Monday, May 28, 2018

“The Happy Song (Dum-Dum-De-De-De-Dum-Dum)” #25 5/25/1968

The followup to “(Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay” for the late Otis Redding. After his untimely death, Redding’s catalog of unreleased music was part of a legal tug-of-war between Stax Records and the much larger Atlantic label over ownership of Stax’s master recordings. Atlantic eventually won out, and even though Stax still had acts like Isaac Hayes and the Staple Singers, they went bankrupt in 1975.


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