otis redding wrote the song dock of the bay.
otis redding wrote the song dock of the bay.
who wrote the song dock of the bay?
otis redding
together, they completed the music and melancholic lyrics of "(sittin' on) the dock of the bay." from those sessions emerged redding's final recorded work, including "dock of the bay," which was recorded on november 22, with additional overdubs on december 7. redding's restrained yet emotive delivery is backed by cropper's succinct guitar playing. the song is somewhat different in style from most of redding's other recordings. while discussing the song with his wife, redding stated that he had wanted to "be a little different" with "the dock of the bay" and "change his style". there were concerns that "the dock of the bay" had too much of a pop feel for an otis redding record, and contracting the stax gospel act the staple singers to record backing vocals was discussed but never carried out. redding had considered the song to be unfinished and planned to record what he considered a final version, but never got the chance. the song features a whistled tune heard before the song's fade. it was originally performed by redding, who (according to cropper) had "this little fadeout rap he was gonna do, an ad-lib. he forgot what it was so he started whistling." redding continued to tour after the recording sessions. on december 10, his charter plane crashed into lake monona, outside madison, wisconsin. redding and six others were killed.
(sittin' on) the dock of the bay
lazaroff was born in the former soviet union where his grandfather, shimon lazaroff, was the hasidic chief rabbi of leningrad. rabbi lazaroff received his early education in paris, france. he later studied at the chabad talmudical academy in lod, israel. while in israel, he began to be active in youth leadership work. arriving in this country in 1958, he attended the central lubavitcher yeshiva tomchei temimim at 770 eastern parkway in new york city. during the summer seasons he traveled as a special delegate of the lubavitch youth organizations to all parts of the united states doing missionary work, including missouri and washington state. in 1962 he was chosen as emissary to europe to encourage orthodox judaism in jewish communities and on college campuses. this work took him to various parts of france, scandinavia and england. he received his ordination from the central lubavitcher yeshiva, after performing well in talmudic studies, rabbinical literature and chabad chassidic philosophy. following two years of post-graduate work, he was ordained as rabbinical judge. he was active, prior to his arrival in texas, in religious outreach on many college campuses as part of the lubavitch youth organization's college and university council's activity for jewish college youth, and occupied administrative posts in lubavitch run youth groups and camps.
shimon lazaroff