San Francisco - Scott McKenzie

"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is a song, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie. It was written and released in June 1967 to promote the Monterey Pop Festival.
McKenzie's song became an instant hit. The lyrics tell the listeners, "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair". Due to the difference between the lyrics and the actual title, the title is often quoted as "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)". "San Francisco" reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and was number one in the United Kingdom and most of Europe. The single is purported to have sold over 5 million copies worldwide. The song is credited with bringing thousands of young people to San Francisco, California during the late 1960s.[citation needed]
In Central Europe, young people adopted "San Francisco" as an anthem for freedom, and it was widely played during Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring uprising against Soviet rule.[citation needed]
The song has been featured in several films, including Frantic, The Rock and Forrest Gump (Wikipedia).

[@xerychan1293]

This one was one of my dad’s favorite songs. He passed away two weeks and we played this song at his funeral. RIP Daddy, I love you to the ends of the earth. I will always be your little queen.

[@andyhunt1766]

Blessings... ur dad had great music taste...he,s resting in peace now.. maybe he,s chilling out with Scott...🌼🌸🌺🌈

[@ChrissieSM]

I also think of my Dad who loved this song. We will meet again.

[@joaojunior6047]

❤️❤️❤️

[@Mexicano1768]

😭

[@jameswatts632]

One of mine too!! Sounds like you had a wonderful Dad!!

[@greyhamlogan2255]

My favorite song, I'm 73yo and it still resonates. Congrats from New Zealand, June 16th 2023

[@maxutko-vl2dh]

❤❤❤

[@billbansheeedinburgh1172]

Evening from Scotland in 2024

[@RenataCantore]

❤❤🎉🎉❤❤ New Zealand 🇳🇿 ❤❤

[@JennyGirl4Life]

73 here too yessss

[@sedona687]

Scott died on Saturday August 18th 2012 in Los Angeles. It was a warm beautiful day. I was at a beach bar drinking and enjoying life with friends. All of a sudden a girl came in and as she sat down with her friends at the table next to us I heard her say "hey everyone did you hear Scott Mckenzie died today?" I was stunned. In an instant I was back at UC Berkeley and off to his concert. All those memories. I just sat there alone with my thoughts and cried.

[@JulioHernandez-pl1xv]

What beautiful times indeed Mt brother one of the best no one will understand thank God i loved these days what a beauty 💕

[@alvinpaul5703]

I wasn't born when this song came out but it's one of my all-time favourites . A golden voice for sure . Something special about him and this song . Ethereal and timeless .

[@peterberglund2882]

Its so sad!😢

[@aglio82]

I was born in 1982,I discovered how beautiful were those years just listening the people that lived those times,listening to the music of those years (one of the best music of ever for me) and watching movies like "Forrest Gump". In the 2022 I still listen to the music of 70's,80's,90's. I'm sick of nostalgia 😔. Maybe it's cause today music is meaningless.

[@seagreenspiral]

I remember the day too, I was in the uk at the time, hit me like a train.

[@bluekatgal7300]

Graduated in ‘67 and was gifted a trip to San Francisco with my aunt. Bought a couple of newspapers from a beautiful guy for 25 cents which I still have. Best memories. This song makes me think of that time.

[@santana5478]

Everyone has the most beautiful days of their lives. So do you

[@Kent-h2q]

I was born in 67

[@URProductions]

God bless you, sir. When I'm that many years away from Graduation, it'll be the '60s again.

[@ernivaljota4451]

Is it just me who hears this beautiful song and feels a nostalgia for some time or place where it has never been?

[@mikepapazoglou4202]

Or even that you've been there, but actually you haven't. At least not in this lifetime

[@bradmiller9993]

No. Its all of us.

[@claudiaoliveira6534]

Verdade , linda canção

[@claudiaoliveira6534]

Verdade, linda canção

[@Elsy21h]

Same here 🥺

[@kirnpu]

This song fills me with a yearning deep in my soul. I was a teenager living across the bay from San Francisco in 68 and it was such a hopeful, optimistic time. The peace sign/symbol is imprinted in my mind. We have well and truly lost our way now.

[@MRB-mp8dj]

Rip scott 10 th aniversary 18 august ungorgetable

[@dotheyfloat9961]

It was a pivotal time in cultural history, bringing us into the modern world. Unfortunately, somewhere down the line things got co-opted and here we are.

[@writteninstars]

civil rights movement?

[@dakotastorms1255]

Weren't many people on drugs and psychedelics at that time

[@haggard1378]

@@dakotastorms1255 yes dont listen to these hippies

[@gregschario750]

When I was stationed in Southeast Asia this song was played at 1800 hours(6:00PM) every day after they read the names of soldiers who were going home the next day. We couldn't wait to hear our names called. I was one of the lucky ones who made it back home.

[@namgreenberet3322]

Welcome home brother all the love honor and respect to you.

