Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More | ||||
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Live album by various artists | ||||
Released | May 11, 1970 | |||
Recorded | August 15–18, 1969 on an 8-track recording console | |||
Genre | Rock, folk, blues | |||
Length | 138:56 | |||
Label | Cotillion/Atlantic Records | |||
Producer | Eric Blackstead | |||
Woodstock compilation chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Robert Christgau | B[2] |
Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More is a live album of selected performances from the 1969 Woodstock counterculture festival. Originally released on Atlantic Records' Cotillion label as a set of 3 LPs in 1970 (later reissued on the Atlantic label), it was re-released as a double CD in 1994. Veteran producer Eddie Kramer was the sound engineer during the three-day event. The date of release of the original LP set was May 11, 1970.[3]
This album's version of the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performance of "Sea of Madness" was actually recorded a month after the festival, during a performance at the Fillmore East auditorium in New York City. The live Woodstock version can be found on the 2009 album Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm.
A second collection of recordings from the festival, Woodstock 2, was released a year later. In 1994 the songs from both albums, as well as numerous additional, previously-unreleased performances from the festival, but not the stage announcements and crowd noises, were reissued by Atlantic as a 4-CD box set titled Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music. In 2009, Rhino Records issued a 6-CD box, Woodstock: 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm, which includes further musical performances as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material.[4]
The couple on the album cover are Bobbi Kelly and Nick Ercoline.[5][6]
Track listing
On the LP release, side one was backed with side six, side two was backed with side five, and side three was backed with side four. This was common on multi-LP sets of the time, to accommodate the popular record changer turntables.
Most of the tracks have some form of stage announcement, conversation by the musicians, etc., lengthening the tracks to an extent. Times are listed as the length of time the music was played in the song, while times in parentheses indicate the total running time of the entire track.
- Side one
- "I Had a Dream" – 2:38 (2:53)
- Performed by John Sebastian.
- "Going Up the Country" – 3:19 (5:53)
- Performed by Canned Heat
- "Freedom" – 5:13 (5:26)
- Performed by Richie Havens.
- "Rock and Soul Music" – 2:09 (2:09)
- Performed by Country Joe & the Fish.
- "Coming into Los Angeles" – 2:05 (2:50)
- Performed by Arlo Guthrie.
- "At the Hop" – 2:13 (2:33)
- Performed by Sha-Na-Na.
- Side two
- "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag" – 3:02 (3:48)
- Performed by Country Joe McDonald.
- "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" – 2:08 (2:38)
- Performed by Joan Baez & Jeffrey Shurtleff.
- "Joe Hill" – 2:40 (5:34)
- Performed by Joan Baez.
- "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" – 8:04 (9:02)
- Performed by Crosby, Stills & Nash.
- "Sea of Madness" – 3:22 (4:20)
- Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
- Side three
- "Wooden Ships" – 5:26 (5:26)
- Performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
- "We're Not Gonna Take It" – 4:39 (6:54)
- Performed by The Who. (The song is listed on the sleeve as "We're Not Going to Take It" but the song played on the album is actually only the "See Me, Feel Me" portion.) The final 1:50 of the track is an emergency announcement and the statement to declare "it's a Free Concert from now".
- "With a Little Help from My Friends" – 7:50 (10:06)
- Performed by Joe Cocker. In the CD version, the first disc would close with this track, with a 1:30 long recording of the rainstorm.
- Side four
- "Soul Sacrifice" – 8:05 (13:52)
- Performed by Santana. The first 3 minutes of the track is the "Crowd Rain Chant," a chant started by the crowd as an attempt to stop the rainstorm.
- "I'm Going Home" – 9:20 (9:57)
- Performed by Ten Years After.
- Side five
- "Volunteers" – 2:45 (3:31)
- Performed by Jefferson Airplane. The final 34 seconds or so of the track is a speech by Max Yasgur, praising the crowd for coming to the festival.
- "Medley" (Performed by Sly & the Family Stone) – 13:47 (15:29)
- Dance to the Music – 2:11
- Music Lover – 4:50
- I Want to Take You Higher – 6:46
- "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" – 2:05 (3:54)
- Performed by John Sebastian.
- Side six
- "Love March" – 8:43 (8:59)
- Performed by Butterfield Blues Band.
- "Medley" (Performed by Jimi Hendrix.) – 12:51 (13:42)
- Star Spangled Banner – 5:40
- Purple Haze – 3:28
- Instrumental Solo – 3:43
Chart positions
1970
Chart | Position |
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Billboard Pop Albums | 1[citation needed] |
2009
Chart | Position |
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Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums | 10[citation needed] |
Preceded by | Billboard 200 number-one album 11 July – 7 August 1970 |
Succeeded by Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 by Blood, Sweat & Tears |
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- ↑ Bobbi Ercoline (7 August 2015), "That’s me in the picture: Bobbi Ercoline, 20, at Woodstock, 17 August 1969", The Guardian.
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