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Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« on: March 02, 2008, 11:55:07 am »
Gary said I was a hippie at heart  ;D I must say I do like the meaning and the sound of many of the songs that would fit into that mode. There seemed to be a hope expressed there that is hard to find anymore. Here is the first one.

Where Have All The Flowers Gone by The Kingston Trio

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMp5YBW-nJ4[/youtube]

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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2008, 11:58:14 am »
And another one

Sunshine Superman by Donovan

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFbRc0eZmcU[/youtube]

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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2008, 06:07:36 pm »
The ultimate hippie song....by Scott McKenzie

SAN FRANCISCO....BE SURE TO WEAR SOME FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're goin' to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summer time 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 strong vibration
People in motion
 
There's a whole generation
With a new explanation
People in motion
People in motion

For those who cometo San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summer time will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summer time will be a love-in there


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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2008, 06:15:07 pm »
Sung by the Small Faces.....

Itchycoo Park
Small Faces

Over bridge of sighs to rest my eyes
In shades of green
Under dreaming spires, to Itchycoo park
That's where I've been


What did you do there? I got high
What did you feel there? Well I cried
But why the tears there? Tell you why
It's all too beautiful, it's all too beautiful
it's all too beautiful, it's all too beautiful

I feel inclined to blow my mind
Get hung up feed the ducks with a bun
They all come out to groove about
While I search for fun in the sun


I tell you what I'll do (What will you do?)
I'd like to go there now with you
You can miss out school(Won't that be cool?)
Why go to learn the words of fools

What do we do there? Well get high
(What will we touch there?) We'll touch the sky
But why the tears there? I'll tell you why
It's all too beautiful, it's all too beautiful
It's all too beautiful, it's all too beautiful

I feel inclined to blow my mind .......

It's all too beautiful



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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2008, 06:38:24 pm »
Hope you dont mind me indulging myself, with these songs......I am a child of the sixties.....

Who can forget the stage musical.......HAIR..

and these song from it......

HAIR......by the Cowsills

She asked him why
Why I'm hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and nighty-night night
My hair is a fright
I'm hairy high and low
But don't ask me why
'Cause he don't know
It's not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead
Darlin...

Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer hair
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

I can let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home for the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for the buzzing bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

I want it long, straight and curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, steaming, gleaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Mangled, tangled, spangled
And spaghetti!

Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short

Down to here
Down to there
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
Don't never have to cut
'Cause it stops by itself

Oh, gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

And won't you give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer hair
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

Hair!....
 



And of course this one.....

AGE OF AQARIUS.....by the 5th Dimension

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius! Aquarius!

When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
The Age of Aquarius
Aquarius! Aquarius!

Harmony and understanding
Sympathy and trust abounding
No more falsehoods or derisions
Golden living dreams of visions
Mystic crystal revelation
And the mind's true liberation
Aquarius! Aquarius!





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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2008, 07:48:13 pm »
Thanks Katie!!! I am glad you included all of these songs. You are definitely right "San Francisco" is the ultimate "hippie" song. It is also a great song. I have listened to it often especially after visiting San Francisco in September. Whatever the feeling that song gives is the same feeling visiting the city gives.

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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2008, 01:03:05 am »
Can I tell you a story about when my husband and I went to see Hair?  (well I'm going to)

It was July 1970, at the Metro Theatre in Sydney...we had got to the theatre about 15mins before the show was due to start. Hubby said, "you go and buy the tickets, while I go and park the car". I walked up towards the ticket office, and was approached by two American marines (at the time there were a lot of American servicemen in Sydney, on R&R leave from Vietnam). They asked me if I was going to see the show, and I told them I was just about to buy some tickets for me and my husband.....they handed me two tickets, and said, "here have these"...apparently, they had bought four tickets, expecting to meet up with another couple, and they had not shown up.

We sat beside them in the theatre, and asked them if they would like to have a drink after the show, but unfortunately, they did not return after intermission.  In hindsight, maybe the anti-war message in the show, was probably not what they needed to or wanted to be entertained by.

The show itself was quite "shocking" for those times, and even more so, for us nieve Aussies......especially the final segment where all the cast took off their clothes, and asked the audience to join them on stage. From what I remember, only a two or three people accepted the offer.

I too, have the soundtrack, and love the music, and it always brings back the memory of when we went to see it.

Oh.......and something else, our first son was born 9 months later.....so it was an extra special good night.
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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2008, 05:26:23 am »
HAIR......by the Cowsills

My favorite line from this song is in the stage and movie versions but not the Cowsills'. . . 

They'll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair

My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah, I adore it
Hallelujah, Mary loved her son
Why don't my mother love me?


I read somewhere that this part was controversial, which is why the Cowsills left it out of their version.  Since their mother was part of the group, I reckon maybe she had something against the line too.  You know, not wanting her kids singing about her not loving them and all. 

AGE OF AQARIUS.....by the 5th Dimension

Somebody did a great remix of the 5th Dimension version of this back in the mid 90s.  My most favoritest of theirs is "One Less Bell to Answer." 
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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2008, 05:41:46 am »
I love Hair - have the soundtrack from the stage show, and know most of the songs by heart.  Always wished I was a child of the 60s, but had the misfortune to grow up in the 70s and 80s.

Oh, honey.  Me too.  When I was a teenager, I was all about the 60s.  I listened to the music and wore the clothes.  I was such a poseur. 

I love "Hair" too.  My favorite songs are the lesser known ones: 

- Sodomy (So nasty!)
- Colored Spade (I sing along to this one but not too loudly.)
- My Conviction (Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ct. . . ually. . .)
- Frank Mills (So lovely.  I pass the Waverly Diner a few times a week, and it often reminds me of this song.)
- Walking in Space (The first party is beautiful, but I like the "Red, white!  Blue, brown!" freak out at the end.)
- Abie Baby (Emancin-muthaf**kin-pator of the slaves!)
- Three-Five-Zero-Zero (A whisper to a scream.)

But my absolute favorite -- and one of my theme songs - is "Black Boys/White Boys." 
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Re: Jack's "Hippie" Songs
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2008, 06:00:26 am »
Can I tell you a story about when my husband and I went to see Hair?  (well I'm going to). . .
Oh.......and something else, our first son was born 9 months later.....so it was an extra special good night.

Sounds like it was a memorable night!  My first time seeing "Hair" wasn't as memorable.  I went to see it with a lesbian, and, since I'm a gay guy, there wasn't nothing going on there.  We saw our university's student production of the show.  I think there was some rumblings about a protest, but I don't recall there being anything of the sort.  Probably just a bunch of talk. 

I do remember that one guy wore a body suit in the nude scene.  I think the others stripped down to underwear or something.  I remember that it was a good, well-done show but not much else because my friend and I altered our consciousnesses before we went.  You know, to get into the spirit of the show and all.  We used to love theme nights! 

I remember more clearly watching the movie version.  My grandfather had Cinemax, and I saw that the movie was playing on that channel one weekend when I was home from school.  I asked it I could watch it at his place, and he said yes.  He watched it with me and seemed to enjoy it.  He had to have been in his late 70s or early 80s.  He was always cool that way.  Very easy going and accepting. 

Treat Williams had the lead in the movie.  While I don't usually go for guys with long hair, he was hot!  With him, his hair doesn't matter to me.  As long as he has ears for me to grab to pull and keep him closer to me, it's all good. 

I think the movie has more of a story than the play.  The ending of the movie killed me.  I remember feeling kinda sick about what happened. 
I been one poor correspondent, and I been too, too hard to find, but it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind.  -- America