The first Volt label was yellow with black printing. Above the center hole is "VOLT RECORDS" in
black, underneath the logo is a black rectangle with a yellow lightning bolt in it. At the bottom of the label
is Distributed by ATCO Record Sales Co. This label was used on the 400 series. The yellow label
without the "Distributed by ATCO Record Sales Co." also sometimes appears on the 6000 series up to
VOS-6017, through a pressing plant mistake at the Monarch, Louisiana, plant. The second label was
dark blue with black printing, on the right side is a red lightning bolt with a black "VOLT" with white
shadow. This label was used on the 6000 series to at least VOS-6017. The third label was orange with
black printing, a yellow lightning bolt from the top through the center hole, above the center hole is
"VOLT" in white letters. This label was used from VOS-6018 through the end of the 6000 series and on
the 9500 series.
The 400 series was distributed by Atlantic Records. The entire 400 series was available in both
monaural and stereo (or rechanneled stereo). There were white label promos issued of the 400 series,
all of them in monaural.
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VOLT ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY
Number - Title - Artist [Release Date] (Chart) Contents
S411 - Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads - Otis Redding [1965] (4-65, #147) Originally
issued in 1965 in mono only. The stereo version was issued in 1968 and is all rechanneled. That's How
Strong My Love Is (E)/Chained And Bound (E)/Woman Lover A Friend (E)/Your One And Only Man
(E)/Nothing Can Change This Love (E)/It's Too Late (E)//For Your Precious Love (E)/I Want To Thank
You (E)/Come To Me (E)/Home In Your Heart (E)/Keep Your Arms Around Me (E)/Mr. Pitiful
S412 - Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul - Otis Redding [1965] (10-65, #75) Ole Man
Trouble/Respect/Change Gonna Come/Down In The Valley/I've Been Loving You Too Long//Shake/My
Girl/Wonderful World/Rock Me Baby/Satisfaction/You Don't Miss Your Water
S413 - The Soul Album - Otis Redding [1966] (4-66, #54) Just One More Day/It's
Growing/Cigarettes And Coffee/Chain Gang/Nobody Knows You (When You're Down And Out)//Good
To Me/Scratch My Back/Treat Her Right/Everybody Makes A Mistake/Any Ole Way/634-5789
S414 - In Action - Mad Lads [1966] I Want Someone/Come Closer To Me/I'm Learning
(In The Ways Of Love/You're My Inspiration/Michael The Lover/You Mean So Much To Me//Don't Have
To Shop Around/Land Of 1000 Dances/Nothing Can Break Through/She's The One/Get Out Of My
Life/Sugar Sugar
S415 - Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul - Otis Redding
[1966] (11-66, #73) Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)/I'm Sick Y'All/Tennessee Waltz/Sweet Lorene/Try A
Little Tenderness/Day Tripper//My Lover's Prayer/She Put The Hurt On Me/Ton Of Joy/You're Still My
Baby/Hawg For You/Love Have Mercy
S416 - Otis Redding Live in Europe - Otis Redding [1967] (8-67, #32) Respect/Can't
Turn You Loose/I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)/My Girl/Shake//Satisfaction/Fa-Fa-Fa-
Fa-Fa (Sad Song)/These Arms Of Mine/Day Tripper/Try A Little Tenderness
S417 - Soul Finger - Bar-Kays [1965] Soul Finger (S)/Knucklehead (S)/With A Child's
Heart (S)/Bar-Kays Boogaloo (S)/Theme From Hell's Angels (S)//You Can't Sit Down (S)/House Shoes
(S)/Pearl High (S)/I Want Someone (S)/Hole In The Wall (S)/Don't Do That (S)
S418 - History of Otis Redding - Otis Redding [1967] (12-67, #9) I've Been Loving You
Too Long (S)/Try A Little Tenderness (S)/These Arms Of Mine (E)/Pain In My Heart (E)/My Lover's
Prayer (S)/Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) (S)//Respect (S)/Satisfaction (S)/Mr. Pitiful (E)/Security (E)/I
Can't Turn You Loose (S)/Shake (S)
S419 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding [1968] (3-68, #4) (Sittin' On) The Dock Of
The Bay/I Love You More Than Words Can Say/Let Me Come On Home/Open The Door/Don't Mess
With Cupid//The Glory Of Love/I'm Coming Home/Tramp/The Huckle-Buck/Nobody Knows You (When
You're Down And Out)/Ole Man Trouble
6000 Series:
All commercial releases in the 6000 series were in stereo with the prefix VOS. There were white label
promos issued in monaural on some, if not all of the releases.
