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.
Surviving members reunited in 1987 for a concert tour. Jim Croce, Sept. 20, 1973--The singer-songwriter of No. 1 hits Bad, Bad Leroy Brown and Time in a Bottle died in a crash near Natchitoches, La., at age 30. Otis Redding, Dec. 10, 1967--Redding, 26, and members of his Memphis-based band, the Bar-Kays, died in a Wisconsin crash.