@MikeMikey2012 I could see if you weren't around during the hippie movement of the late 60s/early 70s, this song wouldn't make a lot of sense. Many youngsters of the day wore native American Indian garb. Moccassins, sashes, ponchos and braids were all the rage! Hard to believe, but true!
Some of the one hit songs of the 70's pack the best memories. Some singers like Jim Croece will always forever be in the 70's, like the pet rock, the AMC Gremlin, Chevy Vega and the AMC Pacer !
Brings back memories and the Raiders were a great band that put out a lot of good music but Mark Lindsay, even though he made the group was a stuck up conceited snob.
Wow, haven't heard this since Jr High,never realized how much this song shares with his other hit Silver Bird. Guess his music was sort of marshmallow fluff, It doesn't stand the test of time but I appreciate it for taking me back to my adolescence. That said ,I can put it away for another 42 years and never mention it again.
@Talltrees84 Indiana Wants Me. God, what a dumb song. But the older one gets the more one appreciates goofy old bubblegum songs like that. Thanks for reminding me.
So, I have it in French on the same title "Arizona" by Bruce Huard Et Les Sultans! That's was a truly 70's pop song in all its splendor!... I love either the english and french one!... Thanks for posting it!
PR&theRs had a couple of PR flubs, let their names be used on junk (The Raiders' Coach...) and got less exposure afyer Where the Action Is went off. Some of their touchie-feelie album cuts were less than listenable IMO. Not a rare situation for the time.Still a great performance every time though.
I was alive and well going to high school when this song came out . FM was fringe and not very many people listened to it . ALL major hits were on AM . Very few people listened to F M. And I mean very few . And by the way I like Herb Alpert . I was very into music and played the trumpet...
@MikeMikey2012 You are way too wrong, my friend. I was D.J.ing in the 70's. FM radio was listened to by VERY FEW...cause most cars did not have FM radios until the late 70's. Most FM stations played "beautiful music." (there was few in the audience and you couldn't sell ads!) Youu probably should just go to your room and crank up the Justin Bieber.
He's singing to his girl, who is named "Arizona". Her hobo shoes and Indian braids are a teenagers affect - he wants her to grow up, to get rid of her childish ways.
You might want to reconsider labelling the song "moronic". I'm assuming you're too young to remember what pop culture was like when this came out. For those of us who were alive at the time, it made perfect sense.
I've always thought insulting something that one didn't understand was a sign of ignorance.
@TGS556 I was there too. it was kind of a post hippie statement he was making here. I remember driving across the county in the summer of 1971 to visit family in Calif.I was 13 at the time. This song was always on whatever station we happened to be listening to while on thre road across america. Thank You!
@MrRaiderfan1000 This song was on a "Dynamic Hits" album my mum gave me for Christmas 1969, so it must have been released as a single in Australia a couple of months before that. BTW, the same compilation had a Neil Sedaka hit "Wheeling West Virginia" recorded in Sydney, Australia and a big hit here but I believe, almost unknown in the USA.
I am from Wisconsin and got alcohol poisioning in Az back in spring of '01. Too much sun to drink in. Great time till then. But showed them a thing or two bout boozing, till I went down a month into weapons training. Got a Tat though. hahaha. Love the song.
@acevader1969 Wow man! My aunt Lillian loved this song and she would put it on the phono when I would go over to spend the night with my cousin Jeremy. We would dance to it and Aunt Lil would bake molasses cookies. O what memories huh?
@jeff62rey Molasses cookies......... Oh man, the best and my favorite. Used to watch my great aunt make the best ones ever. My Gma is still alive and kicking at +90 and finally mastered my aunts recipe. love'm and the cookies...
A great song by Mark Lindsay! They sure don't make music like this anymore. "Arizona" peaked on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in March 1970!
I live in Flagstaff, Az., and I'm amazed by the misconceptions about our state! In 2009, we had 132 inches of snow! That's 11 FEET! More than any other city of 50,000 or more in the lower 48! The mountains of northern and eastern Arizona get tons of snow in a good (or, to some, a bad) winter! It's not ALL baking hot desert, folks! Mark Lindsay proves that at least SOME good guys really CAN win! Great music!
@sixtiesrockboy Excellent points. And I understand that Buffalo, NY actually gets great weather too. Sunny with mild to hot temperatures in the fall, winter, spring and summer months. So it's not ALL freezing cold iceberg like weather. Both of these cities suffer from national misperceptions. I also agree this is great music.
@sixtiesrockboy You kn ow, grew up in Az. way back I thought they were singing about the state. Now I know. Back then people, mostly califorina people said we were hick town, they don't know history, Not now! the band, good sounds, thanks for the down loads, made my day!
Great singer then, and all these years later, still a great singer. Mark Lindsay and the raiders are soooooooo under rated. Some of the all time best songs out of the 60's and 70's. Nothing like the crap nowadays that they call music. Hell, most nowadays mouth words, cause they can't sing. LOVE the 60's 70's. Never will be such great music again in my time.
This is the song that got me to start watching Paul Revere & The Raiders Videos last summer. Mark Lindsay has a great voice. Mark was great as a solo artist AND with Paul Revere & The Raiders :)
@glennrickard323571 You're obviously only listening to the music and not the words. That song is obnoxious and insulting--"Cut off your Indian braids." Definitely not acceptable as a state song. Our state song is much more beautiful--and written and performed by someone who truly LOVES Arizona. I know this for a fact because I knew him when I was growing up. You should listen to it. If you type it in search the first one that comes up is a beautiful video of it by sedonasong.
This is a message to all the assholes posting about politics and their G.E.D. level understanding of the song. Fuck off Now!. God dammit I come here to hear a great song not hear your half boiled theories or sob stories.
@MrDavearama They told me not everyones stupid. I see that now. How much longer are we gonna listen to "Rappers Paradise", so when I call the rest brain dead. That's why. Come up with a new sound for the 20teens. And the teens to. Nuff of grampa snoop.