[@namgreenberet3322]

God bless you and welcome home brother. You are loved and respected by men who had the honor to serve either with you directly in that war or in other units. We all shared the same pain and misery and we lucky ones made it home. Brothers forever.

[@namgreenberet3322]

@Tyler I live in the Philippines and have for the past 10 years. It's strange but this country and these people whom I love so much are very similar to Nam and has a healing effect on me from my many demons.

[@slydoll7877]

That's a very special memory you've shared...thank you.

[@namgreenberet3322]

@@slydoll7877 Thank you, all the love and respect for you.

[@hendrixmonroe8333]

I don’t know why but I can’t help but cry when I hear this song. I’m not even from that time. I’m 25 but it touches my heart like I experienced it when it was first released. 🎸

[@deafsubtitles]

All timeless music will touch our hearts.

[@philgraham415]

Same. I'm 30 (born in 1992). The song takes me to an idealized era that is impossimple to reach again. San Francisco will never again be a cheap, care-free place of experimentation, and classical liberalism. I find myself wistfully holding onto this notion that I've never experienced and know we never will again. I love it all the same.

[@philgraham415]

Same - I'm 30 (born 1992) and it probably my favorite song. I'd give anything to experience the Apollo Missions while I was coming to age in my 20s... the unbridled optimism. But I wouldn't miss the Vietnam War aspect.

[@sounds0fmeows]

Same. I was born 1990 but I connected with this song. Wish I could've experienced like that with the world has come so far from that. and far down the tubes over the years

[@nathanabrantes3258]

I'm only 14 but I love this song. I wish I was born back then.

[@irawittenstein1697]

Nathan Abrantes Enjoy ur time. It wasnt all free love and drugs back then :)

[@kestutisleskauskas2360]

Nathan Abrantes If you were, you would have never heard of this song because internet haven't existed yet. You haven't missed anything, you were born at the perfect time, enjoy it!

[@angelagygi]

Nathan Abrantes Don't believe any sweeping generalizations about hippies. They were humans, and so came in all manner of human strength and fragility and failing. I grew up around a lot of adults who were part of that movement and many were really fine, kinship oriented, community loving, do-gooders who weren't just about drugs and whatnot. Many committed their lives to trying to make the world a better place. I am so happy that they influenced my childhood and education. And there was a whole lotta love and beauty in most of that music.

[@droberts8226]

Nathan Abrantes . It was a special time to live. I was born in '55, and the only way I could describe growing up in the 60's is this : everything seemed 'new', much like the spring time of a 4 season Turning. ( spring, summer, fall and winter ) I think that we ( collectively ) are in the winter time of the 4 seasons and much like winter, things are cold, survival of the fittest. And nothing grows.( great book on generational turnings titled : The Fourth Turning )

[@CB-xr1eg]

Angela Definition of a hippy. A dirty stinking unwashed scrounger, lived off the state, never paid a penny in taxes. Spent most of their time smoking pot and having sex with anyone who happened to be available.

[@abbywellard2420]

This is beautifully sad, gentle, happy... it’s got everything, all the emotions life put in one song, an absolute masterpiece

[@ChristopheFilippi]

Absolutely

[@HendrixFreakazoid]

Yeah one of those songs that stops me dead in my tracks whenever I hear it

[@muffassa6739]

Gentle beautiful song made me ache ,,my beautiful leather fringe jacket,bell bottoms long hair handsome men ♥ my long ago youth . Rest in peace dear sweet man

[@andya857]

I had a real bad accident at work ,now i'm deaf, fucking sucks, since i love music so much,could happen to any one,but i have all the memories of sound . Thank you for thinking of us ,you are a hero....... I'm 59 so i remember.....Peace

[@zamanium7517]

peace

[@hammadoolass]

+andy a It's good that you can still remember the sounds my friend --- x

[@princeglenn4881]

+andy a MUSIC NEVER LEAVES THE SOUL, BROTHER xx

[@KevTheMedic]

Try to listen it over a good set of speakers with a lot of bass, some deaf people can feel the vibrations a lot and literally feel the different sounds in songs

[@rowley1950]

Can you speak a bit louder please mrbasstricker cuz he can't hear you

[@diegomalaquias4053]

This is a kind of music that touched the soul. This songs will never die.

[@geraldcolsher9642]

Scott was so cute 🥺

[@outronomem297]

But SF, maybe...

[@NattyBumppo48]

If ever a song represented an era, it's this one. A one hit wonder for Scott McKenzie, but a mega-hit! RIP Scott.

[@jodybenscoe3397]

What a voice!

[@denisewilliams9405]

Wearing a cowbell round my neck in Shipley w.yorksire ah those were the days👍

[@evanildadossantossilva4530]

Tenho. 63 anos curti muito Oh tempo bom

[@marleynebond7389]

So love this a beautiful time in my life ..was just 19 yrs old, drove a car had a good job and a couple of boyfriends..Life could not have been sweeter... Scott Mc Kenzie this was your song .❤️🌼

[@namesake-uv8ug]

I feel it was not only Scott's song , but the song for a generation 😊

[@PGoldman]

This music is timeless, it will never die.

