Pure Prairie League, formed in Ohio in 1969 by Craig Fuller, had both critical and commercial success with 5 straight Top 40 LP releases, including Bustin ' Out ( 1972 ), acclaimed by Allmusic critic Richard Foss as " an album that is unequaled in country-rock " and Two Lane Highway, described by Rolling Stone Magazine as " a worthy companion to the likes of The Byrds ' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo and other gems of the genre ".

* November, 28, 29 and 30, 1969 in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of the Miami Pop Festival with Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Chambers Brothers, Sly & The Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Spirit, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sweetwater, Country Joe & The Fish, Johnny Winter, Grand Funk Railroad, The Rugby's, King Crimson.

* June 20, 1969 at Devonshire Downs in Northridge, California, as part of the ' 69 Pop Festival with Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, The Byrds & Creedence Clearwater Revival

The 1969 hit " You Showed Me " had been written by Byrds Gene Clark and Roger ( then Jim ) McGuinn in 1964.

* Hatch, Alden, The Byrds of Virginia: An American Dynasty, 1670 to the Present ( 1969 )

* 1969 The Byrds, Boston Tea Party, live recording-citation

On December 4, 1968, a later line-up of The Byrds re-recorded an excerpt of " My Back Pages " as part of a medley that was included on their 1969 album, Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde.

In addition to its appearance on the Younger Than Yesterday album, The Byrds ' original version of " My Back Pages " also appears on several of the band's compilations, including The Byrds ' Greatest Hits, History of The Byrds, The Byrds Play Dylan, The Original Singles: 1967 – 1969, Volume 2, The Byrds, The Very Best of The Byrds, The Essential Byrds, and There Is a Season.

" Chestnut Mare " is a song by the American rock band The Byrds, written by Roger McGuinn and Jacques Levy during 1969 for a planned country rock musical named Gene Tryp.

Throughout most of 1969, The Byrds ' leader and guitarist Roger McGuinn had been writing songs with psychologist and Broadway impresario Jacques Levy for a country rock stage production of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt that the pair were developing.

* The Byrds on the Ballad of Easy Rider ( 1969 )

Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde is the seventh album by the American rock band The Byrds and was released in March 1969 on Columbia Records ( see 1969 in music ).

Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde was released on March 5, 1969 in the United States ( catalogue item CS 9755 ) and April 25, 1969 in the United Kingdom ( catalogue item 63545 in mono, S 63545 in stereo ).

McLean recorded his first album, Tapestry, in 1969 in Berkeley, California during the student riots.

The instrumental arrangements on tracks such as " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " and " Licking Stick-Licking Stick " ( both recorded in 1968 ) and " Funky Drummer " ( recorded in 1969 ) featured a more developed version of Brown's mid-1960s style, with the horn section, guitars, bass and drums meshed together in intricate rhythmic patterns based on multiple interlocking riffs.

He recorded Gettin ' Down To It ( 1969 ) and Soul on Top ( 1970 ), two albums consisting mostly of romantic ballads and jazz standards, with the Dee Felice Trio and the Louie Bellson Orchestra respectively.

November 1997 saw the release of Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions, a two-disc set largely recorded in 1969 and 1971.

His most famous song is the " Liverpool Lullaby ( Oh you are a mucky kid )", which Cilla Black recorded in 1969 as the B-side to her pop hit " Conversations ".

Further evidence of pre-1970 recordings surfaced with the release of the song " I Heard You Got Religion ", supposedly recorded in 1969, and released originally as a downloadable track from Ralph America in 1999.

In 1969, the Plastic Ono Band's first album, Live Peace in Toronto 1969, was recorded during the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival festival.

This incident was one of the first recorded transgender riots in United States history, preceding the more famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City by three years.

* " Birmingham, Alabama " ( 1969 ), recorded by R. B. Greaves on the eponymous album

1 ), Steve Jolliffe ( wind instruments and vocals on Cyclone and the following tour ; he was also part of a short-lived 1969 line-up ), Ralf Wadephul ( in collaboration with Edgar Froese recorded album Blue Dawn, but it was released only in 2006 ; also credited for one track on Optical Race ( 1988 ) and toured with the band in support of this album ), and Linda Spa ( saxophonist who appeared on numerous albums and concerts between 1990 and 1996, as well as 2005 onwards ).

Similarly, in 1969, a park ranger, Neville Fenton, recorded a lyrebird song which resembled flute sounds in the New England National Park, near Dorrigo in northern coastal New South Wales.

" We're Gonna Groove " opens the album and, according to the album notes, was recorded at Morgan Studios in June, 1969.

The other, the country-music-infused David's Album ( 1969 ) was recorded for husband David Harris, a prominent anti-Vietnam War protester eventually imprisoned for draft resistance.

