This song went to #2 in Vancouver Canada on CKLG, but didn't breakout nationally... still a good song, If you can find it her followup release was The Groovy World of Jack & Jill and it was also pretty good.
Did I read correctly that this song was only played on LA radio? I have it on a KHJ compilation LP but sure it was played on KRLA at the time. Oh, Mrs. Kotter!
This song was one of the songs in a play we put on in 8th grade. the girl in my class who sang it was totally awesome. I was in love with her because of this song :-) I remember she had tears running down her face while she sang this song. ahhh, the days of innocence.......
Heard this for the first time in the early 90s on a Summer of Love cassette. What a treasure. Marcia is dealing with cancer. Please pray for her and her family.
Holy crap, she can sing too? Strassman's got ALL the cookies. I am now revising my scale of hotness to accommodate this new criterion. The long Strassman-Smithers deadlock may come to an end.
The flower children have one thing on their mind, living in a world of love, love for all mankind.....So beautiful , so powerful....so illusive. Will it ever happen?
Wow! Let's just say I just turned 57 and remember this song from when I was a kid (10 or 11 years old). Never knew who did it. Loved it then, love it now! First song I heard on my brand new Panasonic Radio I got for my birthday
i remember hearing it in la on the radio in 1967 when fairfax avenue was the place to go!!! the free press bookstore and the infinite mind were there for all to check out!!! this song helped herald the advent of the love-ins!!! hey i still feel lonesome for those daze
I have loved this song since I heard it on the radio in Los Angeles, Ca in the 60's and have been singing it to myself ever since. I was hoping someday to hear the real version again. Now, hearing it again after so many years it is even more beautiful than I remembered. So much has changed and been accomplished since this song came out but peace still seems to be evasive. Thank you so much for posting. It brought tear to my eyes...
@barriobajaj Oh my gosh! I have been trying to find this song for about 10 years of longer. Being a musician for the last 30 years and surrounding myself with others like me, I am shocked that NO ONE I have asked about this knew it. Wow, great find. Speaking of KHJ, my license plate frame says, BOSS RADIO 93 KHJ, "Tina Delgado is alive, ALIVE". Remember that famous line from Kam Nelson? She went to my high school, Alhambra High in Alhambra, CA.
@titostacos KHJ changed radio as it was known in the 60's. Bill Drake premiered the Boss Radio format in 1965 and has been a radio legend from then on.
Wow! How cool to see the comments from my fellow Vancouverites! I remember the scene on 4th Avenue and the Stanley Park Easter Be-Ins. I loved this song and had a hard time finding it anywhere!
Does anyone know if it was Marcia who was hitting those high notes on the end of the song?
Peace love & hope was the saying back when & still hold true today. Peace obviously is hard to come by on a worldwide scale, love could be made easy and be all around, no matter what you make of it....be you simply making out orr giving. The giving is there for the most part, we here in Vancouver Canada know that but the love of making out...my god, we still have to go to wreck beach to feel that sence of freedom & we have more beaches & lakesides here than imaginable!! Hope, it's forever.
It should of been #1 for a couple of weeks, being a bueatiful song that has alot to say about some of the young people that were about here, there and on 4th avenue in Vancouver Canada. A whiter shade of pale may have a message too but no where near the same depth and meaning as the Flower Children has. I remeber them best for the b-ins they had in Stanley Park. Anyway them the brakes when it comes to how songs ranked and rated, it's been so sad all along, all those #1 songs that weren't!
This song spent six weeks in the top ten on CKLG- AM Vancouver, BC's top 40 station. With two weeks at # 3 and two weeks at # 2, kept out of the # 1 spot by A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum and White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, respectively. Great to hear it again and know more about Marcia Strassman.
I have this on the Rhino "Summer of Love" CD. Although obviously intended as a cash-in on flower power, it went to #1 in L.A. and San Francisco. It was used as background in a BBC Alan Whicker documentary on the hippies. Marcia has a very powerful voice, a very strong performance.
Great song! For those of you who don't know who Marcia Strassman is, she's best known for her role as Julie Kotter in the Welcome Back Kotter TV series of the 70's and the as Rick Moranis' wife in the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
This song went to #2 in Vancouver Canada on CKLG, but didn't breakout nationally... still a good song, If you can find it her followup release was The Groovy World of Jack & Jill and it was also pretty good.
Thorrgils 5 months ago
Did I read correctly that this song was only played on LA radio? I have it on a KHJ compilation LP but sure it was played on KRLA at the time. Oh, Mrs. Kotter!
Solarshoji 5 months ago
I just heard this song for the first time in the documentary The confessions of Robert Crumb (1987), here on YouTube. Beautiful.
MrRobin14669 5 months ago
You know who this is? This is Marcia Strassman. Better known as Mrs. Kotter, from TV's "Welcome Back Kotter." Pretty cool, huh?
HanafudaMASTER 7 months ago
I first heard it whilst watching the Arena documentary 'Confessions of Robert Crumb' and fell in love with it from there.
EnterEmelyanov 7 months ago
This song was one of the songs in a play we put on in 8th grade. the girl in my class who sang it was totally awesome. I was in love with her because of this song :-) I remember she had tears running down her face while she sang this song. ahhh, the days of innocence.......
drau1954 8 months ago
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MrRobin14669 5 months ago
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@drau1954 Great story, thanks.
