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| Otis Redding (1941 - 1967) |
In a plane crash on December 10th, 1967, the world lost Otis Redding, who had just recorded Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay. His band, the Bar-Kays, and pilot, Richard Fraser, had piled into the Beechcraft 18 plane in Cleveland, heading for a show in Madison Wisconsin, only to crash four miles short of landing in the freezing water of Lake Monona.
Redding was on the verge of become a national super-star, and his posthumous recordings, with their deep, soulful and emotional punch, reverberated across the nation.
In the New Yorker Magazine, Jonathan Gould describe Otis Redding as: "Marching in place to keep pace with the beat, pumping his fists in the air, striding across stages with a long-legged gait that parodied his “down home” origins, Redding’s confident yet unaffected eroticism epitomized the African-American ideal of a “natural man."
The great song, Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay, was released on January 8th, 1968.
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