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‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay’ — Otis Redding

Otis Redding wrote his most famous song after the Monterey Pop Festival, in summer 1967, in a dock on the bay or, at least, in a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California. Redding had to finish writing a song with guitarist Steve Cropper and produce it. Cropper mixed “Dock of the Bay” in Stax Studios after Redding’s death. “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was the first posthumous single to reach the US No. 1 and earning the UK’s No. 3 spot.

‘(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay’ — Otis Redding