VOS-6001 - Rare Stamps - J.J. Barnes/Steve Mancha [1969] Baby Please Come Back
Home - J.J. Barnes/Chains Of Love - J.J. Barnes/Now That I Got You Back - J.J. Barnes/Easy Living -
J.J. Barnes/Sweet Sherry - J.J. Barnes//Don't Make Me A Storyteller - Steve Mancha/A Love Like Yours -
Steve Mancha/Keep The Faith - Steve Mancha/I Don't Wanna Lose You - Steve Mancha/Hate Yourself
In The Morning - Steve Mancha/Just Keep On Loving Me - Steve Mancha
VOS-6002 - Here to Stay - Darrell Banks [1969] Just Because Your Love Is
Gone/Forgive Me/Only The Strong Survive/Don't Know What To Do/When A Man Loves A Woman/We'll
Get Over//Beautiful Feeling/I Could Never Hate Her/Never Alone/No One Blinder (Than A Man Who
Won't See/My Love Is Reserved
VOS-6003 - Something Special - Jimmy Hughes [1969] I Like Everything About You/Let
‘Em Down Baby/I'm So Glad/Lay It On The Line/Sweet Things You Do//Chains Of Love/I'm Not
Ashamed To Beg Or Plead/It's All Up To You/Lock Me Up/What Side Of The Door/Peeped Around
Yonder's Bend
VOS-6004 - Gotta Groove - Bar-Kays [1969] Don't Stop Dancing (To The Music), Part
1/If This World Was Mine/In The Hole/Funky Thang/Jiving ‘Round/Grab This Thing//Don't Stop
Dancing (To The Music), Part 2/Street Walker/Yesterday/Humpin'/Hey Jude
VOS-6005 - Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lads - Mad Lads [1969] (8-69, #180) So Nice/Make
Room (In Your Heart)/Cry Baby/I Just Can't Forget/These Old Memories/By The Time I Get To
Phoenix//No Strings Attached/It's Loving Time/Love Is Here Today And Gone Tomorrow/Make This
Young Lady Mine/I've Never Found A Girl/Monkey Time '69
VOS-6006 - With a Little Help from My Friends - Steve Cropper [1970] Crop-
Dustin'/Land Of 1000 Dances/99 ½/Boo-Ga-Loo Down Broadway/Funky Broadway//With A Little Help
From My Friends/Oh Pretty Woman/I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water/The Way I Feel Tonight/In The
Midnight Hour/Rattlesnake
VOS-6007 - Mavis Staples - Mavis Staples [1969] Until I Met You/Sweet Things You
Do/The Choking Kind/You're Driving Me (To The Arms Of A Stranger)/A House Is Not A
Home//Security/Son Of A Preacher Man/Pick Up The Pieces/Chained/Good To Me/You Send Me
VOS-6008 - So I Can Love You - Emotions [1971] So I Can Love You/Somebody
Wants What I Got/Going On Strike/I Found My Man/Got To Be The Man//The Best Part Of A Love
Affair/I Like It/My Letter/Day Dreams/It's Not Fair/Two Lovers
VOS-6009 - Hello, Sunshine - Maceo Woods & Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church
Choir [1970] Hello Sunshine/I Know God Cares For Me/I'm Mighty Grateful/The Name Of
Jesus/What Does God Mean To You?/We See God With The Eyes Of Our Soul//Try God And
See/Surrender To His Will/I'm Going To Live The Life I Sing About/The Lord's Prayer/Amazing Grace
VOS-6010 - Only for the Lonely - Mavis Staples [1970] (9-70, #188) I Have Learned To
Do Without You/How Many Times/Endlessly/You're The Fool//Since I Fell For You/What Happened To
The Real Me/Since You Became A Part Of My Life/It Makes Me Wanna Cry/Don't Change Me Now
VOS-6011 - Black Rock - Bar-Kays [1971] (2-71, #90) Baby I Love You/I've Been
Trying/You Don't Know Like I Know//Dance To The Music/A Piece Of Your Peace/Six O'Clock News
Report/How Sweet It Would Be/Montego Bay
VOS-6012 - Margie Joseph Makes a New Impression - Margie Joseph [1971] (2-71,
#67) Monologue: Women Talk/Stop In The Name Of Love/Punish Me/Medicine Bend/Come
Tomorrow//Sweeter Tomorrow/Same Thing/How Beautiful The Rain/I'm Fed Up/Make Me Believe You'll
Stay/Temptation's About To Take Your Love
VOS-6013 - Step to Jesus - Maceo Woods & Christian Tabernacle Concert Choir [1971]
YMWM/Step To Jesus/I'll Get Home Someday/It Pays To Serve Jesus/It's Been A Mighty Good
Day/Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)//Think Of His Goodness/Let My People Go/Beams Of
Heaven/Bringing In The Sheaves/One Is Missing/Hear My Prayer
