Steve Cropper
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Podcast Appearances
And if you listen to songs that I collaborated with Otis, most of the lyrics are about him.
Well, he never really...
He might say the big O in a song or something like that, but Otis didn't really write about himself, but I did.
Songs like Mr. Pitiful, Sad Song, Fa Fa, they were all about Otis and Otis' life.
And Dock of the Bay is exactly that.
I left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay.
It was all about him going out to San Francisco to perform.
And that's kind of the way I wrote with Otis.
I wrote The Bridge and stuff like that.
And that's the way we collaborated.
He trusted me.
You know, I always seemed to...
to do the things that he liked, worked on songs.
that came out the way he wanted them.
And I also worked on a lot of songs with Otis, arrangement-wise, and helped him put them together and all that, where I didn't claim any writers or anything, because it wasn't necessary.
Otis had most of it finished to begin with, and I just helped him do it.
But a lot of these things where he had just bits and pieces, I would actually put them together, and we'd make whole songs out of them and go in the next day and record them.
So we had a lot of fun together.
Otis was a great guy to work with, and he was a great friend.
Right, it was.