![Otis Redding 1967 (Photo: Jean Pierre Leloir)](https://www.mcrfb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/otis-redding-image-by-jean-pierre-leloir-tsy-PS13-enhanced.jpg)
THIS DAY IN POP MUSIC HISTORY
1967: Otis Redding and four members of his band, the Bar-Kays, are killed when their tour plane crashes into a frozen lake near Madison, WI. Three days earlier, Redding had recorded what was to be his break-though pop hit, “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay.”
(source: oldies.about.com)
A TRIBUTE TO A KING * William Bell * STAX (1968)
![Otis Redding, The Wisconsin State Journal, December 8, 1967](https://www.mcrfb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Otis-Redding-Wisconsin-State-Journal-December-8-1967mcrfb.jpg)
![DECEMBER 11, 1967](https://www.mcrfb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Otis-Redding-Death-Headlines-mcrfb.jpg)