What a delightful musical time capsule! I played it for my 12 year old grandson,and he was totally baffled by the lyrics. I told him "you had to be there to understand what songs like this meant to your old grandpa's generation".
This is a great song, enough of the name calling!!! We're here to listen to a song not debate on politics-this is for the negative comments below!! Too many rotten apples!!Grow up!!
This is a great song, enough of the name calling!!! We're here to listen to a song not debate on politics-this is for the negative comments below!! Grow up!!!
It takes me back to Phelan Hall at USF, 1970, conveniently located three blocks from the corner of Haight Street and Ashbury Avenue. We had our very own live-in narc.
mark lindsay was right wing asshole!, he was a jackoff that pretended to be liberal!, i think think paul & the raiders canned this capitalist shitfuck, why were so many people fooled by this foolish song? lindsay , go 2 hell!
@jupirer your 60, so i guess in a few years when u need your ss checks & your medicare , ur gonna refuse it , right! at least u caught that this was a right wing song. the people that liked mark found out bout him year after this song. he was a traitor , not a raider! if you dont care bout the poor , i do ! so fuck you regards colonel t. parch of the atlanta 5th
@tommieparch well its like this , both of my parents died at 57 , they paid into the Governments PONZI Scheme all their lives and got nothing in return . if you want to be a fool and believe in the Easter Bunny , Santa and Social Security go ahead , but I have no intention of being a Democrat Liberal Farm Animal .
Can you believe this was one of the first musical cassettes I ever owned as a child! I grabbed two cassettes from the dollar bin at Korvettes, around 1971 or so! I grabbed this tape, and the Kingsmen-of Louie, Louie fame! So by accident, I got their tapes and I loved them! Peace, BobbyK
@pamelasu65 Oh but we did have cassette tapesthen, or relatively shortly there-after-I still have the cassette downstairs that I picked up as a very young kid--if it wasn't 1971, then it had to be 72, 73, or 74 at the latest! If I was wrong, I truly am sorry! Thanks for letting me know, friend! BobbyK
@pamelasu65 Albums were released on two-track cassettes and four-track cartridges beginning in 1965. They quickly became popular enough for Billboard to run best-selling cassette lists from time to time in 1966.
@bobby7771117 Where was the Korvettes store (in what city)? I read about that store in a book. It was started by 4 or 5 guys who had been in the Korean War. That's where the name comes from, Korvettes = Korean war vets.
This song is a big F U to hippies and the culture at that time. It's basically saying she's being silly by being a hippy and against the "establishment" but then he's willing to humor her if she stays with him. The thing is, a lot of the hippies at that time were rich children who thought rebellion was cool but they lost that rebellion when they made their own money as adults.
Where did the dope-smoking-long-hair-anti-establishment get you? Clearly it takes some money to make it in this world. When are the DSLHAE group/liberals going to get that?
The words "cut off your indian braids" would seem to give credence to the fact it is about a native american female (perhaps a hippie too). A great song no matter who it's about.
I used to go with this girl in the early 70's, She was an American Indian chick from Arazonia, the song really discribers her to a T. I really loved her , She dumped me
and I started going with her cousin and then all of a sudden she wanted me back.
just because I started going with the cousin. I didn't understand that but it taught me
A lot about girls( they don't want you unless somebody else wants you too.) I stayed with the cousin and those two got into a fight about stealing boyfriends
I've always liked this song when it first came out. I was nine years old at that time, growing up in the Boston area and I always thought about the Grand Canyon State when I first heard it! I never even gave it a thought that "Arizona" was the name of a hippie girl in San Francisco - probably from the Haight-Ashbury District, LOL (I've also lived my teen years in the SF Bay Area) - a lot of us grade school kids stereotyped hippies as being weird. We made fun of them! I live in Arizona now!!!
@Norskygutt A Norwegian in BAAAAAASTON?!.....LOL...I thought they all went to Minnesota except my Great grandparents who stayed in NEW YAWWWWWK....lol
This was my very first song that I fell in love with and when I could finally talk my parents into buying me the 45rpm, I played it til it was so scratchy! I still have it just for kicks and giggles but have also since gotten it on CD. Funny tho, it sounds kind of scratchy on the CD too! No matter, what a great song!!!
@NCFLbabygirl lol, I thought they were saying "air is cold out" and couldn't figure out the rest or was confused. Once I learned it was "Arizona" it all made more sense! What a great song!!!
i think mark is talkin bout the bigotry of arizona,. not a person at all, but the racism that existed there against native americans& hippies/ i shoud say anti war protesters/, looks like arizona is still full of prowar , nra, bigots. i think we can tell who the mexican drug dealer is & who the mexican cook workin 4 a buck an hour is,this state was native land when the union stole it.custer got his because u dont steal land., or we should own saudi arabia rite now, regards
Thie is a beautiful old song,i always wanted to visit Arizona ,but with the corrupt cop.s and a sheriff and the judge ,we are likely 2 be bashed 2 death by the corrupt cop's ,how the hell can cop's bash an inmate 2 death and get away with it .in the video ( Torture in american prisons. ) they have no right to take the law in2 their own hands and kill a black american .i am a white Aussie and if that happen here they would be charge with murder and locked away,the scumbags.
Hello on a sad day ( Tucson). As a (non-drug) 60's peace/civil rights activist, I wish to request more CIVILITY here. As much as we may like, the US canNOT be the lifeboat to entire Third World. Most Arizonans don't "hate" anyone; they are just trying to preserve their way of life. Most migrants mean No harm; they are just trying to feed their families. If we increase economic DEVELOPMENT aid to foreign countries, both objectives can be accomplished. Please. Let's work together. PEACE.
