The Hippy anthem was Get Together by the Youngblood's. Yes the Hippy culture began in the Haight Asbury section of San Francisco.

@bamacopeland4372

27 күн бұрын

That is one of my favorite songs. Come on people now smile on your brother try to love one another right now. Those lyrics hit just about home as does Eva destruction by Barry McGuire

This was a song that many Vietnam Veterans relate to because you left for Nam from Oakland Calif. but you arrived a couple day early to spend time in San Fan and went to hippie section of the city. I know I did just that.

I was born in the fifteties, raised in the sixties and partied in the seventies. The best music, fastest cars.

@user-uh3nn9sm1j

2 ай бұрын

Right there with you!! Best of times.

In 1967 when I was 15, my family emigrated to the US from the UK. This song was popular in England before we left and was playing on the plane as we were flying into the San Francisco airport.

In Vietnam we listen to this and waited for the day we would go back to SF. I returned in 68. 1st infantry division

My mom and pops were original hippies who hung out in San Francisco. My mom absolutely hated being labeled. She would always say, "We were just kids who thought we could change the world with love!" As a nation we are so far away from the sentiments in this song!

Haight and Ashbury was the famous corner in San Francisco where the flower children hung out. In 1967 The Bee Gees replied to this with Massachusetts

@webbtrekker534

2 ай бұрын

In the summer of 1968 I was at Haight & Ashbury while wearing my Navy uniform. I got a few looks but nobody bothered and there were hundreds of people there. I was at Treasure Island finishing up a 4 year tour.

Mark Twain said the coldest winter he experienced was the summer he spent in San Francisco.

@johnsilva9139

2 ай бұрын

Yes, summers are surprisingly cool ( and refreshing ) there if you're used to the sweltering heat of midwest and east coast summers. I loved the summer I spent there, cool to warm with bright sunny days and no rain the whole summer.

@michaelasay8587

2 ай бұрын

​@@johnsilva9139you live in that shithole? You should be over here in yr own country! Yr nuttttts

@deedee67888

2 ай бұрын

I had no idea that was true, but when I was there at the end of July, I had to wear a hoodie. Was not prepared for that!

Brings back wonderful memories of the young man I was in the sixties.

@jaycorby

2 ай бұрын

Oh yeah...I was 22 in the summer of '67, getting ready to begin my 30 year teaching career in September.

I was one of the many teenagers who listened to this song and wore flowers in our hair in 1967. Great times. Add Lets Go To San Francisco by The Flowerpot Men, and you are there in 1967.

Too bad the San Francisco of that era isn't anything like it is today

@MarcutsuSpoon

2 ай бұрын

Too bad Long Island New York isn't anything like it used to be. Things change, usually for the worst.

@philipm06

2 ай бұрын

Open cesspit.

@user-lk2cj2qs1d

2 ай бұрын

that's true all over

@davidw7

2 ай бұрын

You know what the same types of no change and 50s was far far superior ending very early 60s..... the same thing. Want the old back all is dirty, hippy trash, do not take baths and un-American not wanting to serve their country. The US is going downhill fast etc..... then Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy Assassinatedd and riots, neighborhood burnings and the Dem Convention in Chicago had a police riot they called where Da Mayor sent the police with their battons and to wack the Vietnam Protesters without having permits to be in Grant Park downtown lakefront and even camping overnight. MY HOW HISTORY REPEATS WHEN WE NEVER FIX OUR MISTAKES of our cities, racial dislike and white-flight taking wealth and Corporate American abandoning over paying higher wages and Unions for suburbs then Asia with Japan, Taiwan and finally China for the CHEAP. Corporate America ALLOWED to just ABANDON MILLS small cities all thru the north and big cities , Gov. redlining, no GI loans to minorities and no loans to those areas they lived making them into more ghettos over time..... white flight took wealth. Now companies and people take their wealth they built in them areas as they move to the sunbelt for cheaper and Right-To-Work states that was to prevent Unions far more and some states no state income tax that saves wealthier more money.... though real estate taxes go up up up as infrastructure needs keep coming and older areas and suburbs age also including streets, sidewalks, sewage treatment plant to expressways in need of widening and rebuilt. ALL THE PONZIE SCHEME that keeps on having some look for more cheaper areas again further into new suburbs/exburbs .

@Jude_196

2 ай бұрын

.....AGREE!

