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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.
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 .
[6] The German magazine Musikexpress ranked "A House Is Not a Motel" number 429 in its list of the 700 best songs of all time. [7] Uncut listed the song as one of its 50 essential songs from the Summer of Love. [8] The Spanish magazine Hipersonica ranked the song 23rd best of the 1950s and 1960s. [9]
The band also did a Summer of Love EP featuring a French & Spanish version of both songs. In 2020 and 2022, the English tracks came out on the Compilations' "Femme Fatales of Music" Vol. 1 & 2, credited to Vanessa White Smith, the main vocalist with Psykick Holiday. All releases were on Future Legend Records and made available on iTunes.
"Summer Rain" is about lifelong love during "the summer of love" of 1967. It was released in the late fall, as a reminiscence of the previous summer. The song references Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles album which was released during May of that year.
2. “Summertime Blues” by Eddie Cochran. Release year: 1958 Genre: Rock & Roll Basically a teenager himself, gone-too-soon ‘50s rocker Cochran channels that adolescent angst of working all ...
Summer lovin’…it can be a blast and happen so fast. Check out theGrio’s list of the top 12 love songs for the summer. There’s no better time to fall in love than in the summertime.
2. “Summertime Blues” by Eddie Cochran (1958) Basically a teenager himself, gone-too-soon ‘50s rocker Cochran channels that adolescent angst of working all summer long.