Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More explained

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
Type:live
Artist:various artists
Cover:Woodstock Original Soundtrack 1970.jpg
Recorded:August 15–18, 1969
Venue:Woodstock Festival, Bethel, New York
Genre:Rock, folk
Label:Cotillion
Producer:Eric Blackstead
Chronology:Woodstock albums
Next Title:Woodstock Two
Next Year:1971

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More is a live album of selected performances from the 1969 Woodstock counterculture festival officially known as "The Woodstock Music & Art Fair". The album was compiled & produced by Eric Blackstead. Originally released on Atlantic Records' Cotillion label as a triple album on May 11, 1970,[1] it was re-released as a 4 CD box (along with Woodstock Two) by Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs in 1986 followed by a two-CD set released by Atlantic in 1987. Atlantic re-issued the two-CD set in 1994 correcting a few mastering errors found on their 1987 release. Veteran producer Eddie Kramer along with Lee Osbourne were the sound engineers during the three-day event.

Although largely authentic, a number of tracks feature truncated performances or overdubs recorded after the festival, and two tracks not recorded at the festival at all. Some of the audio material on the album was recorded by the sound crew of the Wadleigh-Maurice film crew. It was packaged in a triple-gatefold sleeve featuring a 3-panel photo of the crowd taken from the stage by photographer Jim Marshall.

A second collection of recordings from the festival, Woodstock Two, 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 four-CD box set titled . In 2009, Rhino Records issued a six-CD box set, , which includes further musical performances as well as stage announcements and other ancillary material.[2] Rhino Records also reissued a remastered version of the original double CD album in 2009. Target issued a version exclusive to their stores that included a bonus disc of 14 tracks, including one previously unreleased track, "Misty Roses" by Tim Hardin.

It was certified Gold on May 22, 1970, and 2× Platinum in 1993.[3]

In 2014, Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.[4]

Cover

The couple on the album cover were photographed by Burk Uzzle[5] for the Magnum agency. In 1989, Life magazine identified them as a then 20-year-old couple named Bobbi Kelly and Nick Ercoline,[5] who married two years later and raised a family in Pine Bush, New York, just 40miles from the festival site.[6] [7] That claim has since been disputed by a woman named Jessie Kerr from Vancouver Island, and her friend John.[8] [9] At the time of Bobbi Kelly Enricole's death in March 2023, it was reported that Bobbi and Nick were in fact the couple featured on the album cover photograph and that the picture was taken when they stood up and embraced during Jefferson Airplane's performance.[10] In contrast to her future husband, Bobbi's face is partially seen in the photograph.[11] [12] In an interview with Longreads with 2019, Uzzle that he opted to photograph the couple for the album cover because of "the way they were holding themselves up and wrapped in a blanket."[13]

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

  1. John Sebastian – "I Had a Dream" (Sebastian) – 2:38 (2:53)
  2. Canned Heat – "Going Up the Country" (Alan Wilson) – 3:19 (5:53)
  2. Richie Havens – "Freedom (Motherless Child)" (traditional, arranged by Havens) – 5:13 (5:26)
  3. Country Joe and the Fish – "Rock and Soul Music" (Country Joe McDonald, Barry "The Fish" Melton, David Cohen, Bruce Barthol, Gary "Chicken" Hirsh) – 2:09 (2:09)
  4. Arlo Guthrie – "Coming into Los Angeles" (Guthrie) – 2:05 (2:50)
  5. Sha-Na-Na – "At the Hop" (Artie Singer, David White, John Medora) – 2:13 (2:33)

Side two

  1. Country Joe McDonald – "The Fish Cheer" / "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" (McDonald) – 3:02 (3:48)
  2. Joan Baez featuring Jeffrey Shurtleff – "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man" (Roger McGuinn, Gram Parsons) – 2:08 (2:38)
  3. Joan Baez – "Joe Hill" (Alfred Hayes, Earl Robinson) – 2:40 (5:34)
  2. Crosby, Stills & Nash – "" (Stephen Stills) – 8:04 (9:02)
  3. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "Sea of Madness" (Neil Young) – 3:22 (4:20)

Side three

  1. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – "Wooden Ships" (Stills, David Crosby, Paul Kantner) – 5:26 (5:26)
  2. The Who – "We're Not Gonna Take It" (Pete Townshend) – 4:39 (6:54)
  2. Joe Cocker – "With a Little Help from My Friends" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 7:50 (10:06)

