With lyrics by Otis Redding and Steve Cropper and illustrations by Kaitlyn Shea O’Connor, this picture book imagines a lonesome cat fishing off a dock and hoping the fish will bite soon. The song was one of the last Redding recorded, and ranked number four on Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 chart, going on to win two GRAMMYs and be certified triple-platinum. (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay is a charming picture book set to one of the King of Soul’s™ greatest hits. Then I’ll watch ’em roll away again, yeah. (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay is the latest from LyricPop, a children’s picture book collection by LyricVerse and Akashic Books. Included in Publishers Weekly‘s Spring 2021 Children’s Sneak Previews Included in Publishers Weekly‘s Spring 2021 Children’s Announcements! A great summer-day song with such cheerful art makes it easy to recommend this.” In 1998, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay” entered the Grammy Hall of Fame.īuy or stream “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay” on the 3-CD Soulsville USA compilation.“This amiable story can be taken at face value about the power of kindness, or can offer children an introduction to music as well as songwriting. It was the first time that a posthumous single had gone to the top of either chart. The song climbed to No.1 on the pop chart in March, for a four-week reign, also topping the R&B listings for three of them. It entered the Hot 100 on January 27, at No.67 and was in the Top 30 just two weeks later. Redding’s best showing in that market was the No.25 peak, in late January 1967, of another of his signature songs, “Try A Little Tenderness.” But “Dock Of The Bay” was different. Listen to the Stax Classics playlist on Apple Music or Spotify.īut for all that success, and 21 R&B chart entries, none of them had fully crossed over to the pop market. June 1967 had brought Otis’ famous performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, and his R&B hits that year included “Shake” and his duets with Carla Thomas, “Tramp” and “Knock On Wood.” Aretha Franklin took his song “Respect” to No.1, both pop and R&B, and 1967 was also the year in which Otis was named in UK pop weekly Melody Maker’s annual readers’ poll as world’s best male vocalist, ending Elvis Presley’s eight-year ownership of that title. Perhaps he was reflecting on the memorable year he’d experienced. The daydreaming mood of the lyric was based in truth, as Redding had started writing “Dock Of The Bay” when he was in California, sitting on a rented houseboat in Sausalito.
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