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Otis Redding’s Dock of the Bay became the first posthumous chart-topper in the U.S. The song was released just weeks after he was buried in Georgia, so it was widely heard as his epitaph. Otis Redding died when on tour in December 1967, he and his band flew to their next concert in Wisconsin amid terrible weather despite warnings from the likes of James Brown, and the plane along with his body was discovered the next day in Lake Monona on December 10, 1967. Redding made his Official UK Singles Chart debut in 1965 with My Girl, and built up a string of hits with the likes of Tramp, Try A Little Tenderness, Hard to Handle and his biggest song (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay. Otis Redding’s song lyrics are brought to the page with illustrations by Rachel Moss. Otis Redding, you’ve played a big part in my life and your memory will be tattooed on the back of my mind and you will be one of the many people I will. Redding died just three days after re-recording '(Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay,' and was survived by Zelma and four children, Otis III, Dexter, Demetria, and Karla. I was in a bar one night and a lady asked me to dance, and I told her not to this song. Redding soon started playing with local bands and came to the attention of Atlantic Records, who signed Otis and sent him to record at the legendary Stax studios in Memphis, recording, among others, his breakout song These Arms of Mine. Otis was sitting on the dock, I am sitting here in my room as I am just waiting for time to go by. Redding started his music career singing in gospel choirs around the Georgian state of Macon, and by the age of ten he’d begun having drumming and singing lessons. Otis Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia on Septemand was an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Sittin in the mornin sun Ill be sittin when the evenin come Watching the ships roll in And then I watch em roll away again, yeahIm sittin on the dock.