The 1960s in rock music were a pretty incredible decade. Among the many, many hits are these three songs. All out in 1968, they still rock our world today, even after so many years.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Sittin\u2019 On) The Dock of the Bay\u201d by Otis Redding<\/p>\n
Otis Redding and Steve Cropper wrote the song \u201c(Sittin\u2019 On) The Dock of the Bay<\/a>\u201d. The song is Redding\u2019s first and only No. 1 hit. It was sadly released less than a month after Redding was killed in a plane crash.<\/p>\n The feel-good song says, \u201cSittin\u2019 in the mornin\u2019 sun \/ \u2018Ill be sittin\u2019 when the evenin\u2019 come \/ Watching the ships roll in \/ And then I watch \u2019em roll away again, yeah \/ I\u2019m sittin\u2019 on the dock of the bay \/ Watching the tide roll away \/ I\u2019m just sittin\u2019 on the dock of the bay \/ Wastin\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n Cropper later reveals that Redding\u2019s whistling at the end was unplanned.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you\u2019re an Otis Redding fan, you\u2019d know that he\u2019s probably the world\u2019s greatest at ad-libbing at the end of a song,\u201d Cropper says<\/a>. \u201cSometimes you could go another minute or two with Otis Redding\u2019s ad-libs. They were so spontaneous and felt so great. And this particular song, I think, baffled Otis a little bit because of the tempo and the mood. So when we got down to the end of it, he really didn\u2019t have anything to ad-lib with, and he just started whistling.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n \u201cHey Jude\u201d by The Beatles<\/p>\n