One for the ages, and the first-ever posthumous #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Otis Redding recorded some overdubs for this three days before he died in a December ‘67 plane crash along with most of the Bar-Kays, his backing band. Producer and co-writer Steve Cropper left in the whistling, which Otis had planned on erasing to tack on a spoken ending. Redding came up with the song idea while on a houseboat in Sausalito, CA, overlooking San Francisco Bay.
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