Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

*" The Power of Love ", by Ray Conniff ( 1969 )

* 1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.

* 1969 – Paul Ray Smith, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 2003 )

In 1969, he appeared in the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man with his then-wife, Claire Bloom.

* Paul Ray Smith ( 1969 – 2003 ), US Army Sergeant First Class, Medal of Honor recipient

* 1965 to 1969 Robert Ray Newhouse

In 1969 he founded the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation for inner-city Los Angeles area.

" A Ray of Hope ", " Heaven ", " See ", and " Carry Me Back " were all modest U. S. hits for the band during late 1968 and 1969 ; all entered the top 40, but none higher than # 24.

" The novelty singer Ray Stevens reached # 27 on the U. S. pop singles chart with a 1969 remake of " Along Came Jones.

Harvey was born in Bridport, Dorset, on 9 October 1969 as the second child to Ray and Eva Harvey, a stonemason and sculptor respectively, and grew up on the family's farm in Corscombe.

* Harold ( Ray ) Brown – drums, vocals ( 1969 – 1994, Lowrider Band 1996 – present )

The Broad Left went on to help elect Ray Buckton ( Aslef ) Ken Cameron ( FBU ) Alan Sapper ( ACTT ) and Jack Jones ( TGWU ) in 1969.

The book has been reprinted many times: in 1953 by Galaxy, in 1957 and 1964 by Bantam, in 1958 and 1982 by Corgi as the first British edition, in 1968 by Sidgwick & Jackson in hardcover, in 1969, 1972, 1974 ( both paper and hard cover editions ) and 1981 by Sphere Science Fiction, in 1971 and 1975 by Fawcett Books, in 1983 by Del Ray Books, in 1986 in hardcover by Grafton and in 1990 again by Doubleday in hardcover ; in addition, it was reprinted as part of the Empire series, in 1986 by Ballantine Books, in 1992 by Spectra and in 2010 by Orb Books, in both print and Kindle editions.

" Stevens also became a regular on The Andy Williams Show during the 1969 – 1970 season, and he hosted his own summer show, The Ray Stevens Show, in 1970.

Towards the end of 1969, the group released its next album, Turtle Soup, a critically well-received LP produced by Ray Davies of the Kinks.

This group produced a number of records for Blue Note, disbanding in 1969, after which Mitchell joined and toured with Ray Charles till 1971.

* I Sing the Body Electric ( Bradbury ), a 1969 collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury, including the short story of the same name

In early 1969, Ray befriended Judy Garland, performing as her opening act during her last concerts in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmo, Sweden.

Cast members throughout the program's 40-year run included Bob Bell as Bozo ( 1960 – 1984 ), Ned Locke as Ringmaster Ned ( 1961 – 1976 ), Don Sandburg as Sandy the Tramp ( 1961 – 1969 ), Ray Rayner as Oliver O. Oliver ( 1961 – 1971 ), Roy Brown as Cooky the Cook ( 1968 – 1994 ), Marshall Brodien as Wizzo the Wizard ( 1968 – 1994 ), Frazier Thomas as the circus manager ( 1976 – 1985 ), Joey D ' Auria as Bozo ( 1984 – 2001 ), Andy Mitran as Professor Andy ( 1987 – 2001 ) and Robin Eurich as Rusty the Handyman ( 1994 – 2001 ).

F & SF assembled more than a dozen special issues devoted to a single author, beginning with a special issue on Theodore Sturgeon ( September 1962 ), followed by Ray Bradbury ( May 1963 ), Isaac Asimov ( October 1966 ), Fritz Leiber ( July 1969 ), Poul Anderson ( April 1971 ), James Blish ( April 1972 ), Frederik Pohl ( September 1973 ), Robert Silverberg ( April 1974 ), Damon Knight ( November 1976 ), Harlan Ellison ( July 1977 ), Stephen King ( December 1990 ), Lucius Shepard ( March 2001 ), Kate Wilhelm ( September 2001 ), Barry N. Malzberg ( June 2003 ) and Gene Wolfe ( April 2007 ).

In the 1969 film Cold Turkey, Ray ( not Bob ) played another parody of Godfrey, this time as folksy radio announcer " Arthur Lordly ".

In the fourth season, a two-part episode, " The Case Of My Vanishing Master " 6 – 13, 1969, concerned Tony being taken to a secret location somewhere in the world, while a perfect double took his place at home ( and was flabbergasted by the magical Jeannie he encountered there !).

From 1968 – 1969 he worked at IBM's Watson Research Center where he encountered Horst Feistel.

Also products of the folk club circuit were Sandy Denny who joined Fairport Convention as a singer in 1967 and Dave Swarbrick, a fiddle player and session musician who reacted positively to the electric music he encountered while working with Fairport in 1969.

