in community-based economic and cultural initiatives, including the development of The Harold Washington Cultural Center. On August 11, 2012 he was one of several acts that performed at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Summer Concerts in New York City. He was backed by the band Platinum. Clay was joined on stage for the finale by William Bell and Teenie Hodges. Clay was one of the 2013 inductees to the Blues Hall of Fame. In 2015 Otis published with Billy Price the album This Time For Real. He died of a heart attack on January 8, 2016, in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 73. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.