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Otis Redding Dock Of The Bay Sessions Beschreibung Details
Am 16. März 1968 feiert einer der unsterblichen Soul-Songs der Musikgeschichte ein rundes Jubiläum: Vor 50 Jahren eroberte Otis Redding mit »(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay« Platz 1 der amerikanischen Pop- und R&B-Charts. Es war zugleich der erste Nummer-1-Hit des Kind of Soul, den er tragischerweise jedoch nicht mehr persönlich miterleben durfte, denn Otis Redding kam bekanntlich am 10. Dezember 1967 bei einem Flugzeugunglück ums Leben.
Seine Vision für das nächste Album blieb daher unvollendet – Redding arbeitete zum Zeitpunkt seines Flugzeugunglückes bereits an neuen Songs, auf denen er unterschiedliche musikalische Einflüsse erkundete. Obwohl man nie definitiv wissen wird, wie sein nächstes Album geklungen hätte, zeigen die nun erscheinenden »Dock Of The Bay Sessions« zum ersten Mal, wie sie hätte werden können.
English:
All tracks are mono except for "Think About It" and "Champagne and Wine"! Otis Redding was on top of the world in 1967, highlighted by a career-defining performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Returning to Memphis that autumn, Redding began to explore different musical influences when he entered the studio to record his next album. Tragically, those sessions were cut short after only a few weeks when the singer died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967, leaving his vision for the album unrealised. While there will never be a definitive idea of what Redding's next album would have been, this new collection is the first to show what could have been.
"Dock Of The Bay Sessions" was compiled with input from Roger Armstrong of Ace Records and Otis biographer Jonathan Gould and has the Redding family's full endorsement. Although the individual tracks have been previously released across a smattering of posthumous albums and compilations, this marks the first time they have been assembled to resemble what this album could possibly have been.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the album's opening track "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay," one of the last songs Redding ever recorded. Released in January 1968, it soon topped the charts in March 16th in the US becoming the first posthumous #1 single in the history of the U.S. music charts. It also reached number 3 in the UK, and went on to sell more than four million copies worldwide.