VOS-6014 - Kim Kim Kim - Kim Weston [1971] You Just Don't Know/The Love I've Been
Looking For/What Could Be Better/When Something Is Wrong With My Baby/Love Vibrations//Buy
Myself A Man/Got To Get You Off My Mind/Soul On Fire/Brothers And Sisters (Get Together)/Penny
Blues/The Choice Is Up To You (Walk With Me Jesus)
VOS-6015 - Untouched - Emotions [1972] Take Me Back/Nothing Seems
Impossible/Boss Love Maker/It's Been Fun/Love Ain't Easy One Sided//Blind Alley/Show Me How/If You
Think It (You May As Well Do It)/Love Is The Hardest Thing To Find/Tricks Were Made For Kids/Boy I
Need You
VOS-6016 - Phase 2 - Margie Joseph [1971] That Other Woman Got My Man And
Gone/My World Is Empty Without You/I'll Always Love You/Strung Out//Please Don't Stop Lovin' Me/I
Love You Too Much To Say Goodbye/Didn't Have To Tell Me/Takin' All The Love I Can
VOS-6017 - With You in Mind - Lou Johnson [1972] There Were Times/Transition/The
Loving Way/Nearer/The Beat//Who Am I/Frisco Here I Come/Wrong Number/Crazy About You/Living
Without You
VOS-6018 - Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - Dramatics [1972] (1-72, #20) Get Up And
Get Down/Thank You For Your Love/Hot Pants In The Summertime/Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get//In
The Rain/Gimme Some (Good Soul Music)/Fall In Love Lady Love/Mary Don'tcha Wanna
VOS-6019 - A Dramatic Experience - Dramatics [1973] (10-73, #86) The Devil Is
Dope/You Could Become The Very Heart Of Me/Now You Got Me Loving You/Fell For You//Jim What's
Wrong With Him?/Hey You! Get Off My Mountain/Beautiful People/Beware Of The Man (With The
Candy In His Hands)
VOS-6020 - A New Beginning - Mad Lads [1973] Pass The Word (Love's The Word)/I'm
So Glad I Fell In Love With You/Seeing Is Believin'/I'll Still Be Loving You//Gone! The Promises Of
Yesterday/I Forgot To Be Your Lover/I'm Afraid Of Losing You/Destination
VOS-6021 - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience - Emotions [Unreleased]
VOS-6022 - Inez Foxx at Memphis - Inez Foxx [1973] There's A Hand That's Reaching
Out/Let Me Down Easy/Crossing Over The Bridge/I Had A Talk With My Man//You're Saving Me For A
Rainy Day/You Don't Want My Love (All You Want Is My Loving)/The Lady The Doctor And The
Prescription/The Time/Mousa Muse
VOS-6023 - Cold Blooded - Bar-Kays [1974] Cold Blooded/Harmony/In The Scheme Of
Things/Waiting And Hating/Smiling Styling And Profiling//Frame Of Mind/(I've Got To) Use My
Imagination/Fightin' Fire With Fire/Would I If I Could/Be Yourself
8000 series:
VOS-8001 - Do You See What I See? - Bar-Kays [1972] Do You See What I See?/God
Is Watching/Be Yourself/You're The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me/You're Still My Brother//I
Was Made To Love Her/Your Good Thing Is About To Come To An End/It Ain't Easy/Love
Pollution/People Unite To Save Humanity
9500 Series:
VOS-9501 - Dramatically Yours - Dramatics [1974] And I Panicked/I Dedicate My Life To
You/You've Got Me Going Through A Thing/I Pray She'll Never Go Away//I Made Myself Lonely/Highway
To Heaven/Beautiful Feeling/Toast To The Fool/It's So Hard Trying To Get Over You
VOS-9502 - Good Woman Turning Bad - Hot Sauce [Unreleased]
VOS-9503 - Stu Gardner and the Sanctified Sound - Stu Gardner [1974] Devil In A
Man/Added To A Broken Heart/Funky Neighborhood/Home On The Range/Mathilda
(Instrumental)//Sanctified Sound/Sister Matilda/Leave Him Alone/The Sweetest Song, Parts 1 & 2
VOS-9504 - Cold Blooded - Bar-Kays [1974] Reissue of Volt VOS-6023. Cold
Blooded/Harmony/In The Scheme Of Things/Waiting And Hating/Smiling Styling And Profiling//Frame Of
Mind/(I've Got To) Use My Imagination/Fightin' Fire With Fire/Would I If I Could/Be Yourself
VOS-9505 - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience - Emotions [Unreleased] This
number was assigned to the unreleased Emotions album Volt VOS-6022, and then was never released
on this number, either.