[@Toadyru]

The city is dying.......

[@jaddison1112]

This song always make me smile and cry. Smile because of our young idealism, and sad that then the world took over and buried a lot of it. .... And yet, the seeds of Summer 1967 and this song are still sprouting in every new generation. Peace and Love to all, from an old "hippie" of the spirit.

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

The world is a fucking shithole and you did little to help

[@slydoll7877]

And the undercurrent of those bad people who took advantage of your idealism and hope...there were always those people who came and got in for what they could get. Drugs, sex...control. Humanity despairs me but there's always hope.x

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

@@jaddison1112 It seems my comment was deleted. What I said was, that you made the world worse.

[@ipalfred6604]

Yes, absolutely right

[@HenryPPMN]

@@bruhbruh-us6gl there are a lot of awesome people out there. When was the world “better” in your opinion?

[@kristinaromero7446]

This song gives me a nostalgic feeling, even though I wasn’t even alive in the 60s.

[@KilapnF]

Me pasa lo mismo

[@rileycoffelt907]

I was. And now I am old I have seen it go both ways conservative and leftist and the leftist are evil but guess what conservatives are evil. Just not as bad. But both are evil. God is coming back soon. Get ready

[@gugurodrigues471]

Yes Brasil júnior

[@q_Pallmers]

@O.P. Yates also Led Zeppelin

[@melissaromero1829]

You're young. I was born in 1965.

[@geogrejibladze5815]

We are still alive, who can’t listen to this music without emotion and tears. And I think this is great and beautiful!

[@maryalicekelly8814]

I miss that era. It was a time of spiritual awakening, love, sharing, giving, receiving, smiles, laughter, some tears and trusting. There was no violence, hate, discrimination, or weapons. There was no need to fear. My problem, today, is I am still young at heart but my body talks back to me.......Great song.....

[@mrmojorisin8752]

It was a lovely, exciting time, but no violence, hate, discrimination? You’re right that those things were detested by the counterculture, but America was wracked with them.

[@muffassa6739]

There was a lot of badness we had no racial equality

[@IntlPlaza]

McKenzie raped his own daughter repeatedly.

[@HUNKMrDeath-lt7kq]

@@muffassa6739We had more racial equality than we do now.

[@giancarlodragonetti9100]

Yes completely with you,I am sure this are also lovely time,we are now, generation of past, responsible to make it better, to realise same good times of seventies ❤️ teaching Love and respect to all !! Peace on Earth with Our Love !!!

[@barbaralynn1566]

My dad was career Army and thankfully survived Vietnam, he bought the 45, gave it to me, telling me whenever it was time for someone to catch the Freedom Bird home, this song was always played at their farewell party..brings back alot of memories for me.

[@lem11elb]

I was in Viet Nam when this song came out and we wished to go too San Francisco too.

[@lorainebucki6000]

thats one of the main things i remember about vn 1970 great

[@14KroshTV]

its San Franshitsco now, make sure you burn your shoes when you leave San Franshitsco. feces everywhere urine everywhere. Hhahah

[@christinehughes2074]

God Bless you.

[@albybrava]

Yeah, but most were proud of what you were doing.

[@chiwazonin287]

you do understand that those who sing this song that time are the exact group who spit on veterans and call them babykillers right?

[@joaquimcaeiro2053]

This makes us wich we were there at that time. So much hope, love, kindness and sense of tolerance. The world may have changed but the seed was planted.

[@-markizaguirre6239]

This was my dads most favorite song and he just passed away today , we’re playing this at his funeral. Man I feel so broken-hearted 😭

[@КафеуЭдика]

Hello peoples, i am from Russia.We are with friends, listen this music always.

[@gertrudematzenberger9596]

♥🌈🌼

[@JennyGirl4Life]

Hello Russian friend from one Russian to another 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

[@raysousa955]

I remember when I lived in SF in the 80’ and a friend had his last gathering at his house and he played this song. He was given a “cocktail” after this song and he passed away before aids could take him in pain. This song makes me cry because of that

[@anthonyrussell9706]

Wow.

[@glidewellgirl]

Im sorry you lost a friend. Bless you

[@timothystevens5297]

lmao

[@leacaballero6337]

​@@timothystevens5297This is one of those things that is not funny.

[@wicketuma444]

This is killing me right now. One of the most beautiful songs.

[@fionnkelly2008]

Listen to the version from "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" It will kill you harder

[@dvvecchio7193]

@@fionnkelly2008 no this is the best version

[@fionnkelly2008]

@@dvvecchio7193 I understand your preference, however, the version from that film does hit me like a train. Funny, I was thinking about it earlier today for the first time in awhile then I got this notif.

