Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of The Bay (Take 1)

[Maniakial]

This kind of music is what I'm talking about!, classic, thanks for sharing!

[TheBlackhawksown]

Look at the tags. Lol.

[julesism2]

@TheBlackhawksown :)

[keithpiano]

It seems like Otis forgot the lyrics to the beginning of verse 3..."Sittin' here restin' my bones".

He sings, "Sittin' here" followed by some garbled words. I love actual audio of the recording session that shows the fun they had and the interaction between I guess the recording engineer and Otis.

[honestjane843]

What the FOCKERS is that in the beginning? Lol.

[crimsonananda]

@honestjane843 It's Homer making soothing ocean noises for Marge ;)

[PHUONGQccmvg]

Take it back to old school, "when they call this good music..."

[MontageMediaWorks]

#Classic

[69trust96]

Excellent this here is proper music!

[backpackMEDIAvision]

thank you for this!!

[akitosh24]

I Love it

[njoseph20]

Thanks for posting. This is such a wonderful classic.

[DaZeDmerlin]

I guess someone missed the like button, or got afraid of the animal sounds at the beginning.

[bayborn510]

Love!

[CellahHB]

SITTIN HERE RESTIN MA BONES AND ENJOYIN THIS SONG ONE tIF THE

[McFluffensteinn]

what a bad whistler .. DAMM

[cocochanelleke]

@McFluffensteinn

are you jealous?

[rickydalecooper]

Good music good soul

[TaekwondoStarcraft]

Thank you!

[fsunoles100]

They say the good die young. He was 26. A def classic

[millagram13]

:')

[PIOSystems]

Classic...

[JLGoslin]

Thank you from some good ole Missourians in Tampa Bay!

[WICKEDWANDAJEAN]

thank you,,,,,,from the ozarks........wickedwandajean

[kliqjaw]

Thank you for this upload!

[imabasketcase88]

amazing!!! i was born 12 years after this was released and i love it

[deanmalone83]

This was recorded in 1967, three days before the plane crash that killed him...... Brilliant!!

[TheAcosta23]

Mp3 now

[Rardjuh11]

2:55 "you're not gonna make it as a whistler" hahaha

[AnthonyAndrew]

Great song. Want this played at my funeral as my friends drink a beer in my honor.

[cocochanelleke]

Play this on my funeral by way of last wish.

That's it and thanks for sharing this brilliant piece of Redding.

It is said that he didn't like the song at first -

glory be to the songwriter and whoever else got Redding to perform this.

Coco

[longdonganon]

@cocochanelleke Not sure where you heard that from.. The song was written by Otis, with Steve Cropper, like most of his songs

[cocochanelleke]

@longdonganon

Glad to hear this.

By the way -

I used to put singers and musicians on a pedestal - which is no good for anyone really.

;)

[Rachandra123]

so beautiful!

[MrJimmyfinlayson]

Great stuff!! I only wish someone would have had a movie camera in the studio to capture Otis in session........I would imagine this was done somtime in late '67.

[jdoncbus]

Long live Otis....beautiful music.

[JoeyJonesIsASexGod]

such a cool version! i had this on a mag i used to buy named soul cd, it only got to 10 issues then stopped publishing but you got a great cd once a month lol, great post!