On this day in music history....1967, Otis Redding went into the - TopicsExpress



          

On this day in music history....1967, Otis Redding went into the studio to record (Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay. The song went on to be his biggest hit. Redding didnt see its release; he was killed three days later in a plane crash. Redding wrote the first verse of the song, under the abbreviated title Dock of the Bay, on a houseboat at Waldo Point in Sausalito, California a short time after his appearance at The Monterey pop festival. Reddings familiar whistling, heard before the songs fade was the singer fooling around, he had intended to return to the studio at a later date to add words in place of the whistling....
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 06:45:55 +0000

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