[@ChristopheFilippi]

@@fionnkelly2008 I just listened after reading your comment, and wow. It is beautiful…

[@anthonyfoutch3152]

you can thank Papa John.

[@gloriawest370]

...actually... I want to cry right now...it's putting me back in time...my childhood 😌😌😌

[@clovergrass9439]

Eliminate any sentimental feelings about this, it was the result of diabolic social engineering.

[@nicolehlavka5474]

I was born in San Fransisco in the early 60's. Best place ever to grow up! So many 1st rate experiences. The music & the vibe = FANTASTIC !

[@anthonyfoutch3152]

I delivered US Mail to San Francisco in 79. We had to stay like 40 hours in Oakland or Frisco.We ran team from Frisco to Atlanta out of El Paso. When We left El Paso sometimes I had a new driver to go with me. It would be 110 in El Paso and I would ask if they brought a coat. They'd all say it's summer I don't need a coat. Everyone bought a sweater or jacket in Frisco. lol

[@kevinkreusling6373]

It was lov

[@Defiance.]

Leftists destroyed San Francisco. It's post apocalyptic now

[@lefishe129]

Scott Mckenzie,The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd and a lot lot more musicians made 60's to 70's transition perfect

[@Some_person.]

Mamas and papas were in it too

[@Teresa7087]

John Fogerty in the vid too.

[@marlonreisdossantos4355]

Thank you for Thais gift!!!

[@reynewdawn]

Take it home, Paint It Black

[@stephenalessini8556]

@@marlonreisdossantos4355 Who gave you Thai Sticks as a gift?

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

RIP Scott McKenzie. Mr. San Francisco. People who visit SF, will always have this song on their minds.

[@vickysviski2344]

Il mio cuore di ragazzina ha cominciato a battere forte al suono di i starded a joke e tutti i brani degli anni '70 poi dei bee gees. Mitici💖💖💖💖💖💟💟💟💟💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@vickysviski2344]

Grazie susan.💓💓💓💓

[@vickysviski2344]

Thank you friend💜

[@vickysviski2344]

Grazie amici. Buonanotte💖

[@vickysviski2344]

Thank you sim tin.💟💟💟💟💟

[@vickysviski2344]

Thank you sergey. Have a lovely day.💖

[@And0101Ros]

sooo ein geiler Song, seit Jahrzehnten, habe noch die Originalsingle!!! Mein Freund, der unbedingt mit mir dort hin wollte und leider mit knapp 31 diese Welt verließ. Werde dieses Jahr dort hin reisen und ihn in Gedanken mit nehmen!

[@ronholland6010]

This is one of the songs that made me want to move to SF when I was in high school. I made it here 10 years later and have been in SF Bay Area for 38 years.

[@bridgetrankin2720]

It is one of the songs I love most have been to san Francisco a beautiful place xx

[@user-hf9hf6hw8j]

@@bridgetrankin2720 it smells bad, it's expensive, there's homeless people everywhere, there's human feces on the sidewalks, and everyone one is a bad driver ... but other than that it's pretty cool

[@deanpd3402]

Get out, get out, while you still can.

[@batres78]

Blame all the techies that ruined our beautiful san Francisco

[@kiddt1999]

batres78 and liberalism

[@randybetscher7924]

It was either late in 1967 or early 1968, Scott Mckenzie came to do a concert that he had signed om for a couple of years prior to releasing this hit record. Mr. McKenzie came to Carlsbad, NM at the Alta Vista Junior High School and performed at a school assembly for almost 2 hours. It was great. I've always been a fan.

[@luiginagori6160]

Mamma mia quanto tempo è passato da quando ho sentito questa canzone!!!! Quante emozioni!!!

[@waaterski]

They played this song over the intercom when we returned from my first of three Vietnam cruises as we entered San Francisco Bay, 1967. USS Hancock CVA 19.

[@loobyloo1955]

I was about 12 when this song came out and remember my sister and I buying matching bell necklaces. We tried to pretend we were hippies! She immigrated to Australia as a “ten pound pom” when she was about 18 and didn’t see too much of her after that. Sadly she passed away. I can’t listen to this song without thinking of her. Updated and still listening in 2024…those truly were the days.

[@ethanguest3438]

what's a ten pound pom?

[@paula-yr7pp]

@@ethanguest3438 ten pound pom is a English person who paid $10 for a ticket to move to Australia

[@ethanguest3438]

@@paula-yr7pp ahh right, thanks.

[@nadavidovic1065]

Forgotten words: peace, love, harmony. What a shame! Happy New Year to all the gentle people !

[@eml122]

+Nada Vidovic ...thank you,and Happy New Year,to you too...

[@駒井一男-g6l]

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[@einmalistkeinmal1101]

This is soooo nostalgic I can't handle the flooming emotions coming from the bottom of my heart

[@michellewatters1386]

Hi! Me too I'm out there /here, it's not just you. I looked for someone who wrote resently .🌻

[@jesussanz101]

When the power of love is greater than the love to the power results musics like this.

