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The flipside of the UK version of this single was a song called "Gratefully Dead", another nod from the Animals to the San Francisco scene. Burdon's notion that San Francisco's nights are warm drew some derision from Americans more familiar with the city's climate – best exemplified by the apocryphal Mark Twain saying, "The coldest winter I ...
Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965–1970 is the fourth Nuggets box set released by Rhino Records. It was released in 2007 and packaged as an 8 1/2 x 11" 120 page hardcover book, the first 73 pages of which were made up mostly of vintage photographs.
Katz renamed the club San Francisco Sound. While in Seattle, the group lived in the attic of an old house owned by Katz while writing and rehearsing new songs in between club performances. Few customers came to the club during the band's engagement in Seattle during December 1967.
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is an American pop song, [2] written by John Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. [5] 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.
Winds of Change is the debut album by British-American band Eric Burdon & the Animals, released in October 1967 by MGM Records.The album was recorded following the 1966 dissolution of the original group the Animals and singer Eric Burdon's move to Los Angeles, where he and drummer Barry Jenkins formed the new Animals lineup with musicians Vic Briggs, Danny McCulloch and John Weider.
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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.
“as a father of 2, and a veteran, i was caught by surprise by the dialogue about life, meaning, and purpose, and this song playing,” another person wrote in the comments. “have not cried in ...