BB King: “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”
- In which year did Jimmy Hendricks die?
- In which year did Cream disband?
- In 1964 who joined the R&B band 'Them' as a vocalist?
- What was Otis Redding's first, and only, number one pop hit?
- How did the King of Soul, Sam Cook, die in 1964?
- What was William 'Smokey' Robinson's group called?
- Which two black-owned record labels debut in 1959?
- In which year did the Beach Boys go "Surfin' "?
- Phil Spector sang on American Bandstand in 1958 with which group?
- Which film in 1955 shot 'Rock Around the Clock' to the top of the pop charts?
- What was the name of Hank Ballard's band?
- In 1953, what was the first white rock and roll hit?
- Who was the bandleader, songwriter and producer behind Fats Domino's hits?
- Who introduced rocking black rhythm to country and western with 'Hillbilly Boogie' in 1945?
- After Metalica, which band did Dave Mustain start?
- Who was the guitarist with the Heartbreakers?
- Under what name did Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell and Billy Ficca record their demos?
- What was Sly Stone's group called?
- What was George Clinton of P-Funk also known as?
- In its formal debut in 1965, who was Velvet Underground's drummer?
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| Otis Redding |
Otis Redding composed and recorded his famous song "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" with Steve Cropper just before his death in an aircraft accident.
The album The Dock of the Bay was the first posthumous album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart, and the single became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts.
Redding recorded a number of songs in late 1966, one of which being "Try a Little Tenderness," which was composed in 1932 by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, and Harry M. Woods.
The publishers made an unsuccessful attempt to prevent Redding from singing the song from a "negro perspective" because Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra had already sung it.
'Try a Little Tenderness' is a song that Otis often sang, and Jim Stewart once said, 'if there's one song, one performance that really sort of sums up Otis and what he's about, it's that song.'" He communicates who he is in that one performance because it is so exceptional and different.
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