Side four

  1. Santana – "Soul Sacrifice" (Carlos Santana, Greg Rolie, David Brown, Marcus Malone) – 8:05 (13:52)
  2. Ten Years After – "I'm Going Home" (Alvin Lee) – 9:20 (9:57)

Side five

  1. Jefferson Airplane – "Volunteers" (Marty Balin, Kantner) – 2:45 (3:31)
  2. Sly and the Family Stone – Medley: "Dance to the Music" / "Music Lover" / "I Want to Take You Higher" (Sly Stone) – 13:47 (15:29)
  3. John Sebastian – "Rainbows All Over Your Blues" (Sebastian) – 2:05 (3:54)

Side six

  1. Butterfield Blues Band – "Love March" (Gene Dinwiddie, Phillip Wilson) – 8:43 (8:59)
  2. Jimi Hendrix – "The Star-Spangled Banner" / "Purple Haze" / "Instrumental Solo" (Hendrix, except "The Star-Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key and John Stafford Smith and arranged by Hendrix) – 12:51 (13:42)

Notes

Charts

Chart (1970)Peak
position		Certification
Australia (Kent Music Report)[14] 2
Billboard Top LPs[15] 1
  • US: 2× Platinum[16]
Canada Album Charts[17] 1
Dutch Album Charts[18] 2
Norwegian Album Charts[19] 8
UK Album Charts[20] 35
German Album Charts[21] 10

Notes and References

  1. Web site: This Date In Music History: Woodstock Soundtrack Released [Videos] - WJLT |publisher=Superhits1053.com |date=2011-05-11 |access-date=2015-05-12].
  2. Woodstock -- 40 Years On: Back to Yasgur's Farm boxed set. Rhino.com. 2009-08-16. 2009-06-05. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090905043240/http://www.rhino.com/rzine/pressrelease.lasso?PRID=628. 2009-09-05.
  3. Web site: Gold & Platinum. RIAA. en-US. 2020-05-18.
  4. https://www.grammy.com/awards/hall-of-fame-award#w
  5. Dumas . Timothy . A Woodstock Moment – 40 Years Later . Smithsonian . August 2009 . 21 August 2019.
  6. Web site: 40 years after famous photo, Woodstock couple still together . Chron.com . 2009-08-13 . 2011-12-04.
  7. Bobbi Ercoline (7 August 2015), "That's me in the picture: Bobbi Ercoline, 20, at Woodstock, 17 August 1969", The Guardian
  8. News: Sajan . Bhinder . 'It wasn't them': Vancouver Island woman says she's in iconic photo . 21 August 2019 . CTV News . Bell Media . August 16, 2019.
  9. News: Mariam . Bethlehem . Vancouver Island woman says she's the woman in classic Woodstock photo . 21 August 2019 . CBC News (British Columbia) . CBC News . Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . 15 August 2019.
  10. News: ‘Woodstock’ Album Cover Star Bobbi Kelly Ercoline Dies. Allison. Rapp. Ultimate Classic Rock. 20 March 2023. 22 March 2023.
  11. News: Bobbi Ercoline, Whose Hug Became a Symbol of Woodstock, Dies at 73. Alex. Traub. New York Times. March 27, 2023. March 29, 2023.
  12. News: Bobbi Ercoline, Iconic Woodstock Concertgoer on Album Cover, Dead at 73. Ingrid. Vasquez. People. 28 March 2023. 29 March 2023.
  13. News: Images Present Themselves: A Conversation With Photographer Burk Uzzle. Tom. Maxwell. Longreads. August 15, 2019. March 29, 2023.
  14. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 320.
  15. Soundtrack Woodstock Chart History: Billboard 200 . . July 10, 1970 . January 3, 2020.
  16. Web site: Gold & Platinum. 2020-05-18. RIAA. en-US.
  17. Web site: RPM Weekly. September 9, 2020. Library and Archives Canada.
  18. Web site: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. July 14, 2011. Dutch Charts. Hung Medien. nl. ASP.
  19. Web site: Crosby, Stills & Nash. July 14, 2011. Norwegian Charts. Hung Medien. ASP.
  20. Book: Brown, Tony.. The Complete Book of the British Charts. Omnibus Press. 2000. 0-7119-7670-8. 200–201.
  21. Web site: Das österreichische Hitparaden- und Musik-Portal. 2020-05-08. austriancharts.at.

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