I left my home in Georgia - headed for the Frisco Bay
Continuing my trip back through the 1968 album charts. 28/07/68 : The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding Well, this involved a lot more deliberation than I was expecting, I can tell you! Firstly, I thought I'd already listened to it, but I was getting confused by the single which took the year as the most streamed track in the UK. Then I looked at the album on Wikipedia and it says it's a posthumous release consisting of singles, B sides and album tracks - which would generally get it rejected. But then I saw that three of the tracks were previously unreleased, so I wavered - but was still minded to reject it. And FINALLY, I saw that if I didn't listen to this then I was getting another Andy Williams album - so that was my mind made up in an instant! Well that's a bit of a surprise - the whole album has much more of a James Brown feel to it than I was expecting. It's fine, but I don't think anyone's gonna say you've got to listen to it and calling it