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Scott McKenzie R.I.P.
Topic Started: Aug 20 2012, 11:04 AM (351 Views)
rumbaba
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A one hit wonder, with the John Phillips (of Mamas & Papas fame) song 'San Francisco' , but it became the anthem for the whole hippy, flower power thing.

I never did wear flowers in my hair: I was too young to be a hippy and too old to be a punk :(
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becky sharp
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You're never too old or too young to be whatever you want,are you? .. <wink>

If you're going to have a one hit wonder you could do a lot worse than 'San Francisco' ....it really captured the spirit of the times.... <cool>

R.I.P Scott
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waiting4atickle
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I always rather liked the flip side, What's The Difference

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rumbaba
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I only visited SF once in my life. It was more years ago than I care to remember, shoe-horned into a trip to Toronto, Niagra, Vancouver and the train trip from Vancouver to Calgary. I liked San Francisco but the Haight Ashbury area was a shabby, dirty, run down, tip of a place, with lots of graffitti (I guess much as it was during the hippy era). It's probably gentrified now, very expensive and exclusive. :)
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rumbaba
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You're just showing off, now Tick <laugh> So, do you have the single or did you and your pals just play the B side on jukeboxes?

We should do a 'B side special' on the moon jukebox thread. B sides that were preferred to the A side. I can remember people playing 'Twlight Alehouse' (Genesis B side but I think that was just a value for money thing because it was about 8 minutes long).

The tedious 'Freebird' on the B side of 'Sweet Home Alabama/Double Trouble (now, that's value for money <ok> ) by Lynyrd Skynryd.

I did always prefer Eric's version of JJ Cale's 'Cocaine' to 'Lay down Sally', which was the A side.
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waiting4atickle
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Of course we had the single, rum - like any self-respecting hippy household. <cool>

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Caro

I suppose it was ever thus, but it seems every morning I wake up to another dead rock star or actor or writer. This morning there were three! - Scott McKenzie, director Tony Scott and comedienne Phyllis Diller. (Our news site asked which of Scott's films we liked best - I hadn't seen any of them.)

I always associate San Francisco with my sister - they played it for her on the radio the day she left for America as an AFS scholar. It was quite a big deal in those days and our community held a dance for her. My father had only died a year or so before and I had to spend time in the loos during the speeches having a little weep that he couldn't be there to see his wee pet getting all this attention, and flying off into the unknown. It wasn't common in those days - I was 16 before I left my home province (and that was only because we went to the hospital in Dunedin where my father was).

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