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  • “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” (Otis Redding Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions

    Saturday, September 11th, 2010

    Originally posted 2008-05-01 22:59:56.

    By Chris Moore:

    Welcome to my second installment for Number One’s Week here at http://LaptopSessions.com ! I’m proud to bring you an artist that I haven’t covered before — Otis Redding. This is truly a classic song that deserved to be a true #1 — “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay.” It’s such a simple song with really basic chords and fairly basic lyrics, but there’s just so much emotion in them. I could never duplicate the sound that Redding put into his studio recording (especially considering that he used a piano instead of an acoustic guitar…), but I really enjoyed recording this session. It was probably the most fun I’ve had recording in weeks; I spent about ten minutes playing along to the real version, and then I hit record and finished in a couple takes.

    Once again, I hope you enjoy it. There’s a special “first” for me at the end of the video; regular viewers of the Laptop Sessions will pick up on it…

    On a side note, speaking of simple but great music, I’ve been listening to the new Mudcrutch album non-stop since Tuesday, and I’m enjoying it a little more each time. It’s so cool to see not only Tom Petty, but also Benmont Tench and Tom Leadon with lead vocals on a few tracks. As a big Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers fan, it’s also cool to have a Campbell/Petty collaboration — it only takes one listen to “Bootleg Flyer” to figure out who wrote that one! My review will be coming soon, but I just wanted to spread the good news — there is good new music out there! (You just need to wait patiently and watch closely for it…)

    Once again, thanks for watching — I hope you’ll comment and/or rate this video. And don’t forget to tune in tomorrow for an all-new session from Jeff!

    See you next session!

    Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
    Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 7″:

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Otis Redding Acoustic Rock Cover Songs and Free mp3 Downloads

Otis Redding’s claim to fame is a sad story, more so for the events surrounding the release and success of his highest charting recording than for his new music itself. Born in 1941 in Virginia, Redding’s career was perhaps most notable for his songwriting – at the time that he was recording, and particularly for a black man, it was unusual for an artist to also be a songwriter. Of course, Redding’s most popular song was “(Sittin’ On ) The Dock of the Bay” and was recorded only three days before he died in a plane crash. Interestingly, the version that we know ends with the classic whistling on the fade-out. However, the real reason that Redding whistled was that he hadn’t written this final verse yet. “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, was Redding’s biggest song, and he didn’t live to see it. The songwriters of the Laptop Sessions have helped to further immortalize this great music artist’s original new music by recording an acoustic cover song of his most famous single for the free videos music blog hosted at http://LaptopSessions.com.


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