VOS-9506 - The Best of the Dramatics - Dramatics [1974] Whatcha See Is Whatcha
Get/In The Rain/The Devil Is Dope/And I Panicked//Hey You! Get Off My Mountain/Toast To The
Fool/Now You Got Me Loving You/Highway To Heaven/Get Up And Get Down
RELATED RECORDS:
The following Atlantic and Atco Records issues were originally recorded by Volt. Generally, Atlantic
reissued the Stax material on Atlantic and the Volt material on Atco.
ATCO
33-161 - Pain in My Heart - Otis Redding [1964] (5-64, #103) Pain In My Heart/The
Dog/Stand By Me/Hey Hey Baby/You Send Me/I Need Your Lovin'//These Arms Of Mine/Louie
Louie/Something Is Worrying Me/Security/That's What My Heart Needs/Lucille
SD33-215 - Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley [1967] Sweet Soul Music/Take Me (Just
As I Am)/Who's Foolin' Who/There's A Place For Us/I Can't Stop (No No No)/Wholesale Love/I'm A
Lonely Stranger/I'm Gonna Forget About You/Let Nothing Separate Us/Where You Lead Me
SD33-216 - Darrell Banks Is Here! - Darrell Banks [1967] Here Come The Tears (S)/I've
Got That Feelin' (S)/I'm Gonna Hang My Head And Cry (S)/Look Into The Eyes Of A Fool (S)/Our Love
(Is In The Pocket) (E)//Open The Door To Your Heart (E)/Angel Baby (Don't You Ever Leave Me)
(S)/Somebody (Somewhere Needs You) (E)/Baby What'cha Got (For Me) (E)/You Better Go (S)
SD33-252 - The Immortal Otis Redding - Otis Redding [1968] (7-68, #58) I've Got
Dreams To Remember/You Made A Man Out Of Me/Nobody's Fault But Mine/Hard To Handle/Thousand
Miles Away/The Happy Song (Dum-Dum-De-De-De-Dum-Dum)//Think About It/A Waste Of
Time/Champagne And Wine/A Fool For You/Amen
SD33-265 - Otis Redding in Person at the Whiskey a Go-Go - Otis Redding [1968] (11-
68, #82) Recorded live in April, 1966. I Can't Turn You Loose/Any Ole Way/I'm Depending On You/Just
One More Day/Pain In My Heart/Mr. Pitiful/Papa's Got A Brand New Bag/Respect/Satisfaction/These
Arms Of Mine
SD33-284 - Otis Blue - Otis Redding [1968] Reissue of Volt S412. Ole Man
Trouble/Respect/Change Gonna Come/Down In The Valley/I've Been Loving You Too Long//Shake/My
Girl/Wonderful World/Rock Me Baby/Satisfaction/You Don't Miss Your Water
SD33-285 - The Soul Album - Otis Redding [1968] Reissue of Volt S413. Just One More
Day/It's Growing/Cigarettes And Coffee/Chain Gang/Nobody Knows You (When You're Down And
Out)//Good To Me/Scratch My Back/Treat Her Right/Everybody Makes A Mistake/Any Ole Way/634-
5789
SD33-286 - Otis Redding Live in Europe - Otis Redding [1968] Reissue of Volt S416.
