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well I shared it with my sister who is a very big Abbey fan, if she treats it like she treats secrets I tell her the whole world will hear it...lol I would just keep sharing it and if I wasn't on facebook I would get on and share it there.
how people don't see thru this POS is beyond me, thx for sharing
very nice star
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Then I Watch 'Em Roll Away Again
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323320404578213633398825300.html?KEYWORDS=otis+redding
By MARC MYERS
On Jan. 8, 1968,Otis Redding's "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" was released on Stax's Volt label. Co-written by Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper, the single reached No. 1 on Billboard's pop chart in March 1968, where it remained for four weeks. Two Grammys followed, along with the song's induction into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998.
[image] Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
FINAL CHORDS: Otis Redding in 1967, the year he died.
Redding never heard the single. On Dec. 10, 1967—just 18 days after the recording session—the 26-year-old singer died in a plane crash in Wisconsin, killing everyone on board except Ben Cauley, the trumpeter in his band.
Mr. Cropper, pianist Booker T. Jones, trumpeter Wayne Jackson and Mr. Cauley recalled how the song was written and recorded, why sounds of surf and gulls were added, and the story behind Redding's famed whistling. Edited from interviews:
Steve Cropper: In the fall of 1967, I was a producer at Stax Records in Memphis and guitarist in Booker T. & the MGs, the label's session band. In November, I was at the studio when Otis Redding called me from the Memphis airport.
Listen to the Song
"(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay"
Usually when Otis came to town, he waited until he checked into the Holiday Inn before calling me to work with him on songs in his room. This time he couldn't wait. He said, "Crop, I've got a hit. I'm coming right over."
When Otis walked in, he said, "Crop, get your gut-tar." I always kept a Gibson B-29 around. He grabbed it, tuned it to an open E-chord, which made the guitar easier to play slide. Then Otis played and sang a verse he had written: Sittin' in the mornin' sun/I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come/Watching the ships roll in/And then I watch 'em roll away again.
I said, "Otis, hold on. If a ship rolls, it will take on water and sink." He said, "That's what I want, Crop." So we let it go and worked on the rest of the song.
Otis told me he had started writing the song while playing in San Francisco. Producer Bill Graham must have let him stay on his houseboat in Sausalito, because Neil Young told me he had stayed on the boat right after Otis had left to come back East.
When Otis and I finished writing the rest of the song's music and lyrics, I arranged the song and we scheduled studio time. On the date, I was on acoustic guitar, [Donald] Duck Dunn on bass, Al Jackson on drums, Booker on piano, Wayne Jackson on trumpet and two other horns.
Guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. & the MGs, who co-wrote 'Dock of the Bay,' in 1968.
Booker T. Jones: I played piano instead of organ on most of Otis's songs. The keyboard supported his voice without getting in his way. "Dock of the Bay" was beautifully simplistic—all major chords.
For some reason, the piano had been moved across the studio—so that the horns were on my right instead of across from me and Otis was to my left. Usually I saw him behind a partition but on this date I was next to him, which made it easier for him to hear me.
Wayne Jackson: We rehearsed the horns with Booker. We always played a chord, with each of us taking a different note. What we put across behind Otis was simple and funky—like a call and response in church.
Mr. Cropper: Otis always liked to ad-lib at the end of songs, so I added in about 10 measures of instrumental background for him to do so. But when the time came, Otis couldn't think of anything and started whistling, which, of course, made the song.
Mr. Jones: Otis's lyrics touched me—about leaving home and watching the bay, trying to figure things out as everyone's pulling at you. My notes on the piano fed into that. I wanted to capture a maritime feel—the sound of a boat on the Mississippi River, and the sounds of gospel and New Orleans. I put those flourishes around Otis's voice.
Mr. Cropper: On Friday, Dec. 8, Otis stuck his head in the studio before leaving to play a series of regional concerts and said, "See ya on Monday." After he left, I overdubbed the electric guitar fills on a Telecaster with two pickups and a little Fender Harvard amp. I was trying to imitate the sound of gulls. Otis had been fooling around in the studio before the session by cawing like the sea birds up in Sausalito.
The next day, me, Booker, Duck [Dunn], Al [Jackson] and our singer, Dave Porter, flew up to Indiana State to play a concert. On Sunday, we flew on a puddle jumper to Indianapolis to catch our connecting flight to Memphis. The whole north was icy, and we arrived in Indianapolis late, missing our connection.
