Time-Life's AM Gold '60s series provides a highly enjoyable history lesson. Each year is represented by 22 songs drawn from a wide range of sources, features all very big hits all the time, and plays like an hour of true golden oldies radio. The entry from 1968 collects some great soul (Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay," Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), pop (B.J. Thomas' "Hooked on a Feeling," the Rascals' "Beautiful Morning," Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman"), and a whole bunch of one ...
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Time-Life's AM Gold '60s series provides a highly enjoyable history lesson. Each year is represented by 22 songs drawn from a wide range of sources, features all very big hits all the time, and plays like an hour of true golden oldies radio. The entry from 1968 collects some great soul (Otis Redding's "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay," Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"), pop (B.J. Thomas' "Hooked on a Feeling," the Rascals' "Beautiful Morning," Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman"), and a whole bunch of one-shot wonders (Hugh Masakela's "Grazing in the Grass," Merrilee Rush's "Angel of the Morning," and Mason Williams' "Classical Gas") and oddities (José Feliciano's "Light My Fire," Dion's "Abraham, Martin and John"). In other words, you'll get a pretty good idea of what was going on in the charts from this disc, and you'd be hard-pressed to find a better single-disc collection of hits from the year. ~ Tim Sendra, Rovi
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