The Summer of Love-1967 ~ the brief time LSD was legalized ~ the Monterey Pop Festival ~ all came together in the San Francisco Bay area not just the city itself ~ with a vibration that seemed to be coming upfrom the ground itself ~ You really hit it right when you called it spiritual ~ it was part of a very spirit filled time that gave birth to all the astrological references that touched so many songs back then ~ very few who didn't live through it will ever understand it

@markhodge7

2 ай бұрын

It's not only true that you had to live through it to understand it. We who experienced it realize that we, as a group, were the luckiest humans to have ever lived. Such a special time. It was the most spiritual, artistic and musical apex of human expression that I have seen in my lifetime, and what I've read of history.

@mrheem44

2 ай бұрын

LSD was made illegal in 1966. Before that it was legal ever since dr Hoffmans bike ride home in 1943. . Cheers

@user-zk4vi5hw6x

2 ай бұрын

LSD was not legalized it just was not yet Illegal. My 68 the establishment had made it so along with many other new drugs they had not done with before. Like pot they put it right in there with Heroin as a class substance.

@Nuerth

2 ай бұрын

@@mrheem44 But they didn't start to really crack down on it until spring of 1968 ~ in the beginning relationships between the police & flower children was very lay back ~ I remember in Berkeley they wouldn't do more then confiscate the drugs & tell them to move on

Long live flower power 🌺💚✌️

This song single handedly takes me to this era. Possibly the most magnetic song ever, creates virtual time travel ! I am eternally jealous of those who lived there at this time. I know it wasn’t perfect but it was such a creative turning point/bookmark in history.

Damn one of my favorites! I was 10 in SF during the Summer of Love. The whole vibe was so chill in '67. I was young and saw so much of the hippie lifestyle. I saw things in golden Gate Park that changed me forever. In a good way... Peace.

McKenzie Philips , John Phillips daughter got her name from this

San Francisco was the epicenter of the entire flower power, hippie movement and yes, this is THE theme song of the era.

@MatthewC137

2 ай бұрын

Yup, and that's why the place is a violent cesspool today.

Another great 60's anthem would be "Eve Of Destruction". Still meaningful today. Unfortunately. Another would be "San Francisco Night" by Eric Burdon & The Animals.

@rickfortier8664

2 ай бұрын

Followed by the song "Dawn of Correction" kzread.info/dash/bejne/X6hpj6tpfK2zlLw.html&ab_channel=VietnamWarSongProject

@bobclarke1815

2 ай бұрын

Eve of Destruction, was performed by Barry Maguire and as stated later it is still unfortunately very true.

@donaldduck2139

2 ай бұрын

yeah...good bring up...👍

@GeoffCB

2 ай бұрын

@@bobclarke1815 Yes, Barry Maguire played for free at our campus one lunchtime in the 70s, just with a guitar. I don't think many people knew who he was. This was in Australia!

@rogerdodger6025

2 ай бұрын

"Monterrey" and "Sky Piot" by Eric Burdon & the Animals are two songs that also capture that era as well.

My mother loved this song. I remember she played this song’s record. She passed away two years ago. Thanks.

I think specifically probably talking about the Haight Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco, became a sort of hippie enclave for a while.

My parents lived in San Francisco, and my Uncle was in Vietnam when this song came out. He told my folks that he'd wear flowers in his whole body if could make it out of Vietnam and get to SF.

Written by John Phillips of The Mammas and Pappas. John Phillips played guitar on the recording along with The Wrecking Crew session musician.

Another song that was released contemporaneously with this song was “The Rain, The Park & Other Things,” by The Cowsills. Originally titled “The Flower Girl,” it was renamed to avoid confusion with the Scott McKenzie song, San Francisco (wear flowers in your hair). Both were released in 1967, aka The Summer of Love. So, Sam & Phil, your next reaction should be The Rain, The Park & Other Things, by The Cowsills.

@extracaliber432

2 ай бұрын

I know it will make them happy.

My absolute favourite 60's song! I am a hippy at heart!

I haven’t heard this song in SO MANY YEARS; what memories it brings! I lived in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San Jose, which are in the south SFBayArea 1943-1971 while it changed from agricultural to becoming Silicon Valley, so moved to north Idaho and changed back to Country Western music of my childhood. THANKS for the memories 🤩

One of my favorite songs that encapsulates the feelings of that time back in the late 60's.

Bring back so many memories..the best hippie song ever..

