"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was ranked twenty-eighth on Rolling Stone ' s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the second-highest of four Redding songs on the list, after "Respect " (in this case the version recorded by Aretha Franklin ). Rolling Stone ranked The Dock of the Bay number 161 on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the third of five Redding albums on the list. In 1999, BMI named the song as the sixth-most performed song of the twentieth century, with about six million performances. It reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was released on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once just days before his death in a plane crash. " (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper. The challenge songsheet encourages you to learn simple barre chords to enhance your playing and make this song sizzle!
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In 1999, BMI named the song as the sixth-most performed song of the 20th century.YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH THE RECORDING IN GCEA TUNING! I've done up a easy songsheet and a challenge songsheet. It also won two Grammy Awards: Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. It became Redding's most successful record worldwide, selling over four million copies. The track became the first ever posthumous #1 single in the US. The song was released on Stax Records Volt label in 1968. The song topped the US chart in March 1968, and its album Dock of the Bay became his largest-selling so far. (Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay was released in January 1968, shortly after Reddings death. '(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay' was released in January 1968, soon after Redding's death. He added the sound of seagulls and waves to the background, as Redding had requested. He was aged just 26.Īfter Redding's death, Cropper mixed finished the song at Stax Studios. On December 10, just days after recording the song, his plane crashed into Lake Monona, outside Madison, Wisconsin. He forgot what it was so he started whistling." Cropper said Redding had "this little fadeout rap he was gonna do, an ad-lib. The song features a whistled tune before fading away. Otis Redding didn't think the song was ready, but sadly he never got the chance to finish it in the way he had hoped.
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If you listen to the songs I collaborated with Otis, most of the lyrics are about him. "'I watch the ships come in and I watch them roll away again'.
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The story that I got he was renting boathouse or stayed at a boathouse or something and that's where he got the idea of the ships coming in the bay there. In 1990, Cropper said of the song's creation: "Otis was one of those the kind of guys who had 100 ideas.