This song still brings tears to my eyes. There was so much hope back then for a world without war, poverty, racism, etc. Some day it will happen. Thanks! Love your reactions!
I was a young man at this time. It was real and I had long hair and always wore a headband. I was also a singer in a band. I was a hippy then and still have a hippy heart at age 73. Thank you for playing.
Brings fond memories of the time I was serving in the military in the early 70s and how welcoming the people were to me when my ship visited there. Thank you.
I was a preteen in 1967 and wanted nothing more than to grow up to be a hippie - it was songs like this that inspired me. Unfortunately those days were over by the time I was old enough, but I still think it's a lovely thought!
It's my favorite song from that period. Written by John Phillips (Mamas and Papas). I was able to go to Haight-Ashbury as a teenager during the summer of love (1967).
This song came out in 1967 when I was 15, as my family were preparing to move to the Bay Area from the UK. But it became somewhat of an anthem when I heard it on the plane as we were flying into San Francisco.
I was born in 1960 so loved hearing these songs as a kid growing up but when I see pictures or videos of this time I always think what those care free people from those days look like now as they are either in there late 70s or approaching their 80s !!!!!
There are still Hippies out there. It's just that they are in their 70's. I was just out of high school and planned to hitch hike to San Francisco with a buddy. But the day before we were supposed to leave, I joined the US Air Force. I stayed for 26 years... Boy what a different life it could have been.
Indeed we are trying to keep this alive. It may be our only hope for sanity in today's world. My generation made huge changes in society and laid down a foundation for how the world and mankind can live in peace and love, helping and caring for one another. We showed at Woodstock how that can work.
Something so wistful and beckoning about this song. I hope you noticed the interesting instrumentation and production. I love a song where different instruments play in different ears. Pretty amazing for the time.
The hippie anthem, what were those streets heigh ashbury back in the sixties. Lot of good music came from that scene back then. Doors, Janis Joplin, Grateful Deat etc...
This is such a great song. This came out in 1967 & was Scott's biggest hit but he also recorded "Like An Old Time Movie". He also wrote the song "What About Me" for Anne Murray in 1968 & he co-wrote "Kokomo" which became a big hit for The Beach Boys in 1988.
I grew up in the Oakland Hills across the bay from San Francisco from age 4 thru college finishing at age 22. This song came out in 1967 when I was 10 yrs old so too young to be part of the "hippie movement", though I did go to UC Berkeley after high school. The S.F. Bay Area was truly an awesome place to live in and the music growing up was just great. This was such a beautiful song and it made you feel so happy and mellow. So many songs and groups started in the Bay Area in the 60s and 70s. I still listen to this every year. Makes me feel like a kid again.....Peace baby !!!!
Robert Plant sings the chorus to this as an ad-lib in some of the Dazed and Confused performances…..You can see that in the MSG’73 video. Robert has described himself as “a sad, old hippie”; For a time, he believed in the counter-culture and its idealism, as did many of my generation. In Going To California, if you recall, Robert sings of girls with flowers in their hair. Robert also loved “The California Sound” of bands like Moby Grape, Love, Jefferson Airplane etc and sang some of those songs in his regional bands before Zeppelin was formed. One of his favorite groups, to this day, is Love….especially their album Forever Changes…released in 1967…..which I owned, btw.
I grew up in SF. The Haight Ashbury had a cool little scene happening, but the media found out about it and all the kids from all over descended on it trying to out hippy each other. It was a circus. No locals went down there unless there was live music. This syrupy song was partially responsible for this. Written by LA musician John Phillips who I doubt spent much time there.
All my brothers and I were kids in the 60s. (A family with 11 children). I remember my mother buying us t-shirts with peace signs on them. Unfortunately, San Francisco is no longer the same as it was back then. I was shocked to see images of some neighborhoods.
I was raised in California, spent time in SF and remember this time so well. I don't think it will ever happen again. People were actually more gentle than now.