Haley actually recorded this song on five occasions ( a Spanish language version for Orfeón of Mexico City and an English version for the US label Newtown Records ( both in 1964 ), two live versions for Buddah Records recorded in New York in 1969 ( neither of which were released for 25 years ), and once more in Nashville, Tennessee for the Swedish Sonet Records label in 1970 ).

That album, the appropriately titled Goodbye, was recorded in late 1968 and released in early 1969, after the band had broken up.

In 1967 classical strings-focused Just Music had been formed by Alfred Harth and been recorded on ECM ( 1002 ) in 1969 in West Germany.

This duo auditioned for Dodd in 1969, and recorded the debut single " Door Peep ".

During late 1969 Casady and Kaukonen recorded an all-acoustic blues album, which was released in the spring of 1970.

Others included " Mean Mr. Mustard " and " Polythene Pam " ( both of which would be used for the medley on Abbey Road ); " Child of Nature " ( recorded with drastically different lyrics as " Jealous Guy " for Lennon's Imagine ); " Etcetera " ( a McCartney composition ); " The Long and Winding Road " ( completed in 1969 for the Let It Be LP ); " Something " ( which ended up on Abbey Road ); and " Sour Milk Sea " ( which Harrison gave to friend and Apple artist Jackie Lomax for his first LP, Is This What You Want ).

" After alleged opposition to the dark lyrics of one of his contributions, the autobiographical "' Til I Die " ( a song demoed in 1969 and largely recorded in 1970 ), Wilson was reported to have lost interest in the group once more, conceding leadership of the sessions to his youngest brother.

On September 30, 2008, Seattle's Light in the Attic Records released A World of Peace Must Come, a collaboration between Wilson and Stephen Kalinich, originally recorded in 1969, but later lost in Kalinich's closet.

The closing song of the 1969 Michael Caine crime caper, The Italian Job, (" Getta Bloomin ' Move On " a. k. a. " The Self Preservation Society ") contains many slang terms.

Bowie first caught the eye and ear of the public in July 1969, when his song " Space Oddity " reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart.

Although not released until 1984, the filming sessions in January 1969 led to unexpected success when Bowie told the producers, " That film of yours — I've got a new song for it.

On the 40th anniversary of the July 1969 moon landing — and Bowie's accompanying commercial breakthrough with " Space Oddity "— EMI released the individual tracks from the original eight-track studio recording of the song, in a 2009 contest inviting members of the public to create a remix.

In 1969, Sullivan presented the Jackson 5 with their first single " I Want You Back ", which ousted the B. J. Thomas song from the top spot of Billboard's pop charts.

Meanwhile, the drum break from the second version of the original 1969 hit " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " ( the recording included on the compilation album In the Jungle Groove ) became so popular at hip hop dance parties ( especially for breakdance ) during the late 1970s and early 1980s that hip hop founding father Kurtis Blow called the song " the national anthem of hip hop ".

One British folk / rock band ( 1969 – 2003 ), Lindisfarne, was even named after the island, while a Celtic Christian progressive rock band named after another island, Iona, has a song devoted to Lindisfarne on its album Journey into the Morn ( 1995 ).

* " Proud Mary ", a 1969 song by John Fogerty

The Israeli song " Prague ", written by Shalom Hanoch and performed by Arik Einstein at the Israel Song Festival of 1969, was a lamentation on the fate of the city after the Soviet invasion and mentions Jan Palach's Self-immolation.

Two of the earliest recordings which have a funk beat and lyrics which are rhymed in rhythm over this type of beat were released by comedian Pigmeat Markham, " Here Come the Judge " which was released in 1968 by the Chess label and in 1969 another song about running numbers called " Who Got The Number?

* In 1969, progressive rock band Yes covered the song " Something's Coming " as the B-side to their first single " Sweetness ".

Ono wrote a song about her daughter, " Don't Worry Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow )," which appears on Lennon and Ono's album Live Peace In Toronto 1969 and her album Fly.

In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.

*" Cirrus Minor " ( song ), a 1969 song by Pink Floyd

Led Zeppelin's guitarist Jimmy Page would incorporate a loose, improvised section based on " Mars " during live improvised versions of Dazed and Confused from its first incorporation in the song in October 1969 to the song's last performance in May 1975.

In the new version, she changed the lyric " here's to the dawn of their days " to " here's to the dawn of her days ", as a tribute to her late sister Mimi, about whom Baez wrote the song in 1969.

The Soft Machine, a British group, included the song " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire " in its 1969 album Volume Two.

In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.

* " Blind ", a song by Deep Purple from their 1969 album Deep Purple