Today is Otis Redding's Birthday...
Otis Redding’s “(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay” spent four weeks atop Billboard’s Hot 100 starting in March 1968, but Redding never knew it: He died in a plane crash Dec. 10, 1967. He was 26.
Redding recorded the song just days before. His friend, guitarist and producer Steve Cropper, 76, tells The Post how excited Redding was when he called him.
“I’ve got a hit,” Redding said. “I’m bringing it right now.”
As Cropper recalls it, Redding ran into Stax, their Memphis, Tenn., recording studio, saying, “Cropper, get your guh-tar.” And then he sang some of the introspective lyrics he’d written during a stay at promoter Bill Graham’s boathouse in Sausalito, Calif.
They finished the song in about an hour that Wednesday, but felt something was missing. Cropper suggested they get the Staple Singers to sing backup, and Redding was excited. He flew to Georgia to see his wife and children and returned on Friday, to check on Cropper’s progress.
“He popped his head into the control room and said, ‘I’ll see you on Monday,’” says Cropper. He didn't.
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Beachgoers at the New Jersey ocean resort of Belmar circa 1910
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This is the very first Aldi grocery store in Essen, Germany in 1930. Aldi is the world's 4th largest grocer. Aldi has over 1,600 stores in the United States and thousands more globally. It's on track to become the third-largest grocery chain in the US by store count by 2022.
I've been in Aldi stores here in the States, in Italy, England, Ireland and North Ireland.
Believe it or not, this is considered the world's largest (by story count) grocer:
Yup - 7 Eleven. Go figure.
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I like photography that displays perspective.
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Speaking of perspective...
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