Screw Arizona you freak !! I will stay in CALIFORNIA and i convinced that hippy girl to stay in CALIFORNIA as well !!!! You are a bunch of racist freaks and psychopathic nuts. Have you seen the news recently?? Anyone brown is an illegal to you folks in arizona and anyone holding a gun is an absolute hero to you all. Screw you all. Former Governor Arnold of California and Mayor Antonio of Los Angeles has boycotted your dumb ass state of arizona.
This song is uplifting and NO ONE CAN SING IT LIKE MARK LINDSAY. The best part of Mark's story is that, after years of singing about genuine love, he found it himself with his wife of almost 20 years, Debbie. Thanks for posting. PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL.
@bobbycv64 - Hello. Yes, AGREED, the 60's absolutely rocked with talent. I agree with most that the song is about a hippie girl named after the state, not the state itself. Also, I have relatives living in Arizona; decent, hard-working, good folks. Now, just a couple of questions. What, are you saying "no thank you" to exactly? And, what does "sounds ground" mean? Just wondering. Best Wishes & Peace to you.
@mjcamck71 GEE I WONDER IF EVERYONE WILL EVER EXPIEREINCEWHAT HE DID TRUE HAPPINESS LORD KNOWS I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING EVEN IF ITS FOR A LITTLE WHILE I CAN TRUELY SAYAND FEEL IT TOO
@BUDDIESII - Hello. Yes, you've hit on the magic of music. While I now have a wonderful husband & 2 beautiful children & have always been blessed w/ loyal, delightful friends, I also grew up in a violent, neglectful home. After that, there was years of abusive boyfriends & feeling lost about work or general life direction. There were times the sadness felt like it was going to swallow me up. Uplifting MUSIC saved my spirits more than once. I wish you JOY, LOVE & PEACE.
@mjcamck71 thank you for te reply the worst part if you talk to certain people they lauff and think you crazy ...but i dont even think they know what true happines is ?
@BUDDIESII - Good morning. I believe you're correct. So many only seem to know what discontent is. In the 60's, most of us knew that genuine happiness can be found in warm, nonjudgmental, nurturing friendships with others. The saddest people I know never learned to treasure other people. Wishing you JOY, LOVE & PEACE.
I remember this song when I was 8 in 1970. It sounds just as great today as it did 40 years ago. Mark Lindsay is an amazing singer who has made great songs with the Raiders and as a solo artist. Even today he still sounds and looks great.
Politics are OK, but this song is about a hippie chick named Arizona that none of the right wingers would even speak to. And I doubt if any of them would want Arizona to follow up to San Francisco.
This song is not about the state of Arizona. Arizona is not a screwed up state---we just have a screwed up governor that for some damn reason we just re-elected. Sure, we have crazy people in Arizona, but we keep them locked up in the state capitol.
Obviously the majority of people think you are the crazy one because your view lost. She is not screwed up. Its ok to be a immigrat from another country. All you have to do is do it legally. Whats wrong with that? Following the law; what a concept.
I am a third generation Arizonaian with Masters Degree and a job and all I have to say to all of you who are insulting my home state is "go fuck yourselves." We wouldn't have any of these problems you mention if people from the other 49 states would quit moving here and destroying our desert, our economy, and sucking up our resources. Move to Florida, it would suit you vapid, ignorant fuckwits better.
Ari ZZ ona.. the most corrupt state in the union, more money goes into that welfare state then what comes out, their it's the shithole of the United States, that Nazi fuckin state stains our image as a fair & civilized country around the world.. napalm that fuckin cesspool of redneck alcohol drinking welfare collecting cousin fuckin monkeys.
I grew up in Arizona. Moved to Nebraska 25 years ago and been kicking myself ever since. Its a real shame that the state went to hell in a handbasket like this. Wouldn't go back now if they were handing out five dollar bills at the boarder. When will we ever learn that women just don't have a head for governing?
@mewhor What you say is true, women are not made for ruling, it's right in the Bible. They think with emotions ruling, men are wired differently. They rule with a reasoning brain.
I always loved their music & used to catch every release from them - drove my older sister nuts! BTW FOLKs What a shame to disrespect Mark & the band with such comments & bickering about stuff that doesn't amount to a hill of beans. You guys need to find a chat room or exchange emails so the rest of us don't have to have our fond memories bashed.
That doesn't mean Mark Lindsay wasn't straight and conservative. He was in fact a very straight dude who resisted the trend toward progressiveness because he was all about the show the costumes, Where The Action Is, etc.
He made a lot of money as a show band and by the time he woke up and tried to do something with substance the train had left the station.
@BabaORiley1972 That's true. However, I think the state of Arizona is named after a girl (not sure if she was considered a 'hippie'; she's probably of Native American descent (?)). Anyway, a great song by Mark Lindsay that's now rarely played on mainstream FM oldies stations. Thanks for uploading this great song, 'sunnychopper82'!
I remember when this song was fairly new on the radio, that there was also a television commercial I would see with a young woman talking about this song and explaining that it was not about the state of Arizona, but it was about her- her name was Arizona, and she also was an American Indian. I can't recall what the 30 second spot was about. Maybe the plight of a certain tribe needing some help.
She eventually did. Now has a career in the Department of Justice.
sigh57 1 day ago
Was she worth it
MixedNutsMs 2 weeks ago
Mark and Lyndsay
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@MikeMikey2012 I could see if you weren't around during the hippie movement of the late 60s/early 70s, this song wouldn't make a lot of sense. Many youngsters of the day wore native American Indian garb. Moccassins, sashes, ponchos and braids were all the rage! Hard to believe, but true!
Drillin4Oil 3 weeks ago
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Drillin4Oil 3 weeks ago
Grandma Mary, get outa my life
MixedNutsMs 3 weeks ago
It's about a guy named Mark who met teenage girl named Lindsay
MixedNutsMs 3 weeks ago
Some of the one hit songs of the 70's pack the best memories. Some singers like Jim Croece will always forever be in the 70's, like the pet rock, the AMC Gremlin, Chevy Vega and the AMC Pacer !
