Atlantic City Pop Festival

The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place from 1 to 3 August 1969 two weeks before the Woodstock Festival. There were about 100,000 visitors. The list of occurred bands and musicians reads like a Who's Who of the former rock and pop scene. Festival organizers were Herb, Allen and Jerry Spivak, Shelley Kaplan and Larry Magid. Admission was $ 6 per day, $ 15 for the whole weekend.

In the three-day festival at the Atlantic City Race Court near Atlantic City, New Jersey, included performances by the following groups and performers on:

• American Dream
• Aum
• Booker T. & the M. G. ' s
• Tim Buckley
• Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• The Byrds
• Canned Heat
• The Chambers Brothers
• Chicago ( as " Chicago Transit Authority " )
• Joe Cocker
• The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
• Creedence Clearwater Revival

• Dr. John
• Cass Elliot
• Iron Butterfly
• Jefferson Airplane
• Janis Joplin
• BB King
• Lighthouse
• Little Richard
• Lothar and the Hand People
• Hugh Masekela
• Buddy Miles
• Joni Mitchell

• The Mothers of Invention
• Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth
• Procol Harum
• Buddy Rich
• Biff Rose
• Santana
• Sir Douglas Quintet
• Three Dog Night
• Johnny Winter
• Mississippi Fred McDowell

Notes to the festival

Crosby, Stills & Nash were originally on the program, but said because of illness by Graham Nash from; two weeks later they performed at Woodstock. In Atlantic City, they were at the last minute replaced by the Chambers Brothers.

Moody Blues were just announced and then did not occur.

Johnny Winter was present, but could not play due to technical problems. Little Richard appeared instead, and invited the audience to dance on stage one.

Joni Mitchell left the stage upset because she was allegedly not been listening.

The revolving stage of the festival, which allowed a rapid succession of appearances, was designed by Buckminster Fuller.