Sitting at the dock of the bay
No one could complain about the album then, and it still holds more than four decades later. Cropper chose his tracks well, selecting some of the strongest and most unusual among the late singer's orphaned songs: "I Love You More Than Words Can Say" is one of Redding's most passionate performances "Let Me Come on Home" presents an ebullient Redding accompanied by some sharp playing, and "Don't Mess with Cupid" begins with a gorgeous guitar flourish and blooms into an intense, pounding, soaring showcase for singer and band alike. Despite the mix-and-match nature of the album, however, this is an impossible record not to love. Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay Recorded by Sara Bareilles Intro G B C B A Verse 1 G B C B A Sittin in the mornin sun, Ill be sittin til the eve- nin comes G B C B A Watchin the ships roll in, then I watch em roll away a- gain, yeah Chorus G E G E Sittin on the dock of the bay, watchin the tide roll a- way G A G E Just. There's little cohesion, stylistic or otherwise, in the songs, especially when the title track is taken into consideration - nothing else here resembles it, for the obvious reason that Redding never had a chance to follow it up. And this loneliness wont leave me alone Its two thousand miles I roamed Just to make this.
Dock of the Bay is, indeed, a mixed bag of singles and B-sides going back to July of 1965, one hit duet with Carla Thomas, and two, previously unissued tracks from 19. (Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay Sittin here resting my bones. What could have been a cash-in effort or a grim memorial album instead became a vivid, exciting presentation of some key aspects of the talent that was lost when Redding died. Sitting in the morning sun I'll be sitting when the evening comes Watching the ships roll in And I watch 'em roll away again Sitting on the dock of the bay Watching the tide roll away I'm just sitting on the dock of the bay Wasting time I left my home in Georgia Headed for the 'Frisco bay 'Cause I had nothin to live for And look like nothing's. He had completed his famed performance at the Monterey Pop.
Producer/guitarist Steve Cropper had a difficult task to perform in pulling together this album, the first of several posthumous releases issued by Stax/Volt in the wake of Redding's death. Otis Redding (Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay (1967) While on tour with the Bar-Kays in August 1967, Redding wrote the first verse of the song, under the abbreviated title Dock of the Bay, on rock impresario Bill Graham’s houseboat at Waldo Point in Sausalito, California.
It was never supposed to be like this: "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was supposed to mark the beginning of a new phase in Otis Redding's career, not an ending.