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  1. "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" is a song co-written by the #soul singer #OtisRedding and the guitarist #SteveCropper. Redding recorded it twice in 1967, including just three days before his death in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. It was released on #StaxRecords' Volt label in 1968, becoming the first posthumous number 1 single in the US. It reached number 3 on the #UKSinglesChart.
    youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug

  2. "In the Midnight Hour" is a song originally performed by American singer Wilson Pickett in 1965 and released on his 1965 album of the same name, also appearing on the 1966 album #TheExcitingWilsonPickett. The song was composed by Pickett and #SteveCropper at the historic #LorraineMotel in #Memphis, later (April 1968) the site of the #assassinationOfMartinLutherKingJr Pickett's first hit on #AtlanticRecords, it reached number one on the #RAndBCharts.
    youtube.com/watch?v=rixhkdO_IdU

  3. "In the Midnight Hour" is a song originally performed by American singer Wilson Pickett in 1965 and released on his 1965 album of the same name, also appearing on the 1966 album #TheExcitingWilsonPickett. The song was composed by Pickett and #SteveCropper at the historic #LorraineMotel in #Memphis, later (April 1968) the site of the #assassinationOfMartinLutherKingJr Pickett's first hit on #AtlanticRecords, it reached number one on the #RAndBCharts.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Il-usrZxGns

  4. @thetonearm oh whoops, i meant GB did a good cover of "hold on, i'm comin"... did Steve play on this track, too????

    #SteveCropper

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold_On,

  5. Downtown Soulville playing some Booker T and the MGs on WFMU

    #WFMU #SteveCropper

  6. Žádná gesta. Žádné sólové výhně. Kytarista Steve Cropper odešel navždy – ale jeho groove nepomíjí. Svět nezhasl. Jen se na chvíli zpomalil, aby si připomněl, kdo to celé držel pohromadě. Pokaždé, když zazní „Dock of the Bay“ nebo riff „In the Midnight Hour“, stojí za tím jeho přesnost, jeho skromnost, jeho neúnavná práce. Steve Cropper — muž, který hrál pro píseň. A naučil nás, že právě tím se stává nesmrtelnou.
    #Music #SteveCropper #RhythmNBlues #Soul #DoporučenoPanemPudinkem
    cernejpudink.cz/2025/12/05/ste

  7. Still an absolute banger. One of a handful of live performance videos I regularly come back to. #SteveCropper youtu.be/iFQEsUjI0U8?...

    (1967) GREEN ONIONS - Live - B...

  8. Oh merde, encore un qui a changé ma vie, tiens : le grand l'unique Steve Cropper n'est plus.
    😢 Got Soul, bro.

    The Blues Brothers - Soul Man

    youtube.com/watch?v=wdfImB4iOLo

    #Music
    #PouetRadio
    #SteveCropper
    #TheBluesBrothers

  9. Steve Cropper - a musician who wrote or played on many of the best American pop recordings of the twentieth century - is no more. Here's a track you may have heard before, co-written by Cropper and Redding. the latter tragically dying before the song's release.

    Otis Redding, "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" (1968)

    music.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu5c

    #RIP #SteveCropper

  10. Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and a Shaper of Memphis Soul Music 🎸 🎶 😎

    As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s.

    nytimes.com/2025/12/03/arts/mu

    #Music #Memphis #SteveCropper #BookerTAndTheMGs #Stax

  11. The thing about Steve Cropper's playing is that it was essentially perfect in service to songs. It was never in service to Steve Cropper or to some imaginary guitar-god leaderboard. However, focusing on Cropper's playing kind of misses some of the point: his influence as a writer and producer is just as important.

    Fun fact: Eric Clapton is always touted as being the only guitarist the Beatles ever brought in on a record. But, years before, the Beatles had worked hard to get in a studio with another guitarist entirely. Who was that? Yes: It was Steve Cropper.

    Anyway. Everyone in the industry—especially guitar players—could do a lot worse than pay attention to how Steve Cropper did things. Thank you, sir.

    #rip #stevecropper #guitar