Posted on 08/23/2016 7:46:23 AM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy. She'd Rather Be With Me
music *ping*
Red Rubber Ball - Cyrkle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcdPPd9nEwQ
The year I graduated high school. Now that was a very good year. Also a good song, I remember it well.
There’s a great little AM radio station near me that plays all of this music, commercial free, from 5PM until sundown.
I’ve found them a great alternative to listening to Mark Levin.
Judith Durham The Seekers - Far Shore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4dxvgEmF0
Ah, yes. Thanks for posting. 1967 is when I began sophomore HS year.
The Turtles proved that in the 1960s you could be homely and still have a sought after space in the music business. Their drummer was great.
My only child (Dr blam) was conceived in Golden Gate park at a free Grateful Dead concert then.
Here's another song from 1967. The guy doing the vocals is only 16 years old.
The Letter
(The Boxtops)
Turtles founders Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman are longtime homosexual “partners”
Paul Simon was co-writer of “Red Rubber Ball”
Didn’t need to know that. Ah well.
Saw a program about the Zodiac serial killer in which the interviewed a retired SFPD detective.
He said “In 1967, you were supposed to come to San Francisco with flowers in your hair, but by 1969 you would have been wise to also be carrying a revolver.”
I think I saw the same program.
Veteran SF cop describing wide-eyed teenagers arriving on Greyhound busses from Iowa or Ohio. On the walk from the terminal to Haight-Ashbury the local thug population would rob them/rape them/pick them clean.
I was living 40 miles south in San Jose at the time and I didn't see it that way.
Anyhow...
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" (1967) is an American pop music song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie.[2] 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.[3] 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 became one of the best-selling singles of the 1960s in the world, reaching the fourth position on the U.S. charts and the number one spot on the U.K. charts. "
I think the Summer of Love and the rest of the Baby Boom phenomenon was a delayed reaction, or consequence, of WWII, of total war, as waged by our culture.
The entire hippy phenomenon, the Sixties, and everything else we saw, was largely the result of massive, sudden, extreme change in society caused mainly by very rapid technology advances, that were a result of war-waging by advanced, very wealthy, very powerful American civilization.
Looking back on it, my impression is of a massive "whip-saw" action, with millions of very young, naïve, idealistic young people migrating to coastal cities, and in turn attracting the attention of tens of thousands of very rough customers who (as you said) robbed and raped them, and generally picked them clean.
Of course, that happened only to a relative minority of the young migrants, but the horrific individual cases caused an echo effect that still goes on today.
I was watching a documentary about Brenda Ann Spencer, of "I Don't Like Mondays" fame, who in 1979 invented the concept of school shooting massacres. She was only five years old when the Summer of Love happened.
I'm glad that nothing bad happened to you. I'm sure that the number of kids that got in trouble was relatively small. Do you think it was on the order of one or two percent, or was it higher?
I was too young to participate, and probably wouldn't have done so even if I'd been a few years older.
The Summer of Love happened for me when I was going into seventh grade. I loved the music, and was unaware of anything bad about it. To me it looked like the older brothers and sisters of my classmates were embarking on an amazing journey.
So much of our culture, including advertising of that time, was telling us "you're a new generation," and it actually felt like that to me.
Absolutely wonderful, but largely an illusion. Still, fun. No one will experience that again, at least for a long time.
Dirty Harry was based on this real life situation.
I live a little south of SF at the time and remember it well.
I live a little south of SF at the time and remember it well.
Right. I was aware of that.
Except that the real Zodiac never paid to have himself beat up, and certainly never got to play "do ya feel lucky, Punk?" with an SFPD detective!
Also, he used a pistol, not a sniper's rifle, as did the Scorpio character in Dirty Harry.
Zodiac did, however, threaten to target a school bus full of children, but never actually carried out such an attack, as did Scorpio in the movie.
Dirty Harry came out in 1971, and might have profited as a movie by the mechanism of wish fulfillment, as so many Americans were frustrated that the real Zodiac remained at large.
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