UfoDan100 4 weeks ago
@UfoDan100
Anyone who grew up with this music was so lucky. Great stuff!
alfredosgal 2 weeks ago
Brings back memories and the Raiders were a great band that put out a lot of good music but Mark Lindsay, even though he made the group was a stuck up conceited snob.
MrNocaster1 4 weeks ago
Wow, haven't heard this since Jr High,never realized how much this song shares with his other hit Silver Bird. Guess his music was sort of marshmallow fluff, It doesn't stand the test of time but I appreciate it for taking me back to my adolescence. That said ,I can put it away for another 42 years and never mention it again.
jdollinter 1 month ago
Tea partiers when tea parties werent cool. Lol. If you want to hear a real 70s state song about a state listen to Indiana Wants Me.
Talltrees84 1 month ago
@Talltrees84 Indiana Wants Me. God, what a dumb song. But the older one gets the more one appreciates goofy old bubblegum songs like that. Thanks for reminding me.
Keach47 1 month ago
So, I have it in French on the same title "Arizona" by Bruce Huard Et Les Sultans! That's was a truly 70's pop song in all its splendor!... I love either the english and french one!... Thanks for posting it!
LHUPA 1 month ago
I remember when i was a kid i got a model for christmas and it was a stagecoach paul revere & the raiders
chipbuhl 1 month ago
PR&theRs had a couple of PR flubs, let their names be used on junk (The Raiders' Coach...) and got less exposure afyer Where the Action Is went off. Some of their touchie-feelie album cuts were less than listenable IMO. Not a rare situation for the time.Still a great performance every time though.
rickr442 1 month ago
Top 40 hit for Mark Lindsay after the Raiders started to fade. One of the best performers of his day
rickr442 1 month ago
@rickr442 They started to fade but they hit number one the next year!
MrRaiderfan1000 1 month ago
Mark was in Paul Revere and the Raiders in the 60's...
TheMaggiekay7 1 month ago
Garbage.
easyrider6808 1 month ago
I was alive and well going to high school when this song came out . FM was fringe and not very many people listened to it . ALL major hits were on AM . Very few people listened to F M. And I mean very few . And by the way I like Herb Alpert . I was very into music and played the trumpet...
maddogtannen1966 1 month ago
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IronJustice08 1 month ago
@MikeMikey2012 You are way too wrong, my friend. I was D.J.ing in the 70's. FM radio was listened to by VERY FEW...cause most cars did not have FM radios until the late 70's. Most FM stations played "beautiful music." (there was few in the audience and you couldn't sell ads!) Youu probably should just go to your room and crank up the Justin Bieber.
TheOnememphisdude 1 month ago
@MikeMikey2012
He's singing to his girl, who is named "Arizona". Her hobo shoes and Indian braids are a teenagers affect - he wants her to grow up, to get rid of her childish ways.
You might want to reconsider labelling the song "moronic". I'm assuming you're too young to remember what pop culture was like when this came out. For those of us who were alive at the time, it made perfect sense.
I've always thought insulting something that one didn't understand was a sign of ignorance.
TGS556 1 month ago 12
@TGS556 Cool rep once
crankfire1 4 weeks ago
@TGS556 great point . I was 14 at the time and loved this song
MrHoward55 3 weeks ago
@TGS556 I was there too. it was kind of a post hippie statement he was making here. I remember driving across the county in the summer of 1971 to visit family in Calif.I was 13 at the time. This song was always on whatever station we happened to be listening to while on thre road across america. Thank You!
heliot58 2 weeks ago
One gay song after another!
IronJustice08 1 month ago
what a great song
9496tull 1 month ago
@MikeMikey2012 .. you moron!
340rps 1 month ago in playlist FRED 3
such a full on total LIKE
Trudy591 2 months ago
thge 70's brought me here!!!
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I thank God I grew up in the 1960's and 70's.
I was great to be a kid and a young adult then.
This song brings back cool memories.
Thank you.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 2 months ago
Good storyline and awesome tune....they simply don't make much music like this anymore!!
'Arizona''s the kind of girl I dream about.
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O Wow. I am transport back to a time when you could sing to your favorite songs. I loved Mark Lindsay in a serious way.
froggy2632 2 months ago
O Wow. I am transport back to a time when you could sing to your favorite songs. I loved Mark Lindsay in a serious way.
froggy2632 2 months ago
Has nothing to do with Arizona and I love it.
hal9thou001 2 months ago
I´m 16 years old listening this song! Good old times!
jaakriaj 2 months ago
Crickey, this songs brings back wonderful memories of my college days at the U of A in Tucson, back in the late 80s. Those were the days...
tegoarcanadei 2 months ago
wow this is good listening
horsewhisperlad 2 months ago
1:30 the sample of Memphis bleek's "Crew Love" thats hot!!!
vmm12 2 months ago 2
played this at Sky Harbor Airport 10-22-11, driving people nuts, not really, I had the volume turned down.
ir10031981 3 months ago
This most of been released Christmas time of 1969.
MrRaiderfan1000 4 months ago
@MrRaiderfan1000 This song was on a "Dynamic Hits" album my mum gave me for Christmas 1969, so it must have been released as a single in Australia a couple of months before that. BTW, the same compilation had a Neil Sedaka hit "Wheeling West Virginia" recorded in Sydney, Australia and a big hit here but I believe, almost unknown in the USA.
