Birthday remembrance to Otis Redding (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967). His singing style has been influential among soul artists , he helped exemplify the Stax Sound to the masses. After appearing at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, he wrote and recorded (Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay with Steve Cropper. The song became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts in America after his death in a plane crash. The Dock of the Bay became the first posthumous album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart. His hit singles included, A Change Is Gonna Come, Try a Little Tenderness, Respect, Mr. Pitiful, These Arms of Mine, plus many others. They were to play at the Factory nightclub near the University of Wisconsin, the weather was poor, with heavy rain and fog and despite warnings, the plane took off. Four miles from their destination at Truax Field in Madison, the pilot radioed for permission to land. Shortly thereafter, the plane crashed into Lake Monona. Bar-Kays member Ben Cauley, the accidents only survivor, he was sleeping shortly before the accident. He woke just before impact to see bandmate Phalon Jones look out a window and exclaim, Oh, no! Cauley said the last thing he remembered before the crash was unbuckling his seat belt. He then found himself in frigid water, grasping a seat cushion to keep afloat. James Brown claimed in his autobiography, The Godfather of Soul, that he had warned Redding not to fly in the plane. victims apart for Otis were pilot Richard Fraser, drummer Matthew Kelly, lead guitarist of the Bar-Kays Jimmy King, tenor saxophonist Phalon Jones, organist Carl Cunningham, Otis Reddings body was recovered the next day when the lake bed was searched. Shortly after Otis Reddings death, Atlantic Records, distributor of the Stax/Volt releases, was purchased by Warner Bros. Atlantic also held the rights to all unreleased Otis Redding masters, enough material for three studio albums—The Immortal Otis Redding (1968), Love Man (1969), and Tell the Truth (1970). R.I.P Otis. GARY
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 06:41:48 +0000
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