SAN FRANCISCO (BE SURE TO WEAR FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR)
“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. McKenzie’s version of the song has been called “the unofficial anthem of the counterculture movement of the 1960s”. (More from Wikipedia)
There are two cool “flower power” songs on the Queen Anne’s Lace album that were written by singer-songwriter Peter Cofield (whose first album came out on Coral Records the previous year), “Thank the Beautiful People (Thank the Young)” and “The Power of the Flower”. These songs celebrate the best of the hippie spirit at least as well as the Tin Pan Alley-ish “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” (written by John Phillips – no relation to Anne Phillips, once again apparently – of the Mamas and the Papas and beautifully sung by Scott McKenzie).
(August 2010)
