(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

While on tour with the Bar-Kays in August 1967, Redding had grown in popularity and was inundated with fans at his hotel in San Francisco. Rock concert impresario Bill Graham offered him a respite, staying at his houseboat at Waldo Point Harbor in Sausalito, California. It was there where Redding started writing the lines, "Sittin' in the morning sun, I'll be sittin' when the evening comes" and the song's first verse, under the abbreviated title "Dock of the Bay."Bowman, Rob (2007). Liner Notes for Dreams to Remember: The Otis Redding Story [DVD]. Beverly Hills, CA: Reelin' in the Years Productions/Concord Music Group.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/sausalito-otis-redding-dock-of-the-bay-houseboats-16226061.php |title=I found the Bay Area dock where Otis Redding wrote his final song|work=SFGate|date=June 6, 2021 |access-date=November 28, 2022}}{{cite magazine |last1=Miller |first1=Stuart |title=Inside Otis Redding's Final Masterpiece '(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inside-otis-reddings-final-masterpiece-sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-122170/ |access-date=31 May 2021 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=10 December 2017 |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901103348/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/inside-otis-reddings-final-masterpiece-sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-122170/ |url-status=live }}

He had completed his famed performance at the Monterey Pop Festival just weeks earlier. While touring in support of the albums King & Queen (a collaboration with vocalist Carla Thomas) and Live in Europe, he continued writing lines for the song on napkins and hotel paper. That November, he joined Cropper at the Stax recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where they completed and recorded it.{{Cite news |last=Booth |first=Stanley |date=February 8, 1969 |title=The rebirth of the blues: Soul |url=https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/flipbooks/issues/19690208/ |work=The Saturday Evening Post |pages=60 |access-date=August 29, 2024 |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901103422/https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/subscribe-to-issue/?issue=19690208 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1496 |title=Dock of the Bay origin/meaning |website=songfacts.com |date=June 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611064708/http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1496 |archive-date=June 11, 2007 |url-status=live}}

In a September 1990 interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Cropper said:

{{blockquote|text=Otis was one of those [guys] who had 100 ideas. [...] He had been in San Francisco doing The Fillmore. And the story that I got, he was renting a boathouse, or stayed at a boathouse or something, and that's where he got the idea of the ships coming in the bay there. And that's about all he had: "I watch the ships come in and I watch them roll away again." I just took that... and I finished the lyrics. If you listen to the songs I collaborated on with Otis, most of the lyrics are about him. [...] Otis didn't really write about himself but I did. Songs like "Mr. Pitiful," "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)"; they were about Otis and Otis' life. "Dock of the Bay" was exactly that: "I left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay" was all about him going out to San Francisco to perform.{{cite interview|first=Steve|last=Cropper|subject-link=Steve Cropper|interviewer=Terry Gross|title=Guitarist, songwriter and producer Steve Cropper|url=https://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=1273242&m=1273243|work=Fresh Air|via=WHYY-FM|publisher=NPR|date=September 18, 1990|access-date=June 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304213011/http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=1273242&m=1273243|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}}}

From those sessions emerged Redding's final recorded work, including "Dock of the Bay," which was recorded on November 22, with additional overdubs on December 7. Redding's restrained yet emotive delivery is backed by Cropper's succinct guitar playing.{{cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/artist/otis-redding-p5246/biography|publisher=Rovi Corporation|work=AllMusic|title=Otis Redding – Biography|author=Richie Unterberger|author-link=Richie Unterberger|access-date=February 25, 2012|archive-date=May 3, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503214702/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/otis-redding-p5246/biography|url-status=live}} The song is somewhat different in style from most of Redding's recordings. While discussing it with his wife, Redding said that he wanted it to "be a little different", to "change his style". There were concerns that the song had too much of a pop feel. There were discussions of contracting the Stax gospel act the Staple Singers to record backing vocals, but this was never carried out. Redding considered the song unfinished, and planned to record what he considered a final version, but never got the chance.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LPgNRyfXF4gC&q=sittin+on+the+dock+of+bay+unfinished&pg=PA72|title=Black History: More Than Just a Month|first=Mike|last=Henry|date=January 1, 2013|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781475802610|via=Google Books|access-date=October 15, 2020|archive-date=September 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901103348/https://books.google.com/books?id=LPgNRyfXF4gC&q=sittin+on+the+dock+of+bay+unfinished&pg=PA72#v=snippet&q=sittin%20on%20the%20dock%20of%20bay%20unfinished&f=false|url-status=live}}

