Music Released By Year – 1969

Rock music reached new heights with the rise of progressive, psychedelic, pop, bubblegum, and heavy rock.

The year 1969 was a landmark in music history, marked by groundbreaking albums, iconic singles, and defining moments across multiple genres. Rock music reached new heights with the rise of progressive, psychedelic, and heavy rock, while pop music continued to evolve with the influence of folk and experimental sounds,

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Paul Vance Dies

It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini
That she wore for the first time today, An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini, So in the locker, she wanted to stay

“Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini” dominated AM radio in 196o, making Brian Hyland a teen idol in the process. The song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was a hit around the world. It was written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss and first released in June 1960, inspired by Vance’s daughter, who was too shy to wear a bikini in public.

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Howard Morris Was Ernest T. Bass

“And if you wonder who I be, it’s me it’s me, it’s Ernest T.!”

Howard Jerome Morris was born September 4, 1919, to a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York, the son of Hugo and Elsie Morris. Morris attended New York University on a dramatic arts scholarship. During World War II he was assigned to a United States Army Special Services unit, the entertainment branch, where he was a First Sergeant. He was based in Honolulu and entertained the troops throughout the pacific.

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Stacks of 45’s – Venus/Hot Sand

Yeah, baby, she’s got it

When I was young before I had cassettes, the only good way of making a playlist of songs was to stack 45s on the turntable. I would arrange for them to play my favorite songs in my favorite order. These posts are about records I had in my stacks.

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Stacks of 45’s – Jean/The Arrangement

It’s what you might call a kind of an arrangement

When I was young before I had cassettes, the only good way of making a playlist of songs was to stack 45s on the turntable. I would arrange for them to play my favorite songs in my favorite order. These posts are about records I had in my stacks.

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Everything’s Archie Comics

We wanna dance, and we wanna sing, have some fun and go adventuring.

When I was 11 years old, I would go to Alpha Drugs in downtown Alpharetta, Georgia. They had a comic book section, just as you walked in the front door. One of my favorites was “Everything’s Archie” comic book, it even had a picture of Archie’s rock band on each cover. A lot of the stories had to do with the band, music, and dancing which fit in with Archie’s albums that were being released in this period. It was, of course, published by Archie Comics, from 1969 to 1991. It also was in conjunction with the Archie TV cartoon series that was on Saturday mornings.

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