[@general8109]

I'm a Jamaican, never been to San Francisco nor the USA for that manner but this ends up as my favorite song

[@myalaskalife5837]

It's not like that now

[@myalaskalife5837]

It's not like that now

[@canalsemnomeadinfinitum5416]

A beleza desta música transcende o tempo, línguas e nações. Linda demais.

[@desertchild1]

I can listen to this song every day. It takes me back to when life was still beautiful in many ways

[@ceceliavoss9174]

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. I miss those days!

[@asuparayatta-man800]

my memories fly back to 45 years ago

[@angelagatenby5733]

+meathwoman100 sixties classic

[@francfife]

They don't realize that er were the guinea pigs in the whole 'hippy' thing that was a project of the state to foment social change. I was teen then and remember very clearly as I was not 'drugged' just enjoying the music and best of the ideas on the other side of the Pacific....

[@unity20000]

"the whole 'hippy' thing that was a project of the state to foment social change" The 'state' was so unhappy with them hippies that they shot at them, killed them, and then had FBI infiltrate their organizations to cripple their social movement.

[@paintedweasels]

I am not even from the US, but this makes me cry watching it, with all that has happened since this song was sung

[@ceyceytv6914]

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 For those who come to San Francisco Summertime 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 strange vibration People in motion There's a whole generation With a new explanation People in motion People in motion For those who come to San Francisco Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair If you come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there If you come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there

[@svetlanacarson3612]

CEYCEY TV 😊Thank you🌹🐞🐝

[@anthonyfoutch3152]

Papa John Phillips.

[@mauriziodetomasi4526]

I always love this wonderful song!!!!!!!!! Not always " lied " to the period of the '60ies & '70ies, just like the famous Sons of the flowers or Flowers' Sons!

[@kevinmckenney7190]

I was a young person back then...this song described the times...I hope some future generation feels the same way someday.

[@heidischnuriger3833]

A wonderful song about a wonderful, magical time. How I miss it,so sad.

[@KR-kf7fy]

Jesus can bring back that joy man

[@deanpd3402]

@@KR-kf7fy and without the satanic magic if new-age hippie.

[@robertalexander6923]

It all seems so surreal now. The trust so many of us shared, kindness and generosity were much more common place

[@markwallow6776]

I miss it too

[@danilo16410]

All the beauty is in God, nothing will ever be missed, except those people who want to be missed.

[@Chi181]

What a wonderful and harmonic Song that is the kind of music, that gives my Heart and Soul peace in times where a 3 World War might be approaching, this music spreads a message about Love and Happiness and Peace, and we shoulds spread this Message as well.

[@MrSebboxxx]

+Chi181 ... think we need a new flower-power movement ...

[@codyhale6949]

+Sebastian Wendel you are so right. I was there!!!!

[@MrSebboxxx]

Cody Hale :-)

[@Chi181]

Sebastian Wendel Expect for that Polygamy Part, i would´t want that, who was for most of theme pretty normal to pratice, i wouldn´t mind having the 60-70´s back again.

[@dakotab399]

+Chi181 dude run on sentence like no other

[@KingOFuh]

I'm Joey Silvera and the 70's in San Francisco was non-stop beautiful weather, women, the best cannabis you could get at the time, and lots of fuh king and suh king in the sunshine and sometimes where the sun don't shine.

[@Klowerrobert]

Great to remember back to the sixties. I was a young conscripts back then.Thanks for the memories.

[@spiritualmar5293]

I remember I was at a field trip in San Francisco in the early 2000’s and this song was blasting on the pier. I was about 11 years old. Now whenever I hear this song I get the most nostalgic feeling ever. This song will always be with me. ❤️✌️

[@ma.lupitarodriguez7482]

My husband and I just love this song. IT makes us live again our honeymoon in San Francisco 48 years ago.❤❤❤

[@joeu882]

Beautiful song. Awesome times. This particular song means a lot to me, I was a youngster singing this song in a band with kids just like me. Nostalgia it's an understament. "Memories light the corners of my mind"❤ Fantastic!

[@eric9049]

With 63M fans behind him, Scott McKenzie can't be wrong. They chose this San Francisco to be #1

[@ENLIGHTENMENTING]

An splendid song from a great city that I'd like so much to visit. I heard that the atmosphere of liberty between people there is fantastic. It Has a weather similar from the Mediterranean sea in my city Barcelona in seventies. I can imagine a little what the ambient was in 1967. Fantastic. The summer,liberty and happiness.. Thanks and farewell.

[@michaeldearness607]

His beautiful relaxed vocal technique ... lyrics that are gold ... this is one of the most iconic songs of the sixties ...it never gets old .....it captured the mood of the time ....thanks 🙂

[@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER]

Umm, you're misinterpreting a bad vocal performance due to him clearly being on drugs.