The song features a whistled melody heard before it fades out; it is unclear who performed it. Some sources claim Sam Taylor, a guitarist/bandleader for Redding during the 1960s, overdubbed Redding's original, weaker whistle.{{Cite web|last1=Specktor|first1=Brandon|date=March 12, 2018|title=17 Great Songs That Were Nearly Ruined By Their Original Lyrics|url=https://www.rd.com/list/changed-lyrics-rock-songs/|access-date=2021-05-30|website=Reader's Digest|language=en-US|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214549/https://www.rd.com/list/changed-lyrics-rock-songs/|url-status=live}} Cropper, however, insists that Redding's original whistle was used.

Redding continued touring after the sessions.

After Redding's death, Cropper mixed "Dock of the Bay" at Stax Studios. He added the sound of seagulls and crashing waves, as Redding had requested, recalling the sounds he had heard staying on the houseboat.{{sfn|Sullivan|2013|p=116}}

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• Otis Redding – vocals
• Booker T. Jones – keyboards
• Steve Cropper – guitar
• Donald Dunn – bass guitar
• Al Jackson Jr. – drums
• Wayne Jackson – trumpet, trombone
• Andrew Love – saxophone

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Phil Walden and Jim Stewart were among those who had doubts about the song, the sound, and the production. Redding accepted some of the criticisms and fine-tuned the song. He reversed the opening, which was Redding's whistling part, and put it at the end as suggested.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} "The Dock of the Bay" was released early in 1968 and topped the charts in the US and UK. Billboard ranked the record as the number 4 song for 1968.

"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was released in January 1968, shortly after Redding's death. R&B stations quickly added the song to their playlists, which had been saturated with Redding's previous hits. The song shot to #1 on the R&B charts in early 1968 and, starting in March, topped the pop charts for four weeks.{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942–2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=486}} The album, which shared the song's title, became his largest-selling to date, peaking at #4 on the pop album chart.{{cite web|url=http://allmusic.com/artist/otis-redding-p5246/charts-awards|publisher=Rovi Corporation|work=AllMusic|title=Otis Redding – Charts & Awards|access-date=February 25, 2012|archive-date=December 11, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101211040337/http://allmusic.com/artist/otis-redding-p5246/charts-awards|url-status=live}} "Dock of the Bay" was popular in countries across the world and became Redding's most successful song, selling more than four million copies worldwide.{{sfn|Otfinoski|2003|p=194}}{{cite web|url=http://otisredding.com/bio/honors/|publisher=Otis Redding Official Website|access-date=October 13, 2011|title=Honors|archive-url=https://archive.today/20110111070217/http://otisredding.com/bio/honors/|archive-date=January 11, 2011|url-status=dead}}

In 1969, it won two Grammy Awards: Best R&B Song and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance.{{cite web|url=http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=&year=1968&genre=All|title=1968 Grammy Award Winners|publisher=Grammy.com|access-date=May 1, 2011|archive-date=May 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511195922/http://www.grammy.com/nominees/search?artist=&title=&year=1968&genre=All|url-status=live}} In 1998 the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.{{cite web | url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#s | title=Grammy Hall of Fame Award | access-date=2024-02-11 | archive-date=December 19, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219195004/https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#s | url-status=live }}

