50th Anniversary "Summer of Love" thread

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Eric Burden and The Animals - Monterey


Pink Floyd - See Emily Play - Single Released June 1967


Jefferson Airplane June 3, 1967 American Bandstand Appearance White Rabbit, Somebody To Love, Priceless Interview, and bizarre Psychedelic effects


WABC Music Radio New York City Survey for Week of July 5, 1967

Happy Together -- The Turtles

Somebody To Love -- Jefferson Airplane

The House of the Rising Sun -- The Animals (just because it’s Eric-Freakin-Burdon!)

13th Floor Elevators released Easter Everywhere, one of the great psychedelic albums of all time.

She -- The Monkees

The Rain, the Park & Other Things -- The Cowsills

Chocolate Watch Band - Sweet Young Thing


Quickslver Messenger Service - Dino's Song


Electric Flag - Wine

...It's quite amusing how here, in n San Francisco (at least when you look at it with some historical perspective) how the " respectable/mainstream " media/segments are hopping aboard the " it's the ,50th, maaaaaan " train!

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One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...That chart shows Englebert's " There Goes My Everything " (presumably) entering waaay down - Famously, Eng's breakthrough hit " Release Me " kept the Beatles " Penny Lane/Strawberry Fields Forever " from #1 on the U.K. main pop chart then! Bad vibes, man.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

The not psychalelic singles by The Association, Rascals, and Turtles were number one in New York during July 1967. The Doors did get one week at the top. Sgt Pepper was the number 1 album on Billboard from July 1 to October 7.

They might have been non-psychedelic---but they were quintessentially Sixties.

The Association might have seemed "lame"---but they actually had a funny stage show. In 1967, they also included a Filipino guy in their group.

"Happy Together," and the Turtles, had the hippie ethos down pat, minus the political elements.

The Rascals were into the hippie thing, too. They were more "political" about it, though not stridently so.

The Association and Turtles were part of what is now described as "Sunshine Pop".

Other groovy examples






The Cowsills and Mama and Papas belong in this genre also.

Allmusic - Sunshine Pop

...Also further down, we have the Happenings' remake of Al Jolson's " My Mammy (I remembered it as being another remake of theirs, the Gershwins,/Ethel Merman,s " I Got Rhythm ")!___and what I think was a Caucasian remake close enough to the original to be called a " cover ", the Buckinghams' revamp of the team of Larry Williams and Johnny " Guitar " Watson's vocal version of the Cannonball Adderly funk-jazz choon, " Mercy Mercy Mercy " - Anyone else here familiar with Larry and Johnny's? I once had their album with that song, " Two For The Price Of One ", with an LP cover showing them horse-riding twin (I think) Cadillacs !
Also on the " more funky, less ofay " side, Linda Jones and the Parliaments (later Parliament-Funkadelic) enter quite high up, with songs that I suppose may have proven themselves on R&B radio already, and crossed over then.
I don't know the Ray Charles record listed to sing any part of it.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...Now I'm going to kind of look at the " other " side of '67 !
This lady was a particular favorite of my father
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO8Z4ZupPcg
's- He said before playing her, " She's really Vencelia Maria Cortez from San Antonio, Texas! " (as was he - from SA, thayyat is, and whatever Vicki's real real name, I mean, should be substituted here)
And another one, which appeared on the same LP originally - by the " hip " Jimmy Webb! ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbJfo_PCzk
And, going WAAAAY further back-Vicki's very first, an earlier version, the first, of a Gene Pitney song you likely know in a version " by " the Crystals-Darlene Love & the Blossoms actually-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S3HCG22zsk

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...A singer and actor who was on the " Daniel Boone " TV series then, with a Bible phrase-rooted Broadway show song-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjDALZMw@eY

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...Let's try that last one again, I was running out of my daily library computer time as I put it up first-
Ed Ames: " My Cup Runneth Over "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaQisHV8jw

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...This song, written for and by - but not heard vocally in - a film by one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, movie star and film maker of the first third of the 20th Century, was hear as a single minus its verse on the single version, butthe British 45 release had it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgkDxMQfsSA

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!