[@rafaelnbaia]

Here I'm in 2019, a 34 years old Brazilian watching this video for the first time, but as far as I can remember, I've been liking all these "old" good music since I was 6 to 7 years old...good music never get old, for me it's like Shakespeare and all good literature, it never get old...

[@stanfamhome]

I get that... I am from that generation and from the Bay area. You got me thinking pretty much the same thing. Thank you for expressing my thoughts exactly.

[@vampireheart85]

Agreed I'm 33 feel the same way!

[@orangeza7608]

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[@rayunseitig6367]

bull shit. to you.

[@joaoalmeida7138]

Rafael Nascimento Barbosa om

[@kristineburbey4710]

I was there in 1974. Beautiful city and great memories

[@santana5478]

초원의 빛이여,꽃의 영광이여. The light of the meadow, the glory of the flower

[@lopaaione]

Different generation, different way of life.....where did we humans go wrong?

[@perun97]

People adopted the "me" attitude. Others just gave up.

[@lopaaione]

I guess we missed out on the love for all generation. What a special time that must have been .

[@avzeolla]

I wasn't born til '72. I missed the 60's. my father says it's a shame I did.

[@stephens8107]

Aye Zee Aye, if you had to fight in Vietnam you may think differently . Was your father in the Arny or did he spit on the soldiers when they came back..

[@avzeolla]

stephen stern my father was in the 1st Air Cav in Vietnam and received a Purple Heart. whenever there was a fire fight, he and his brothers would be dropped in via helicopter to wreak havoc on the VC. he wont talk about his experiences there but all i know is many of his brothers perished horrifically right before his eyes... so, no. he didn't spit on anybody. despite this, whether he agreed with the war or not, he understood that he was drafted and had to serve his duty. And this was only 10 years after his family emigrated to this country from the tragedy and poverty that was Post WWII Europe. He came here for a better life and appreciated what the US offered his family. thus he loved the 50's and 60's. contrast a man like him to those who WERE born here, shirked their responsibility and spit on the good, honest soldiers (non-baby killers) for doing what they had to do. they didnt even realize that my dad and the other Euro immigrants and black guys were the expendables and were expected to die). an as if the war experience wasn't tragic enough, they had to get spit on when they came home. never mind though. getting spit on by a bunch of entitled hippies who did NOT appreciate what they had was nothing compared to the Nazis and the miserable conditions he lived in as a child, so he dealt with it!

[@MrWipex]

Our world needs more of this right here!!! 🤗🤗❤❤❤❤

[@sureyeahwhynotamiright8226]

The magic may not be as strong as it once was, but walking through the streets of San Francisco while listening to this really makes that city shine.

[@Dallas_K]

2023: I don't think so.

[@giovannigino3675]

In my opinion it is one of the most beautiful songs ever written. I am Italian and I am 59 years old. I heard it on the radio when I was 6 and I obviously didn't speak English yet. I just understood "go" , "San Francisco " and "flowers", but it was enough:I fell in love with it.

[@paulof5745]

Tudo maravilhoso, o visual, as roupas, a alegria. Tudo mágico. Que época fantástica.

[@КлимШишков]

e' vero!!!

[@42.0fmthefever5]

1967: Beautiful song 2020: Beautiful song

[@nielspetergleerup8320]

The first records I bought, 12 years old.

[@42.0fmthefever5]

@@nielspetergleerup8320 I just buy this album this year on my birthday I posted a video on my channel

[@rj_man_]

2050: Beautiful song

[@marcelinoteran1488]

La buena música nunca pasa al olvido

[@claudiaoliveira6534]

Muito linda essa canção, sinto falta de uma época que não vivi

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

What an innocent time. A better time. God should send us back in time and keep us there.

[@johnkernan3450]

I'm a 'Nam vet, and this song brings back memories of my brothers that I lost,

[@大頭-z6r]

The song that takes me back to my youth....so much longing, nostalgia and sadness... I loved your song so much......

[@rareandwonderfull]

The same for me, a lovely, short era.

[@valaquenta220]

"🎵 If you're going to Saaan Fraaaanciscoooo, know that you'll never get that mooortgaaaaaage 🎵" 🤣🤣

[@gurney2055]

Not sure whether I should laugh or cry to this tbh

[@hansrichter8090]

lol

[@marylacey6836]

I don't know if you have be a millionaire. Probably today yes. But in 1975, my husband I actually rented an apartment for get this..95 dollars a month! We had a landlady that was about 100 years old. We moved into our first apartment which was a bit run down on the outside. But on the inside, it was done in Italian rosewood. We figure the house was so old, it was probably 95 back in 1945 and she never upped the rent! Sometimes we'd try to pay her and she'd say, 'oh but you already paid me'. She was so sweet, we could never take advantage. Her name was Amelia Castenoli. I'll never forget her.

[@ac.7724]

Mary Lacey Same for me! I moved out on my own when I was 19 in 1978. My landlady was like a second mother . Charged me $100 a month. She'd even come in and wash my dishes while I was at work :). RIP Olive.