This song was released around the time of the Monterrey Music Festival in June, 1967. It was the summer after my graduation from high school. The song by John Phillips gives the flavor of youth culture at that time
I'd like you to react to Jim Reeves singing Welcome to my world. Jim was a country ballad singer from the late 50's -60's. His biggest hit was He'll Have To Go.. Best wishes from Northern Ireland ❤️❤️❤️👍
This perfectly captures the vibe of the flower power movement before it all turned turned to shit. Those of us of a certain age really believed that love could change in the world. Before the Vietnam War , before the assassinations, before the demonstrations, riots, and public violence. We had the innocence of youth combined with the rising wealth of the USA and the burgeoning ranks of the baby boomers. It didn't last very long, but songs like this bring it all back, almost like a Christmas Carol can bring back the beauty of the season. Thank You so much for this reaction. You guys are the best.
I know exactly what you mean. I was there when it all turned to shit. I lived in San Francisco from August, 1965 to November, 1968. Every time I hear this song and he tells them to be sure to wear some flowers in their hair, my first thought is it would have been great if he had told them to bring some money too. Seeing starving, broke kids panhandling on the streets got really old after awhile.
Robert Plant sang some of the lyrics to this song at the Famous Madison Square Garden concerts “The Song Remains The Same” I think it was during “Dazed & Confused”. Just saying 😉😉☺️
George Harrison went to check out San Francisco because of this song. There are film clips to document it. He said afterwards that, in the end, "the hippies were really just a lot of spotty drop-outs."
The song of the Summer of Love, when young people really believed that a change was coming, and the world was on the brink of an era of peace and love. Sadly, it never happened, but at least those young people had optimism that things could be better, as opposed to today when doom and gloom abound, and that the sky will fall at any time.
This song celebrates the summer of love in San Francisco from 1967 and the burgeoning counterculture and the promise flower power. A time when the younger generation had hopes for a better peaceful world.
Obejrzyjcie sobie film Monterey Pop Festival 1967. Piosenka była reklamą imprezy. Nie wiem czy już przerabialiście największy przebój Johna Philipsa: The Mamas and The Papas - California dreaming (zawsze mam wrażenie, że Czerwone Gitary się tym inspirowały w piosence Historia jednej znajomości, aczkolwiek to nie musi być prawda, obie piosenki z roku 1966).
Hi friends,here's a good old songs you could react: -Twelve Thirty(The Mamas & The Papas) -Elenore(The Turtles) -Never Marry A Railroad Man(Shockin' Blue) -Brown Eyed Girl(Van Morrison) -Build Me Up Buttercup(The Foundations) -Little Green Bag(George Baker Selection) -Nobody But Me(The Human Beinz) -Noir C'est Noir(Johnny Hallyday) -Girl,You'll Be A Woman Soon(Neil Diamond) -How Can You Mend A Broken Heart(Bee Gees) -(Ghost)Riders In The Sky(The Outlaws) -Against The Wind(Bob Seger) -Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City(Bobby 'Blue Bland) -Starman(David Bowie) -A Change Is Gonna Come(Sam Cooke) -Twilight Time(The Platters) -Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In(The 5'th Dimension) -Skeepwalk(Santo & Johnny) Greetings from Argentina 🖐
Z tego ja bym wybrał: Aquarius/Let the sunshine in jest wiele wersji, może być 5th Dimension, aczkolwiek ja najbardziej lubię oryginalną z musicalu Hair.
I find it odd that people who weren't even born when this song and the whole freak era were a thing can be feel nostalgic for it from hearing this song.
The faces in that video are the sisters, brothers, friends and lovers of thousands of young guys killed in Vietnam. Many of the guys in the video were also killed in Vietnam.
It was a mixed bag in the 60s so calling it "happier times" may be a stretch in some ways, at least in the US. Many people were protesting against the Vietnam War and the civil rights legislation was still fresh and controversial to some people. The happiness shown in the video were the counter-culture people (hippies) who were against the not-so-happy events.
The idealism then of peace, love, and Rock and Roll has fallen now to homelessness, drug addiction, and leftist's policies. Really nice airport now though. Good song. Glad that you did this.
This was part of the reaction to the Vietnam War, or the American Ear as the Vietnamese called it. Terrible times. No better now I’m afraid to say but we can dream. “Beware of the Military-Industrial-Congregational Complex.”
