I've been listening to my album,
Best of the Doobies. The album was first released in 1976 by Warner Brothers. I actually consider myself lucky enough to have purchased one of the first released batches of this album.
There was actually a defect with the first release of the album. The first three songs which are China Grove, Long Train Running and Takin' It To The Streets on side one had skips in them. I returned the album three different times, and each album had the same skips in all three songs.
I had purchased the album at Radio Shack in Mansfield, and knew the manager/owner that ran the store in Mansfield. Several people had returned the album because of the skips, and that's when it was discovered that all the albums in that first release had the skips in the first three songs.
Listen To The Music, Black Water and Rockin' Down The Highway were okay without any skips. Because of the skips, I only played the album a few times. That ended up being good in a way because there are no scratches on the album now when I play it.
I believe because of the skips being in the first released albums that I may actually have a collectors album now which is fine with me. LOL!
One of my favorites songs from that album and it has no skips is
Black Water.