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Scott McKenzie - San Francisco [HD]+

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Channel: Gary Larson · 2017 · People & Blogs

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Scott McKenzie sings 'San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)' from his 1967 Ode album 'The Voice Of Scott McKenzie'. The song lyrics are in the video and listed below along with some notes from Wikipedia.

Note: This is a complete redo of the earlier video for this song with mostly new images, the lyrics in the video, and the WAV version of the song file used for best audio. Since the song was used to promote the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival featuring such singers as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and The Jefferson Airplane, the video uses pictures of the concert singers to give some representation of the times.

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

Singer - Scott McKenzie

If you're going to San Francisco
Be 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

All 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

Songwriter: John Phillips

© Universal Music Publishing Group

[Lyrics from LyricFind]

Wikipedia states:

"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. 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 became one of the best-selling singles of the 1960s in the world, reaching the fourth position on the US charts and the number one spot on the UK charts. McKenzie's version of the song has been called "the unofficial anthem of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, including the Hippie, Anti-Vietnam War and Flower power movements."

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