I was in Thailand as a civilian (on vacation from my job in Saudi Arabia) in 1982 and they had a version of this piped in on the hotels sound system. It was by an Asian woman, with just a slight accent, and it was so beautiful and evocative that it gave me chills, thinking of all the GIs that had listened to this while dreaming of home.
I was staioned in Cyprus up in the Troodos Mountains during the 'Summer of Love' with my lovely 20yr old wife with me. This song always reminds me of that wonderful summer.
very gooddddddddddd ,tres belle mélodie sixties ,pleine d'espoir ,un régal ,vive les sixties ,on est les meilleurs au monde ,toujours là ,là ,vive nous ,rien que nous ,the best in the world !!!!! rebel68
Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
I got married here in England in 1966 aged 21 and our thoughts were very much with you guys being involved in that bloody useless war; thanking our lucky stars we weren't involved otherwise it could have been my boyfriend and our friends. Sodding Governments - they are all the same. Peace x
My first trip in the 62 VW bug was up the coast to San Francisco. We saw Chuck Berry at the Filmore West. He was unbelievable!! Pure entertainment!!
This song really takes me back to that time where you thought that the hawk in politics was going to finally get laid to rest. It never happened. It wasn't in the book of destiny.
However, the live version of this song at the Monterrey Pop Festival sounds like everyone in the band was on acid (LSD). No wonder it never happened.
such a beautiful song ret "the summer of love" ..I'm of the Woodstock generation...I also connect w the Tenderloin district what...20 years down the road & how love & acceptance of gays just was so so horrendous elsewhere, oh how horribly they suffered and died...I wish I could listen to Scott's song and only remember the GOOD...I CANNOT...SO HERE'S A TRIBUTE TO ALL THOSE WHO CAME TO SAN FRANCISCO FOR LOVE AND LOST THEIR LIVES TO HIV DUE TO LOVE
This was number 1 in the UK when I was born on 14th August 1967. Great song, but like others here I think the political legacy of the 60s is mixed. The era of the contraceptive pill and 'free love' has had a devastating impact on the western world, and what is happening now particularly in Europe is frightening. If you make yourself a naive doormat there will be people who will step on you. Not much peace and love in the inner cities of western Europe now - only fear and foreboding.
I played out in the yard; I was 8 & 9 years old. Your generation confused me, since my parents were the same age as yours. Folk masses? Thanks for nothing. At least some of the music is good. Surely better than what my kids listen to.
People remember the beautiful music but so many are not aware that with it came a lot of bad.
We now have this naive view on history that everything was beautiful, drugs were harmless and free love was without danger.
In reality thousands of kids died in these years countless kids ran away from home only to be taken advantage of by predators and we lost many talented performers.
In three minutes, this song and relic vid moves me more than most feature films. What a nerve-touching generational anthem. We are still "people in motion"--thanks for the great post. Judging by the recent activity and threads going here, this '67 hit still has worldwide impact.
This song is so beautiful it takes me back to 1968 when I was 13 years old and this song was playing in a Juke box in a restaurant in Guatemala Central America...
I spent the summers of '68 and '69 in SF. Went to "the Haight" every day with my best friend. I've tried to convey to young folks what it looked like. It was wild, weird, scary and tempting to those of us in the bloom of youth. We were both very straight and so we only observed and it frightens me to think what would have happened if we had. For years I was intrigued with the possiblities. But I'm glad things worked out as they did as a lot of my friends who got involved are now dead.
@douglasskinner not America's high point. lots of teenage runaways that few were looking after turds like charles manson part of a paroled army of scum let lose by ronald
reagan's ilk preyed unchecked on the girls for commericial gang rapes. drugged unawares with LSD the turds did them for 75 cents
@douglasskinner --that's quite a story, thanks for sharing. I like your perspective--you stayed straight, but observed. That's how I did the '60s. What did you do those golden summers of '68 and '69 in SF?
in 1967 this song was #1 in the states, it was also the same year i was sent to nam. I was lucky that i made it home, but to this day this song has a special meaning to me.
@irtony1 this song didn t make it to nr 1 in the states , Windy by Association stood 4 weeks nr 1 that time .San Francisco stranded at nr 2 , but in all other countrys Scott was o nr 1 for several weeks
The hippies accomplished nothing. It was all about staying stoned and mooching off others. The hippies grew up and cut their hair. They became lawyers and accountants because they wanted that cash. Money beats soul every time.