All the people you see here would now be in their 80's. I wonder if they still consider themselves "hippies"? I watched it happen in the 60's but did not go that route.
This song still brings tears to my eyes. There was so much hope back then for a world without war, poverty, racism, etc. Some day it will happen. Thanks! Love your reactions!
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Thank you for sharing and letting us enjoy it again.
Too bad SF and California is such a shithole now...well the current administration!! Thank God there will be a new one next election!!
Same here.........
We have got to blame the Beatles for the movement.
Love love love.
The flower power and hippie time in the sixties are the best time in history for the youth!❤👌👍
I was a young man at this time. It was real and I had long hair and always wore a headband. I was also a singer in a band. I was a hippy then and still have a hippy heart at age 73. Thank you for playing.
from a 72 year old with a hippie heart.
Brings fond memories of the time I was serving in the military in the early 70s and how welcoming the people were to me when my ship visited there. Thank you.
My ship visited there in the 70's also. We docked at Pier 33. We had hippies on the jetty singing this as pulled alongside.
I was a preteen in 1967 and wanted nothing more than to grow up to be a hippie - it was songs like this that inspired me. Unfortunately those days were over by the time I was old enough, but I still think it's a lovely thought!
Same here. I was 11 in '67 and a junior hippie for sure, but I prefer the term flower child
A simple message that is strong..,✌️🆗😁
It's my favorite song from that period. Written by John Phillips (Mamas and Papas). I was able to go to Haight-Ashbury as a teenager during the summer of love (1967).
Beautiful song from the flower power days. I love it!! Those were the days! Thank you for reacting to this!❤
Omg you heard it!! And I missed it!! Oh what a great song!!! Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved it!! Bless you!!!❤
U two have a WONDERFUL channel!!! Keep the music coming ❤✌️
This song came out in 1967 when I was 15, as my family were preparing to move to the Bay Area from the UK. But it became somewhat of an anthem when I heard it on the plane as we were flying into San Francisco.
hippies era the best!!! much LOVE from France!
Reminds me of my childhood. I was born in 67 so I don't remember a time when I didn't know this song! So sweet. Thank you .
I was born in 1960 so loved hearing these songs as a kid growing up but when I see pictures or videos of this time I always think what those care free people from those days look like now as they are either in there late 70s or approaching their 80s !!!!!
This was a song I loved to sing to when I was young
The National Anthem for every hippie !
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I always loved San Francisco, I really lost my heart there. My husband and had our honeymoon there. Sad that it’s not the same anymore.
There are still Hippies out there. It's just that they are in their 70's. I was just out of high school and planned to hitch hike to San Francisco with a buddy. But the day before we were supposed to leave, I joined the US Air Force. I stayed for 26 years... Boy what a different life it could have been.
I really miss the good old days.
Great song. Love when Robert Plant throws this in the live version of Dazed and Confused in msg concert a must listen.
And his voice really was amazing
Life was simple then yet complicated!🌿☘️🍀🍁🌾
Indeed we are trying to keep this alive. It may be our only hope for sanity in today's world. My generation made huge changes in society and laid down a foundation for how the world and mankind can live in peace and love, helping and caring for one another. We showed at Woodstock how that can work.
I've always loved this song to the max!
Something so wistful and beckoning about this song. I hope you noticed the interesting instrumentation and production. I love a song where different instruments play in different ears. Pretty amazing for the time.
The hippie anthem, what were those streets heigh ashbury back in the sixties. Lot of good music came from that scene back then. Doors, Janis Joplin, Grateful Deat etc...
This is such a great song. This came out in 1967 & was Scott's biggest hit but he also recorded "Like An Old Time Movie". He also wrote the song "What About Me" for Anne Murray in 1968 & he co-wrote "Kokomo" which became a big hit for The Beach Boys in 1988.
I grew up in the Oakland Hills across the bay from San Francisco from age 4 thru college finishing at age 22. This song came out in 1967 when I was 10 yrs old so too young to be part of the "hippie movement", though I did go to UC Berkeley after high school. The S.F. Bay Area was truly an awesome place to live in and the music growing up was just great. This was such a beautiful song and it made you feel so happy and mellow. So many songs and groups started in the Bay Area in the 60s and 70s. I still listen to this every year. Makes me feel like a kid again.....Peace baby !!!!