There are very few songs that can effectively take you back to a period in time and fill you with the same joy and peacefulness that you felt back then. I am 66 and this is one of those songs. Thank you so much for choosing this. A wonderful selection!

I was a little kid in the late 60s and we lived in the Bay Area. I remember my older cousins, who were total hippies, putting flowers in my hair behind my ear when we took day trips into the city. They're still hippies and the coolest people I've ever known.

@mocrg

2 ай бұрын

Peace love .looking after Mother Earth. Accepting others.

I grew up during those years and it was indeed a better time to be alive in my opinion... San Francisco is where the folk singers and a spiraling songwriters of the day migrated to ... Scott McKenzie tried to come up with other songs after this but nothing that really compared to this song... John Phillips who wrote this song was a very talented songwriter.. He has such a big body of work that a lot of people didn't even know about... John Phillips collaborated with many other groups and artists to help write their songs... I do remember that he collaborated with the beach boys and helped to write the lyrics for their song " Kokomo " in 1985... This song that Scott McKenzie sang was thought by many to be the flagship song for the 1960s and the " Me " generation... I have many wonderful memories of the 1960s... It was a great time to be alive and the music was incredible... Great reaction guys... Keep being awesome !!!...

@johnsilva9139

2 ай бұрын

I thought the " Me " generation was the post hippie 70's.

@dewman0269

2 ай бұрын

@@johnsilva9139 the "me" generation started around '68 give or take a year...the "me" generation were young people who got into spirituality and experimented with drugs of the day...flower power was a popular thing then... pretty much all done by '71 or '72...that was my experience anyway...just my opinion...

One of my favorite songs from growing up.

This is one of the prettiest songs I've ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hal Blaine on the drums.

@johnsilva9139

2 ай бұрын

Was it all Wrecking Crew musicians?

Another Great Hippy song is " For What It's Worth " by The Buffalo Springfield from Canada i think ! Neil Young and Stephen Stills played in this group before (Crosby Stills Nash and Young) Nice Reaction =) 🌹🌺🌻✌🤙

One of my most favourite songs of all time. Thanks for the reaction.

I just love this song. It is very special! Peace!✌🌺🌻🌼🌷

Summer of Love! I love this song. Takes me back!

Probably the one song that defines the 60's.

My dad LOVED this song. Always talked about it after serving in Vietnam. Miss you Poppa

Phil and Sam, a couple of notes. There was an _invitation_ to all people to come to San Francisco in the Summer of ‘67, THE “Summer of Love,” to a “love-in,” a chance to bond with people everywhere for a new, peace-driven world. Phil, you might agree that the _invisible_ embellishments that build the power of a song from its melodic core to a very powerful opus are the marks if a great composition. You feel the sum, not the parts. And yet, teasing out those parts teaches us how the brilliance happens. Thank you both for a great reaction to this beautiful song!

This always reminds me of my mom. She loved this song and always sang to it when it came out back then.

"One Tin Soldier" (1969) by Original Caste from the film "Billy Jack" or Mike Curb Congregation - Burning Bridges (1971) from Kelly's Heroes are 2 others from my younger years that reflected the hippie peace side of the times.

Such a beautiful voice.

This is the Hippie Anthem. I lived across the bay from San Francisco in Oakland. I was in junior high school when this song came out. LOL! Love your reactions! ♥

Yes, it's hippie anthem. I don't need the lyrics. This song is very special to me. I even moved to SF from my home in Georgia to just say that I l lived there - not in the 60's though but I love all that hippie music and history. I now sing this song at karaoke. By the way, there's a video with this song set to old hippie footage on KZread that's really good to watch.

My era 60’s nothing will overtake those days 👌

Scott was a significant member of the Mamas and Poppas, lead vocals on some hit songs. I was living walking distance from the Haight Ashbury district of the City which was the destination point for many counter culture young people from all over the world. This song was a major hit, and you could hear it many times daily on both FM and Am radio if you lived in SF during the hippie era.

That sure brings back the memories of the 60s.

My Mom loved this song I remember she had the 45 of it and played it alot. ❤

This was a great song i was a60s kid 16 when it came out

Should have done the video which shows the hippie life in the Haight Ashbury District of SF in the late 1960's.. It's an awesome version and highlights Scott doing the singing.

