Best Selling R&B Soul Songs on the Volt label
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1 record label: Volt 157
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #3
written by: Otis Redding & Steve Cropper
album: The Dock of the Bay / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [southern soul]
 		Otis Redding (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
1968 Volt
2 record label: Volt 4075
chart position: RandB #1, US #5
written by: Tony Hester
album: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get / The Best of The Dramatics / Stax Greatest Hits
comments: [ballad]
 		The Dramatics In the Rain
1972 Volt
3 record label: Volt 4058
chart position: RandB #3, US #9
written by: Tony Hester
album: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get / The Best of The Dramatics / Stax Greatest Hits
 		The Dramatics Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
1971 Volt
4 record label: Volt 148
chart position: RandB #3, US #17, UK #33
written by: Alexander, Caldwell, Cauley, Cunningham, Jones & King
album: Soul Finger / Atlantic Soul Classics
comments: [mainly instrumental]
 		The Bar-Kays Soul Finger
1967 Volt
5 record label: Volt 126
chart position: RandB #2, US #21
written by: Otis Redding & Jerry Butler
album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
comments: [deep soul ballad]
Otis Redding I've Been Loving You Too Long (to Stop Now)
1965 Volt
6 record label: Volt 141
chart position: RandB #4, US #25, UK #46
written by: James Campbel, Reginald Connelly & Harry M. Woods
album: Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
comments: [southern soul]
 		Otis Redding Try a Little Tenderness
1966 Volt
7 record label: Volt 138
chart position: RandB #12, US #29, UK #23
written by: Steve Cropper & Otis Redding
album: Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
comments: [southern soul]
 		Otis Redding Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)
1966 Volt
8 record label: Volt 132
chart position: RandB #4, US #31, UK #33
written by: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
comments: [northern soul]
 		Otis Redding Satisfaction
1966 Volt
9 record label: Volt 163
chart position: RandB #10, US #25, UK #24
written by: Otis Redding & Steve Cropper
album: The Immortal Otis Redding
comments: [southern soul]
 		Otis Redding The Happy Song (Dum-Dum)
1968 Volt
10 record label: Volt 128
chart position: RandB #4, US #35
written by: Otis Redding
album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
 		Otis Redding Respect
1965 Volt
11 record label: Volt 136
chart position: RandB #10, US# 61, UK #37
written by: Otis Redding
album: Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
comments: [deep soul ballad]
Otis Redding My Lover's Prayer
1966 Volt
12 record label: Volt 149
chart position: RandB #16, US #47, UK #28
written by: Sam Cooke
album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul / History of Otis Redding
comments: [southern soul]
 		Otis Redding Shake
1967 Volt
13 record label: Volt 124
chart position: RandB #10, US #41
written by: Steve Cropper & Otis Redding
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
Otis Redding Mr. Pitiful
1965 Volt
14 record label: Volt 45130
chart position: RandB #11, UK #29
written by: Otis Redding
album: History Of Otis Redding
comments: [southern soul]
 		Otis Redding I Can't Turn You Loose
1966 Volt
15 record label: Volt 121
chart position: RandB #6, US #70
written by: Otis Redding
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [southern soul ballad]
 		Otis Redding Chained and Bound
1964 Volt
16 record label: Volt 4090
chart position: RandB #5, US #53
written by: Tony Hester
album: A Dramatic Experience / The Best of The Dramatics
 		The Dramatics Hey You! Get Off My Mountain
1973 Volt
17 record label: Volt 112
chart position: RandB #11, US #61
written by: Naomi Neville
album: Pain In My Heart
 		Otis Redding Pain In My Heart
1963 Volt
18 record label: Volt 4066
chart position: RandB #13, US #52
written by: Isaac Hayes and David Porter
album: Untouched
 		The Emotions Show Me How
1971 Volt
19 record label: Volt 4099
chart position: RandB #12, US #45
written by: Tony Hester
album: A Dramatic Experience / The Best of The Dramatics