MusicMadMaurice 1 month ago
I am from Wisconsin and got alcohol poisioning in Az back in spring of '01. Too much sun to drink in. Great time till then. But showed them a thing or two bout boozing, till I went down a month into weapons training. Got a Tat though. hahaha. Love the song.
onehaastylemarine 4 months ago
I listened to this over and over again when I was in basic training in fort ord in 1969
Juster busters dad
Justerbuster89 4 months ago
I listened to this over and over again when I was in basic training in fort ord in 1969
Justerbuster89 4 months ago
god this song brings back good memories
lcolby11 5 months ago
my aunt had this song on the jue box in her bar. I miss you aunt shirley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
acevader1969 5 months ago
@acevader1969 Wow man! My aunt Lillian loved this song and she would put it on the phono when I would go over to spend the night with my cousin Jeremy. We would dance to it and Aunt Lil would bake molasses cookies. O what memories huh?
jeff62rey 5 months ago
@jeff62rey Molasses cookies......... Oh man, the best and my favorite. Used to watch my great aunt make the best ones ever. My Gma is still alive and kicking at +90 and finally mastered my aunts recipe. love'm and the cookies...
onehaastylemarine 4 months ago
A great song by Mark Lindsay! They sure don't make music like this anymore. "Arizona" peaked on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in March 1970!
Bravo, Mark Lindsay!
ChihuahuaboyDH 5 months ago
Great song. Has anyone heard Kenny Young's original version of this?
raremusicman 5 months ago
I live in Flagstaff, Az., and I'm amazed by the misconceptions about our state! In 2009, we had 132 inches of snow! That's 11 FEET! More than any other city of 50,000 or more in the lower 48! The mountains of northern and eastern Arizona get tons of snow in a good (or, to some, a bad) winter! It's not ALL baking hot desert, folks! Mark Lindsay proves that at least SOME good guys really CAN win! Great music!
sixtiesrockboy 6 months ago 2
@sixtiesrockboy Excellent points. And I understand that Buffalo, NY actually gets great weather too. Sunny with mild to hot temperatures in the fall, winter, spring and summer months. So it's not ALL freezing cold iceberg like weather. Both of these cities suffer from national misperceptions. I also agree this is great music.
avcat1 5 months ago
@sixtiesrockboy You kn ow, grew up in Az. way back I thought they were singing about the state. Now I know. Back then people, mostly califorina people said we were hick town, they don't know history, Not now! the band, good sounds, thanks for the down loads, made my day!
importantisimo1 4 months ago
Great singer then, and all these years later, still a great singer. Mark Lindsay and the raiders are soooooooo under rated. Some of the all time best songs out of the 60's and 70's. Nothing like the crap nowadays that they call music. Hell, most nowadays mouth words, cause they can't sing. LOVE the 60's 70's. Never will be such great music again in my time.
a51hawks 6 months ago
Love the horns on this song.
jcg563 6 months ago
Have some of the best memories on this song...Great singer, Mark Lindsay, but almost unknown in Europe, and what a shame that is !
Willywaw 6 months ago
One of the first songs I heard when I arrived in country...
lonedove1981 6 months ago
My new neighbor: Him Arizona you tink you paint a yellow house next to my yellow house? I tink we better retink it, "Yellowzona"
prestush 7 months ago
The album cover of "Paul Revere & The Raiders" at 1:05 is so cool!
1962drob 7 months ago
Mark Lindsay Rocks on this song!
1962drob 7 months ago
In 1970, why didn't you perform this live, Mr. Lindsay? Kind of foolish of you; I think so anyway.
kja427 7 months ago
lol that's cute I will be guide your way!! he's still cute to me! I also love the song kicks! GB
GettnBooted 7 months ago
glenrick : you just dont get it .. Dont think you ever will , just like all liberals .
maddogtannen1966 7 months ago
This is the song that got me to start watching Paul Revere & The Raiders Videos last summer. Mark Lindsay has a great voice. Mark was great as a solo artist AND with Paul Revere & The Raiders :)
1962drob 7 months ago
Arizona FTW
ststephen 7 months ago
@glennrickard323571 You're obviously only listening to the music and not the words. That song is obnoxious and insulting--"Cut off your Indian braids." Definitely not acceptable as a state song. Our state song is much more beautiful--and written and performed by someone who truly LOVES Arizona. I know this for a fact because I knew him when I was growing up. You should listen to it. If you type it in search the first one that comes up is a beautiful video of it by sedonasong.
wejeinaz 7 months ago
hah. arizona is far from the greatest state in the union.. quite far indeed.
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demalikavinodani 8 months ago
Great song! The State of Arizona should declare this its State song!
glennrickard323571 8 months ago
Tyrant.
Elricck 8 months ago in playlist z
This is a message to all the assholes posting about politics and their G.E.D. level understanding of the song. Fuck off Now!. God dammit I come here to hear a great song not hear your half boiled theories or sob stories.
MrDavearama 8 months ago
@MrDavearama They told me not everyones stupid. I see that now. How much longer are we gonna listen to "Rappers Paradise", so when I call the rest brain dead. That's why. Come up with a new sound for the 20teens. And the teens to. Nuff of grampa snoop.
hangemhigh2000 8 months ago
What a delightful musical time capsule! I played it for my 12 year old grandson,and he was totally baffled by the lyrics. I told him "you had to be there to understand what songs like this meant to your old grandpa's generation".
blockcl 8 months ago
@bobbycv64 Thank you, I like my name too ^.^
moonbaby4evr 8 months ago
My name is Arizona. Not even kidding. I was named after the hippie girl in this song. :D
moonbaby4evr 8 months ago 41
@moonbaby4evr
WOW - YOU ARE SO LUCKY - The Greatest State in the Union - My Daughter was born in AZ. Should of named her ARIZONA.
bobbycv64 8 months ago
@moonbaby4evr there's also a character on Grey's Anatomy named Arizona.
ir10031981 3 months ago
what a sexy fine song!!!!! luv this song!!! Mark is soooo handsome:=):=)
txncgirl1 8 months ago 2
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darryleshelly 8 months ago
I AM NAMED ARIZONA AND I AM A HIPPI. NO JOKEZ!
aribexbabey5 8 months ago
This is a great song, enough of the name calling!!! We're here to listen to a song not debate on politics-this is for the negative comments below!! Too many rotten apples!!Grow up!!
conniels100 8 months ago 2
This is a great song, enough of the name calling!!! We're here to listen to a song not debate on politics-this is for the negative comments below!! Grow up!!!