You two are such a great couple...so awesome👍
What an amazing time also a different and better world that was ❤❤❤
Robert Plant sings the chorus to this as an ad-lib in some of the Dazed and Confused performances…..You can see that in the MSG’73 video.
Robert has described himself as “a sad, old hippie”; For a time, he believed in the counter-culture and its idealism, as did many of my generation. In Going To California, if you recall, Robert sings of girls with flowers in their hair. Robert also loved “The California Sound” of bands like Moby Grape, Love, Jefferson Airplane etc and sang some of those songs in his regional bands before Zeppelin was formed. One of his favorite groups, to this day, is Love….especially their album Forever Changes…released in 1967…..which I owned, btw.
Peace, Love and Rock n Roll
I grew up in SF. The Haight Ashbury had a cool little scene happening, but the media found out about it and all the kids from all over descended on it trying to out hippy each other. It was a circus. No locals went down there unless there was live music. This syrupy song was partially responsible for this. Written by LA musician John Phillips who I doubt spent much time there.
All my brothers and I were kids in the 60s. (A family with 11 children). I remember my mother buying us t-shirts with peace signs on them. Unfortunately, San Francisco is no longer the same as it was back then. I was shocked to see images of some neighborhoods.
This is the second most definitive San Francisco song, the first being of course, Tony Bennet's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco"
..Check out the Monterey Pop Festival 1967
I LIVED IN SAN FRANCISCO BACK WHEN IT WAS STILL COOL..
Nostalgic and sad. Imagine singing about the streets of San Francisco today. Even the phrase "Summer of Love" got perverted.
This was from way back when San Fracisco wasn't buried in feces, trash, crime and hobos.
music by one of the most proficient musicians of all-time the 60's and early 70's the wrecking crew !
I was raised in California, spent time in SF and remember this time so well. I don't think it will ever happen again. People were actually more gentle than now.
This song was released around the time of the Monterrey Music Festival in June, 1967. It was the summer after my graduation from high school. The song by John Phillips gives the flavor of youth culture at that time
une période magique, ou la jeunesse courait aprés un idéal... on en est bien loin actuellement
I'd like you to react to Jim Reeves singing Welcome to my world. Jim was a country ballad singer from the late 50's -60's. His biggest hit was He'll Have To Go.. Best wishes from Northern Ireland ❤️❤️❤️👍
The best time of my youth!❤👌👍
This perfectly captures the vibe of the flower power movement before it all turned turned to shit. Those of us of a certain age really believed that love could change in the world. Before the Vietnam War , before the assassinations, before the demonstrations, riots, and public violence. We had the innocence of youth combined with the rising wealth of the USA and the burgeoning ranks of the baby boomers. It didn't last very long, but songs like this bring it all back, almost like a Christmas Carol can bring back the beauty of the season. Thank You so much for this reaction. You guys are the best.
Well said!
I know exactly what you mean. I was there when it all turned to shit. I lived in San Francisco from August, 1965 to November, 1968. Every time I hear this song and he tells them to be sure to wear some flowers in their hair, my first thought is it would have been great if he had told them to bring some money too. Seeing starving, broke kids panhandling on the streets got really old after awhile.
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Lovley... Song...
Great reaction, Shame it's not like that anymore in San Francisco!
The animals- San Francisco nights is a great song also. You rock !!!!
Héllo de France Bonsoir les amis cette chanson c'est toute ma jeunesse 😊😊
"Summertime will be a _love-in_ there..."
Great reaction. The United States in the sixties was tumultuous and the music was diverse. This song was a hippie feel.
Scott opened Woodstock. The summer of love. Hope.
Robert Plant sang some of the lyrics to this song at the Famous Madison Square Garden concerts “The Song Remains The Same” I think it was during “Dazed & Confused”. Just saying 😉😉☺️
Key change at the end had you guys stumped for a second
George Harrison went to check out San Francisco because of this song. There are film clips to document it. He said afterwards that, in the end, "the hippies were really just a lot of spotty drop-outs."
