After the death of her brother Otis in 1916, the troupe began to lose money, and it wasn't until 1920 that Hattie received another big opportunity.

Several of the 12 tracks were covers of pure Chicago blues ( side 1 kicking off strong with Otis Rush's " All Your Love " and Freddy King's hit instrumental " Hide Away " spelled without a space as “ Hideaway ”); Mayall wrote or arranged 5 ( such as " Double Crossing Time ", a slow blues with a scorching solo by cowriter Clapton ); and Eric debuted as lead vocalist, and began his practice of paying tribute to Robert Johnson, with " Ramblin ' on My Mind ".

He then began lining up potential buyers for the newspaper, which included non-Houstonians such as Sam Newhouse, Otis Chandler and the Scripps-Howard organization.

While growing up with and being heavily influenced by countless legendary blues, jazz and R & B musicians in his father Johnny's immediate circle, Otis began to gravitate towards the popular music of his generation such as Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, and Arthur Lee of the band Love.

In the early 1960s Vinson moved to Los Angeles and began working with the Johnny Otis Revue.

In 1967, Murray produced and wrote " Murray the K in New York " which expanded on the music video-style approach he began in It's What's Happening, Baby and featured an eclectic line-up of stars, including The Doors, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Spanky & Our Gang, and The Four Tops with guest appearances by Ed Sullivan and Joe Namath.

Upon winning a talent contest at Johnny Otis's nightclub, he began working as a singer / songwriter, managed by Otis.

Otis began modeling at age 16.

After going to college at what was then Memphis State University ( now University of Memphis ) in the early 1960s, Booth began his music journalism career with articles on Memphis musicians like Furry Lewis and Otis Redding, the latter of whom Stanley witnessed writing the famous song " Sittin ' on the Dock of the Bay " with Steve Cropper at Stax studios on the Friday before Redding's death.

During the fall of 1899, General Elwell S. Otis began a three-pronged offensive against the Filipinos north of Manila.

Otis, long considered one of the major art institutions in California, began in 1918, when Los Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis bequeathed his MacArthur Park property to start the first public, independent professional school of art in Southern California.

In the band's early years, they were mostly known for playing covers of popular R & B hits but by the late 1960s, the group began to create original songs, resulting in a sound that was, as Charles Wright put it, " the middle ground between Otis Redding and James Brown ", reflecting the group's musical blend of different regional R & B and funk styles.

In 1873, public school superintendent Otis E. Haven began teaching Evanston's first public high school class in an upper room of the Benson Avenue School.

Two miles north of Adairsville Oliver Otis Howard and the Union IV Corps began skirmishing with entrenched units of William J. Hardee's Confederate corps.

Sharply bending back towards the west-northwest, and eventually the north, Otis reached a peak intensity of before higher wind shear and cooler sea surface temperatures began to impede on the system's organization.

" After reading the number 76 (" with a bullet ") listing in Billboard magazine, Temptations members Otis Williams and David Ruffin immediately began crying with joy.

Eddie Kendricks also began to withdraw from the group ; he regularly quarreled with either Otis Williams or his best friend Melvin Franklin, and the fights often became violent.

As more competing hotels that were easier to reach began to be developed, the Mountain House built the cable-operated Otis Elevating Railway to bring its guests directly from the Hudson to the hotel.

Mrs. Harry is eager to help Otis, who is feigning illness in order to avoid meeting fellow passengers, but Dr. Harry is not interested and keeps playing bridge.

In the 1980s he had a weekly radio show in Los Angeles, playing R & B music, and also recorded with his son Shuggie Otis, releasing the 1982 album The New Johnny Otis Show.

She is influenced by Chinese folk music, though she has also studied opera, and following her love of Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin toured the Mississippi Delta studying blues and playing with blues musicians.

The Beatles favoured Cropper's playing, and his production on Otis Redding records.

Smith appeared as Calver Weems in the 1966 Don Knotts comedy The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, playing essentially the same town drunk character as Otis.

The Smithereens showed a lot of growth in their sound, thanks to playing around the New Jersey area as well as serving as the backing band for Otis Blackwell.

He is shy and upset because he was in jail for playing his guitar on the street, so now he plays for the pet shop animals and a parrot named Gertrude who is Otis ' favorite.

Featuring all five Temptations-Dennis Edwards, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams )-trading verses and harmony lines, " Runaway Child, Running Wild " paints a tale of a young boy ( presumably a preteen ) who runs away from home after being punished for playing hooky.

He split the left field job with Tom Poquette, Clint Hurdle and Joe Zdeb, getting the most playing time at the position among the four, while also backing up Amos Otis in center field.

Over these early years, Walker's musical pupilage saw him playing with John Lee Hooker, J. J. Malone, Buddy Miles, Otis Rush, Thelonious Monk, The Soul Stirrers, Willie Dixon, Charlie Musselwhite, Steve Miller, Nick Lowe, John Mayall, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Jimi Hendrix.

Torrez walked both Amos Otis and Pete LaCock with two outs, but relief ace Sparky Lyle came in and struck out Cookie Rojas, the Royals ' DH playing in what would be his last major-league game.

The concerts featured some of the leading blues artists of the 1960s, such as Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson, some playing in unique combinations such as T-Bone Walker playing guitar for pianist Memphis Slim, Otis Rush with Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson with Muddy Waters.

* Citizen Baines playing " Otis "

Well-known Chicago blues players include singer / songwriters such as Muddy Waters, Howlin ' Wolf, Willie Dixon, and Koko Taylor ; guitar players such as Freddie King, Otis Rush, Luther Allison, Magic Sam, Syl Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Guy, Robert Lockwood Jr., McKinley Mitchell, Bo Diddley, Mike Bloomfield and Elmore James ; harmonica players such as Big Walter Horton, Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Butterfield, Junior Wells and Jimmy Reed ; and keyboardists such as Marty Sammon.

The single featured a photo of the autograph next to a photo of a guitar Napalm Beach bassist Otis P. Otis had gotten from Thunders in an earlier trade.

The Reddings was an American funk, soul and disco band, founded by Otis Redding's sons Dexter ( bass and vocals ) and Otis Redding III ( guitar ) together with Mark Lockett ( drums, keys, and lead vocal ).

Other Zephyr members of note include trance blues maven, Otis Taylor, who played bass during the mid-1970s and blues guitarist, Eddie Turner, who played guitar in the last incarnation during the early 1980s.

After some personnel changes, the band congealed around members Luke Edwards ( vocals and guitar ), Rich Parris ( guitars and vocals ), Otis Hughes ( bass guitar ), and Boo Duckworth ( drums and percussion ) in 1987.

His uncle Otis Cochran taught him how to play the guitar as the pair hitchhiked from Mississippi to southeastern New Mexico to work in the oilfields.

Soon after the breakup of the GTO's she became romantically involved with blues guitar prodigy Shuggie Otis, the son of rhythm & blues pioneer Johnny Otis.

* Larry Carlton-electric guitar on " Otis And Marlena "

* Otis Grand: guitar and lap-steel guitar on " Hop On It "

* Otis Rush ; vocals and guitar on " Fix Our Love "