(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay — Otis Redding
This is unquestionably one of Otis Redding’s most well-known tracks, and it is also one of his most well-known songs overall. He wrote the words for the song in his free time, while sitting on a pier overlooking the sea and watching the waves. The next day, he returned to Sausalito, California, where he had been staying since the festival, and spent a few days on a rented houseboat that he had rented for the duration of the festival. After that, he recorded it and then put it all together into a whole song a few months later, which you can hear here. The pilot was killed in an aviation accident despite only having been on the ground for a couple of days. In Wisconsin, he drove himself to Lake Monona, where he slept for the night before continuing his journey. Immediately after the singer’s death, his song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 list for the first time in the artist’s career.
The Dock Of The Bay
