Otis Redding

The Dock of the Bay

First released1968

I cannot provide this summary because "The Dock of the Bay" is a single song, not an album. It was recorded by Otis Redding in December 1967 at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee, with producer Steve Cropper and engineer Terry Manning. The song was completed just days before Redding's tragic death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967, and was released posthumously in January 1968, becoming his only number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The recording featured Redding's distinctive vocal performance accompanied by strings and the iconic whistle outro, which became one of the most recognizable elements in soul music history.