[@rareandwonderfull]

She was part of the love=in? It sounds that way, a lovely spirit.

[@MrMarianEugen]

I was about 4 years old when I first heard this song. Since then, it has been the song of my life. I am 65 years old today and I have it this song as the ringtone on my iPhone. I love it!

[@username4e]

My dad always wanted to go to San Francisco but he's gone 😢 I went there for him

[@MrEssmarbu]

How did you like it there?

[@pyramid6782]

Gone nice for you so where did he go

[@libertarianfreeman4159]

My deppest condolences, be encouraged.

[@deafsubtitles]

Sorry for your loss but that was a good thing to do that you went for yourself and him.

[@stevehernandez1500]

It's full of illegal immigrants, homeless people

[@clarkfeeley1959]

Guitar was so out, I am amazed he pulled it off that well.

[@robertallen5686]

..they didn't..

[@thejupiter1744]

I was there in that golden summer of love 💖 and like my hippy mum (R.I.P.) I too wore flowers in my hair. Hope to be with you soon mum. Peace to all.

[@sakonbutthead9829]

Do you have some history? What did you do during the day? What bands did you see?

[@lucy9500]

I would like to know also . I love to listen to how people’s lives were and what they loved long before I was born .

[@brothertspoon5899]

Blessings for eternity

[@lucy9500]

Julie thank you so so much for your very well written comment . It means a lot that you would take time out of your day to tell me about your early life . It’s fascinating to me to read about people’s lives and how everything was before me . I couldn’t imagine life without a microwave ! And I am young I am 18 almost 19 in about a month . I’ve always been a bit jealous of the freedom of being able to play with friends freely and go out on walks people had before . The world is much more dangerous today . I grew up having to learn that and feared a lot of things . Sadly I don’t connect very much with my era . And I will admit it makes me pretty sad sometimes . (I don’t want to be like those people who say “I wish I was born in a different generation” but I honestly wish I was) I spend everyday living as if I’m in any other era but this one . I don’t connect with people or many things of today . Which is why I don’t have any friends . I’m alone all the time and spend all the time at home in my room . I can’t remember the last time I really went out with friends . I’d rather spend my time listening to my Carpenters record or whatever I have at hand and drawing . Or watching documentaries about the the 70’s or whatever year , Woodstock , anything just as long as it isn’t from this era . But there are maybe a FEW gems from this era like KZbin , some of the tv shows , and a little bit of music that I can carry with me until my later years . :) thank you , I too hope you have many years of happiness and longevity of life . Your comment has made my night . ❤️

[@derekenlow7607]

I've heard this song so many times and loved it every single time. Ive never knew what it was called or who sang it or even all the words but wow I couldn't love it more still today. This truely is a timeless good vibes song. ❤️

[@anaelietemedinalopes9132]

Vamos colocar flores no cabelo.... Tempos inesquecíveis 🌻💐🌺🌹🌼🌸

[@marcioferreira7774]

Na versão em português diz:"Se você for até Recife,não se esqueça da esteira,do chapéu."

[@jerrywhitworth2363]

Incredible, and captures a moment in time, like no other song.

[@chocolategirl8663]

Hey I'm a 14 years old girl from germany. We had talk with one of our teachers about the hippis, the woodstock Festival, the Rolling Stones... Also we had listen to many songs which were written is this time. I love them all. But I'm sad, that I didn't live in this time in the USA because I think it must be a great time. Have a nice day/evening/ and greetings from germany♡

[@colinmaharaj]

+Chocolate Girl I love Chocolates :)

[@Jestrad95]

Believe me, it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows. Unfortunately even California faced many issues at the time. My parents were around at the time, and the stories they've told me aren't too appealing. The best time to be around (in most parts of the world) is now.

[@jyj525ify]

+Jon Estrada Great!

[@geoffn54]

+Chocolate Girl Don't forget Chocolate that these people, from that generation, have been in charge until recently. Once the love-ins and getting stoned stopped they took up positions in big-business and government. Fortunately the music survived intact though.

[@dorthrduus6941]

gamle minder

[@AlcibiadesMD]

I sincerely wish I could enter through my TV 📺 set and stay there in this place and time in history. Good and bad in any era yes, but a sense of brotherhood, love and compassion permeated the waves, each time I listen to this masterpiece I reminisce and cry. 😭

[@oscarperales5959]

This took place in my back yard... Monterey Pop Festival...At The Monterey Fairgrounds . Summer Of Love...but , I Was Just a Kid..5 yrs old .

[@ambriadaniels-dovolis7496]

Same here Oscar! I was 10 but I remember the news cast :) Monterey has a taken an unfortunate down turn though

[@JamesDea45]

A lot of legends attended that festival. One being also being Jimi Hendrix.

[@bradobrien2539]

Did my Arabic language training at DLI!! Beautiful but costly part of NorCal

[@aldito7586]

"Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair". The song was just perfect for the time !

