Hello, fellow lovers of great music.
Today I have chosen 'Sitting on the Dock of the Bay' by Otis Redding.
Who hasn't been to San Francisco and immediately thought of this song?
A little history of how this song came to be written:
Otis was one of those the kind of guy who had 100 ideas. He had been in San Francisco and was renting boathouse and that's where he got the idea of the ships
coming in the bay there. And that's about all he had: "I watch the ships
come in and I watch them roll away again." The rest of the song was about Otis' life: "I left my home in Georgia, headed for
the Frisco Bay" was all about him going out to San Francisco to perform. The song features a whistled tune heard before the song's fade. It was
originally performed by Redding who had this
little fadeout rap he was gonna do, an ad-lib. He forgot what it was so
he started whistling.
Dock on the Bay was released in 1968 and topped the charts at No. 4 for 1968.
Enjoy, my friends.
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