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"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is an American pop song, [1] written by John Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. [4] It was produced and released in May 1967 by Phillips and Lou Adler, who used it to promote their Monterey International Pop Music Festival held in June of that year.
The Summer of Love was a major social phenomenon that occurred in San Francisco during the summer of 1967. As many as 100,000 people, mostly young people, hippies , beatniks , and 1960s counterculture figures, converged in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and Golden Gate Park .
Scott McKenzie (born Philip Wallach Blondheim III; January 10, 1939 – August 18, 2012) was an American singer and songwriter who recorded the 1967 hit single and generational anthem "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)". [1]
A music video to accompany the release of "Save Me, San Francisco" was first released onto YouTube on April 29, 2011, at a total length of four minutes and 17 seconds. [1] The plot of the music video is an allusion to 1967 California classic The Graduate. Like in the film, the male protagonist (played by Pat) is uninvited and late to the ...
The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its "Summer of Love" in San Francisco.It saw major releases from multiple well-known bands including The Beatles, Small Faces, the newly renamed Eric Burdon and the Animals, Jefferson Airplane, Love, The Beach Boys, Cream, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Monkees.
Soon the duo had recorded five songs on eight-track, using a drum machine: “San Francisco,” “One,” “America,” “Jealous Song,” and an untitled track. Navarro sang lead on two of ...
The song was written in the Regis Hotel, New York City during a tour of the United States. The song was intended as an antithesis to flower power anthems of the time such as "Let's Go to San Francisco" and "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" in that the protagonist had been to San Francisco to join the hippies but was now homesick.
The video of the satirical song went viral, and was then lambasted by conservative media — even prompting death threats against the vocalists. SF Gay Men's Chorus soloists 'received death ...