Now I’m just gon’ sit, at the dock of the bay So I’m just gon’ sitt on the dock of the bayĪnd this loneliness won’t leave me alone, listen “(Sitting on) The Dock of the Bay” was released on Stax Records’ Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous single to top the charts in the US. It sure is a cool melody to go out with.” Cropper said in an article, “Hey man, that’s great, leave that in there. It wasn’t planned, but when Redding started whistling at the end of the song, Cropper and Stax engineer Ronnie Capone heard it and knew it had to stay. The end of the song contains perhaps the most famous whistling in music history. He added the sound of seagulls and waves crashing to the background, as Redding had requested, recalling the sounds he heard when he was staying on the houseboat. After Redding’s death, Cropper mixed “Dock of the Bay” at Stax Studios. Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967, a month before this song was released (January 8, 1968) and three days after he recorded it. He started writing the lyrics to the song while sitting on that rented houseboat in Sausalito, and completed the lyrics with the help of Cropper, the guitarist for Booker T. Redding liked the outdoors, so he chose the boathouse. Redding played three shows there in December 1966 and Graham gave Redding a choice: he could stay at a hotel, or at a boathouse in nearby Sausalito. Redding ended up sitting on a dock on the San Francisco Bay thanks to Bill Graham, who ran the Fillmore West Auditorium. The song was co-written by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper.
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