{"id":6689,"date":"2017-12-10T11:01:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2019-12-10T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T20:24:10","slug":"otis-redding-died-madison-50-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/otis-redding-died-madison-50-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Otis Redding died in Madison 50 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1967 was a pretty rough year for Madison. Coined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/madison-magazine\/city-life\/1967-the-summer-of-our-discontent\/501399083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201csummer of our discontent\u201d<\/a> by <em>Madison Magazine<\/em>, by early December residents had already seen a pair of riots, a slew of racial tension and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/madison-magazine\/city-life\/madison-citizens-who-died-from-war-in-1967\/491506335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deaths of 10 local men<\/a> in Vietnam. But for as awful as all those things were, none of them stand out quite like Dec. 10, the day Otis Redding\u2019s plane crashed into Lake Monona.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, Redding was bound for superstardom. The 26-year-old soul singer had just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/when-otis-redding-delivered-the-20-best-minutes-of-pop-music-ever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wowed the crowds<\/a> at the Monterey Pop Festival in June and was hard at work on a song called \u201c(Sittin\u2019 On) The Dock of the Bay.\u201d Redding was convinced it was going to be a huge, career-defining hit. It was, but he wouldn\u2019t live to see it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Otis Redding Shake and I&#039;ve Been Loving you too Long\" width=\"689\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIoQDG-iRn4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\u201cWhen he died, Otis was really on the verge of a major breakthrough in terms of his audience,\u201d says Craig Werner, a professor of African-American Studies at UW-Madison and author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roomofonesown.com\/book\/9780472031474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race &amp; the Soul of America<\/em><\/a>. \u201cParticularly when he had been at Monterey, he reached a much, much larger white audience than he ever had previously. And he\u2019d done it without alienating his black audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Redding was something previously unseen in pop music: an unapologetically black artist with undeniable crossover appeal. In addition to his own soul standards, Redding flirted with rock music, covering songs by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones on his studio albums. Essentially, he was a rock star, albeit one rooted in gospel and soul rather than, uh, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/art\/skiffle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skiffle<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6707 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-WSJ-2.jpg\" alt=\"Wisconsin State Journal - Dec. 8, 1967\" width=\"400\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-WSJ-2.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-WSJ-2-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>And so, in the middle of a meteoric rise to fame, Redding and his band The Bar-Kays were scheduled to play two shows in Madison at The Factory, a club located at 315 W. Gotham Street (now A Room of One\u2019s Own bookstore). They took off from Cleveland in Otis\u2019 plane on the morning of Dec. 10, 1967 but crashed into a frigid Lake Monona just four miles from landing. The crash \u2014 the exact cause of which has never been determined \u2014 also claimed the lives of pilot Richard Fraser, valet Matthew Kelly, and Bar-Kays members Jimmy King, Phalon Jones, Ronnie Caldwell and Carl Cunningham. There was one survivor: trumpet player Ben Cauley, who died in 2015 at age 67.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, in a bit of bitter irony, the opening act for The Factory gig was a band called The Grim Reapers, a group that included future Cheap Trick guitarist and noted hat enthusiast <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ricknielsen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rick Nielsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-WSJ.jpg\" alt=\"Wisconsin State Journal - Dec. 11, 1967\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-WSJ.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-WSJ-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-WSJ-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>Divers recovered Redding\u2019s body the next day, still strapped into his seat. His death stunned not just Madison but the music community worldwide. Redding was a workmanlike artist who finally had the world watching him, only to have it all cut short. He hadn\u2019t scored his first major hit yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that people don\u2019t realize about Otis is that he never had a big hit during his lifetime,\u201d Werner says. \u201c\u2018The Dock of the Bay\u2019 was his first really big hit, and that was after he was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6697\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6697 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plane.jpg\" alt=\"Wreckage of Otis Redding's plane at Lake Mendota\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plane.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plane-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plane-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plane-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plane-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plane-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L. Roger Turner \/ Wisconsin State Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/features\/inside-otis-reddings-sittin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-w511338\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Recorded shortly before the crash<\/a>, \u201c(Sittin\u2019 On) The Dock of the Bay\u201d reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and time cemented Redding\u2019s legacy as one of the greatest singers in the history of pop music. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and pieces of the Beechcraft 18 plane that plunged into Lake Monona are on display there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe provided a vision of how you could take that African-American tradition and, without compromising it, speak to <em>everybody<\/em>,\u201d says Werner. \u201cI think many more black artists [today] are able to simply be themselves and use their tradition without cutting the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A plaque at Monona Terrace that honors Redding contains a lengthy inscription that includes this passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the morning of the flight to Madison, Redding had been warned of bad weather and was advised to postpone his trip. His loyalty to his Madison fans forced him to proceed. It was the only engagement of his career that he ever missed.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plaque.jpg\" alt=\"Otis Redding plaque at Monona Terrace\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plaque.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plaque-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plaque-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plaque-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plaque-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Redding-Plaque-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1967 was a pretty rough year for Madison. 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