| Scott McKenzie R.I.P. | |
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| rumbaba | Aug 20 2012, 11:04 AM Post #1 |
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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 | Aug 20 2012, 02:21 PM Post #2 |
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You're never too old or too young to be whatever you want,are you? .. 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.... R.I.P Scott |
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| waiting4atickle | Aug 20 2012, 03:06 PM Post #3 |
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I always rather liked the flip side, What's The Difference |
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| rumbaba | Aug 20 2012, 03:13 PM Post #4 |
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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 | Aug 20 2012, 03:20 PM Post #5 |
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You're just showing off, now Tick 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 ) 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 | Aug 20 2012, 03:56 PM Post #6 |
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Of course we had the single, rum - like any self-respecting hippy household. |
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| Caro | Aug 20 2012, 11:41 PM Post #7 |
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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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So, do you have the single or did you and your pals just play the B side on jukeboxes?
) by Lynyrd Skynryd.
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