David went to call his wife, to tell her we were going to be late. When he came back, he looked like a ghost. His wife had told him that Otis had died in a plane crash. We couldn't believe it.
Mr. Cauley: I was sitting behind Otis on the plane—back to back, next to the door. I fell asleep and the next thing I knew the pilot was telling us he was having trouble. The plane hit the water and I managed to get out and hold on to a seat cushion. I didn't know how to swim and one of my shoes had come off. It was so cold. About 20 minutes later a boat came and pulled me out. I was in shock. Everyone else was gone.
Mr. Cropper: Back at Stax on Monday, Atlantic Records' producer Jerry Wexler called. Atlantic handled Stax's distribution. Jerry said we had to get an Otis single out right away. I said, "Jerry, we just lost Otis. We don't have anything mixed yet, and I can't even think about it." Jerry insisted.
So early on Tuesday morning I began mixing "Dock of the Bay" alone. I wanted to enhance the bay image, sort of like a secret message to Otis. I called a local friend for sound effects of the sea and gulls and added them lightly in places.
When I finished the mix the next morning, I took the master tape to the Memphis airport and handed the box to an attendant flying up to New York. She was met in New York by an Atlantic rep, and the label made a test pressing for Jerry.
But Jerry had a problem with it. He wanted Otis's vocal to be louder and wanted me to remix the tape. I felt it was perfect and didn't want to touch it. Then I had an idea. The tape Jerry had was a stereo mix—with the bass and guitar coming out of the left speaker and the drums and vocal track on the right.
By turning the stereo mix into a mono mix—having the same audio information come out of both speakers—the vocal would come up two decibels. So that's what I did, but I never thought I'd fool Jerry. He loved what I sent, and that's what you hear on the single.
Years later, I was in Sausalito on tour and found myself at a place by the bay having a hamburger. I was watching the water when my eye caught something. The ferries crossing from San Francisco turned a little as they came in, creating a rolling wave to cushion their arrival at the pier. That's when it hit me. Otis had been watching the ferries roll in.
A version of this article appeared January 4, 2013, on page D7 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Then I Watch 'Em Roll Away Again.
Joe Tex - I Gotcha
good to see ya, nice little time capsule we've steeped into here tonight..The big O was an enormous talent and taken way to soon. If he'd have lived one more day I would have seen him live.
“I started singing rhythmically, and now I’m learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it” - Janis Joplin
Carl Sims - It Ain't A Juke Joint Without The Blues (Official Music Video)
GQ Magazine listed Otis among the most fashionable in an article entitled “Birth of the Cool: 20 Black Style Pioneers”.
http://www.gq.com/how-to/fashion/201002/black-history-month-black-style-pioneers#slide=15
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ENRICO FERRARESI Barbara Carr COME TO MAMA2.avi ... this just may be my fave youtube vid
BARBARA CARR & CHUCK STRONG-when something is wrong with my baby
great to see ya Gary, time capsule song. takes me back
Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On
Macy Gray - I Try
sweet, thx for sharin
Jessica Mauboy Gotcha
Carla Thomas "B-A-B-Y" 1966 My Extended Version!
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These Arms Of Mine Otis Redding (***Lyrics Included***) .:oldies:.
agree, I would just add...best board on the WEB
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clink...cheers....There Stands The Glass...VAN MORRISON....
gotta love Buddy Miles
spot on wildbilly, I was just looking thru my old posts from back when I 1st discovered this board "05", imediatly it was like I was a family member. I was like a kid in a candy store and what a pest with my requests, but it was like the more requests the merrier. I do remember Drummer telling me once that Missy would have to help me with one because his computer was stuck on oldies and he didn't think it would be unstuck for a couple days.
he obviously knew you well, you are the EF Hutton of hot grooves....loved it
Jessica has a song for ya OD....
wow! that is so cool
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Stand By Me | Playing For Change | Song Around the World
I know your with us today OD, not many days go by that I don't think about you. I thank you for being a most excellent friend. Sure is great that there are all these cool ppl to load these great songs in your memory....really miss ya.
this drummer really makes me chuckle...lol....
THE SAPPHIRES - clip: What a man! .... great movie!
Jessica Mauboy....Gotcha