conniels100 8 months ago
It takes me back to Phelan Hall at USF, 1970, conveniently located three blocks from the corner of Haight Street and Ashbury Avenue. We had our very own live-in narc.
oldgringo2001 9 months ago
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mark lindsay was right wing asshole!, he was a jackoff that pretended to be liberal!, i think think paul & the raiders canned this capitalist shitfuck, why were so many people fooled by this foolish song? lindsay , go 2 hell!
tommieparch 9 months ago
@tommieparch Its nice to have some performers out there that really piss off Liberal Retarded Assholes by being Capitalist and making money .
jupirer 8 months ago
@jupirer your 60, so i guess in a few years when u need your ss checks & your medicare , ur gonna refuse it , right! at least u caught that this was a right wing song. the people that liked mark found out bout him year after this song. he was a traitor , not a raider! if you dont care bout the poor , i do ! so fuck you regards colonel t. parch of the atlanta 5th
tommieparch 8 months ago
@tommieparch well its like this , both of my parents died at 57 , they paid into the Governments PONZI Scheme all their lives and got nothing in return . if you want to be a fool and believe in the Easter Bunny , Santa and Social Security go ahead , but I have no intention of being a Democrat Liberal Farm Animal .
jupirer 8 months ago
Nice bridge, but otherwise vapid.
skyavalanche 9 months ago
AWESOME~!~!~!~!~!~
Corrigan61 9 months ago
people could really sing then...no auto-tune and real instruments
thadxxx 9 months ago 2
Can you believe this was one of the first musical cassettes I ever owned as a child! I grabbed two cassettes from the dollar bin at Korvettes, around 1971 or so! I grabbed this tape, and the Kingsmen-of Louie, Louie fame! So by accident, I got their tapes and I loved them! Peace, BobbyK
bobby7771117 9 months ago 17
@bobby7771117 We didn't have cassettes in 1971 lol
pamelasu65 7 months ago
@pamelasu65 Oh but we did have cassette tapesthen, or relatively shortly there-after-I still have the cassette downstairs that I picked up as a very young kid--if it wasn't 1971, then it had to be 72, 73, or 74 at the latest! If I was wrong, I truly am sorry! Thanks for letting me know, friend! BobbyK
bobby7771117 7 months ago
@pamelasu65 Albums were released on two-track cassettes and four-track cartridges beginning in 1965. They quickly became popular enough for Billboard to run best-selling cassette lists from time to time in 1966.
rcriis 6 months ago
@bobby7771117 Where was the Korvettes store (in what city)? I read about that store in a book. It was started by 4 or 5 guys who had been in the Korean War. That's where the name comes from, Korvettes = Korean war vets.
57highland 3 months ago
This song is a big F U to hippies and the culture at that time. It's basically saying she's being silly by being a hippy and against the "establishment" but then he's willing to humor her if she stays with him. The thing is, a lot of the hippies at that time were rich children who thought rebellion was cool but they lost that rebellion when they made their own money as adults.
contessakitty 9 months ago
@contessakitty
Where did the dope-smoking-long-hair-anti-establishment get you? Clearly it takes some money to make it in this world. When are the DSLHAE group/liberals going to get that?
pwilde1000 9 months ago
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tommieparch 9 months ago
@contessakitty wrong! nobody lost that rebellion , u reagan cock sucker!
tommieparch 9 months ago
Get off yur napalm blues lmao:)
needtolooselots 9 months ago
@needtolooselots That would be "Get off your 8 ball blues."
glenhollow 9 months ago
I know it has nothing to do with the State of Arizona, but it sure makes me miss home . . .which is Arizona.
james924s 10 months ago
aNOTHER 12 lOSERS. Poor souls, don't know a great song. Oh: Well, there is nearly 600 that do like it and know a great song.
a51hawks 10 months ago
Reminiscing is a good thing!
Good stuff
Jonellph 10 months ago
Just a beautiful old song ,lov it .
GRANGE331 10 months ago
Pair this with Indiana Wants Me and we have two of the greatest STATE names tunes.
Get a haircut, you hippies and bring me a beer.
slshusker 10 months ago
The words "cut off your indian braids" would seem to give credence to the fact it is about a native american female (perhaps a hippie too). A great song no matter who it's about.
jimbo6227 10 months ago
I used to go with this girl in the early 70's, She was an American Indian chick from Arazonia, the song really discribers her to a T. I really loved her , She dumped me
and I started going with her cousin and then all of a sudden she wanted me back.
just because I started going with the cousin. I didn't understand that but it taught me
A lot about girls( they don't want you unless somebody else wants you too.) I stayed with the cousin and those two got into a fight about stealing boyfriends
chuc555 10 months ago
All the girls were crazy about Mark and Bobby!
khj93play 11 months ago
The ULTIMATE car trip sing along!
yarekhunt 11 months ago
I've always liked this song when it first came out. I was nine years old at that time, growing up in the Boston area and I always thought about the Grand Canyon State when I first heard it! I never even gave it a thought that "Arizona" was the name of a hippie girl in San Francisco - probably from the Haight-Ashbury District, LOL (I've also lived my teen years in the SF Bay Area) - a lot of us grade school kids stereotyped hippies as being weird. We made fun of them! I live in Arizona now!!!
Norskygutt 11 months ago 2
@Norskygutt A Norwegian in BAAAAAASTON?!.....LOL...I thought they all went to Minnesota except my Great grandparents who stayed in NEW YAWWWWWK....lol
yarekhunt 11 months ago
This was my very first song that I fell in love with and when I could finally talk my parents into buying me the 45rpm, I played it til it was so scratchy! I still have it just for kicks and giggles but have also since gotten it on CD. Funny tho, it sounds kind of scratchy on the CD too! No matter, what a great song!!!
survivrs 11 months ago
@survivrs Me, too---I was 6 and I would beg my mom to turn up the radio every time it came on the radio til she got the album for me.
mocha4paws 11 months ago
This is one of the first songs I remember because it had a rainbow in it and my gramma and grampa lived in AZ. Thanks for the memories.
