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An Evening of Respect: A Musical Tribute to the Immortal Otis Redding

An Evening of Respect: A Musical Tribute to the Immortal Otis Redding

William Bell (left) and Eddie Floyd during the red carpet event.
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EXCERPT: Visiting him in the studio was label-mate William Bell, who had already helped establish the Stax sound with "You Don't Miss Your Water" in 1961. "It was so different," remembers Bell, of listening to the playback of "Dock of the Bay" in the studio. He also remembers reassuring the recovering soul king.

"We said ‘hey, don't worry about it,' " says Bell. "‘It's going to be a great song.'"

Three days later, on Dec. 10, Redding's small plane plunged into an icy lake outside Madison, Wis. Released posthumously, his song went to No. 1.

Thursday night, at Symphony Hall, Bell will sing "Tribute to a King," a salute he wrote after Redding's death, struggling through his own sadness and summing up his mixed feelings of loss and admiration:

"Otis, Otis Redding was his name/Without his soulful singing, this old world won't be the same."

Bell's performance will be one part of "An Evening of Respect: A Musical Tribute to the Immortal Otis Redding," a gala at which veterans such as Bell and Eddie Floyd will join new soul singers such as Anthony Hamilton and Kenny Lattimore, along with Redding's sons, Dexter and Otis Redding III, to benefit "The Big ‘O' Youth Educational Dream Foundation."

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