The summer of '67...Woodstock hadn't happened yet...Nixon hadn't lied to us...Viet Nam was still raging...man was two years away from walking on the moon....good and bad...and this song was great!!
@Abennobashi I was 15 when this song came out (now 58) so they'd be your 58-75 year old Grandparents.Give them a short visit,look in their eyes.They meant well & changed things for the better the world over.(Im not American).
@Abennobashi Those of us who survived are old and gray now. We walk a little slower, but our minds recognize the lies faster now. Treat yourselves with respect, don't allow _any_ organization to tell you how to think or feel, respect education and people who are trying to help this world. Listen...you must learn how to listen, and never believe weed is bad for you.
Great time in my life. I was in the military in Ariz in '67. Left for Viet Nam in '68...The times they were a changin"..It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was a time of wisdom, it was a time of foolishness...
Oh, by the way, the USA did not lose the Vietnam War. With Linebacker I & II we brought North Vietnam to its knees and forced them to sign the Paris Peace Accords, thus ending the war. Three years after the USA left, South Vietnam lost. There were around 500,000 draft dodgers, but they were too selfish to realize that somebody else had to go in their place. The protests ended when the draft ended--they just didn't want to die is all. Draft dodgers didn't care about Vietnam.
We were a bunch of spoiled brats living off the hard work of the generation before us. They cut us way too much slack and we paid them back by thinking we were something special - better educated, more 'peaceful', more loving... what a crock. We had a free ride compared to them. BUT, on the other hand... the music was outstanding. Enjoy the music. let the old arguments go.
@Dancinglikejagger Actually it was in 1965 that american forces were 1st deployed in vietnam.(danang). Altho around since 1940 the draft in 1965 took just a tiny fraction of youth, but was beginning to turn into a MASS DRAFT and THAT was on the horizon in 1967, NOT the vietnam war. ( sorry.) Both my wife and i left amsterdam in 1965 and headed to india and then san fran, as the city was buzzing with artists, great music, festivals, and it was an important focus point for the peace movement.
@TEDOVSKY Yeah...Didn't mean to sound so angry. My point was, there was advisors & troops on the ground from '61 & the so called "peace movement" was a farce and did nothing to change this world.
@Dancinglikejagger Absolutely wrong, mate. Was there too and the cultural and social changes started in the 60s are still with us and will be forever because western society changed radically after the 60s. As to Vietnam, the United States lost the war, remember, not on the battlefield, but in the streets of America. It was the social protests that brought war's reality in the media's focus - and the resulting change in public opinion forced the politicians' hand. The 60s were a great decade.
Listened to this while I waited for my soldier hubby to come home from Viet Nam....hated it that President Johnson made our guys go...but supported my hubby's effort to do his best...proud of him being a Viet Nam vet....suzi
@hotmn4u It was Johnson that sent my husband there....he made every guy not married before a certain date they had to go....Maybe Nixon sent a few troops there, but Johnson esculated it beyond belief....now you get it right..suzi
This song was the backdrop of my life in the summer of 1967 truly unforgetable.Oh and it's not true,"if you can remember the 60's then you weren't here2 i DO REMEMBER AND i WAS THERE nothing like thids will ever come again.
There have always been war protest, but during this time, many young people questioned the threat of and our involvement in a French colonial WW2 Era third world country. The most important person who questioned this was asinated in TX. I would hope you would keep your patriotism for defending the Constitution of the U.S, and not the war powers act and media influence that allowed this to happen from the Korean invasion to the present day in history.
I remember the beautiful vibes then and as TEDOVSKY and Superkenalmighty said there was a REAL CHANGE IN THE AIR. You would have to have been there . it was absolutely amazing. There are lots of us still living on and highly influenced by that period as it was SOOOOO special. Nothing has ever happened that even touches it. It continues in strange ways. Love and peace. xxxxxx you all know who you are !!!!!!!!!
for those of us who remember these times , this was yet more ideology from those who thought they could change the world,sadly they believed it. However, the music was great, although 40 years later, it's all the same, so lets at least enjoy the music and forget the weirdo's
I was under 10 years old when this song was popular and I love it then and still do today. I played this song a couple weeks ago for my high school students and tried to tell them that the old songs told a story. Some got it, most didn't. I guess when it comes to music I am living in the past, but I am going to keep it that way.
