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)
