Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

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[Fiji Hill]

In 1960, I had a small crystal radio—essentially a toy—that was shaped like a satellite. It could get two stations, KRLA and KFI, both 50,000-watt blasters with transmitters nearby. I would listen extensively to KFI and became familiar with Vin Scully as he announced Dodger games.

When I became a teenager, my mother gave me a transistor radio, saying that it was something every teenager should have. I quickly discovered KRLA and KFWB and became a Top 40 addict. However, in the spring of 1965, KHJ adopted a Top 40 format and quickly won me over because they promised “more music” and delivered on that promise, playing long sets of songs while KFWB and KRLA would play a song, then an ad, then a song, and so on. KHJ became my go-to station until 1967, when I switched to KWIZ, which belted out Oldies at 1480 kilocycles, although I would occasionally switch back to KHJ.

[The Bugler]

Love her or hate her, Stevie Nicks recently released her version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWkZBQivP74

[Gay State Conservative]

“Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing” and “On The Way Home” are my two favorites...but “I Am A Child” is also great.

[Fiji Hill]

“For What It’s Worth” was a song about the 1966 “Sunset Strip Riots” that took place in W. Hollywood when a 10:00PM curfew was going to be imposed along with other actions which with the “counter-culture” and the “hippies” fiercely disagreed.

Sunset Symphony--The People of the Sunset Strip (1967)

[frank ballenger]

Interesting. Thanks for the tip.

[Steely Tom]

1967 was the most extraordinary and memorable year for music of my life. 1966 was good, and 1968 was good, but '67 was amazing.

For the first half of the year, I was in sixth grade, and for the second half, in seventh. My awareness of the world outside my immediate family was expanding rapidly. The news on TV was dramatic, with war and the space program, riots, the Summer of Love, all that stuff. I was reading 1984 in sixth grade, and For What It's Worth resonated with what I was experiencing.

[af_vet_1981]

Oh that album ... I used to listen to that at someone’s house ...

[Fiji Hill]

Nowadays, Clancy Can't Even Sing got airplay on Boss Radio 93 KHJ in the late summer of 1966, but it failed to chart in the rest of the country.

[Paladin2]

Thanks.

Very nice.

[The Bugler]

Another one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bUTcy6w2Rw

[Inyo-Mono]

I was 17 when that song came out and saw Buffalo Springfield perform in person at my high school the year before.

[RitchieAprile]

Let alone to those who weren’t there..

[Inyo-Mono]

Wasn’t Janice Joplin part of that group, once upon a time?

You're thinking of Big Brother and the Holding Company.

[RitchieAprile]

Loved “Shapes Of Things”..

[DallasBiff]

“For What It’s Worth” was played regularly on my go-to station, Boss Radio 93 KHJ, throughout December, 1966, so I have always thought of it as a 1966 song. The station (as well as its rivals KRLA and KFWB) were most likely playing demo discs, as the tune was not formally released until early in the new year.

I have a friend who grew up in Huntington Beach and says that KHJ was boss especially with the real Don Steel.

[old school]

You’re absolutely correct! I knew she had been a member of a group.

This old brain just couldn’t put it together!

[Fiji Hill]

I have a friend who grew up in Huntington Beach and says that KHJ was boss especially with the real Don Steel.

I also liked Robert W. Morgan, who always said "Morgan" instead of "morning."

[Jim Noble]

Yes you are right, of course.

Trying to bring forward some lessons of the Vietnam disaster learned on this side of the world is by no means meant to devalue lessons brought home from the other side of the world.

[dfwgator]

I listen to the KHJ airchecks all the time. It’s like going back in time.

[dfwgator]

Monterey - Eric Burdon & The Animals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xExo67OLrdY

(I was born in Fort Ord and grew up there)