 		The Dramatics Fell for You
1973 Volt
20 record label: Volt 131
chart position: RandB #10, US #31
written by: Estelle Axton and Deanie Parker
 		The Mad Lads I Want Someone
1966 Volt
21 record label: Volt 4073
chart position: RandB #10, US #53
written by: Allen Jones, Homer Banks and Brown
 		The Bar-Kays Son of Shaft
1971 Volt
22 record label: Volt 130
chart position: RandB #15, US #85
written by: Otis Redding, Steve Cropper and McElvoy Robinson
album: The Soul Album Deep Soul Treasures Vol.2 (compiled by Dave Godin)
comments: B side to I Can't Turn You Loose [deep soul]
 		Otis Redding Just One More Day
1965 Volt
23 record label: Volt 4044
chart position: RandB #13, US #89
written by: David Jordan, Don Davis and J. J. Barnes
album: Only for the Lonely
comments: [southern soul ballad]
 		Mavis Staples I Have Learned to Do without You
1970 Volt
24 record label: Volt 127
chart position: RandB #11, US #93
written by: Roger Hatcher
 		The Mad Lads Don't Have to Shop Around
1965 Volt
25 record label: Volt 124
chart position: RandB #18, US #74
written by: Roosevelt Jamison
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
 		Otis Redding That's How Strong My Love Is
1965 Volt
26 record label: Volt 152
chart position: RandB #19, US #60
written by: Billy Hill
album: The Dock of the Bay
 		Otis Redding Glory of Love
1967 Volt
27 record label: Volt 4071
chart position: RandB #16, US #84
written by: Tony Hester
album: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get / The Best of The Dramatics
 		The Dramatics Get Up and Get Down
1971 Volt
28 record label: Volt 103
chart position: RandB #20, US #85
written by: Otis Redding
album: Pain In My Heart
 		Otis Redding These Arms Of Mine
1963 Volt
29 record label: Volt 4082
chart position: RandB #18, US #67
written by: Arthur Snyder and Don Davis
album: The Best of The Dramatics
 		The Dramatics Toast to the Fool
1972 Volt
30 record label: Volt 4077
chart position: RandB #18, US #113
written by: Luther Ingram and John McFarland
 		The Emotions My Honey and Me
1972 Volt
31 record label: Volt 146
chart position: UK #48
written by: Al Jackson Jr., Jones and Otis Redding
album: The Dock of the Bay
 		Otis Redding Let Me Come On Home
1967 Volt
32 record label: Volt 137
chart position: RandB #16
written by: William Brown, Julius E. Green, Robert Phillips and John Gary Williams
 		The Mad Lads I Want a Girl
1966 Volt
33 record label: Volt 117
chart position: RandB #23, US #97
written by: Otis Redding
album: Pain In My Heart
 		Otis Redding Security
1964 Volt
34 record label: Volt 4083
chart position: RandB #23, US #93
written by: Homer Banks, Raymond Jackson and Carl Hampton
 		The Emotions I Could Never Be Happy
1972 Volt
35 record label: Volt 116
chart position: RandB #26, US #69
written by: Phil Walden and Otis Redding
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
 		Otis Redding Come To Me
1964 Volt
36 record label: Volt 4051
chart position: RandB #23, US #118
written by: Homer Banks and Raymond Jackson
 		Shack Too Many Lovers
1971 Volt
37 record label: Volt 4002
chart position: RandB #21
written by: George Davis, George Gordy and Ivy Joe Hunter
album: Something Special
 		Jimmy Hughes I Like Everything About You
1968 Volt
38 record label: Volt 4021
chart position: RandB #27, US #101
written by: Isaac Hayes and David Porter
 		The Emotions The Best Part of a Love Affair
1969 Volt
39 record label: Volt 4106
chart position: RandB #53, US #73
written by: Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
 		The Emotions Put a Little Love Away
1974 Volt
40 record label: Volt 146
chart position: RandB #30, US #78
written by: Eddie Floyd and Booker T. Jones
album: The Dock of the Bay
comments: [deep soul]
 		Otis Redding I Love You More Than Words Can Say
1967 Volt
41 record label: Volt 109
chart position: RandB #27
written by: Otis Redding
album: Pain In My Heart
comments: [southern soul ballad]
Otis Redding That's What My Heart Needs
1964 Volt
42 record label: Volt 4086
chart position: RandB #30, US #109
written by: Brook Benton and Clyde Otis
album: Only for the Lonely
 		Mavis Staples Endlessly
1972 Volt
43 record label: Volt 4044
chart position: Cashbox RandB #27
written by: Buddy Johnson
album: Only For The Lonely
