Danbury Library Blog

There is no song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young with the above title, but there might easily have been one. It is all a matter of timing as the saying goes. Your faithful blogger would like to tell you that he atttended Woodstock, but in the interest of full disclosure cannot do this. He was faced with a dilemma in the summer of 1969 of attending rock festivals at Atlantic City Race Track or at Woodstock, NY. He and his friends chose the Atlantic City Pop Festival, and the rest is history. But in reconsidering this festival, it did have a great deal to offer. Attendance was 100,000 people, which pales before Woodstock's 500,000 but was still a substantial number. And the music was superb. You can view the line-up of musicians on the above link, and it did include many excellent performers. I particularly enjoyed Janis Joplin, Procol Harum, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Tim Buckley. People got along very well, and we were not in a sea of mud like the people at Woodstock which made it much more comfortable. And Crosby, Stills, and Nash were supposed to perform but did not show up and were replaced by the Chambers Brothers. So we really could have had a song about Atlantic City if they had shown up!