San Francisco - Scott McKenzie (1967) 4K REACTION

I swear! This song just naturally brings out the flower child in a person!

The song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" by Scott McKenzie was produced and released in May 1967 to promote Monterey Pop. The Monterey International Pop Festival, as it was formally called, was a three-day music festival held in June of 1967 which featured legendary performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, along with The Who and many others. The festival kicked off what came to be called the Summer of Love, a social phenomenon in which tens of thousands of young people from across the United States -- called hippies or flower children -- came together in San Francisco in search of a more authentic lifestyle as well as music, drugs, free-love, etc. That cuts the story short, very short, but the "Summer of Love" marks the moment when the counterculture movement began to spread across the United States and around the world. Eric Burdon & The Animals wrote the song "Monterey" about the festival afterward and released it as a single in 1968. A concert film called "Monterey Pop" was released in theaters in late 1968 with some success.

I was born in late May of 1967 right at the start of the Summer Of Love. I love all this old hippie music reminds me of my parents playing all their music from the 60s I thank them for exposing us to many of these classics.

The epitome of 60's sounds. Very emotional for me. I played and sang it with my best friend the night before she died, accidentally.

Love this song. I was 17 and a Flower Child. Before Jimmy Hendricks, they showed Janis Joplin and John Fogerty from CCR. They hung out in San Francisco

Scott McKenzie was friends of John Phillips, the leader of the Mamas and the Papas. Phillips wrote and produced "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) for McKenzie. Phillips actress daughter McKenzie Phillips is named after Scott.

John Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas wrote the song.

I have Scott McKenzies whole album that this is from, Bought it when it came, I was a student at Kent State at the time. I love Scott McKenzie and the song so much. Yes you see Janis Joplin first, then right hair the blonde man you see (in profile to you) I THINK is Brian Jones who was in the original line up of the ROLLING STONES (he drowned in his pool a year or so later) BUT I am not 100% sure, it's hard to tell from the side, and next you see Jimi Hendrix, and then YES, you saw BOTH MAMA CASS (Elliot) and MAMA MICHELLE (Phillips) I don't know if PAPA JOHN (Phillips) and PAPA DENNY (Dougherty) were there too. I don't see them, but that doesn't mean they weren't there. JAYY, you are truly an "old soul" '60s girl!! You should have been the age I was back then, you would have fit RIGHT in!! You are the FIRST reactor I have seen that has done "San Francisco"

60s, 70s, best times in history.💋🌟👍🥂🌷

I think the follow-up to this song had such a different emotion.. Like an old time movie'.

That was the time of the Monterey Pop Festival.

This song used to come on the radio when it was time for my nap, many, many moons ago.

The original Hippie song....you saw Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, but the two ladies you saw that looked familiar were Michelle Phillips and Mama Cass Elliot from the Mamas and the Papas [" California Dreaming" ]. These were clips from them being in the Monterey Pop Festival, but sitting in the audience when not on stage.

Hippy movement in one song but brilliant.

This song never fails to put a smile on my face. Love it so much! First heard it in the mid 90's as a teen.

Thought I saw Joan Baez too. Please check out her singing Love is just a 4 letter word. I'm so proud of you being able to recognize those people, just like you can tell which Beatle is singing. I believe you are one in a million.

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The band you’re thinking of is the Mamas and the Papas made up of “Mama” Cass Elliot, Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty and John Phillips. John and Michelle were married for a short time in the 60’s.

This song came out in 1967 when flower power was at a high. This version has been called "the unofficial anthem of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, including the Hippie, Anti-Vietnam War and Flower power movements." The song has also been widely regarded as a defining song of the Summer of Love along with the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love".

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