Who is the woman on Otis Redding's "Tramp"?

Question

On the song "Tramp", Otis Redding sings to a woman who keeps telling him why he's a tramp. What is the woman's name?

Answer 1

Carla Thomas. (Daughter of Rufus Thomas. Recorded duets with her dad & scored a top-ten hit on her own in '61 called "Gee Whiz." In all, she had a total of twenty-two singles on the national charts in the ten years following that one.)