Hard to Handle (song)
| "Hard to Handle" | |
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| Song by Otis Redding from the album The Immortal Otis Redding | |
| Released | June 1968 |
| Recorded | 1967 |
| Genre | Soul |
| Length | 2:17 |
| Label | Atco |
| Writer(s) | Allen Jones, Al Bell, and Otis Redding |
| Language | English |
| Producer(s) | Steve Cropper |
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| Single by The Black Crowes | ||||
| from the album Shake Your Money Maker | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, blues rock | |||
| Length | 3:08 | |||
| Label | Def American | |||
| Writer(s) | Allen Jones, Al Bell, and Otis Redding | |||
| Producer(s) | George Drakoulias | |||
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"Hard to Handle" is a 1968 song written by American soul music star Otis Redding along with Al Bell and Allen Jones. Originally recorded by Redding, it saw wide release soon after the singer's sudden death in 1967, being on the album The Immortal Otis Redding. Redding's version reached #38 on the Billboard R&B charts and #51 on the pop charts.
Numerous covers of the song exist, most notably a 1990 blues rock take on the track by band The Black Crowes.
It has been covered by many artists, including Patti Drew (with perhaps the earliest cover in 1968), King Floyd, Grateful Dead, The Black Crowes, Tom Jones, Toots and the Maytals, Rustix, Band from TV, Harpers Bizarre, Gov't Mule, Tony Joe White, Magic Slim and the Teardrops, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Matt Giraud, Etta James and Snafu as well as by Mae West in the film Myra Breckinridge.
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