• • tracks 3 & 4 recorded live at the Apollo Theater in New York, November 16, 1963
  • tracks 8, 9, 11, 12, 14 & 16-21 recorded live at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles, April 8-10, 1966
  • tracks 1, 2, 5-7, 10, 13 & 15 recorded live in London or Paris, March, 1967
  • tracks 22 & 23 recorded live at the Monterey Pop Festival, June 17, 1967

Studio Personnel

• Otis Redding - vocals
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  , guitar
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• Steve Cropper
  Steve Cropper
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   - guitar, occasional piano
  Piano
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
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• Booker T. Jones
  Booker T. Jones
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   - organ
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  , piano, occasional guitar
• Isaac Hayes
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   - piano, organ
• Lewis Steinberg - bass
• Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
• Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
• Wayne Jackson - trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Sammie Coleman - trumpet
• Gene "Bowlegs" Miller - trumpet
• Charles "Packy" Axton - tenor sax
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• Andrew Love - tenor sax
• Gilbert Caples - tenor sax
• Joe Arnold - tenor sax
• Floyd Newman - baritone sax
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• Wayne Cochran - bass
• Johnny Jenkins - guitar
• The Veltones - backing vocals
• The Drapels - backing vocals
• William Bell - backing vocal
• Gene Parker - tenor sax
• David Porter - backing vocal
• Carla Thomas - duet vocal
• Rick Hall - drumming
• Phil Walden - tambourine
• Ron Capone - drums
• Ben Cauley - trumpet
• Tommie Lee Williams - tenor sax

Apollo Theater

• James Albert Bethea, Cornell Dupree & Thomas Palmer - guitar
• George Stubbs - piano
• Alonzo Collins & Jimmy Lewis - bass
• Ray Lucas - drums
• Elmon Wright & Lamar Wright - trumpet
• George Matthews - trombone
• Jimmy Powell - alto sax
• King Curtis
  King Curtis
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  , Alva "Beau" McCain & Noble Watts - tenor sax
• Paul Williams - baritone sax

Whisky A Go Go

• James Young - guitar
• Ralph Stewart - bass
• Elbert Woodson - drums
• Sammie Coleman & John Farris - trumpets
• Clarence Johnson, Jr. - trombone
• Donald Henry, Robert Holloway, Robert Pittman & (possibly) Albrisco Clark - saxes

Europe & Monterey

• Steve Cropper - guitar
• Booker T. Jones - keyboards
• Donald "Duck" Dunn - bass
• Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
• Wayne Jackson - trumpet
• Andrew Love & Joe Arnold - tenor sax