Talk:Newport Pop Festival 1968/@comment-43624488-20190826013321

BEFORE COSTA MESA IN 1968 OR DEVONSHIRE (Still using the name NEWPORT POP FESTIVAL) THERE WAS "HARVEST"...Hunger Hanger...Snoopys Place...The Randezvous...The Prison and beach parties drawing 1000s ...30,000 more at "Bal Week". All in NEWPORT and very POPular ...like a BIG FESTIVAL. BALBOA AND NEWPORT BEACH were the # 1 HAPPENING PLACES TO BE. The area was FAMOUS FOR YEAR 1960 FOR SWING...FOLK...FOLK ROCK ...AND ROCK & ROLL. CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN "MARANATHA" MUSIC ... THE NEW SOUND THAT ADDED A TOUCH OF GOSPEL AND COUNTRY. >>> SURF MUSIC WITH DICK DALE WAS ALSO A BIG HIT. ALL TOGETHER...JIMMY CHRISTMAS CREATED THE VARIETY THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO THE FIRST "NEWPORT POP FESTIVALS IN ORANGE COUNTY.- DR. JAMES ADAMS - Historian