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 #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.
The Music, Mud and Hippies Photo Gallery (22 photos) by the Palm Beach Post provides some idea of what it was like.
More music: ALBUMS by FEATURED artists …
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.
I have always loved music. During the 60’s and 70’s, I used to edit music and create tapes with dual cassette decks. Initially I recorded music from FM radio overnight, and while listening I would select songs I liked that I wanted to keep on a new tape. I would also capture the artist, album, and track information and save that playlist with the tape.
Later I graduated to two reel-to-reel tape recorders which offered much more capacity. Of course, I no longer have either the cassette or reel tape recorders, but I have boxes of cassette and reel tapes (and vinyl records and CDs too).
I’ve been wanting to get them converted to DVD to load into my computer, but I was concerned that might cost a lot and might not turn out that good for some of the tapes which are so old. It’s been so long since I’ve listened to them, and thought that it would be fun and bring back lots of memories via the music I loved way back when I was much younger.
Lately I realized that I could create custom Spotify playlists from my recorded tape list contents, and I’ve started doing that with a few tapes and actually the quality is much better anyway. There’s no tape noises and many albums have even been remastered. Although some of the songs are not available on Spotify, most of them I have found. I intend to share them in a series on my blog along with lots of other music that I like.
I hope you like this trip down memory lane. Starting right now …