If Redding hadn’t died, there’s a good chance that we never would’ve heard the version of “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay” that went to #1 in 1968. Redding recorded the song as ...

The pair paid homage to the late Otis Redding on the anniversary of his death by performing his hit, "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay". Snoop Dogg, given name Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., 53 ...

Redding was a huge fan of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and hoped that “Dock Of The Bay” would be seen as fitting in with the mood of that album. It certainly displays a ...

He had recorded the song “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” just three days before the crash. It had more of a pop feel than what many of his contemporaries in the Memphis scene were used to, but ...

The release of “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay” came just weeks earlier on January 8, 1968. The soul-folk song’s release came less than a month after Redding tragically passed on ...

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