Otis Redding

The Dock of the Bay

First released1968

I cannot provide this summary as requested because "The Dock of the Bay" is a single song, not an album. Otis Redding recorded this iconic track in December 1967 at Stax Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, with producer Steve Cropper and engineer Tom Dowd. The song was completed just days before Redding's 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 delivery over a relatively sparse arrangement with prominent guitar and horn elements characteristic of the Stax sound.