Sky Pilot by Eric Bourdon and the (Animals)

Awesome song! Thanks for checking it out. I grew up there during the flower child days. Was amazing 🤩

Yippee more from the hippie days, flowers in your hair , days of free love and psychedelic dreams.❤ Sam you would make a beautiful hippie with flowers in your hair.💐💐🌹🪷

My Hippie music. Grew up with all this playing on the radio.. Thank you Phil and Sam

@barsandbarbells2022

2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure!

✌️ I was 9 yrs old when this came out❣️ However, I remember hearing it & loving it through the years and still today. 😊❤✌️

@barsandbarbells2022

2 ай бұрын

How could you not ;)

SF was a major hippie center with beautiful people " inside". The msg was based on inner happiness, and very much outgoing love bar non which was displayed by flowers as a symbol of peace and freely distributed. You could walk down the street and meet friendly people with smiles who exude joy to strangers " kind of saying we are all humans on this little planet and we're spreading joy and peace". To bad those days are long gone.....

an Iconic hippy song from the Flower Power era, late 60's. A bit of folk music for relaxing in an interlude with some pot and some Patchouli Incense Sticks. I was 17 when this song was first released.

Beautiful city San Francisco to visit back in the 60's and 70's. Times have changed with that hippie era, compared to the present time now. Really something the song was about peace and love during that time the Vietnam war which I served in that region during this time. ✌✌

Written by Papa John Phillips for the Monterey Pop Festival of which he was the main organizer

What you hear is a sitar. Love this song I'm a child of the 60's & it's on my car's travel drive. Please give a listen to Lee Michaels "do you know what I mean"

Not one of my favorites from that time period, but it played so much on the radio that it definitely brings back great memories

Old Hippie by the Bellamy Brothers is the epilogue to this song.. Old Hippie is the anthem of the children of the 60's generation in the here and now.. Signed an old hippie

They really could write good music in the 60ties❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Always fun for us 'oldsters' seeing young folks enjoying Hits we loved when we were young!

This was the flower power anthem. The Haight-Ashbury area of SF was the hippie gathering spot for the hippie movement. A buddy of mine in high school was going to SF in 68/69 and almost convinced me to go with him ... one of those things looking back and wondering how different my life would have been. 🙂

This song was written as an ad for the Monterey Pop Festival....became a hit.

when i went there in 1984 it rocked me! have no idea about now!

Flower Power, Peace ✌️

Our anthem back then. Hippies had it all perfect….

After I dropped out of college in 1970 I hitchhiked fom Texas to San Francisco. Long hair, love beads, bellbottoms, tye died shirts, turquoise and silver jewelry, flowers in your hair, LSD, weed, love, peace, and rock 'n roll! Today, you couldn't pay me to go there.😢😫❤️✌️

This is such a great song. This came out in 1967 & was Scott's biggest hit but he also recorded "Like An Old Time Movie". He also wrote the song "What About Me" for Anne Murray in 1968 & he co-wrote "Kokomo" which became a big hit for The Beach Boys in 1988.

"In" was in back then. I believe it started as a peaceful protest to our war in Vietnam as students would gather together and have a "Sit-In", often blocking entrances to government buildings. A "Love-In" was a gathering of gentle people in the name of peace and love. "Laugh-In" was a very popular "hippie" comedy show in 1968, hosted by the comedy team Rowan and Martin. While the center of the hippie gathering was on the corners of Haight and Ashbury in SF, the real artist's community was across the Golden Gate Bridge in the city of Sausalito.

I was 7 years old when this came out and my family lived east of the Bay Area near Modesto. My older sister and her boyfriend moved to San Francisco and I remember she brought me some "hippy beads" which I proudly wore to school.😂 When I was older I talked with her about it and she said they went to lots of free concerts in Golden Gate Park to hear The Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and The Grateful Dead. She really enjoyed living there. It's an amazing city, but its kind of unfortunate how things have gone for it in recent years. I know nothing stays the same, but it was a better city back in the day (imo).

Went to S.F for the 50th anniversary 2017. Did a tour in a V.W campervan all painted up and kitted out for the Summer of Love.

There was a huge amount of experimentation with exotic instruments by groups from this era.

I grew up on the San Francisco Peninsula and was a senior in high school during the Summer of Love. When I turned 18 I went to my first concert at the Fillmore Auditorium. It was a revelation for a suburban jock kid. Two years later, I was in college with hair down to my shoulders. Thanks for your reaction to this highly evocative song!

