We often like to look back at great events in the history of soul music, but today we look back at one of music’s darkest days: December 10, 1967, when a small plane headed to Wisconsin crashed in the water, killing legendary singer Otis Redding and several members of his young backing group, The Bar-Kays.
Watch this riveting video, courtesy of our friends at TV One’s “Unsung,” that replays that day with the crash’s one survivor, Bar-Kays trumpeter Ben Cauley, and by bassist James Alexander, who took a commercial flight that day because there wasn’t room in the private plane.
More than 40 years later, we remember these brilliant musicians lost that day.
