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30 unusual facts about 1969 in music


A Soul Experiment

A Soul Experiment is the fourteenth album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded between 1968/1969 and released in 1969.

At Your Birthday Party

At Your Birthday Party is the third studio album by Steppenwolf, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music) on the label ABC Dunhill Records.

Bayou Country

Bayou Country is the second studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records in January 1969, and was the first of three albums CCR released in that year (see 1969 in music).

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969

Billboard Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1969 is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1989, featuring 10 hit recordings from 1969.

Captured Live at the Forum

Captured Live at the Forum is the third album by American rock band Three Dog Night, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music).

Cream of the Crop

Cream of the Crop is a 1969 album recorded by Diana Ross & the Supremes for the Motown label, the final regular Supremes studio album to feature lead singer Diana Ross.

FMP/Free Music Production

Free Music Production (FMP) is a German record label founded by Jost Gebers, Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, and Alexander von Schlippenbach in 1969, specializing in free improvisation and free jazz, usually by European, often German musicians.

Give It Up or Turnit a Loose

Released as a single in 1969, it was a #1 R&B hit and also made the top 20 pop singles chart.

Harvard Dictionary of Music

The second edition, also edited by Apel, was published in 1969.

I Guess I'll Always Love You

The Isleys' version was reissued in the United Kingdom in 1969 and peaked at number 11, a much bigger hit than it ever was in the United States.

Irving Berlin's White Christmas

See Fancy Meeting You Here (1958), How the West Was Won, (1959), and Rendezvous (1969).

It's Not Killing Me

It's Not Killing Me is the first solo album by American blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield and was released in 1969.

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best is the debut album by American folk blues musician Karen Dalton, originally released in 1969 by Capitol Records (see 1969 in music).

Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with the George Duke Trio

The Jean-Luc Ponty Experience with The George Duke Trio is a Jazz album released in 1969 (see 1969 in music) by Jean-Luc Ponty on World Pacific Jazz in the US, and is considered to be one of the earliest fusion jazz albums.

Laurel Pop Festival

The Laurel Pop Festival was a music festival held at the Laurel Race Course in Laurel, MD on July 11–12, 1969.

Let's Turn Back the Years

Let's Turn Back the Years is an album by American country singer Ernest Tubb, released in 1969.

Mike Settle

While he was with the group he composed a number of songs, including "But You Know I Love You" (a pop hit in 1969), as well as "It's Gonna Be Better", "The Last Few Threads Of Love" and "Goodtime Liberator", among many others.

More of Old Golden Throat

More of Old Golden Throat is a compilation album and 32nd overall album released by Johnny Cash exclusively in the UK on CBS Records in 1969 (see 1969 in music).

Mother Popcorn

"Mother Popcorn (You Got to Have a Mother for Me)" is a song recorded by James Brown and released as a two-part single in 1969.

Only a Northern Song

It was first featured in the Beatles' 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine and appeared on its soundtrack album, released early the following year.

Our Mother the Mountain

Our Mother the Mountain is the second album by country singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, released in 1969.

Runaway Child, Running Wild

"Runaway Child, Running Wild" (shown as "Run Away Child, Running Wild" on the label of the original single) is a 1969 hit single for the Gordy (Motown) label, performed by The Temptations and produced by Norman Whitfield.

Så mörk är natten i midvintertid

The song was originally published in 1969, and has become a popular Saint Lucy song throughout Sweden.

Saturday Satan Sunday Saint

Saturday Satan Sunday Saint is an album by American country singer Ernest Tubb, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music).

Spanish Album

Spanish Album was an LP album consisting of tracks assembled from previous albums by The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in 1969.

Straight Records

Straight Records was a record label formed in 1969 to distribute productions and discoveries of Frank Zappa and his business partner/manager Herb Cohen.

Tetrapod Spools

Tetrapod Spools was an Encinitas, California, USA based independent record label founded in Oak Park, Illinois in 1969 by Louie Easley Hanley and Mark Tucker.

The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children

The Simon Sisters Sing The Lobster Quadrille And Other Songs For Children was The Simon Sisters' third album and their first for Columbia Records, released in 1969.

What Is and What Should Never Be

"What Is and What Should Never Be" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin on their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II.

Willy and the Poor Boys

Willy and the Poor Boys is the fourth studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released by Fantasy Records in November 1969, and was the last of three studio albums that the band released in that year (see 1969 in music).