Respect/Can't Turn You Loose/I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)/My
Girl/Shake//Satisfaction/Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)/These Arms Of Mine/Day Tripper/Try A Little
Tenderness
SD33-287 - Soul Finger - Bar-Kays [1968] Reissue of Volt S417. Soul
Finger/Knucklehead/With A Child's Heart/Bar-Kays Boogaloo/Theme From Hell's Angels//You Can't Sit
Down/House Shoes/Pearl High/I Want Someone/Hole In The Wall/Don't Do That
SD33-288 - The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding [1968] Reissue of Volt S-419. (Sittin'
On) The Dock Of The Bay/I Love You More Than Words Can Say/Let Me Come On Home/Open The
Door/Don't Mess With Cupid//The Glory Of Love/I'm Coming Home/Tramp/The Huckle-Buck/Nobody
Knows You (When You're Down And Out)/Ole Man Trouble
SD33-289 - Love Man - Otis Redding [1969] (7-69, #46) I'm A Changed Man (S)/(Your
Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher (S)/That's A Good Idea (S)/I'll Let Nothing Separate Us
(S)/Direct Me (S)/Love Man (S)//Groovin' Time (S)/Your Feeling Is Mine (S)/Got To Get Myself Together
(S)/Free Me (S)/A Lover's Question (S)/Look At That Girl (S)
SD33-333 - Tell the Truth - Otis Redding [1969] (8-70, #200) Demonstration/Tell The
Truth/Out Of Sight/Give Away None Of My Love/Wholesale Love/I Got The Will//Johnny's
Heartbreak/Snatch A Little Piece/Slippin' And Slidin'/The Match Game/A Little Time/Swingin' On A String
SD 2-801 - The Best of Otis Redding - Otis Redding [1972] (9-72, #76) (2-LP set) For
this album, three songs that were available in mono only were re-recorded with the original musicians
adding a duplicat horn part so the songs could be presented in stereo. Shake (S)/Ole Man Trouble
(S)/Good To Me (S)/I Can't Turn You Loose (S)/I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (S)/Tell
The Truth (S)//(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (S)/Cigarettes And Coffee (S)/Down In The Valley (S)/These
Arms Of Mine (S, mono with added horns)/Tramp [with Carla Thomas] (S)/Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
(S)//Try A Little Tenderness (S)/Rock Me Baby (S)/That's How Strong My Love Is (S, mono with added
horns)/My Girl (S)/Love Man (S)/A Change Is Gonna Come (S)//Just One More Day (S, live)/Respect
(S)/Pain In My Heart (S, mono with added horns)/My Lover's Prayer (S)/Chain Gang (S)/You Don't Miss
Your Water (S)/(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (S)
ATLANTIC
SD19346 - Otis Redding Recorded Live: Previously Unreleased Performances - Otis
Redding [1982] Destiny/Good To Me/Chained And Bound/Ol' Man Trouble//I Can't Turn You
Loose/I've Been Loving You Too Long/Security/A Hard Day's Night
WARNER SPECIAL PRODUCTS
OP-3500 - The Legendary Otis Redding: His Greatest Recordings - Otis Redding [1975]
(3-LP set) Disc 1: (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (S)/Mr. Pitiful (S, live)/Chained And Bound
(M)/My Lover's Prayer (S)/Pain In My Heart (M)//My Girl (S)/Shake (S)/Tell The Truth (S)/Tramp [with
Carla Thomas] (S)/Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) (S); Disc 2: These Arms Of Mine (S, live)/You
Don't Miss Your Water (S)/I've Got Dreams To Remember (S)/I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop
Now) (S)/Try A Little Tenderness (S)//Papa's Got A Brand New Bag (S, live)/Ole Man Trouble (S)/(I Can't
Get No) Satisfaction (S)/Hard To Handle (S)/Love Man (S); Disc 3: That's How Strong My Love
Is (S, extra horns added to make it stereo)/For Your Precious Love (M)/A Change Is Gonna Come
(S)/Cigarettes And Coffee (S)/Tennessee Waltz (S)//Respect (S)/Sweet Lorene (S)/Security (E)/The
Happy Song (S)/(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher (S)
Thanks to Rene Wu and Patrick Montier.
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