comments: [ballad]
 		Mavis Staples Since I Fell For You
1970 Volt
44 record label: Volt 4016
chart position: RandB #28, US #84
written by: Jimmy Webb
album: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lads
 		The Mad Lads By the Time I Get to Phoenix
1969 Volt
45 record label: Volt 4025
chart position: RandB #28
written by: King Curtis (as Curtis Ousley) and Ronald Miller [Ronald Norman Miller] (as Ron Miller)
 		Rev. Maceo Woods & the Christian Tabernacle Baptist Church Choir Hello Sunshine
1969 Volt
46 record label: Volt 4045
chart position: RandB #29
written by: Vince Willis
album: Chronicle: Greatest Hits
comments: [mid-tempo ballad]
 		The Emotions Heart Association
1970 Volt
47 record label: Volt 4076
chart position: RandB #35, US #96
written by: Na Allen
 		Hot Sauce Bring It On Home (And Give It to Me)
1972 Volt
48 record label: Volt 154
chart position: RandB #36, US #91
written by: David Porter and The Bar Kays
 		The Bar-Kays Give Everybody Some
1967 Volt
49 record label: Volt 162
chart position: RandB #31
written by: Allen Jones
album: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lads
 		The Mad Lads Whatever Hurts You
1968 Volt
50 record label: Volt 133
chart position: RandB #31
written by: David Porter and Isaac Hayes
album: Deep Soul Treasures Vol.2 (compiled by Dave Godin)
comments: [deep soul]
 		Ruby Johnson I'll Run Your Hurt Away
1966 Volt
51 record label: Volt 4088
chart position: RandB #37, US #112
written by: Carl Hampton, Homer Banks and Raymond Jackson
 		The Emotions From Toys to Boys
1973 Volt
52 record label: Volt 4003
chart position: RandB #35
written by: Bettye Crutcher and Marvell Thomas
album: The Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Lads
The Mad Lads So Nice
1968 Volt
53 record label: Volt 4056
chart position: RandB #38, US #96
written by: Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Margie Joseph Makes a New Impression
comments: [ballad]
 		Margie Joseph Stop in the Name of Love
1971 Volt
54 record label: Volt 139
chart position: RandB #41
written by: Steve Cropper and Isaac Hayes
 		The Mad Lads Patch My Heart
1966 Volt
55 record label: Volt 4037
chart position: RandB #46
written by: Darryl Carter and Fred Briggs
 		Margie Joseph Your Sweet Lovin'
1970 Volt
56 record label: Volt 4105
chart position: Cashbox RandB #46
written by: Tony Hester
album: A Dramatic Experience
 		The Dramatics Beware Of The Man (With The Candy In His Hand)
1974 Volt
57 record label: Volt 4054
chart position: RandB #47
 		The Emotions You Make Me Want to Love You
1971 Volt
58 record label: Volt 4105
chart position: RandB #49
written by: Jimmy Roach
album: Dramatically Yours / The Best of The Dramatics
 		The Dramatics And I Panicked
1974 Volt
59 record label: Volt 4001
chart position: RandB #50
written by: Dave Crawford
album: What a Man
 		Linda Lyndell What a Man
1968 Volt
60 record label: Volt 4041
chart position: Cashbox R&B #60
written by: Darryl Carter, Fred Briggs, Michael Williams
album: A New Beginning...
comments: [sweet soul ballad]
 		The Mad Lads Seeing Is Believin'
1970 Volt
61 record label: Volt 4101
chart position: RandB #74
written by: Billy Davis & Leonard Caston
album: Inez Foxx At Memphis
comments: [southern soul ballad]
 		Inez Foxx I Had a Talk with My Man
1974 Volt
62 record label: Volt 4109
chart position: RandB #78
written by: Arthur Snyder, Bettye Crutcher and Don Davis
 		Hot Sauce Stop Dogging Me
1974 Volt
63 record label: Volt 4107
chart position: RandB #83
written by: Eddie Marion, Henderson Thigpen, James Banks
 		Inez Foxx Circuit's Overloaded
1974 Volt
64 record label: Volt 4095
chart position: RandB #91
written by: Eddie Floyd and Mack Rice
 		The Emotions Runnin' Back (And Forth)
1973 Volt
65 record label: Volt 302
chart position: RandB #93
written by: Paul Simon
album: Positive State of Mind
comments: [ballad]
The Dramatics Bridge Over Troubled Water
1989 Volt
-- record label: Volt 6020
written by: Dale Warren, John Gary Williams, William Brown
album: A New Beginning...
comments: [album cut]
 		The Mad Lads Pass The Word (Love's The Word)
1973 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4068
written by: John Gary Williams, William Brown, Bobby Manuel
album: A New Beginning...
