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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 3. 1969 a eg LJ At Atlantic City Pop Festival Yelling, Bathing Youngsters Steal Spotlight From Stars NEW ROYAL NEW SMITH-CORONA ELECTRIC ADDER TYPEWRITER pop festivals are harder to find "Are you enjoying stage after early amplification he bellowed at one point. trouble, but stuck it out and if than nude people, and the sec ond day of the big AC festival By JACK LLOYD Of The Inquirer Staff ATLANTIC CITY, Aug.

2. It couldn't have been the long, hard wailing of Tim Buckley xes, me crowa responded with a roar. was another extravaganza of kela, with the pleasant contrast of his sweet trumpet and harsh, soul-reaching vocals, on numbers that some people don't understand. "If you don't understand what we're doing, it's just mu sound, with one smash group Add Subtract a Multiply OPEN WED. EVE.

after another taking over. MONTHLY TERMS that sent all those kids scurry Man," "Turn, Turn, Turn." Later the Byrds had them clapping their hands like it was old-fashioned camp meeting with the gospel sounds of "Jesus Is All Right With Me." But how do you pick out the highlights? There were just too many of them crammed into the long day and night. There was, for instance. Mase And proving that such events came back strong to win over the whole audience. As for tne young lady who was seen running along the bank of the track's pond earlier in the day desperately searching for her discarded bell-bottoms, there is no reliable information.

1 awyayaMtMWMiMWKJi 111111111 ipn mum sic, he explained. "Are you enjoying yourself?" he repeated And the crowd roared even louder. And then there was the smashing comeback made by Lighthouse, a Canadian group that was 2bout to leave the are appreciated, before the day had ended, 47.J64 turned out, 1 -i 1 1 1 i -i r. i not counting another couple of And there was B. B.

King, batting out more than enough blues for any one man. thousand who bounded over the fence obviously so enthused they forgot tc buy tickets. It was, by the way, a record attendance figure for the track ing to the big pond in the center of the Atlantic City Race Course Saturday. "Sweet Mama, what you want to do hey, hey," Buckley had been pleading. "Yes, Sweet Mama, what you want to do." It was, you see, hot and humid, and what they obviously wanted to do was cool off.

And even though that pool was classified as off limits, it just didn't seem right. After it was good enough for all those geese that seemed to be having such a good time. FEEL LIKE A STAR" As for those young men and women who went all the way and took off their clothes for This of course, does not prove that pop-music makers have a larger following than horses Sears but it did make the festival producers very happy. FULL DAY OF SOUNDS In addition to Buckley (and the festival swimming team), the day's entertainment was provided by the Jefferson Airplane. Creedence Clearwater a dip as more than 30,000 gazed appreciatively from various vantage points in the stands not to mention the rafters blame it on the exurberance of Revival, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, B.

B. King, Hugh Masekela. Booker and the M. G's, Lighthouse, The Byrds, American Dream and Biff Rose, who is serving as master of ceremonies for the three-day event. It made for a full day of jazz, soul, blues, driving rock, and even the bluegrass-rock sounds of the Byrds, who sparked an invasion of the stage by their fans with such favor it es "Mr.

Tambourine youth. A little earlier, Buckley had stated in response to a standing ovation, "Gee, I feel like a star." Those who had stripped down for their unscheduled highlight of the Atlantic City Pop Festival probably had the same feeling. But never mind that. Good PICTURE WINDOWS Concert Turns Swim-In Rock Fans 'Liberate' Track's Goose Pond Special to The Inquirer ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 2.

Acid rock addicts in record- breaking numbers poured into the Atlantic City Race Course on Saturday for the second day of the Atlantic City Pop Festival, taking over the goose pond, light standards and even dancing on loud largest crowd ever to squeeze into the track. CLOSER TO ACTION They said there were at least 5000 more who jumped the ence and another 400 who "argued" their way in because there weren't enough ticket lakers to guard the gate. PROBLEM WINDOWS Some oi the listeners, finding they weren't close enough to the sights and sounds, sifted into the area at the base of the stage, speakers. They began by climbing hori-xcntal light standards and grooving precariously 40 fset above the ground. As the day turned hotter and stickier, two youths bolted over fences separating the infield from the grandstand and, followed by a few thousand more, took a refreshing dip with the geese in the track pond.

yith 30,000 or so gazing from the grandstands, several boys stripped to go skinny-dipping end a girl plunged in, clad only in black panties. The sport ended not in deference to the impassioned plea of Biff Rose, the master of ceremonies but because a raft previously off limits, where they sat amid amplifier and loud speaker wires. Police made only tentative attempts to eject them and then gave up. There were "surprisingly few arrests," police said happily CASEMENT WINDOWS from their temporary headquar ters in Oakcrest High School in May's Landing. Four youths were charged with underage drinking and four others with on which they played king of the mountain went topsy turvy and injured two boys, neither seriously.

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