The MG's and Otis Reading

After Europe, the next thing was Monterey. Reading had broken his own band up as he was planning on getting off the road soon. He needed to deal with his vocal polyps which were getting worse. After that he did a short tour of California. The Bar-Kays were being groomed as the next Booker T and the MG's or marquee's. When he resumed touring in December he'd have them as his full-time backing band. As a result of the tour,. Reading got voted the top international male vocalist in the melody maker poll for the first time in a decade. With typical humility, Reading said that Wilson Pickett should have won.