Month: <span>March 2017</span>

San Francisco Girls (Return Of The Native)- Fever Tree

March 24, 2017
Druggie Hall of FameMusic - 1968
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Summer of 1968 – what a great musical time! This is a single from a group from San Francisco called “Fever Tree” It is another of my “druggie music” Hall of Fame – It wasn’t a big hit – peaked at #91 and only hung around on the charts for 6 weeks but definitely fits those psychedelic times. and San Francisco seemed to be the epicenter of the hippie movement, a city immortalized in several songs of the time. (San Franciscan Nights – Animals, (If You’re Going To) San Francisco – Scott McKenzie…)


Fever Tree was originally The Bostwick Vines, they started in Houston, Texas. “San Francisco Girls (Return Of The Native)” was their only charting record, off a great LP self titled “Fever Tree”

Windy – The Assocation

March 22, 2017
Music - 1967Music - General

 

The summer of 1967 I found rock and roll music after being brought up on my Dad’s country music. This light, carefree melody was #1 at the time and it still brings back the lazy summer days when I was 14. “Capture that rainbow”!

I’m a little fuzzy on the details but to the best of my knowledge, this is the first 45 I ever purchased. The summer of 67 was a magical time for me musically and this was one of the songs that made it that way.

The above paragraphs were Facebook posts in 2009 and 2011

“Windy” was a landmark song for me, it was #1 when I switched from my Dad’s country music to rock and roll the summer of 1967. as I look back, many of those first songs I heard regularly on the radio became my favorite songs by many of the artists, there will be several examples as I continue to post. “Windy” would become my favorite Association song for about a year before “Time For Livin’” was released. Their greatest hit was “Cherish”, I remember finding WRKO in Boston and their’s was the first All-Time Top 300 I wrote down, I believe it was 1969 that “Cherish” was voted #1. One of these days I’ll have to add a few radio stations and the lists I collected in the late 60’s and early 70’s.