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On this day in 1968, the Otis Redding single “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #37 (February 27)

The song co-written by Redding and Steve Cropper from the LP “The Dock of the Bay” went on to peak at #3 in the UK, New Zealand, and South Africa, #7 in Canada, #13 in Ireland, and #29 in Italy.

It also became the first ever posthumous single to top the charts in the US, after Redding tragically passed away in a plane crash on December 10, 1967.

It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once just three days before his death.

The album “The Dock of the Bay” was also the first posthumous album to reach #1 on the UK Albums Chart.

Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California, then later in Memphis completed the music and the rest of the wistful lyrics with guitarist Steve Cropper.

In a September 1990 interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Cropper recalled:

“Otis was one of those [guys] who had 100 ideas….

He had been in San Francisco doing The Fillmore. And the story that I got, he was renting a boathouse, or stayed at a boathouse or something, 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." 

….If you listen to the songs I collaborated on with Otis, most of the lyrics are about him. [...] Otis didn't really write about himself but I did. 

……..’Dock of the Bay’ was exactly that: ‘I left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay’ was all about him going out to San Francisco to perform.”

After Redding's death, Cropper mixed "Dock of the Bay" at Stax Studios. 
He added the sound of seagulls and waves crashing to the background, as Redding had requested, recalling the sounds he heard when he was staying on the houseboat.

Booker T Jones from Booker T & the MGs plays keyboards on the track.

When Otis was still alive, there were discussions of contracting the Stax gospel act the Staple Singers to record backing vocals, but this was never carried out. 
He considered the song unfinished, and planned to record what he considered a final version, but never got the chance…

It didn’t matter; the song became an enduring, timeless classic.

In 1969, Otis Redding’s most successful song won two Grammy Awards: Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. 
In 1998 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

In 1999, BMI named the song as the sixth-most performed song of the twentieth century, with about six million performances.

"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was ranked #26 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the second-highest of four Redding songs on the list, after "Respect" (Aretha Franklin’s version).

There have been many cover versions of this classic released by prominent artists, including Michael Bolton, Glen Campbell, and Sammy Hagar.
Hagar’s version version features the song's co-writer, Steve Cropper, on guitar and members of the band Boston—Brad Delp, Sib Hashian and Barry Goudreau—on backup vocals.

The Reddings, who included two of Otis Redding's sons, released a version which charted for nine weeks starting in June 1982, peaking at #55.

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