Scott McKenzie – San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)

“San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” – Single by Scott McKenzie
from the album The Voice of Scott McKenzie. Released on May 13, 1967.

John Phillips from The Mamas And The Papas wrote this as the unofficial anthem for the Monterey Pop Festival, which is near San Francisco. Phillips helped organize the festival.

This has the longest title of any #1 in UK.

John Phillips played guitar on this track and produced it with Lou Adler. The session musicians who played on it were top notch: Joe Osborn on bass, Hal Blaine on drums and Larry Knechtel on keyboards. They were some of the first-call Los Angeles musicians who played on many of Phil Spector’s productions.

Scott McKenzie wore flowers in his hair when he recorded this song.

McKenzie was in a group called The Journeymen with John Phillips. His only other hit was the follow up to this “Like An Old Time Movie,” and by the end of the ’60s he’d gone to live in the desert. In the late ’80s he co-wrote the Beach Boys #1 single “Kokomo.”

Released on May 13, 1967, the song was an instant hit. By the week ending July 1, 1967, it reached the number four spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US, where it remained for four consecutive weeks. Meanwhile, the song rose to number one in the UK Singles Chart, and most of Europe. In July 1967, McKenzie’s previous record label, Capitol, claimed that the “follow-up” to this was their re-release of his earlier single, “Look in Your Eyes.”  The single is said to have sold over seven million copies worldwide.

San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)

“San Francisco” este o melodie compusă de John Phillips (de la The Mamas and The Papas), și este interpretată de Scott McKenzie.
Piesa a fost produsă și lansată în Mai 1967 de Phillips și Lou Adler, care au folosit-o pentru a-și promova Festivalul Internațional de Muzică Pop din Monterey, organizat în Iunie din acel an.

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Versiunea piesei lui McKenzie a fost numită „imnul neoficial al mișcării de contra-cultură din anii ’60, inclusiv mișcările Hippie, războiul anti-Vietnam și Flower Power”.

Născut Philip Blondheim pe 10 Ianuarie 1939, în Jacksonville Beach, Fla., McKenzie a fost atras de muzică de timpuriu, și a început să cânte la chitară ca adolescent la mijlocul anilor ’50. Cânta într-un grup vocal când l-a cunoscut pe Phillips în Alexandria, Va.

Au format un cvartet numit Abstracts, care a devenit Smoothies în 1959. După ce au înregistrat câteva single-uri pop, McKenzie și Phillips au format un trio folk cu Dick Weissman numit Journeymen, care a înregistrat pentru Capitol Records la începutul anilor ’60.

Se pare că McKenzie a refuzat oportunitatea de a se alătura la Mamas & Papas în anii ’60, preferând să încerce o carieră solo.

San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair), de pe albumul lui Scott McKenzie, San Francisco, din 1967. Locul 4 în SUA și 1 în UK.

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