Among them you can count Percy Sledge, Glen Campbell, Bob Dylan, Michael Bolton or Cher. Artist from all over the world took over Redding’s song and adapted as they wanted. It had an enormous success and as a proof you can see the multiple cover versions of this track. The unique character is represented by the whistling notes.Īlso, the song was extremely well-received by the audience. Otis, as a famous soul artist, managed to release a track that contains a special musical rhythm. The melody conveys a state of solitude and resignation.
The author contemplates the entire world, the past and the future, from dock of the bay. The entire masterpiece is written at the 1 st person, is a confession. The lyrics of this song present the calmness of a day on the dock. Back in the days, the soul music was a method of sinking in distant memories.
#THE DOCK OF THE BAY FULL#
The song is a soul ballade full of melancholy. Stax Records was the producer of this song, managing to bring into the musical charts the most famous post-mortem song since then. The song was recorded twice and it was released after Otis died in a plane crush. As a plus, the song contains sounds of waves and whistling. That experience offered him inspiration and he wanted to remember that day forever, that’s how the song resulted.
He started to work at this song since 1967, when he was on a houseboat. Otis Redding wrote the lyrics for this song by the side of the famous guitarist Steve Cropper. Into the landscape of old soul music, Otis Redding became famous through the medium of his catchy songs, as is the case of the song (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay.