![]() ![]() ![]() We were cutting on 4-track in those days - we had moved up from mono and stereo and up to big ol' 4-tracks, so we had a lot of tracks to work with. I ran that as I mixed the record - I would bring them up and down in the holds. I got the seagulls and the waves and I made a little tape loop on a two-track machine. I went over to the soundtrack library at Pepper Records - a jingle company - and I got one of their sound effect records. Steve Cropper explained why: "I played acoustic guitar on the session and there are some outtakes on the record where you can hear Otis clowning around with seagulls - he was always kind of a funny jokester in the studio and he was going 'caw, caw, caw.' That was where I got the idea of getting the seagull sounds. ![]() 'Dock Of The Bay' was exactly that: 'I left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay' was all about him going out to San Francisco to perform."īeach sound effects (waves, seagulls, etc.), were dubbed in after the recording. Pitiful,' 'Sad Song Fa-Fa,' they were about Otis' life. He didn't usually write about himself, but I did. If you listen to the songs I wrote with Otis, most of the lyrics are about him. That's about all he had: 'I watch the ships come in and I watch them roll away again.' I took that and finished the lyrics. He had been at San Francisco playing The Fillmore, and he was staying at a boathouse (in Sausalito, across the bay from San Francisco), which is where he got the idea of the ship coming in. Anytime he came in to record he always had 10 or 15 different intros or titles, or whatever. In a 1990 interview on NPR's Fresh Air, Cropper explained: "Otis was one of those kind of guys who had 100 ideas. Cropper produced the album when Redding died, including this track with various songs Redding had recorded the last few years. Stax guitarist Steve Cropper wrote this with Redding. ![]()
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