With about twenty minutes of studio time remaining, Cropper gave Redding his shot. And The MG’s, was unproductive and ended early. Jenkins’ session, with backing by Booker T. Can you take two or three minutes and listen to him?' And I said, ‘Well, yeah.’ We were just kind of cleaning up after the session. I was the designated A&R director at Stax at that time and Al told me, ‘The guy that's with Johnny says he sings with him and he'd like an audition.
During that session, Otis approached our drummer Al Jackson and said, ‘I'm a singer, and sometime, I'd like to get somebody to hear me sing. "There was this big guy driving the car, who pulls up, gets out, unlocks the trunk and starts pulling out amplifiers and microphones. Steve Cropper, producer and session guitarist for Stax remembered his first meeting with Redding. Redding’s life changed on a trip with Jenkins to the Stax Records studios in Memphis in 1962. He quit school at age fifteen to support his family taking a job with Little Richard’s backing band, the Upsetters, before joining Johnny Jenkins band, the Pinetoppers, as a driver and a part-time singer. Singing in the school band and then singing gospel songs on a local radio station for $6 every Sunday, he knew he found his life’s passion. By the time he entered high school, he already learned how to play both the guitar and piano. His first taste of music came when he sang in the church choir. This is the story of how he lived.īorn in Dawson, Georgia on September 9, 1941, his family moved to Macon when Otis was two years old. The headline in the Decemedition of the Los Angeles Times simply stated, “Pop Singer, 6 Others Lost In Plane Crash.” The obituary continued with “a twin-engine plane carrying Memphis Tennessee recording star Otis Redding and seven others, crashed in fog-shrouded Lake Morona (near Madison, Wisconsin) Sunday, apparently killing all but one.” Newspapers across the nation that day told the story of the death of one of music’s greatest soul singers.
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