Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay 45 Years

Today (January 8, 2013) is the 45th anniversary of the 1968 date that Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” was released.

He’d died a month earlier, when the plane he was flying in to a performance in Madison, Wisconsin, crashed into a frozen lake.

Months earlier, in the summer of 1967, Otis had wowed ’em at the Monterey Pop Festival, which exposed his undiluted soul sound to a new audience.

As they say in the parlance, Otis was fixing to blow up — to reach an unprecedented level of popularity — when he died.

Or was he? Unless your ear is in your foot — or another part of your anatomy — you can hear the unmistakable genius of Otis. MORE HERE

CBS This Morning profiled the hit, and showed how his music still lives on with his family. HERE