Last night we talked about Alan Walden and Otis Redding and how they started in the music business together. Tonight we continue that story.

"We were like one big family and in those years not many black and white were together.The Music business does not really recognize colors.

Otis dethroned Elvis Presley as the number one male singer in Europe and the Beatles did send their personal limousine to pick him up when he arrived in London you know and backstage there was Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones and Tom Jones and all of these celebrities you know.

Otis was the kinda guy that would work 350 days out of the year. He was the king of the one nighters and when I say one nighters that's where you play one city then jump 300 miles and play another city and then go to another city and play and just keeps on and on and on. He told me one time, "Red I don't want to be sitting around a motel with nothing to do all day. It breeds discontent among the band members and everything else." He said "Book me 7 days a week." and I did!

Dock of the Bay is now number 7 in the all time history of music and that is unbelievable. You're talking about a song that probably has received 8 to 10 million air plays now. And what that means is if you played it nonstop it'd play for 60 years. It was his crossover into the pop market. His first time. When I first heard Dock of the Bay I didn't like it because of the lyrics of it. I thought it had strayed too far from his style. There were no strong ad-libs at the end of it, he's whistling. And it scared me. I thought this was too different for your audience to understand. And he was like, "Red this is gonna be my first number 1"

His life was cut off at 26 years old and it destroyed me for several years. I mean I was just I took it probably harder than anybody else I think. Maybe Zelma knows the feeling.

Otis was not near his peak. Everybody says, "Oh man he'd reached his peak with Dock of the Bay." And I say no way. He was in his beginning." -Alan Walden/Otis Redding's Manager