This was such a unique period in the history of America. Those who went through it will never forget it. The music, the love, the drugs...it was all there.
My last year at Primary School...Fantastic Summer holiday with a head full of magical music with lots more to come during the70s...1967 WAS a Special summer xx
It was not about "greed", you have been mislead. I was there then too, and I am as disappointed as you are. It is fascism, and all us old hippies really need to figure out what is really going on here. Do not be deceived, chump!
@Bufaloevan every decade has it's good and bad i was born in the 50's that doesn't mean every thing was good no we had problems like every other generation comin up does don't get to discouraged and hey music is subjective if it wasn't how boring listen to what ya like
A girl that I loved told me actions speak louder than words and this will always remain the truth.. Be good to people and you may not die rich but you will die loved
I missed the SF in 1967 but lived there about 30 years later. I can see traces of the 1967 spirit even in today's SF. This is a beautiful song appropriate for a lovely city.
San Fransisco was the farthest place from Law. Washington DC. so that is why it appealed to the lawless. Then the Fags showed up. Never should have mentioned flowers and stuff. lol
I didn't realise John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas wrote this song and co produced it for his former band member friend of earlier days.The internet is full of strange and woberful facts.Great song still today.
I was in Thailand as a civilian (on vacation from my job in Saudi Arabia) in 1982 and they had a version of this piped in on the hotels sound system. It was by an Asian woman, with just a slight accent, and it was so beautiful and evocative that it gave me chills, thinking of all the GIs that had listened to this while dreaming of home.
yvwic50 17 hours ago in playlist yvwi2
I was staioned in Cyprus up in the Troodos Mountains during the 'Summer of Love' with my lovely 20yr old wife with me. This song always reminds me of that wonderful summer.
62Bassman 1 day ago
quel bonheur cette douce chanson vive nous merci scott pour
cette évasion
31ifyadem 3 days ago
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Beautiful San Francisco!
BestSanFranciscoBusi 4 days ago
very gooddddddddddd ,tres belle mélodie sixties ,pleine d'espoir ,un régal ,vive les sixties ,on est les meilleurs au monde ,toujours là ,là ,vive nous ,rien que nous ,the best in the world !!!!! rebel68
skeptyky 4 days ago
Nothing ruins my jonesing for some old time charm like a forced ad of another samey same garbage movie.
Triundi 5 days ago
Great music sham about the @@#$ adds
tiptopjohn1 5 days ago
I love the sandals and the kaftan.
macbeebee 6 days ago
pour Toi mon pote Stephane qui ne demandais qu'a être heureux etre aimé et libre ... je t'aime mon pote tu me manque ....
labart25 1 week ago
Guernsey 1967 fantastic,thought I was the bee's knee's.
obleys 1 week ago
i apoligise for the multiple postings. the site kept telling me to post again.
irtony1 1 week ago
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Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
irtony1 1 week ago
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irtony1 1 week ago
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irtony1 1 week ago
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Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
irtony1 1 week ago
Thank you for your support. We did what we thought was right at the time, we didn't realize we were being missled. I made it home and dispite the politicians, god bless the USA.
irtony1 1 week ago
I would gladly shake the hand of every vet who went to Vietnam
ruswhit60 1 week ago
I wasn't even born in '67, but this song is so awesome. I love the sound.
SOG2004 1 week ago 2
I was 8 years old - but it made me want to go to San Francisco.
LittleDragon2000 1 week ago
muito bom pena que não existe musicas assim hj...
alextattoo2010 1 week ago
1st 45 i ever bought, @ age of 7, still got it and still love it
robinpdavis 1 week ago 3
Danced with a girl named Som in Thailand crocked on my ass, felt like I was floating...Lived it man. 1968
AF4AT3 1 week ago 13
@AF4AT3 did you ever hang out in Angeles City, PI? That place rocked.
eric5906 2 days ago
thank yoy for upload the song.We have learned English on this text in Warsaw school in1967.
zeskok 1 week ago
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MrWhele1 1 week ago
Que hermosa cancion... siempre crei que la cantaba Roy Orbison...