Redding's body of work at the time of his death was immense, including a backlog of archived recordings as well as those created in November and December 1967, just before his death. In mid-1968, Stax Records severed its distribution contract with Atlantic Records, which retained the label's back catalog and the rights to the unreleased Otis Redding masters.{{sfn|Bowman|1997|pp=138-142}} Through its Atco subsidiary (Atco had distributed Otis Redding's releases from Stax's Volt label), Atlantic issued three more albums of new Redding material, one live album, and eight singles between 1968 and 1970.{{sfn|Bowman|1997|pp=138-142}} Reprise Records issued a live album featuring Redding and Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival. Both studio albums and anthologies sold well in America and abroad. Redding was especially successful in the United Kingdom, where The Dock of the Bay went to number one, becoming the first posthumous album to reach the top spot there.{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19680616/7502/|title=1968 Top 40 Official UK Albums Archive 22nd June 1968|year=2010|publisher=Official Charts Company|location=London|access-date=October 19, 2011|archive-date=June 17, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617010335/http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/19680616/7502/|url-status=live}}

In 1999, BMI named the song as the sixth-most performed song of the twentieth century, with about six million performances.[http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/232893 "BMI Announces Top 100 Songs of the Century".] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130118073645/http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/232893 |date=January 18, 2013 }} at BMI.com. December 13, 1999. Retrieved February 25, 2012. Rolling Stone ranked The Dock of the Bay number 161 on its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, the third of five Redding albums on the list. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was ranked twenty-sixth on Rolling Stone{{'}}s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, the second-highest of four Redding songs on the list, after "Respect" (in this case the version recorded by Aretha Franklin).{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/11028260/the_rs_500_greatest_songs_of_all_time/1 |title=The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time |publisher=RollingStone.com |access-date=June 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516110704/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/11028260/the_rs_500_greatest_songs_of_all_time/1 |archive-date=May 16, 2007 |url-status=dead }}

Jim Morrison made reference to "Dock of the Bay" in the Doors' song "Runnin' Blue", written by Robby Krieger, from their 1969 album The Soft Parade.{{cite news |title=Two Discs Extol Warmth of Home |last=Testa |first=Bart |page=37 |newspaper=The Morning Call |date=October 23, 1969 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38559320/call_23oct69_p37/ |access-date=November 6, 2019 |via=newspapers.com |archive-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106214311/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/38559320/call_23oct69_p37/ |url-status=live }} Morrison sings an a capella intro for the song, singing directly about Otis Redding. "Poor Otis dead and gone, left me here to sing his song, pretty little girl with a red dress on, poor Otis dead and gone." During the verse, the lyrics "Got to find a dock and a bay" are heard more than once, as well as several other references to Redding's song.

In 2013, Redding's son Otis Redding III performed the song at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Brannan Street Wharf on the Embarcadero in San Francisco's South Beach neighborhood. The song's lyrics are emblazoned there on a plaque,{{cite web |url=https://www.baycrossings.com/brannan-street-wharf-now-open-to-the-public/ |title=Brannan Street Wharf Now Open to the Public |date=August 2013 |access-date=November 28, 2022 |archive-date=November 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221130171356/https://www.baycrossings.com/brannan-street-wharf-now-open-to-the-public/ |url-status=live }} leading some to believe Redding wrote the song there (especially as the lyrics reference the “Frisco Bay”). It was actually written ten miles farther north, in Sausalito, as Redding watched “the ships come in” on Richardson Bay.

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| album = The Hunger

| B-side = Call My Name

| released = 1987

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• Keith Diamond
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Michael Bolton included the song on his 1987 album The Hunger. His version peaked number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 12 on the Album Rock Tracks chart.Joel Whitburn. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955–2002. Record Research, 2004. The version also peaked number three in Australia, number five in Norway, and number eight in New Zealand.

