Single:
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) entered the Australian singles chart* on 24 June 1967 and peaked at #2. It was #13 on the Top 100 of 1967.
Songwriter:
John Phillips
Producer:
Lou Adler, John Phillips
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
San Francisco is a psychedelic pop song written by John Phillips and sung by Scott McKenzie.
Phillips played guitar on the recording.
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.”
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(Be_Sure_to_Wear_Flowers_in_Your_Hair)
The Guardian:
In San Francisco, the Haight/Ashbury scene had been growing since late 1965, with a small – and delicate – ecology of groups, ballrooms, community shops and papers, idealists and activists: hippies. While much of the activity focused on psychedelic drugs, there were also ideas about sustainability, ecology and autonomy – a vision of a new world and a new type of person that might well have been unrealistic and compromised, but that nevertheless offered up a powerful ideal.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2012/aug/20/scott-mckenzie-san-francisco-anthem
Lyrics:
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
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