This is post #3 in a series of my playlists featuring piano music from many artists and albums available on my web site. I have also included the albums for each of the songs in the playlist for those who want to enjoy more music from a specific artist. And for those who really want to listen to more music available for a certain artist, just click on the artist’s name (in red) above each album.
I hope you enjoy the music as much as I do. Let me know if you like these new playlists as well as any other feedback about what you would like to see and hear on my site. Thanks for visiting, listening, and following.
This is post #7 in a series with playlists from my audio reel tapes that were recorded from FM radio broadcasts during the 60’s and 70’s that I liked. I decided to create Spotify playlists so I could listen to the music again, and share with others. And it’s a lot cheaper than converting all the tapes to DVD and better quality. This brings back lots of memories for me, and I hope you enjoy them too.
This is post #2 in a series of my playlists featuring piano music from many artists and albums available on my web site. I have also included the albums for each of the songs in the playlist for those who want to enjoy more music from a specific artist. And for those who really want to listen to more music available for a certain artist, just click on the artist’s name (in red) above each album.
I hope you enjoy the music as much as I do. Let me know if you like these new playlists as well as any other feedback about what you would like to see and hear on my site. Thanks for visiting, listening, and following.
I have created over 100 Spotify music playlists for artists included in my blog since I started it in September 2014. However, I don’t think most of the over 5,000 visitors to my site are really aware of how much music is actually available.
Although there have been almost 10,000 views over that time, I’m not sure how much of the music is actually enjoyed with an average of only about 2 views per visit. I feel like much of the music is probably currently invisible, except maybe to my regular followers who automatically receive all my music posts. But I only have 240 followers via Email subscription, 186 on WordPress Reader, 40 via Twitter, 13 through Facebook, and some on Pinterest.
Recently I had a very productive dialog with Juan Maria Solare, who is an Argentine pianist and composer of contemporary music and tango living in Bremen, Germany. He had many very helpful suggestions in his feedback and recommendations that I should be offering more mixed playlists from my blog’s music.
After thinking about it some more, I agree that this really makes so much sense that I decided to try creating new playlists from my blog’s music. This will open up all the music that I have shared in the past in a new way, and enable many more to discover all this great music.
I know I also need to review and improve my menus and sidebar, and generally reorganize the music on my blog so it’s more accessible, and also deliver it in new ways to my readers. I’m also creating some software to help me manage my WordPress blog and Spotify playlists to make it easier to maintain and present.
Please let me know what you would like to see me do with my playlists. Do you like artist playlists with a variety of music across albums for a single artist? What about mixed playlists with many artists for a specific genre or style of music? Do you prefer shorter lists like an hour long, or longer ones? I would really appreciate additional feedback about what you like, especially as I try to focus on additional enhancements and refinements for my blog.
This is post #1 in a series of my playlists featuring piano music from many artists and albums available on my web site. I have also included the albums for each of the songs in the playlist for those who want to enjoy more music from a specific artist. And for those who really want to listen to more music available for a certain artist, just click on the artist’s name (in red) above each album.
I hope you enjoy the music as much as I do. Let me know if you like these new playlists as well as any other feedback about what you would like to see and hear on my site. Thanks for visiting, listening, and following.
This is post #6 in a series with playlists from my audio reel tapes that were recorded from FM radio broadcasts during the 60’s and 70’s that I liked. I decided to create Spotify playlists so I could listen to the music again, and share with others. And it’s a lot cheaper than converting all the tapes to DVD and better quality. This brings back lots of memories for me, and I hope you enjoy them too.
This is post #5 in a series with playlists from my audio reel tapes that were recorded from FM radio broadcasts during the 60’s and 70’s that I liked. I decided to create Spotify playlists so I could listen to the music again, and share with others. And it’s a lot cheaper than converting all the tapes to DVD and better quality. This brings back lots of memories for me, and I hope you enjoy them too.
This is post #4 in a series with playlists from my audio reel tapes that were recorded from FM radio broadcasts during the 60’s and 70’s that I liked. I decided to create Spotify playlists so I could listen to the music again, and share with others. And it’s a lot cheaper than converting all the tapes to DVD and better quality. This brings back lots of memories for me, and I hope you enjoy them too.
Over Thanksgiving weekend in November 1969, I went to the Palm Beach Pop Festival along with about 50,000 other people just 3 months after Woodstock. It was held at the 149-acre International Raceway, permits were initially denied, vendors ran short of food, and they only had about 300 portable toilets (until they were dismantled for firewood because of the cold).
At the time I was stationed at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, on the Gulf of Mexico in the panhandle near Pensacola so I had to drive all across the state over 8 hours. We arrived Friday afternoon, but were absolutely not prepared for the conditions. Tickets were $20 for the 3-day festival, but it was very cold (40’s) that weekend, rainy, and muddy.
Iron Butterfly was the opening act, including In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida which probably lasted over 20 minutes, and then we saw King Crimson, Grank Funk Railroad, and some other bands. Eventually as it started getting dark, we left to go stay at a Holiday Inn, and decided not to return on Saturday because the weather was even worse then.
Going through my mind was “What was I thinking?”, “What am I doing here?”, and “What if something happens?”, especially since I needed to be back for duty on Monday morning. But I guess it was definitely a unique experience to witness early rock history.
The festival was closed by Sly & the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, and even the Rolling Stones, who had been flown into the site by helicopter, including some of the songs in the playlist. I have also included some other songs recorded from FM radio in Norfolk a little over a year later after I had moved to Virginia.
Playlist
Tape 4 – 24 songs, 1 hr 40 min
Festival Poster
Video & Photos
Palm Beach Pop Festival – Short Documentary by Jack Connell & Ken Davidoff – 8 min 15 sec
Photo Gallery
The Music, Mud and HippiesPhoto Gallery (22 photos) by the Palm Beach Post provides some idea of what it was like.
This is post #3 in a series with playlists from my audio reel tapes that were recorded from FM radio broadcasts during the 60’s and 70’s that I liked. I decided to create Spotify playlists so I could listen to the music again, and share with others. And it’s a lot cheaper than converting all the tapes to DVD and better quality. This brings back lots of memories for me, and I hope you enjoy them too.
While living in Newport News, Virginia, I also listened to another progressive rock radio station which aired on WNOR-FM 99 from Norfolk overnight from 9 pm to 6 am daily. During the daytime it played music in an easy listening format, but now it’s active rock all the time. These songs were recorded during February and March 1971.
Richie Havens was the opening act at the Woodstock Music & Air Fair (or simply Woodstock Festival) in August 1969 before 400,000 people at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New Work. He had to play for hours because so many scheduled bands were late arriving because of all the traffic jams.
There is a 1970 film Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music available from Netflix as a 224-minute DVD or Blu-Ray disk with Dolby sound, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary along with nominations for Best Sound and Best Film Editing. Jimi Hendricks closed out the festival.
This is the second post in a series with playlists from my audio reel tapes that were recorded from FM radio broadcasts during the 60’s and 70’s that I liked. I decided to create Spotify playlists so I could listen to the music again, and share with others. And it’s a lot cheaper than converting all those tapes to DVD, and better quality too. This brings back lots of memories for me, and I hope you enjoy them too.
I listened to these songs on Progressive WOWI-FM 103 radio (pronounced Wow-Wee) from Norfolk, Virginia in February 1971 while stationed at Langley Air Force Base during the later stages of the Vietnam War. I attended a Jefferson Airplane concert nearby on the lovely campus of William & Mary in historic Williamsburg, Virginia during July 1972. If interested, I have included old radio broadcasts at the end of this post.
