Ben Cauley | Memphis trumpeter, 67

Ben Cauley, 67, a member of the Stax Records group the Bar-Kays and the only survivor of the 1967 plane crash that killed most of his bandmates and Stax star Otis Redding, died Monday in Memphis.

When Mr. Cauley was a senior in high school, he would be picked up at school on a Friday, travel and play with Redding on the weekends, and then return to school the next week. Some of the band members needed permission slips from their parents to travel with the band.

On Dec. 10, 1967, they were traveling on Redding's new twin-engine Beechcraft when it went into Lake Monona near Madison, Wis. Able to hold on to a seat cushion, Mr. Cauley was the only survivor. Another band member, bassist James Alexander, was on a different plane.

After the crash, the pair rebuilt the Bar-Kays and backed Isaac Hayes on his landmark album, Hot Buttered Soul, according to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame's website. The Bar-Kays were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2013. - AP