Lisarata 11 months ago
I remember when this was popular...I thought they were saying 'HAIR IS GOLDEN"!! hahaha
NCFLbabygirl 11 months ago
@NCFLbabygirl lol, I thought they were saying "air is cold out" and couldn't figure out the rest or was confused. Once I learned it was "Arizona" it all made more sense! What a great song!!!
survivrs 11 months ago
One of the all time great sing along songs while driving down the road....
ccsjl1 11 months ago
i think mark is talkin bout the bigotry of arizona,. not a person at all, but the racism that existed there against native americans& hippies/ i shoud say anti war protesters/, looks like arizona is still full of prowar , nra, bigots. i think we can tell who the mexican drug dealer is & who the mexican cook workin 4 a buck an hour is,this state was native land when the union stole it.custer got his because u dont steal land., or we should own saudi arabia rite now, regards
tommieparch 11 months ago
This song never gets old. I still hear it on the radio and can't help but sing along!
mustangmom27 1 year ago
Thie is a beautiful old song,i always wanted to visit Arizona ,but with the corrupt cop.s and a sheriff and the judge ,we are likely 2 be bashed 2 death by the corrupt cop's ,how the hell can cop's bash an inmate 2 death and get away with it .in the video ( Torture in american prisons. ) they have no right to take the law in2 their own hands and kill a black american .i am a white Aussie and if that happen here they would be charge with murder and locked away,the scumbags.
GRANGE331 1 year ago
Arizona gave the world Stevie Nicks and the wonderful Michelle Branch.
It doesn't need to do any more it has done its part.
(Especially Michelle *sigh* I love her!)
ftwsmp 1 year ago
Colorado freakin rocks lol
1anskee 1 year ago
The comment below mine doesn't need to be here!! This is a great song! Shame on you for writing such CRAP!!
conniels100 1 year ago
This is considered his first release after splitting w/ raiders
younghoss 1 year ago
Hello on a sad day ( Tucson). As a (non-drug) 60's peace/civil rights activist, I wish to request more CIVILITY here. As much as we may like, the US canNOT be the lifeboat to entire Third World. Most Arizonans don't "hate" anyone; they are just trying to preserve their way of life. Most migrants mean No harm; they are just trying to feed their families. If we increase economic DEVELOPMENT aid to foreign countries, both objectives can be accomplished. Please. Let's work together. PEACE.
mjcamck71 1 year ago
Screw Arizona you freak !! I will stay in CALIFORNIA and i convinced that hippy girl to stay in CALIFORNIA as well !!!! You are a bunch of racist freaks and psychopathic nuts. Have you seen the news recently?? Anyone brown is an illegal to you folks in arizona and anyone holding a gun is an absolute hero to you all. Screw you all. Former Governor Arnold of California and Mayor Antonio of Los Angeles has boycotted your dumb ass state of arizona.
203207ab 1 year ago
@203207ab Blow me...fuck the illegals and fuck all you bleeding heart faggots...step on my lawn and I'll show you peace jerk-off.
luvvgunn61 1 year ago
@203207ab You are so screwed
molly4d 1 year ago
True about Arizona. Grew up in Benson. Nonsense.
ericthebarbaric 1 year ago
This song is uplifting and NO ONE CAN SING IT LIKE MARK LINDSAY. The best part of Mark's story is that, after years of singing about genuine love, he found it himself with his wife of almost 20 years, Debbie. Thanks for posting. PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL.
mjcamck71 1 year ago 20
@mjcamck71 no thank you. He still sounds ground, I just went a recent singing.
60's just rocked, excellent talent then.
SORRY, I AM BIASED, I AM FROM ARIZONA and yes, I know the song isn't about the State.
bobbycv64 6 months ago
@bobbycv64 - Hello. Yes, AGREED, the 60's absolutely rocked with talent. I agree with most that the song is about a hippie girl named after the state, not the state itself. Also, I have relatives living in Arizona; decent, hard-working, good folks. Now, just a couple of questions. What, are you saying "no thank you" to exactly? And, what does "sounds ground" mean? Just wondering. Best Wishes & Peace to you.
mjcamck71 6 months ago
@bobbycv64 I agree that this is an excellent song. Although the song isn't about the State of Arizona, I believe this should be Arizona's State Song!
glennrickard323572 6 months ago 6
@mjcamck71 GEE I WONDER IF EVERYONE WILL EVER EXPIEREINCEWHAT HE DID TRUE HAPPINESS LORD KNOWS I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING EVEN IF ITS FOR A LITTLE WHILE I CAN TRUELY SAYAND FEEL IT TOO
BUDDIESII 6 months ago
@BUDDIESII - Hello. Yes, you've hit on the magic of music. While I now have a wonderful husband & 2 beautiful children & have always been blessed w/ loyal, delightful friends, I also grew up in a violent, neglectful home. After that, there was years of abusive boyfriends & feeling lost about work or general life direction. There were times the sadness felt like it was going to swallow me up. Uplifting MUSIC saved my spirits more than once. I wish you JOY, LOVE & PEACE.
mjcamck71 6 months ago
@mjcamck71 thank you for te reply the worst part if you talk to certain people they lauff and think you crazy ...but i dont even think they know what true happines is ?
