by
Rob Jones
60 ICONIC HITS THAT DEFINED THE HIPPIE GENERATION
SLEEVENOTES WRITTEN BY NME’S KEITH ALTHAM – WHO WAS THERE TO WITNESS IT
THE OFFICIAL SUMMER OF LOVE ALBUM
To mark the 50th Anniversary of the ‘Summer of Love’, Universal Music is proud to present the Official Album, ‘60s Summer of Love’, celebrating one of the most important musical and cultural movements of the twentieth century.
The 3CD / 60 track collection leads with The Mamas & The Papas ‘California Dreaming’, one of the defining songs of the era. The Mamas & The Papas played at the Monterey Festival 50 years ago this month (Jun 16th – 18th 1967), an event that is widely recognised as the starting point of the legendary ‘Summer of Love’.
The album also features a wealth of bands and songs that have become synonymous with the era: The Beach Boys have two classics ‘Good Vibrations’ and ‘I Get Around’. The Monkees ‘I’m A Believer’, The Animals, House of the Rising Sun’ (The Animals also played at Monterey in ’67), Cat Stevens ‘The First Cut is the Deepest’, The Kinks ‘Waterloo Sunset’, Small Faces ‘Itchycoo Park’ and many more.
The sleeve notes to this collection have been written by the only British music journalist who was there: Keith Altham, then features editor at the NME.
“In June 1967 I flew to America for the Monterey Festival with Jimi Hendrix, for whom I invented guitar flambe, and flew back with The Who. This was the best of times and included here are many of the 32 acts playing on that first Pop Festival for free… Those were happy days my friends. Here they are again.” (Keith Altham, sleeve notes)
Track List
CD1
1. The Mamas & The Papas California Dreamin’
2. The Beach Boys Good Vibrations
3. The Animals House Of The Rising Sun
4. Small Faces Itchycoo Park
5. The Tremeloes Silence Is Golden
6. Buffalo Springfield For What It’s Worth
7. Cat Stevens The First Cut Is The Deepest
8. Glen Campbell Gentle On My Mind
9. The 5th Dimension Age Of Aquarius
10. The Box Tops The Letter
11. Sandie Shaw Puppet On A String
12. Donovan Mellow Yellow
13. Deep Purple Hush (Remastered)
14. The Moody Blues Nights In White Satin
15. The Velvet Underground & Nico Sunday Morning
16. Fairport Convention Who Knows Where The Time Goes
17. Steppenwolf Magic Carpet Ride
18. The Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Lovin’
19. Traffic Dear Mr. Fantasy
20. Crazy World of Arthur Brown Fire
CD2
1. The Beach Boys I Get Around
2. The Monkees I’m A Believer
3. The Hollies He Ain’t Heavy
4. Marmalade Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da
5. Hermans Hermitts I’m Into Something Good
6. Sonny & Cher The Beat Goes On
7. Dionne Warwick Do You Know The Way To San Jose
8. Shocking Blue Venus
9. Mama Cass It’s Getting Better
10. Donovan Catch The Wind
11. The Velvet Underground Pale Blue Eyes
12. The Troggs Love Is All Around
13. Noel Harrison Windmills Of Your Mind (Remastered)
14. The Easybeats Friday On My Mind
15. The Cowsills The Rain, The Park & Other Things
16. The 5th Dimension Up, Up and Away
17. Canned Heat Going Up the Country
18. Barry McGuire Eve Of Destruction
19. Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense and Peppermints
20. Spirit Taurus
CD3
1. The Kinks Waterloo Sunset
2. The Spencer Davis Group Keep On Running
3. Norman Greenbaum Spirit in the Sky
4. Status Quo Pictures of Matchstick Men
5. The Flower Pot Men Lets Go To San Francisco
6. American Breed Bend Me, Shape Me
7. Kenny Rogers & The First Ed ition Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In)
8. Dusty Springfield Son Of A Preacher Man
9. The Allman Brothers Band Whipping Post
10. Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell Aint No Mountain High Enough
11. Stevie Wonder I Was Made to Love Her
12. PP Arnold Angel of the Morning
13. Traffic Paper Sun
14. Tommy James and The Shondells Crimson & Clover
15. The Band The Weight
16. The Herd From The Underworld
17. The Silkie You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away
18. The Sandpipers Cast Your Fate to the Wind
19. The Blue Magoos (We Aint Got) Nothing Yet
20. Bert Jansch Angie