The song of the Summer of Love, when young people really believed that a change was coming, and the world was on the brink of an era of peace and love. Sadly, it never happened, but at least those young people had optimism that things could be better, as opposed to today when doom and gloom abound, and that the sky will fall at any time.
I was in San Francisco in 1974. Sadly San Francisco, as it was then, is now a distant memory.
I loved this in 67 when I was 17. It took till 84 till I made it there from UK, loved it, great shame to see the terrible mess it is now, so sad.
This song celebrates the summer of love in San Francisco from 1967 and the burgeoning counterculture and the promise flower power. A time when the younger generation had hopes for a better peaceful world.
Obejrzyjcie sobie film Monterey Pop Festival 1967. Piosenka była reklamą imprezy. Nie wiem czy już przerabialiście największy przebój Johna Philipsa: The Mamas and The Papas - California dreaming (zawsze mam wrażenie, że Czerwone Gitary się tym inspirowały w piosence Historia jednej znajomości, aczkolwiek to nie musi być prawda, obie piosenki z roku 1966).
There is a similar place to 1967 San Francisco in Melbourne Australia the suburb of San fran footscray
Hi friends,here's a good old songs you could react:
-Twelve Thirty(The Mamas & The Papas)
-Elenore(The Turtles)
-Never Marry A Railroad Man(Shockin' Blue)
-Brown Eyed Girl(Van Morrison)
-Build Me Up Buttercup(The Foundations)
-Little Green Bag(George Baker Selection)
-Nobody But Me(The Human Beinz)
-Noir C'est Noir(Johnny Hallyday)
-Girl,You'll Be A Woman Soon(Neil Diamond)
-How Can You Mend A Broken Heart(Bee Gees)
-(Ghost)Riders In The Sky(The Outlaws)
-Against The Wind(Bob Seger)
-Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City(Bobby 'Blue Bland)
-Starman(David Bowie)
-A Change Is Gonna Come(Sam Cooke)
-Twilight Time(The Platters)
-Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In(The 5'th Dimension)
-Skeepwalk(Santo & Johnny)
Greetings from Argentina 🖐
Z tego ja bym wybrał: Aquarius/Let the sunshine in jest wiele wersji, może być 5th Dimension, aczkolwiek ja najbardziej lubię oryginalną z musicalu Hair.
And because of all this San Francisco is now pretty much uninhabitable.
I find it odd that people who weren't even born when this song and the whole freak era were a thing can be feel nostalgic for it from hearing this song.
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The faces in that video are the sisters, brothers, friends and lovers of thousands of young guys killed in Vietnam. Many of the guys in the video were also killed in Vietnam.
Written by John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas
The backdrop to this song and era was the Vietnam war.
They will never know
PS Charles Manson use to hang out in San Fran. Consequently they weren't all gentle people there!
It was a mixed bag in the 60s so calling it "happier times" may be a stretch in some ways, at least in the US. Many people were protesting against the Vietnam War and the civil rights legislation was still fresh and controversial to some people. The happiness shown in the video were the counter-culture people (hippies) who were against the not-so-happy events.
When life was beautiful. What a mess we're in.
I think I saw Melanie in one of those pics
The idealism then of peace, love, and Rock and Roll has fallen now to homelessness, drug addiction, and leftist's policies. Really nice airport now though. Good song. Glad that you did this.
This was part of the reaction to the Vietnam War, or the American Ear as the Vietnamese called it.
Terrible times.
No better now I’m afraid to say but we can dream.
“Beware of the Military-Industrial-Congregational Complex.”
America in the '60s.
All the people you see here would now be in their 80's. I wonder if they still consider themselves "hippies"? I watched it happen in the 60's but did not go that route.
Is it possible to react on Dax- To be a Man,im so interrest how Andrei will react 😊
Ignorance was bliss.
Don't want to go to san fran now.
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They use to make songs about our state (California). Now they don't
Most of the photos are much more recent, looks like they're from 60s themed model shoots. The women are too attractive and well made-up/dressed.
Yeah, I was thinking about 20% real shots and the rest a photo shoot.