Sold Date: August 7, 2022
Start Date: August 2, 2022
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You are bidding on a Vinyl Stereo issue of Otis Redding’s 1968 album, “The Dock Of The Bay.” This album was originally released in 1968 on Volt Records, (a division of the famous Memphis label, Stax Records).  Back of the album cover indicates “Distributed By Atco Record Sales”. The item for sale is the original release.  (Volt S-419).  Many of Otis’ great songs are included, such as “Dock Of The Bay, “Tramp,” (With Carla Thomas),” and a great cover of Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out ”  This appears to be an original 1968 issue, on the yellow Volt label (See photos)

We purchased this item the decades ago, played it (and enjoyed it!), and it has been sitting in our home (vertically) for the last few decades. 

The LP is in very good condition; but does show some wear and we can see slight markings. Side Two has a small stamp from the record store where this was purchased. There is wear around the LP cover corners, but the LP cover is otherwise in very nice condition. (See photos). Please remember that this album was well taken care of, but it was played as part of our record collection decades ago.  

This item has been stored at room temperature, in a smoke free home.  Please see photos of actual item being sold. 

“Otis Redding:“The Dock Of The Bay”

“The Dock of the Bay” is the first of a number of posthumously released  albums, and his seventh studio album. Many of the tracks featured Booker T & The MG’s as well as a young Isaac Hayes. It contains a number of singles and  dating back to 1965, as well as one of his best known songs, the posthumous hit "". Recording of the album finished just two days before Redding's death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. In 2003, the album was ranked number 161 on  magazine's list of , maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list.

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. Producer/guitarist  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. 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. Dock of the Bay is, indeed, a mixed bag of singles and B-sides going back to July of 1965, one hit duet with , and two, previously unissued tracks from 1966 and 1967. 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. Despite the mix-and-match nature of the album, however, this is an impossible record not to love.  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. No one could complain about the album then, and it still holds more than four decades later.

·        Otis Redding – vocals

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·        Joe Arnold – 

·         - vocals on "Tramp