Day Seventeen of the Eileen McCreary Nuss Music Memorial. Wow I have to go with Otis Redding, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, recorded just three days before Otis died and released in 1968. This song was written in Sausalito California, just north of San Francisco Bay on a house boat. A close friend of mine has a houseboat nearby and this is a beautiful vista and it comes through in the song. Eileen and I used to hang out sometimes in Fenwic Island, Delawar. Back then she had a Jeep and you could take the roof off and the doors and just cruse with the wind in your hair. One evening we were just hanging out at the house that we used to stay at and it was right on the Bay…and this song came on the radio. Great song but two lines really sum it up for me and I know Eileen felt the same: “I cant do what ten people tell me to do So I guess; Ill remain the same, yes” This is a wonderful tune but it like the loss of a good friend of family member it has a tragic side. Just three days after this song was finished, Otis Redding died in an air plane crash in Wisconsin along with five (5) band mates: James Alexander, Carl Cunningham, Jimmy Lee King, Phalon Jones, Ronnie Caldwell, and Matthew Kelly and pilot Richard Fraser. (Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay became the first posthumous single to reach number one on the Billboard Music Charts. Eileen I love you! Your Bro! Jerry https://youtube/watch?v=UCmUhYSr-e4&list=RDUCmUhYSr-e4
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:34:43 +0000
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