BUDDIESII 6 months ago
@BUDDIESII - Good morning. I believe you're correct. So many only seem to know what discontent is. In the 60's, most of us knew that genuine happiness can be found in warm, nonjudgmental, nurturing friendships with others. The saddest people I know never learned to treasure other people. Wishing you JOY, LOVE & PEACE.
mjcamck71 6 months ago 2
it's funny how music influnce later in our life this song is one
pshphx 1 year ago
Let's just focus on what a hunk Mark Lindsay was. Fuck all the politics.
deenibeeni 1 year ago
Who cares, its a Hippie Era song!
muzzle1460 1 year ago
Lovee this song t.y!!
needtolooselots 1 year ago
Raiders, or solo.. Lindsay is awesome. Now that it's Christmas season, I wish someone on here would post his version of "What Child Is This".
teddibearsworld 1 year ago
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sandinator 1 year ago
Stay off music websites, Of The Third Person. You pollute the area with your idiotic rants.
zappajohn 1 year ago
My namesake.
moonbaby4evr 1 year ago
I was about 6 years old the first time I heard this song; it was, and still is, one of my absolute favorites. Beautiful.
TheHeidi1998 1 year ago
I remember this song when I was 8 in 1970. It sounds just as great today as it did 40 years ago. Mark Lindsay is an amazing singer who has made great songs with the Raiders and as a solo artist. Even today he still sounds and looks great.
1962drob 1 year ago
Politics are OK, but this song is about a hippie chick named Arizona that none of the right wingers would even speak to. And I doubt if any of them would want Arizona to follow up to San Francisco.
MaiHarinder 1 year ago
The last two people got it EXACTLY RIGHT!!
randalleful 1 year ago
This song is about a girl named Arizona....jeeze, only ol' aspenkate got it right!!
randalleful 1 year ago
Hmmm... I thought he was singing about a girl named Arizona.
aspenkate 1 year ago
This song is not about the state of Arizona. Arizona is not a screwed up state---we just have a screwed up governor that for some damn reason we just re-elected. Sure, we have crazy people in Arizona, but we keep them locked up in the state capitol.
nedphoenix 1 year ago
@nedphoenix
Obviously the majority of people think you are the crazy one because your view lost. She is not screwed up. Its ok to be a immigrat from another country. All you have to do is do it legally. Whats wrong with that? Following the law; what a concept.
vduron1 1 year ago
I am a third generation Arizonaian with Masters Degree and a job and all I have to say to all of you who are insulting my home state is "go fuck yourselves." We wouldn't have any of these problems you mention if people from the other 49 states would quit moving here and destroying our desert, our economy, and sucking up our resources. Move to Florida, it would suit you vapid, ignorant fuckwits better.
VeryCosmopolitan 1 year ago
@VeryCosmopolitan The vocabulary you obtain with a Masters degree: vapid and, um, fuckwits!
29350 11 months ago
@29350 ROTFLMAO!
yarekhunt 11 months ago
Ari ZZ ona.. the most corrupt state in the union, more money goes into that welfare state then what comes out, their it's the shithole of the United States, that Nazi fuckin state stains our image as a fair & civilized country around the world.. napalm that fuckin cesspool of redneck alcohol drinking welfare collecting cousin fuckin monkeys.
cia5000 1 year ago
I grew up in Arizona. Moved to Nebraska 25 years ago and been kicking myself ever since. Its a real shame that the state went to hell in a handbasket like this. Wouldn't go back now if they were handing out five dollar bills at the boarder. When will we ever learn that women just don't have a head for governing?
mewhor 1 year ago
@mewhor What you say is true, women are not made for ruling, it's right in the Bible. They think with emotions ruling, men are wired differently. They rule with a reasoning brain.
bwho 1 year ago
I always loved their music & used to catch every release from them - drove my older sister nuts! BTW FOLKs What a shame to disrespect Mark & the band with such comments & bickering about stuff that doesn't amount to a hill of beans. You guys need to find a chat room or exchange emails so the rest of us don't have to have our fond memories bashed.
mimikate1 1 year ago
AGREED!!!!! Enjoy the song and leave your politics for another site.
lippy816 1 year ago
That doesn't mean Mark Lindsay wasn't straight and conservative. He was in fact a very straight dude who resisted the trend toward progressiveness because he was all about the show the costumes, Where The Action Is, etc.
He made a lot of money as a show band and by the time he woke up and tried to do something with substance the train had left the station.
DustyDale67 1 year ago
This song has nothing to do with the state of Arizona. It's about a hippie girl named Arizona.
BabaORiley1972 1 year ago 33
@BabaORiley1972 Never know that!
khj93play 1 year ago
@BabaORiley1972 And she likes it up the butt.
DSXmachine 1 year ago
@BabaORiley1972 No her name in the song was Poncho, she loved the
Arizona scene so she took off her 'rainbow suit' and then told the
hippies, 'get out of here, we are working people, not drug addicts'.
Of course, the hippies went wild!
After the confrontation between Paul Revere & Raiders, they stopped
wearing revolutionary war costumes, and went hippie style.
This confrontation was immortalized in the movie "Saturday Night
Fever"! Remember Father Frank Jr?
fntime 1 year ago
@BabaORiley1972 Good thing, I lived there for 6 years and it sucked balls.
mattwu911 11 months ago
@BabaORiley1972 Thanks for correcting me on that. Learn something new every day!
mariofan4523 11 months ago
Ummmm - duh
ozmati 11 months ago
@BabaORiley1972 That's true. However, I think the state of Arizona is named after a girl (not sure if she was considered a 'hippie'; she's probably of Native American descent (?)). Anyway, a great song by Mark Lindsay that's now rarely played on mainstream FM oldies stations. Thanks for uploading this great song, 'sunnychopper82'!
gorickard319582010 10 months ago
@gorickard319582010 arido zona (Spanish) - or Arizona means arid zone---a dry place--you know---the Desert
The song is about a girl, not the state.
ptmcflix 10 months ago
@BabaORiley1972
You are correct :-)
I use to live in AZ - Still Love the Name - ARIZONA
bobbycv64 8 months ago
I remember when this song was fairly new on the radio, that there was also a television commercial I would see with a young woman talking about this song and explaining that it was not about the state of Arizona, but it was about her- her name was Arizona, and she also was an American Indian. I can't recall what the 30 second spot was about. Maybe the plight of a certain tribe needing some help.
heybofe 1 year ago