Golden Autumn-69 (Azerbaijani: Qızıl Payız-69) was a musical week held on October 23–29, 1969 in the Palace of Hand Games of Baku in pop, mugham and jazz genres.

The festival was held by the All-Union Communist Youth Union of Lenin and the Culture Department of the Baku City Executive Committee.

The jury of the competition included Rauf Atakishiyev, Jabir Novruz, Ogtay Kazimov, Leonid Weinstein, Vagif Mustafazadeh, Rafig Babayev and others, with the chairman of the Azerbaijan SSR honored artist, composer Zakir Bagirov.

[3] "Express-118", "3+2", "Melody", "Minor", "Цвет" (English: Colour), "Gamma", "Mashal", "Odlar", "Sun", "Black Rocks", "Ritm" and other groups had participated in the festival.

The song was performed by the international vocal ensemble - Yen Ruda and Pris Kote, students of the GDR studying in Baku, Radi Fernandes from Cuba and Sedim Melum Eldaim from Algeria.

[7] Also at the festival were the performances of the vocal-instrumental ensemble "Цвет" (English: Colour) of the Designing Institute of Azerbaijan State Oil Enterprises, the symphonic jazz of the Azerbaijan State Institute of National Economy named after D. Bunyadzade, the "Mashal" ensemble, singers Bijan Alizade, Ismayil Abdullahi and others.

[6] The first day of the third Baku Pop Song Festival, included in the program of the "Golden Autumn" music week at the Palace of Hand Games, ended late at night.

[9] On October 24, the student of the Azerbaijan Polytechnic Institute and the soloist of the "Rhythm" group Elmar Muradov performed the song "Bəri bax" (English: Look here).

[11] The next stage of the festival — "Mugam-69" was held on October 25 and 26, where amateur and well-known musicians from Shusha, Aghdam and Kirovabad took part in addition to Baku.

After him, Elmira Aliyeva, a student of the Music School named after Asaf Zeynalli, from Baku sang "Mirza Huseyn segah", Janali Akbarov "Heyrati", Mammadali Mammadov "Rast", and Jafargulu Jafarguliyev "Bayati-Shiraz".

Among them, Ismayil, a graduate of the mugham class of the Baku music school named after A. Zeynalli and the director of the Bulbula culture house at that time, accompanied Balash on the tar, and Sabir on the kamancha.

Tamilla Mammadova, the author of several works and symphonic compositions, together with Firidun Huseynzade, was the leader of the instrumental ensemble of Azerbaijan State University named after S. M. Kirov "Shalala".

[13] The second day of the mugham festival started with "Kharij sigah" performed by Sidgi Mustafayev, head of the Taravat Folk Instrument Ensemble of Balakhani Culture House.

Agha Rustamov sang "Rast" mugam accompanied by the ensemble of folk instruments led by tarzan Sadi Zamanov.

Two female singers who took part in the competition - Lumu Bayramova and Honored Artist of the Dagestan MSSR Duriya Rahimova sang "Mirzahuseyn sigah".

At the end of the concert, Baba Mirzayev, the soloist of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic named after M. Magomayev, finished the "Qatar" mugham with jingling bells.

[4] The performances of the jazz ensembles were evaluated by the jury consisting of chairman Khayyam Mirzazade, people's artists of Azerbaijan SSR Tofig Guliyev, Rauf Hajiyev, participants of the festival - Rafig Babayev, Vagif Mustafazadeh and others.

Young people - saxophonist Yuri Gukasov, double bassist Alexander Simonyan, percussionist Valery Grigoryan and piano player Mikhail Khotyanov performed in the jazz quartet.

Later, under the leadership of amateur composer Alexander Kocharov, jazz trio "KM" performed Tofig Guliyev's "You are mine, I am yours", Duke Ellington's "In de melagon", Alexander Kocharov performed "Ballad of Golden Autumn", "Blues for Tatyana"[16] Irina Allegrova, a member of the "Express-118" ensemble, also participated in the Jazz-69 festival.

The leader of the ensemble was Alexander Rakviashvili, the group's guitarist was Roman Bragvadze, the double bass player was Tamaz Kurashvili, and the percussionist was Ivan Arutyunov.

A melody from the movie "The Fate of American Soldiers", Anton Newell's "Who Will Replace Me" and the Russian folk song "O Children" were played by them.