He said that before his band had any original material, it performed complete albums by Redding. Paul and the Broken Bones is scheduled to perform “Down in the Valley” and “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” at the event. The Dap-Kings and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band will provide the backup. To celebrate its endurance across 50 years, the Otis Redding Foundation is organizing a benefit concert on Thursday at the Apollo Theater, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg and featuring a lineup including Warren Haynes, Aloe Blacc and Booker T. 26 on its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It has gone triple platinum and been covered by artists from Cher to Bob Dylan. The song ranked as the sixth-most-played composition on American radio and television in the 20th century. But the first person to do it was the soul singer Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash in late 1967 at 26 and topped the charts for four weeks the following March and April with a beautifully melancholy song, “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay.” 1 with a single after their deaths, including John Lennon, Janis Joplin and the Notorious B.I.G. Only a handful of performers have reached No. A posthumous pop hit collapses triumph and sorrow into a single song.
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