77danielito77 1 week ago
7 people don't want to wear flowers in their hair or have a summertime love-in!
bluecatky 1 week ago 2
The hippies remind me of the aesthetic movement in the 1880s :)
hortulanus94 1 week ago 2
This classic was written by Papa John Phillips of Mamas and Papas fame.
rainstor1 1 week ago
I got married here in England in 1966 aged 21 and our thoughts were very much with you guys being involved in that bloody useless war; thanking our lucky stars we weren't involved otherwise it could have been my boyfriend and our friends. Sodding Governments - they are all the same. Peace x
MargaretMedina1 2 weeks ago
nice video and nice city as well as I think business or pleasure this city would be perfect SAN FRANCISCO is cool.
Underdog123 2 weeks ago
the yanks got there fat ass,s kicked in nam lol gook tunnelrats jungle warfare usa sucks
kreynor1 2 weeks ago
My first trip in the 62 VW bug was up the coast to San Francisco. We saw Chuck Berry at the Filmore West. He was unbelievable!! Pure entertainment!!
This song really takes me back to that time where you thought that the hawk in politics was going to finally get laid to rest. It never happened. It wasn't in the book of destiny.
However, the live version of this song at the Monterrey Pop Festival sounds like everyone in the band was on acid (LSD). No wonder it never happened.
johnhguitar 3 weeks ago 2
such a beautiful song ret "the summer of love" ..I'm of the Woodstock generation...I also connect w the Tenderloin district what...20 years down the road & how love & acceptance of gays just was so so horrendous elsewhere, oh how horribly they suffered and died...I wish I could listen to Scott's song and only remember the GOOD...I CANNOT...SO HERE'S A TRIBUTE TO ALL THOSE WHO CAME TO SAN FRANCISCO FOR LOVE AND LOST THEIR LIVES TO HIV DUE TO LOVE
constancelena 3 weeks ago
@constancelena Blessing to you.....Could not have said it better. San Francsico has a special place in my heart
hkg02161954 1 week ago 2
What a georgeous song. Especially listen to the bass line from 1:50 to 2:00. Ingeneous!
Jorhey478 3 weeks ago
nice hippie song ever!!!!!!!!!!!
SuperLuigy8 3 weeks ago 2
where all rebel youngness??? Fuck, it makes me pissed off that young people prefers justin beiber than this......damn you!
IZQ2012 3 weeks ago
Ésta época para mi nunca pasará de moda.
Lluadka 3 weeks ago
This was number 1 in the UK when I was born on 14th August 1967. Great song, but like others here I think the political legacy of the 60s is mixed. The era of the contraceptive pill and 'free love' has had a devastating impact on the western world, and what is happening now particularly in Europe is frightening. If you make yourself a naive doormat there will be people who will step on you. Not much peace and love in the inner cities of western Europe now - only fear and foreboding.
SuperRobertoboy 3 weeks ago
la mejor epoca sin duda los dorados 60' , ahora no hay creatividad ni nada.
lucia5606 3 weeks ago
I played out in the yard; I was 8 & 9 years old. Your generation confused me, since my parents were the same age as yours. Folk masses? Thanks for nothing. At least some of the music is good. Surely better than what my kids listen to.
SophiaMercy 3 weeks ago
This time in our history was bitter sweet.
People remember the beautiful music but so many are not aware that with it came a lot of bad.
We now have this naive view on history that everything was beautiful, drugs were harmless and free love was without danger.
In reality thousands of kids died in these years countless kids ran away from home only to be taken advantage of by predators and we lost many talented performers.
Definetly bitter sweet.
