That was the other house of funk, Staxx in Memphis had Issac Hayes and Otis Redding and Booker T. The Tops and Temptations got alot “funkier” and less girl friend love songs style.
I grew up in the 60s, I was driving to get lunch in college when I heard Otis died. Hit me hard.
I’m a little younger than you were. I remember the day Otis Redding died too. I was on a long stairway looking for Tooter, my pet turtle, who had once again crawled out of his terrarium upstairs, and bounced all the way downstairs near the kitchen. Why did he keep doing it, nobody knew. The radio was on in the kitchen, and I heard the news.
Tooter always survived the fall.