“(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” – Single by Otis Redding from the album The Dock of the Bay. B-side: “Sweet Lorene” (Volt issue)”Keep Your Arms Around Me” (Atco reissue).
Released on January 8, 1968.
Redding started writing the lyrics in August, 1967 while staying on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. He completed the song in Memphis with Cropper, a Stax producer and the guitarist for Booker T. & the M.G.’s. It features whistling and sounds of waves crashing on a shore.
After Redding’s death, Cropper mixed “Dock of the Bay” at Stax Studios. He added the sound of seagulls and crashing waves, as Redding had requested, recalling the sounds he had heard staying on the houseboat.
Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967, a month before this song was released (January 8, 1968) and three days after he recorded it. It was by far his biggest hit and was also the first ever posthumous #1 single in the US. Redding was a rising star moving toward mainstream success at the time of his death. There is a good chance he would have recorded many more hits if he had lived.
This won 1968 Grammy Awards for Best Rhythm & Blues Performance, plus Best Rhythm & Blues Song for writers Otis Redding and Steve Cropper.
(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay, melodia lui Otis Redding, a fost lansată pe single după moartea sa la 10 Decembrie 1967. A fost primul single al unui artist decedat care a ocupat locul 1, după ce a murit. Melodia a fost compusă de Otis Redding împreună cu Steve Cropper. A fost înregistrată de două ori în 1967, a doua oară doar cu o zi înaintea morții sale. A murit atunci când avionul lui persoanl, un Beechcraft a căzut în lacul Monona lângă Madison, Wisconsin. membrii formației Bar-Kays, care-l acompaniau în turneu au murit de asemnea. A supraviețuit doar Ben Cauley, trompetistul formației.
Otis Redding s-a născut la 9 Septmebrie 1941 în orașul Dawson din Georgia.
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