<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by soul singer Otis Redding and guitarist Steve Cropper . It was recorded by Redding twice in 1967, including once just days before his death in a plane crash . The song was released on Stax Records' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US . It reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart . </P> <P> Redding started writing the lyrics to the song in August 1967, while sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito, California . He completed the song with the help of Cropper, who was a Stax producer and the guitarist for Booker T. & the M.G.'s . The song features whistling and sounds of waves crashing on a shore . </P> <P> While on tour with the Bar - Kays in August 1967, Redding wrote the first verse of the song, under the abbreviated title "Dock of the Bay," on a houseboat at Waldo Point in Sausalito, California . 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 female vocalist Carla Thomas) and Live in Europe, he continued to scribble lines of the song on napkins and hotel paper . In November of that year, he joined producer and guitarist Steve Cropper at the Stax recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, to record the song . </P>

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