San Francisco
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair
Lyrics
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is an American pop music song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie that is redolent of the 1960s, anti-war / give peace a chance, flower power and the hippie subculture.
The song 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. John Phillips played guitar on the recording and session musician Gary L Coleman played orchestra bells and chimes. The bass line of the song was supplied by session musician Joe Osborn. Hal Blaine played drums.
The song 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. John Phillips played guitar on the recording and session musician Gary L Coleman played orchestra bells and chimes. The bass line of the song was supplied by session musician Joe Osborn. Hal Blaine played drums.
McKenzie's version of the song has been called "the unofficial anthem of the counterculture movement of the 1960s". The song is credited with bringing thousands of young people to San Francisco, California, during the late 1960s.
In Central Europe, young people adopted "San Francisco" as an anthem for freedom, and it was widely played during Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring uprising.
The song has been featured in several films, including Frantic, The Rock, and Forrest Gump. Episode 2 in season 1 of "Getting On (U.S. TV series)" featured the song, as it was sung by one of the patients and was used over the episode's closing credits. It was also played occasionally by Led Zeppelin as part of the improvised section in the middle of "Dazed and Confused". U2's Bono also led the audience in singing this song during their PopMart performances in the San Francisco Bay Area on June 18 and 19, 1997.
San Francisco - the Lyrics
If you're going to San FranciscoBe sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair
All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion
For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there.
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Should you want to have a sing-along of some of these old favorites - here are the words to the lyrics: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/forrestgump/sanfranciscobesuretowearsomeflowersinyourhair.htm
In case you're too young to remember it, or forget it - here is an audio track of San Francisco to jog your grey cells: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ow10_scott-mckenzie-san-francisco_music
You can get a copy of Scott McKenzie singing this classic at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/San-Francisco-Scott-Mckenzie/dp/B000007224/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1392331628&sr=1-1&keywords=San+Francisco
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