“The thing is, Otis wasn’t that good a whistler, and Ronnie Capone, the engineer, told him so,” Cropper recalls. Given the singular mood and tempo, Redding had trouble ad-libbing one of his habitual raps at the end. We’d listen to it over and over, and we all kind of knew it was a hit.”Ī distinctive moment comes not long before the fade-out. The Dock Of The Bay was in the can, and after each recording session we didn’t have anything better, so we’d get that one out and listen to it again. Because Otis wasn’t on tour at that time, we had him in the studio for at least a week or more.
We just thought that maybe this was the one. “It was medium tempo, but it wasn’t a dance song and it wasn’t a ballad either. "It was a crossover for Otis,” Cropper says.
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