TexianPride 3 weeks ago
In three minutes, this song and relic vid moves me more than most feature films. What a nerve-touching generational anthem. We are still "people in motion"--thanks for the great post. Judging by the recent activity and threads going here, this '67 hit still has worldwide impact.
helios1912 3 weeks ago 2
...try wearin' that Abe Lincoln hat today ....lolol
6905632418 3 weeks ago
This song is so beautiful it takes me back to 1968 when I was 13 years old and this song was playing in a Juke box in a restaurant in Guatemala Central America...
ongypma88 3 weeks ago
I spent the summers of '68 and '69 in SF. Went to "the Haight" every day with my best friend. I've tried to convey to young folks what it looked like. It was wild, weird, scary and tempting to those of us in the bloom of youth. We were both very straight and so we only observed and it frightens me to think what would have happened if we had. For years I was intrigued with the possiblities. But I'm glad things worked out as they did as a lot of my friends who got involved are now dead.
douglasskinner 3 weeks ago 3
@douglasskinner not America's high point. lots of teenage runaways that few were looking after turds like charles manson part of a paroled army of scum let lose by ronald
reagan's ilk preyed unchecked on the girls for commericial gang rapes. drugged unawares with LSD the turds did them for 75 cents
atfatw 3 weeks ago
@douglasskinner --that's quite a story, thanks for sharing. I like your perspective--you stayed straight, but observed. That's how I did the '60s. What did you do those golden summers of '68 and '69 in SF?
helios1912 3 weeks ago
I swear I was a hippie in that time. I'm 26 now and I LOVE this era and it's music!
nihome85 3 weeks ago
fantastic song!!!
JOHNHANDS1974 3 weeks ago
SUPER COOL 70'S
dwainwalton 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Was this reccorded in Belgium? It sure seems like it
kolemijn 3 weeks ago
in 1967 this song was #1 in the states, it was also the same year i was sent to nam. I was lucky that i made it home, but to this day this song has a special meaning to me.
irtony1 3 weeks ago 67
@irtony1 Happy you came home.
prodigirl1 3 weeks ago
@irtony1 this song didn t make it to nr 1 in the states , Windy by Association stood 4 weeks nr 1 that time .San Francisco stranded at nr 2 , but in all other countrys Scott was o nr 1 for several weeks
walter4092 3 weeks ago
@irtony1 thank you and welcome home solider
angelo062367 1 week ago
@irtony1 Lost several HS classmates there.......Glad you made it home.......:)
code2high 1 week ago
@irtony1 more than ever....
luftbalons 6 days ago
@Truco Master ,
a mi tambien me hace llorar....
Me dio pena saber que ella no esta mas , aunque no te conozca.
gb1963ish 3 weeks ago
The hippies accomplished nothing. It was all about staying stoned and mooching off others. The hippies grew up and cut their hair. They became lawyers and accountants because they wanted that cash. Money beats soul every time.
castletriglav 1 month ago
it time to go back one time.a very good song by scott mackenzie
i wonder what he doing these days
hildman5 1 month ago
Esta canción me hace llorar. Era, en mi gran amor de la adolescencia, la canción que identificaba lo que pasaba entre nosotros. Siempre me emocionó.
Ella no está más.
TurcoMaster 1 month ago
The sixties...less was more
glanrafon2 1 month ago
listen to the bassline in this song. it is so awesome and bluesy.
Pennyfromgoodtimes 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
God, what a time it was. We took the drugs to explore not to escape and so many of us truly believed that love could change the world.
gugenheim84 1 month ago
Rockin' the Porn Stache'.
MuttTheHoople 1 month ago
He is staring at Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds :-)))))
bonosbones 1 month ago
I got flowers, give me a revolution
deathstarliketheship 1 month ago
new version 2012, youtube.com/watch?v=undNNDUnq2w
OLDITIMES 1 month ago
Close your eyes and it's the "Summer of Love" all over again.
MisterTom1001 1 month ago
The summer of '67...Woodstock hadn't happened yet...Nixon hadn't lied to us...Viet Nam was still raging...man was two years away from walking on the moon....good and bad...and this song was great!!
catman5169 1 month ago
it time to go back to fancisco. it been a very long time since i was at the west coast
hildman5 1 month ago
Thank u baby boomers for this culture that changed history.
RichKilla86ers 1 month ago
una epoca marabillosa la mejor musica del mundo
juancarlosdurands 1 month ago
PERFECTTLY THE Sixtheen years. absolut.
energetikerful 1 month ago
muito bom!
licomaicho 1 month ago
God plz let me live with my girl frend in San Francisco
lardsiny 1 month ago
This song gives me goosebumps.
Kroepoekification 1 month ago
@TEDOVSKY i promise you this ... we are doing the best we can!, we might need some more support though.
hemelskonijn 1 month ago
Where are these people today?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!!?!?
