The blues have always been a nostalgic genre, but the singer expects to fight back tears more than usual when she covers the Otis Redding classic, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” at what ...

Booth’s story describes the musicians “sitting on folding chairs ... know where that story came from,” he says. While “Dock of the Bay” is now hailed as an influential classic ...

“Dock of the Bay” was based on a few thoughts and lines Redding came up with during some time he spent sitting and watching the ocean in California. He took these ideas back to ...

Redding was a huge fan of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and hoped that “Dock Of The Bay” would be seen as fitting in with the mood of that album. It certainly displays a ...

Redding was a huge fan of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and hoped that “Dock Of The Bay” would be seen as fitting in with the mood of that album. It certainly displays a ...

From 2020. Show more Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay was written whilst Otis Redding was reflecting on his life on Sausalito Bay, California, in the summer of 1967. Its upbeat, laidback melody ...