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 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 90:24 | |||
Label | Cotillion/Atlantic Records | |||
Producer | Eric Blackstead | |||
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Woodstock compilation chronology | ||||
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Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More is the live album of the 1969 Woodstock concert. 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.[2]
This triple album set of the monumental outdoor concert features Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performing live for only the second time. The performance of "Sea Of Madness" by Neil Young actually heard on the record, however, was in fact recorded a month after the festival at the Fillmore East auditorium in New York City.
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.[3]
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.
1970
Chart | Position |
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Billboard Pop Albums | 1 |
2009
Chart | Position |
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Billboard Top Pop Catalog Albums | 10 |
Preceded by Let It Be by The Beatles |
Billboard 200 number-one album 11 July – 7 August 1970 |
Succeeded by Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 by Blood, Sweat & Tears |