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Looking tonight at the Roots calendar I bought back in 2010, I saw that the Atlantic City Pop Festival kicked off on August 1st in 1969! Guess what I don’t even remember anything about it!
From Wikipedia …
‘Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before Woodstock Festival. It actually took place in Hamilton Township Atlantic City Race Course.
There was heavy security at the festival, and the stage the acts performed on was created by Buckminster Fuller. A ticket for the entire 3-day weekend was $15.00 to see all of the performers listed. Attended by some 100,000+ people.
The Performing Artists
And it seems the lineup was quite impressive:
- Booker T. & the M.G.’s
- Tim Buckley
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- The Byrds
- Canned Heat
- The Chambers Brothers
- Chicago (as the Chicago Transit Authority)
- Joe Cocker
- The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Crosby, Stills & Nash (billed, but did not perform)
- Cass Elliot
- Iron Butterfly
- Jefferson Airplane
- Dr. John the Night Tripper
- Janis Joplin
- B.B. King
- Lighthouse
- Little Richard
- Looking Glass
- Lothar and the Hand People
- Mississippi Fred McDowell
- Hugh Masekela
- Buddy Miles
- Joni Mitchell
- The Mothers of Invention
- Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
- Procol Harum
- Buddy Rich
- Biff Rose
- Santana
- Sir Douglas Quintet
- Three Dog Night
- Johnny Winter
Yep, it was a pretty impressive list of musicians! And 1969 as looked over the list I realized that I have albums from many of the artists. I have highlight the artists whose albums I bought in 1969. Here’s a short playlist of songs from the albums the above musicians released or would have released shortly after the festival.
You can also back other top rock albums from 1969 here at Wikipedia. As well as, more about the Atlantic City Pop Festival here at Wikipedia and in an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer posted on the 50th anniversary of the festival. Here
https://open.spotify.com/user/128969070/playlist/3YwA82VlbncPqSHbiyrBCk?si=vghzrsu_QsWx-jpFJujTqw