Abennobashi 1 month ago
@Abennobashi I was 15 when this song came out (now 58) so they'd be your 58-75 year old Grandparents.Give them a short visit,look in their eyes.They meant well & changed things for the better the world over.(Im not American).
RasMajnouni 1 month ago
@Abennobashi Those of us who survived are old and gray now. We walk a little slower, but our minds recognize the lies faster now. Treat yourselves with respect, don't allow _any_ organization to tell you how to think or feel, respect education and people who are trying to help this world. Listen...you must learn how to listen, and never believe weed is bad for you.
gugenheim84 1 month ago
@gugenheim84 Great Big BellyLaugh...you are a freakin' genius, Gugen.
mdawg1238 1 month ago
Love this and many 60's songs so great.
69ssrszl1 1 month ago
Great time in my life. I was in the military in Ariz in '67. Left for Viet Nam in '68...The times they were a changin"..It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was a time of wisdom, it was a time of foolishness...
gmanfromwi 1 month ago
Oh, by the way, the USA did not lose the Vietnam War. With Linebacker I & II we brought North Vietnam to its knees and forced them to sign the Paris Peace Accords, thus ending the war. Three years after the USA left, South Vietnam lost. There were around 500,000 draft dodgers, but they were too selfish to realize that somebody else had to go in their place. The protests ended when the draft ended--they just didn't want to die is all. Draft dodgers didn't care about Vietnam.
gallantrycross 1 month ago
We were a bunch of spoiled brats living off the hard work of the generation before us. They cut us way too much slack and we paid them back by thinking we were something special - better educated, more 'peaceful', more loving... what a crock. We had a free ride compared to them. BUT, on the other hand... the music was outstanding. Enjoy the music. let the old arguments go.
oldman1911A1 1 month ago 28
@oldmanjensen nothin matters man soooo just slide on by, and get in the groove, and go with the flow
atfatw 1 month ago
@oldman1911A1
We should get a pass based ONLY on the music - everything else is gravy.
joreill21 1 month ago
@oldman1911A1 And the Hells Angles came along and gave hippies the old thinking back.
aivopark 3 weeks ago
@oldman1911A1 whatever dickhead. fuck your gen
robertfoeli1 2 weeks ago
@oldman1911A1 too bad you only focus on work. Don't worry, the message of peace and love has gotten to today's generation.
Peace, brother.
WeTheFixture 2 weeks ago
@oldman1911A1 bs
rontilac 1 week ago
@oldman1911A1 Hah, you missed the whole point of your generation.
MrWhele1 1 week ago
god i miss being young, i grew up in california in the 60s boy what a different time it was
imdavid666 1 month ago
I was Close, San Jose
joeracerable 1 month ago
All the people living the peace,the love with flowers and more flowers,no more wars,ohh! only in my mind,sorry my friends
vrivasro 1 month ago
ah the 60's,what a time,take me back,so much peace and harmony all around.
MegaBrassneck 1 month ago
no problem; near ...the post oil era....will be the new hippie era......
trollraider 1 month ago
@Dancinglikejagger Actually it was in 1965 that american forces were 1st deployed in vietnam.(danang). Altho around since 1940 the draft in 1965 took just a tiny fraction of youth, but was beginning to turn into a MASS DRAFT and THAT was on the horizon in 1967, NOT the vietnam war. ( sorry.) Both my wife and i left amsterdam in 1965 and headed to india and then san fran, as the city was buzzing with artists, great music, festivals, and it was an important focus point for the peace movement.
TEDOVSKY 1 month ago
@TEDOVSKY Yeah...Didn't mean to sound so angry. My point was, there was advisors & troops on the ground from '61 & the so called "peace movement" was a farce and did nothing to change this world.
I was 17 in '67...so I do recall these moments.
I apologise for coming across so strong.
