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.
Before Otis Redding cut âThese Arms of Mineâ at the Stax studio in Memphis in October 1962, he was just along for the ride; afterwards, he emerged as one of the most distinct voices of southern soul.It took a guy like Otis, with a heart as big as the state of Georgia, to get there in just one take.alkin gave Jim Stewart fifty percent of the publishing on âThese Arms of Mine,â and Stax agreed to release the single on their new subsidiary label, Volt. In a classic example of the rampant payola scheming of the day, Stewart then gave his share over to Nashville DJ John R. at WLAC.