Fun stuff, you two! Peace, love and good music 👩‍❤‍👨

Always loved this song. So pretty. Never was a hippie though!

Certainly fired up the nostalgia machine.

The summer of '67 this song was on the radio constantly, every five minutes. Height Ashbury district in SF was the place to be if you wanted to be a hippie. Oh ya, a radio was a device that received a signal from the air, from people called disc jockeys at a station. The discs were made of vinyl and had songs recorded on them. You had to have a machine called a turn table to play and hear the music on these discs. LOL

This song was one of the main causes of the mass influx of young people (many of them runaway teems) from all over the nation. You can find a lot of film showing people enjoying themselves in Haight-Asbury and wearing flowers in their hair. But then or soon after there was an influx of drugs, including hard drugs, and many people getting in over their heads. Many of them were homeless and depended on charity to eat. The mainstream press and the alternative press (or underground press, as it was called at the time) both covered the downside to the whold thing. The "Summer of Love" was probably the high point of the hippie movement, because reality soon set in with the positive aspects.

I was 8 years old in the Summer of '67 living in East Texas but I still remember the images, and the songs, and the mentions of Haight-Ashbury area of SF and the slang.

@texadan314

2 ай бұрын

And the Summer of 1967 was also the debut of the tv show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In which was extremely funny and added a lot to my consciousness of hippy vibe.

after this song came out in 1967, scott couldn't handle the fame or pressure. he flew to france, and was totally horrified when a frenchman fan started kissing his feet. the song went everywhere. the mamas and papas guy, philips, wrote it for the monterey calif pop 1967 festival. everyone loved the song.

1867 was the Summer of Love and San Francisco was the place to be. This song was competing with "All You Need Is Love" by The Beatles for official anthem of the summer of '67. This was also the year of "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". A landmark year!

@Linda-jn9gk

2 ай бұрын

1967

@visaman

2 ай бұрын

Canada become a country in 1867.

John Phillips was in the process of putting together the first of the big concerts, The Monterey Pop festival. He wrote the song to attract young people to the festival. San Francisco was the origin of the whole Hippie thing and Monterey was just south of the City. I lived in SF and went to the festival. Of course, it was awesome. 🙂✌💛, PJ

It's a vibe!

I’m a big fan of this song.great reaction

The late sixties after the Beatles came folk rock and acid rock. The late sixties and early seventies were turbulent. We love Samantha. She should wear flowers in her hair.😊

I’ll take San Francisco today to anywhere in the south any day.

Great reaction, guy's, always love watching your true feelings to the music.I lived this era i was 10 when this came out but I had a dad and 4 brothers and uncles and it seemed everyone in my family was instrumental and always new records being bought and played in the house there was some great American bands during the British invasion also,the turtles(you baby)the lovin spoonful (Good lovin) the Byrds (my back page) anyway u get it,delve into 60 American bands...excellent show guy really enjoyed keep spreading the music around Godbless ❤️

San Francisco and specifically, Haight-Ashbury, was the capital of the Summer of Love (1967). In that brief period of time, there were a number of hit songs that had a similar message, like Reach Out of the Darkness. For real hippie fun, listen to The Rain, the Park, and Other Things by the Cowsills and be sure to wear those flowers and tie-dye tees.

I remember this well...if you love this, try "Love is All Around" by the Troggs. Very flower child sixties!

Another gem reaction guys ! I can see the hippie soaking into both of you lol. Time for flower headbands and a Chevy van

I lived in Marin County (North end of the Golden Gate Bridge) and was a cop in The Bay Area for 32 years...starting in 1971...It's northing like that now. I retired and left the state shortly afterward as have many who lived and worked there. It's definitely being run by a bunch of crazies now.

I first got to SF in ‘82. There as a fern bar at the corner of Haight and Ashbury Street. 😢

A little interesting fact, the bass part was played by Wrecking Crew member Joe Osborn who was the bass player for the Carpenters. The drums for this song were played by long time Wrecking Crew member Hal Blaine who also played drums on most of the Carpenters songs.

Number 1 in the uk when I was born. 14th August 1967.

Yes, San Francisco was the epi-center of hippie Counter Culture in America. People flocked there for the music, fashion, political anti-establishment & anti-war movements. The first rock music festivals, (before Woodstock in New York), took place in Northern California.

This was from a time when San Francisco was a great place. It is having a rough time right now. 😢