Dancinglikejagger 1 month ago
@Dancinglikejagger Absolutely wrong, mate. Was there too and the cultural and social changes started in the 60s are still with us and will be forever because western society changed radically after the 60s. As to Vietnam, the United States lost the war, remember, not on the battlefield, but in the streets of America. It was the social protests that brought war's reality in the media's focus - and the resulting change in public opinion forced the politicians' hand. The 60s were a great decade.
sternumagnum 1 month ago
@sternumagnum They didn't listen to old General MacArthur when he told Kennedy and Johnson to never send troops to Vietnam
MerleOberon 1 month ago
And please do it WITHOUT cell phones, Face Book, Justin Beiber, Lady GooGoo, and Rap.
MrMikeb1958 1 month ago
bellissimo brano e tanti ricordi!
leonardo2632 1 month ago
good song but very violent time in our history.
ruswhit60 1 month ago
Listened to this while I waited for my soldier hubby to come home from Viet Nam....hated it that President Johnson made our guys go...but supported my hubby's effort to do his best...proud of him being a Viet Nam vet....suzi
TheSuziclassof64 1 month ago 2
@TheSuziclassof64 jez, it was nixon, get it right
hotmn4u 1 month ago
@hotmn4u Um no. Johnson's presidency preceded Nixon's, and we were over there during his term first. Get it right.
SuperPegMeg 1 month ago
@hotmn4u It was Johnson that sent my husband there....he made every guy not married before a certain date they had to go....Maybe Nixon sent a few troops there, but Johnson esculated it beyond belief....now you get it right..suzi
TheSuziclassof64 2 weeks ago
if you miss us you can find us and that new generation at the nearest Occupy.
britchey11 1 month ago 2
This song was the backdrop of my life in the summer of 1967 truly unforgetable.Oh and it's not true,"if you can remember the 60's then you weren't here2 i DO REMEMBER AND i WAS THERE nothing like thids will ever come again.
englishsandy 1 month ago
das war meine Zeit einfach wunderschön
Cinderella485 1 month ago
November 1978 was nuts in SF
vitoduval 1 month ago
we are the "same"...same songs..... same poeple.....same feeling...same wish....same voice....same song......same hopes........looooooooong live 60´
trollraider 1 month ago
There have always been war protest, but during this time, many young people questioned the threat of and our involvement in a French colonial WW2 Era third world country. The most important person who questioned this was asinated in TX. I would hope you would keep your patriotism for defending the Constitution of the U.S, and not the war powers act and media influence that allowed this to happen from the Korean invasion to the present day in history.
waabaadaba 1 month ago
happy birthday scott
guardianofhell 1 month ago
awesome
Klitja 1 month ago
Lovely music
378agra 1 month ago
I remember the beautiful vibes then and as TEDOVSKY and Superkenalmighty said there was a REAL CHANGE IN THE AIR. You would have to have been there . it was absolutely amazing. There are lots of us still living on and highly influenced by that period as it was SOOOOO special. Nothing has ever happened that even touches it. It continues in strange ways. Love and peace. xxxxxx you all know who you are !!!!!!!!!
cosmiccarol 1 month ago
for those of us who remember these times , this was yet more ideology from those who thought they could change the world,sadly they believed it. However, the music was great, although 40 years later, it's all the same, so lets at least enjoy the music and forget the weirdo's
24368010 1 month ago
As brilliant as this is, none of it sadly, comes free...
SGTGerman 1 month ago
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Danica961 1 month ago
Oh God, please bring back the sixties.
Please.
ShanghaiJill 1 month ago 42
@ShanghaiJill I'm with you on that what a great time it was!
friday1808 1 month ago
san francisco,terra de veados e sapatões,todos filhos de uma égua.
mulheriu 1 month ago
I spent a month in San Francisco in the early 90's. It still had something even then....!
HardWarUK 1 month ago
are any of those women in the film manson girls
atfatw 1 month ago
If you come to San Francisco, be sure to chant Hare Krishna. They'll be a Rathayatra Festival there.
eric5906 1 month ago
I was under 10 years old when this song was popular and I love it then and still do today. I played this song a couple weeks ago for my high school students and tried to tell them that the old songs told a story. Some got it, most didn't. I guess when it comes to music I am living in the past, but I am going to keep it that way.
vic5828 2 months ago 3
This was such a unique period in the history of America. Those who went through it will never forget it. The music, the love, the drugs...it was all there.
bracken1000 2 months ago
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mrclubfoot100 2 months ago
Only the best weirdos come from the Gaybay A.K.A. San Francisco LOL
ConwayTruckload 2 months ago
This was music. How did hip hop or rap get into "music" category?
newjoisey41 2 months ago
Was working at Butlins in Skegness when this song came out,loved the lyrics,great time to be young.
blue7257 2 months ago
My last year at Primary School...Fantastic Summer holiday with a head full of magical music with lots more to come during the70s...1967 WAS a Special summer xx
nicistyx 2 months ago
Peace!
