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Song · 1968 · R&B

(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay

1968

★ 8.8 editorial score

Redding cut the vocal three days before the plane crash, and Cropper finished it into the first posthumous American number one.

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The Dock of the Bay

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Genre

Subject

Loneliness Restlessness

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