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Song · 1966 · Soul

Try a Little Tenderness

1966

★ 8.6 editorial score

A 1932 Tin Pan Alley ballad, rearranged by Isaac Hayes, until Redding and Al Jackson tear the roof off.

From the album

Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul

Genre

Subject

Devotion Compassion

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Quote · 1738

“Teach me to feel another's wo, To hide the fault I see: That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.”

Alexander Pope

Quote · 1984

“For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”

Milan Kundera

Quote · 1597

“No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.”

William Shakespeare