 		The Mad Lads I'm So Glad I Fell In Love With You
1971 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4040
written by: R. Wylie, T. Hester
 		Roz Ryan You're My Only Temptation
1970 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4023
written by: Bobby Womack
 		Margie Joseph What You Gonna Do
1969 Volt
-- record label: Volt 6020
written by: Darryl Carter, Fred Briggs
album: A New Beginning...
comments: [sweet soul album cut]
 		The Mad Lads I'll Still Be Loving You
1973 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4098
written by: Booker T. Jones, William Bell
album: A New Beginning...
comments: [love ballad]
 		The Mad Lads I Forgot To Be Your Lover
1973 Volt
-- record label: Volt 415
written by: King, Stewart
album: Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding Tennessee Waltz
1966 Volt
-- record label: Volt 6020
written by: Darryl Carter, Helen Washington
album: A New Beginning...
comments: [sweet soul album cut]
 		The Mad Lads I'm Afraid Of Losing You
1973 Volt
-- record label: Volt 6020
written by: Dale Warren, Joan Albright
album: A New Beginning...
comments: [sweet soul ballad album cut]
 		The Mad Lads Destination
1973 Volt
-- record label: Volt 415
written by: Willis
album: Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding You're Still My Baby
1966 Volt
-- record label: Volt 412
written by: Sam Cooke
album: Otis Blue / Otis Redding Sings Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding Change Gonna Come
1965 Volt
-- record label: Volt 411
written by: Wyche
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding Woman, Lover, A Friend
1965 Volt
-- record label: Volt 411
written by: Cooke
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding Nothing Can Change This Love
1965 Volt
-- record label: Volt 411
written by: Willis
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding It's Too Late
1965 Volt
-- record label: Volt 411
written by: Blackwell, Scott
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [southern soul album cut]
 		Otis Redding Home In Your Heart
1965 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4090
written by: Tony Hester
album: A Dramatic Experience / The Best of The Dramatics
 		The Dramatics The Devil Is Dope
1973 Volt
-- record label: Volt 415
written by: Porter, Hayes
album: Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul
comments: [album cut]
 		Otis Redding Love Have Mercy
1966 Volt
-- record label: Volt 415
written by: Redding
album: Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul
comments: [album cut]
 		Otis Redding Hawg For You
1966 Volt
-- record label: Volt 415
written by: Redding
album: Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary Of Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding Ton of Joy
1966 Volt
-- record label: Volt 411
written by: Brooks, Butler
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding For Your Precious Love
1965 Volt
-- record label: Volt 412
written by: King, Josea
album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad album cut]
 		Otis Redding Rock Me Baby
1965 Volt
-- record label: Volt 116
written by: Redding
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [soul blues ballad]
 		Otis Redding Don't Leave Me This Way
1964 Volt
-- record label: Volt 121
written by: Redding
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [southern soul]
 		Otis Redding Your One And Only Man
1964 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4058
written by: Tony Hester
album: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
comments: [southern soul ballad]
 		The Dramatics Thankful For Your Love
1971 Volt
-- record label: Volt 117
written by: Redding
album: The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads
comments: [southern soul ballad]
 		Otis Redding I Want To Thank You
1964 Volt
-- record label: Volt 128
written by: Redding
album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad]
 		Otis Redding Ole Man Trouble
1965 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4099
written by: Tony Hester
album: A Dramatic Experience / The Best of The Dramatics
 		The Dramatics Now You Got Me Loving You
1973 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4096
written by: Inez Foxx, Mack Rice
album: Inez Foxx At Memphis
comments: [southern soul]
 		Inez Foxx Crossing Over The Bridge
1973 Volt
-- record label: Volt 149
written by: William Bell
album: Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul
comments: [southern soul ballad]
 		Otis Redding You Don't Miss Your Water
1967 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4043
written by: Willie Dixon
comments: [southern soul]
 		Branding Iron Right, Tight And Out Of Sight
1970 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4080
written by: Clyde Wilson
 		The Mad Lads Did My Baby Call?
1972 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4034
written by: We Three
 		Chuck Brooks Love's Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
1970 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4060
written by: Jimmy Hughes, Al Jackson Jr.
 		Jimmy Hughes Just Ain't Strong As I Used To Be
1971 Volt
-- record label: Volt 140
written by: Axton, Parker
comments: [deep soul]
 		Ruby Johnson Come To Me My Darling
1966 Volt
-- record label: Volt 4049
written by: Mack Rice, Gemini
 		The Newcomers You Put The Sunshine Back In My World
1970 Volt


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