MENDOTA- Carol L. Swope, 72, of Mendota passed away Aug. 27, 2017 in Alden Debes Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Rockford....
Two days before the crash that killed him at 26, Redding had recorded the vocals for aching ballad (Sittinâ On) The Dock of the Bay. Four miles outside Madison, Wisconsin, December 10, 1967, hampered by low cloud cover and cold weather, the eight-seater private plane carrying 26-year-old soul star Otis Redding hit trouble.
Just an urban legend in the making :) Otis Redding died four+ years before Bill Withers wrote it. There's a video going around youtube and a download on last.fm that claims toâ¦ be Otis Redding singing Ain't No Sunshine-but it's not him; most people seem to think it's Al Jareau.