FACTORY SEALED WOODSTOCK LP Original 1970 Soundtrack Atlantic Cotillion SD-3-500
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Description
Music from the original soundtrack and more:
WOODSTOCK
ATLANTIC RECORDS Cotillion (SD3-500). 1970.
3 Record set in tri-fold cover.
Please see photos for entire track-list!
When the folks at Atlantic Records sat down to compile the soundtrack album from the filmed account of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair, they had their work cut out for them. How could they capture the essence of such a momentous event—one that went on for three days and nights—on a record album? The Woodstock concert film itself, after all, had run for more than three hours. How could that possibly be condensed onto a record?
The answer was that it could not, so Atlantic put it out as a three-LP set. Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, released on May 11, 1970, on Atlantic’s Cotillion subsidiary, was embraced by record buyers much as the film had been. It rose to #1 on the Billboard LP chart during the week of July 11, 1970, and remained there for four weeks.
The soundtrack couldn’t really lose. After all, presumably each of the 400,000 attendees would want it as a souvenir—those sales alone would propel the set to platinum level. But its appeal, naturally, was much wider—within a year of the fest, the name Woodstock had already taken on great cultural significance, and the music was of such consistently high quality that any fan of rock and folk music would want to add this one to the collection.
Atlantic made a wise decision not to follow the actual sequence of the performances from the festival on the album. Where singer Richie Havens had actually opened the event on Friday, Aug. 15, here he was relegated to the third position, following John Sebastian’s solo “I Had a Dream”—which captured the spirit of Woodstock so simply and sublimely—and Canned Heat’s “Going Up the Country,” used in the film as intro music to set the scene.
In those days, most listeners played record albums on phonographs that allowed them to stack one disc atop the other, so in order to allow for a relatively uninterrupted stream of music, Atlantic placed side six on the flip side of side one, and so forth. For the cover, the label chose a now-iconic photograph of a drained-looking, blanketed couple embracing toward the end of the event, litter all about them. (They were still together as of 40 years later.)
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