Thursday, December 15, 2011
Otis Redding - Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
Otis Redding recorded this track in 1967 just a few days before his death. You can hear he whistles over the last few verses. He intended to return to the studio later to add words in place of the whistling but just a few days later he died in an airplane crash.
War - A Day In The Life
War a 70's funk band with Eric Burdon as frontman after he left The Animals (Chas Chandler of The Animals 'discovered' Jimi Hendrix and brought him to the UK. Doing one of the more complex kind of Beatles tunes. Origanally Paul McCartney wanted a 90 man orchestra for the bridges in between but ended up with a 40 man orchestra, so they did 4 tracks of overdubs with the orchestra.
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