Dandy5th 2 months ago
Aint no place like San Francisco i'll tell yah that . (:
my home town (:
mmkay180 2 months ago
Tedovsky, your comment makes want to sing John Lennon's "Imagine." What truth you spoke!
leutube11 2 months ago
I wonder who that guy is in the top hat is?@ 0:14 abe himself?
bernardw8 2 months ago
there was a second summer of love in 1989,but alas we fuked it up too
MRH612 2 months ago
It was not about "greed", you have been mislead. I was there then too, and I am as disappointed as you are. It is fascism, and all us old hippies really need to figure out what is really going on here. Do not be deceived, chump!
Ron Paul 2012
frakinaur 2 months ago
Ah, those were good times.
gladys12373 2 months ago
Beautiful song, long live to San Francisco
Ivan89ization 2 months ago
@Bufaloevan every decade has it's good and bad i was born in the 50's that doesn't mean every thing was good no we had problems like every other generation comin up does don't get to discouraged and hey music is subjective if it wasn't how boring listen to what ya like
dictator54 2 months ago
One of my favorite 60's song, they were, the good old days, worlds pretty messed up
right now can't see it changing for the better very soon. Maybe we're heading for armmageddon, can't spell it, but its not the end of the world!
catweazle52 2 months ago
I guess Frisco is pretty messed up now. A lot of those people moved in. All things must pass I guess.
johnnystaccata 2 months ago
A girl that I loved told me actions speak louder than words and this will always remain the truth.. Be good to people and you may not die rich but you will die loved
spudone1000 2 months ago
can't spell either survived
polecat74 2 months ago 2
I grew up in SF during the good times, smoked alot of grass and took alot of pills,but we survided
polecat74 2 months ago
@polecat74 I can tell by your diction
poetsgirl 2 months ago
Flower Power, la generacion que fue asesinada porque hacia comprender la universalidad del espititu de la Humanidad Buena.
La que atentaba contra la egoista, y brutal del Homo Stultus...
siopsa 2 months ago
FORREST GUMP
Sherlock24jp 2 months ago
Song's about cocaine
Bolsarm001 2 months ago
avec les beatles, ma première résurection !!
PALANGROTTE 2 months ago
FUCK yeah one of my favorite songs from the 60's :)
uhjkable 3 months ago
''love is where and when and how you find it''---- too many people wanting to fight and kill each other. you only get one life- live it.
dogknobber 3 months ago
we need these time back bring back the love of the60/70s wow I was young and free
1953chrisg 3 months ago
Then the fags showed up!Nashkita77Where the hell are u from,typical homophobic pig
TheDarkhorse57 3 months ago
krazy man, can u dig it !!
bondsee 3 months ago
I missed the SF in 1967 but lived there about 30 years later. I can see traces of the 1967 spirit even in today's SF. This is a beautiful song appropriate for a lovely city.
leafice1 3 months ago
One of the key anthems of the flower generation
gutiboy187 3 months ago
1 person is a fag.
frontsz 3 months ago
2:06 that's antwerp..
Dennisses 3 months ago
San Fransisco was the farthest place from Law. Washington DC. so that is why it appealed to the lawless. Then the Fags showed up. Never should have mentioned flowers and stuff. lol
nashkita77 3 months ago
64 now and this was my generation
I never truly respected was was going on back then
now i most certainly do
TheLadandLass 3 months ago 2
The black-and-white video is a very artistic touch.
Thank you for posting.
EdWatts 3 months ago
I didn't realise John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas wrote this song and co produced it for his former band member friend of earlier days.The internet is full of strange and woberful facts.Great song still today.
gypsydog24 3 months ago
1 person does not have flowers in their hair
LeahJane1995 3 months ago
This song gives me the desire to pick up and leave this life, and just travel the road.
childatheart94 3 months ago