Zelma Redding, Otis's widow, said she was so moved by Bolton's performance "that it brought tears to my eyes. It reminded me so much of my husband that I know if he heard it, he would feel the same."{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b7sDAAAAMBAJ&q=The+Dock+of+the+Bay+bolton+zelma+redding&pg=PA64|title=People Are Talking About . . .|date=January 18, 1988|publisher=Jet|access-date=September 19, 2015|archive-date=September 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901103412/https://books.google.com/books?id=b7sDAAAAMBAJ&q=The+Dock+of+the+Bay+bolton+zelma+redding&pg=PA64#v=snippet&q=The%20Dock%20of%20the%20Bay%20bolton%20zelma%20redding&f=false|url-status=live}} In a framed letter that hangs on the wall of Bolton's office, she referred to the record as "my all-time favorite version of my husband's classic."{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P5wJFtHCjIIC&q=The+Dock+of+the+Bay+bolton+zelma+redding&pg=PA122|title=Michael Bolton: 'How Black Music Changed My Life'|date=December 1995|publisher=Ebony|access-date=September 19, 2015|archive-date=September 1, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901103400/https://books.google.com/books?id=P5wJFtHCjIIC&q=The+Dock+of+the+Bay+bolton+zelma+redding&pg=PA122#v=snippet&q=The%20Dock%20of%20the%20Bay%20bolton%20zelma%20redding&f=false|url-status=live}}

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| type = single

| artist = Sammy Hagar

| B-side = I've Done Everything for You

| released = 1979

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| length = 3:03

| label = Capitol

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| producer = Carter

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| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = Plain Jane

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Several other versions of the song have charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. King Curtis' version charted for five weeks starting in March 1968 and peaked at #84 (the same month, the original was #1).

Glen Campbell released a version of the song on his 1968 album Wichita Lineman.

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66's version charted for five weeks starting in June 1969, peaking at #66.

Also in 1969 Nino Tempo and April Stevens recorded 'Sea Of Love/(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay' which played upon the similarity of the chords (And the subject matter) of the two songs. Bell Records – BLL 1087

Canadian singer Michel Pagliaro reached #70 on the Canadian charts with his version in 1977.{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.5274b.pdf|title=RPM Top 100 Singles - April 2, 1977|access-date=October 13, 2023|archive-date=November 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120095411/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.5274b.pdf|url-status=live}}

Sammy Hagar released a version of the song as a non-album single in 1979. His version features the song's co-writer, Steve Cropper, on guitar and members of the band Boston—Brad Delp, Sib Hashian and Barry Goudreau—on backup vocals.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AxwO8nc74hgC&pg=PT120 |page=77 |last1=Hagar |first1=Sammy |author-link1=Sammy Hagar |last2=Selvin |first2=Joel |author-link2=Joel Selvin |title=Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-06-200928-9}} Music critic Thor Christensen in 1994 listed it as one of the "five worst song remakes".{{cite news |first=Thor |last=Christensen |date=July 18, 1993 |url-access=registration |title=Christensen's picks |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/333625900 |work=Milwaukee Journal |issn=1052-4452 |page=E8 |id={{ProQuest|333625900}} |via=ProQuest |access-date=June 20, 2022 |archive-date=September 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240901103358/https://www.proquest.com/docview/333625900 |url-status=live }} It charted for five weeks starting in April 1979, peaking at #65, and #66 in Canada.{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4776b.pdf|title=RPM Top 100 Singles - May 12, 1979|access-date=October 13, 2023|archive-date=December 26, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231226160336/https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4776b.pdf|url-status=live}}

The Reddings, who included two of Otis Redding's sons, released a version which charted for nine weeks starting in June 1982, peaking at #55.

The song is also regularly played by American singer Sara Bareilles.{{cite web|url=https://www.setlist.fm/stats/songs/sara-bareilles-2bd6bc52.html?songid=3d19de7|title=(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay performed by Sara Bareilles|website=setlist.fm |access-date=March 19, 2025}} The song appeared in two of her live albums: Between the Lines: Sara Bareilles Live at the Fillmore (released in 2008) and Brave Enough: Live at the Variety Playhouse (released in 2013).

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• [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-otis-reddings-sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-w511338 Inside Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"]
• {{YouTube|Zu5chXCp1Ag|Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay}}

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