In 1969 he encountered street poet and musician Moondog, going on to produce two albums with the eccentric character ; on the second he performed vocals with Moondog and the artist's daughter.

In March 1969, during a Congress of International Federation of Airline Pilots ’ Associations in Amsterdam with the presence of representatives of civil pilots from 41 countries, a resolution was unanimously passed, which guaranteed the pilots the right to 12 or 24-hours

In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.

Chadwick Hansen ’ s Witchcraft at Salem, published in 1969, defined Mather as a positive influence on the Salem Trials.

Den Tagayasu ( b. Tajiri Kozo, 1931 – 2001 ) started Ondekoza on Japan ’ s Sado Island in 1969.

The GLF ’ s " A Gay Manifesto " set out the aims for the fledgling gay liberation movement, and influential intellectual Paul Goodman published “ The Politics of Being Queer ” ( 1969 ).

The monarchy came to an end on 1 September 1969 when a group of military officers led by Muammar Gaddafi staged a coup d ’ état against King Idris while he was in Turkey for medical treatment.

" In an interview in Informations Catholiques Internationales on 15 May 1969, he criticized the Pope ’ s decision again as frustrating the collegiality defined by the Council, calling it a non-collegial or even an anti-collegial act.

During his career with the NBA ’ s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards.

By May 1969 Britain ’ s current account position was in surplus, thanks to a growth in exports, a drop in overall consumption and, in part, the Inland Revenue correcting a previous underestimation in export figures.

* Egoff, Sheila, Stubbs, G. T., & Ashley, L. F., eds, Only Connect: Readings on Children ’ s Literature ( Toronto & New York: Oxford University Press, 1969 ; 2nd ed., 1980 ; 3rd ed., 1996 )

* André Billy, L ’ Abbé Prévost, Paris: Flammarion, 1969.

Leonard ’ s own volumes of autobiography in the 1960s ( he died in 1969 ) gave the fullest account, but he remained reticent about the sexual lives of the members, as had the excerpts from Virginia ’ s diary.

** On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service ( 1969 )

Hilton, A Catholic of the Enlightenment: Essays on Lingard ’ s Work and Times ( Wigan, England: North West Catholic Historical Society, 1999 ); Joseph P. Chinnici, The English Catholic Enlightenment: John Lingard and the Cisalpine Movement, 1780-1850 ( Shepherdstown, West Virginia: Patmos Press, 1980 ); Donald F. Shea, The English Ranke: John Lingard ( New York: Humanities Press, 1969 ).

Williams said, “ I ’ ve been working very hard since 1969 to make an artistic comeback … there is no release short of death ”( Spoto 335 ), and “ I want to warn you, Elliot, the critics are out to get me.

This was characterised by the real incomes of employees increasing more sharply than incomes from entrepreneurial work, with the proportion of employees ’ incomes in the overall national income rising from 65 % to 70 % between 1969 and 1973, while the proportion of income from entrepreneurial work and property fell over that same period from just under 35 % to 30 .%

Personal social services were integrated, expenditure increased and their responsibilities broadened following the enactment of the Children and Young Persons ’ Act ( 1969 ) and the Local Authority Social Services Act ( 1970 ).

According to Michael Meacher, this change put an end to a previous inequity whereby two families, in otherwise identical circumstances, paid differing amounts of tax “ simply because in one case the child possessed property transferred to it by a grandparent, while in the other case the grandparent ’ s identical property was inherited by the parent .” In 1969, a “ save-as-you-earn ” scheme was introduced, designed to encourage new savings over a contracted period.

In the 1969 budget, income tax was abolished for about 1 million of the lowest paid and reduced for a further 600, 000 people, while in the government ’ s last budget ( introduced in 1970 ), two million small taxpayers were exempted from paying any income tax altogether.

Following his victory in the 1970 election ( and helped by de Gaulle's fall from power in 1969 ), the new prime minister Edward Heath negotiated Britain ’ s admission to the EC, alongside Denmark and Ireland in 1973.

He is also the recipient of the nation ’ s most prestigious honors in science and engineering: the National Medal of Science in 1969 and the National Medal of Technology in 1990.

The Concert Hall was destroyed by fire in 1969, but Britten was determined that it would be rebuilt in time for the following year ’ s Festival, which it duly was.

It introduced the director's signature approach of combining overt political messages with edge-of-the-seat tension .” Jonathan Richards wrote in 2009, “ It ’ s hard to overstate the impact that this Oscar-winning procedural thriller had in 1969, on a world roiling in political activism, repression, and discord.

In 1969, unlike most of FNRI ’ s elected officials, he advocated a " no " vote in the referendum about the regions and the Senate, while De Gaulle had announced his intention to resign if the " no " won.