MrRobin14669 5 months ago
The lyrics to this song are horrendously bad. Horrendously. Music and melody and vocal performance are cool, given the era.
termsofusepolice 8 months ago
Heard this for the first time in the early 90s on a Summer of Love cassette. What a treasure. Marcia is dealing with cancer. Please pray for her and her family.
lasserrem 10 months ago
Heard this for the first time in the early 90s on a Summer of Love cassette. What a treasure.
lasserrem 10 months ago
Sounds like a damn play.
Khultan 1 year ago
i love this song and i am only 19 i heard it on A amazing record!
Myownstrikerswin 1 year ago
Holy crap, she can sing too? Strassman's got ALL the cookies. I am now revising my scale of hotness to accommodate this new criterion. The long Strassman-Smithers deadlock may come to an end.
steveasat2 1 year ago
The flower children have one thing on their mind, living in a world of love, love for all mankind.....So beautiful , so powerful....so illusive. Will it ever happen?
ijgmdg 1 year ago
Wow! Let's just say I just turned 57 and remember this song from when I was a kid (10 or 11 years old). Never knew who did it. Loved it then, love it now! First song I heard on my brand new Panasonic Radio I got for my birthday
Guerilla30892001 1 year ago 5
The first time I heard this song was Marcia Strassman's website. Wonder why she never became more involved in music writing. Go figure!
P.S. I heard she has cancer. Get well soon and good luck to her.
incrediblehulkmovies 1 year ago
i remember hearing it in la on the radio in 1967 when fairfax avenue was the place to go!!! the free press bookstore and the infinite mind were there for all to check out!!! this song helped herald the advent of the love-ins!!! hey i still feel lonesome for those daze
aron pieman kay
pieman420 1 year ago 7
I have loved this song since I heard it on the radio in Los Angeles, Ca in the 60's and have been singing it to myself ever since. I was hoping someday to hear the real version again. Now, hearing it again after so many years it is even more beautiful than I remembered. So much has changed and been accomplished since this song came out but peace still seems to be evasive. Thank you so much for posting. It brought tear to my eyes...
ijgmdg 1 year ago
@ijgmdg 93 KHJ?
titostacos 1 year ago
@titostacos yes or KRLA or KBLA I listened to all of them. Lived in the San Fernando valley.
ijgmdg 1 year ago
@ijgmdg Your right, it was popular in the Los Angeles area. I have it on a 93 KHJ "Boss Hits" comp the station gave out as a promotion dated 1968.
barriobajaj 1 year ago
@barriobajaj Oh my gosh! I have been trying to find this song for about 10 years of longer. Being a musician for the last 30 years and surrounding myself with others like me, I am shocked that NO ONE I have asked about this knew it. Wow, great find. Speaking of KHJ, my license plate frame says, BOSS RADIO 93 KHJ, "Tina Delgado is alive, ALIVE". Remember that famous line from Kam Nelson? She went to my high school, Alhambra High in Alhambra, CA.
mattsabby 1 year ago
@mattsabby There was nothing like KHJ during that era.
93KHJ 3 months ago
@titostacos KHJ changed radio as it was known in the 60's. Bill Drake premiered the Boss Radio format in 1965 and has been a radio legend from then on.
93KHJ 3 months ago
Wow! How cool to see the comments from my fellow Vancouverites! I remember the scene on 4th Avenue and the Stanley Park Easter Be-Ins. I loved this song and had a hard time finding it anywhere!
Does anyone know if it was Marcia who was hitting those high notes on the end of the song?
hecate55 2 years ago
Peace love & hope was the saying back when & still hold true today. Peace obviously is hard to come by on a worldwide scale, love could be made easy and be all around, no matter what you make of it....be you simply making out orr giving. The giving is there for the most part, we here in Vancouver Canada know that but the love of making out...my god, we still have to go to wreck beach to feel that sence of freedom & we have more beaches & lakesides here than imaginable!! Hope, it's forever.
Ezdduf4kuZ 2 years ago
It should of been #1 for a couple of weeks, being a bueatiful song that has alot to say about some of the young people that were about here, there and on 4th avenue in Vancouver Canada. A whiter shade of pale may have a message too but no where near the same depth and meaning as the Flower Children has. I remeber them best for the b-ins they had in Stanley Park. Anyway them the brakes when it comes to how songs ranked and rated, it's been so sad all along, all those #1 songs that weren't!
Ezdduf4kuZ 2 years ago
This song spent six weeks in the top ten on CKLG- AM Vancouver, BC's top 40 station. With two weeks at # 3 and two weeks at # 2, kept out of the # 1 spot by A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procul Harum and White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, respectively. Great to hear it again and know more about Marcia Strassman.
denmanfit 2 years ago
I have this on the Rhino "Summer of Love" CD. Although obviously intended as a cash-in on flower power, it went to #1 in L.A. and San Francisco. It was used as background in a BBC Alan Whicker documentary on the hippies. Marcia has a very powerful voice, a very strong performance.
girodias 2 years ago
Nurse Cutler. The best pair of hands I've ever seen.
goback3spaces 2 years ago
She also appeared as Nurse Cutler on M*A*S*H.
TheNoteCollector 2 years ago
i've been waiting for this song for a long time!! I heard it in one time & have been searching for it for 40 years!! thanks for posting it!!
bookworm1951 2 years ago
Great song! For those of you who don't know who Marcia Strassman is, she's best known for her role as Julie Kotter in the Welcome Back Kotter TV series of the 70's and the as Rick Moranis' wife in the movie Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
livredesombres 2 years ago