[@gracarodrigues6786]

Eu amo essa música, gostaria tanto de conhecer São Francisco na Califórnia, como eu gostaria. 😀

[@christipping7094]

Beautiful song , beautiful voice, perfect 🥰

[@austinreid7229]

All these peaceful people are now sadly old or departed.I take my hat off to the generation of peace loving hippys who tried to change the world we live in.Its a shame it didn't change.40 yrs on we have wars raging around the world people dying for no reason.Starvation Hunger are just a few of the things we can't seem to irradicate even though we have it within our means to do so.I think the governments have their reasons for not doing so but I wish they'd let the rest of us in on the reasons they don't.

[@irenedean5165]

I'm back there in "mind & spirit". Great times!

[@austinreid7229]

I was young living in rural England but one of my memories was my sisters boyfriend wandering down a lane with a pair of Jesus sandals bell bottoms and an Indian print shirt on.He had just been to The Isle of Wight festival wher The Doors and Hendrix played to name a few.I thought he was acting weird but have since realised he was eight miles high.lol

[@katinajackson1284]

+Austin Reid Just turned 50 on Sept.14th & to this day I don't understand what the hell we did wrong to have all the reckless behavior in our world today. Maybe we need to get back to living as though we can actually respect one another again. It's all jacked up!!!

[@irenedean5165]

Well said my dear friend. I totally agree !

[@austinreid7229]

Good point.i don't get it either.if your a scholar at school no one respects you but if your a coke dealer or a thug you get respect albeit forced or otherwise.If you play football or soccer as you call it in the U.S. You earn 375000 dollars a week.If your a gifted surgeon you'd be lucky to earn that in a year.Its an upside down world my friend.

[@GLING17]

Very sad, nostalgic song and knowing the singer has died makes it even sadder to hear it. Rest in peace. 😞

[@TheWestcoastrasta]

Scott Mckenzie may have had a few albums, yet he and his song San Francisco were definitely a pivotal time and moment in the 60s.

[@martinrobert6688]

I was born too late to enjoy such a beautiful era. My generation has no concept of the community you all got to enjoy. I hope one day we can return to something so wholesome like these times were. Wishing you all peace and love ❤

[@eddie195777]

Nothing beats the 60's music.

[@carinakaron8068]

I spent my teens in the 60s and 70s,yes lots of wonderful memories. Yet i believe the best is yet to come.Mainstream media may present us with a dire vision,but i believe the young of today are far more enlightened than we were,and stronger, and the peaceful revolution is just beginning,they are the ones who will say 'no more'.

[@leale5276]

I really hope so Carina karon

[@carinakaron8068]

I guess it is time my friends to stop believing that we are helpless , small and victims.We are magnificent, beautiful , grace filled beings.We have an unbelievable power that cannot be seen or experienced as long as we live in a fear based mind set.There are many young people who have come into this world now , with this understanding, seek them out, instead of looking for the conspiracys and the end of the world.Look inside, our nature is LOVE.

[@davidmetcalf8547]

Carina karon I disagree RcUniverseGuy. I was born in '82 and I teach college history. I see what is perhaps the most progressive generation of students in my classrooms. The complaints said about the Millennials in general are unfair and uncharitable. There is no one baby-boomer to lay blame on for what happened after the Counter-Culture ended. Collectively there is plenty of blame to go around. But never should you generalize about a generation, about a group of individuals, nation-states, or anything else. Nothing is monolithic. And don't write off your generation so quickly. I have to put people back together after they come out of the stifling experience of K-12, but the fact that the public education system has been broken is not their fault. The "Catcher in the Rye" element of their lives is as strong now as it ever was. My colleagues who teach English don't know how to present "Catcher in the Rye" to let their students know their resentments are valid. They don't understand that my belief on how you do this to students is don't bullshit them about the world they're facing that's been left for them. Don't bullshit them. Tell them the reality of the situation.

[@rafijahangiri4]

RcUniverseGuy I'm a part of your generation. You're wrong.

[@davidmetcalf8547]

***** Technically, I'm a Millennial as well. But just barely. Cut off between Gen-Xers and Millennials is 1981. I'm '82. Those of us between '80 and '84 are caught between the markers of two generations. We're the last to know of the world before Internet and adaptable enough to understand the new world with the Internet. My advantage is being able to understand both sides of the older crowd who know something was lost with the constant connection but know that the Millennials don't know what it is and simply that the world has changed and the digital component of life is still being absorbed into our lifestyle. The digital universe doesn't have to mark the end, it's more of the energy crisis and the political paralysis that's doing that. I might ask who shoved an iPhone and an iPad at their kids to get some quiet time, by the way. Somehow it's youths' fault that their parents bought gadgets for them so they could have free time back. It's almost as if these people believe they would have resisted the technology if it had been available to them when they were younger. Or as if they're immune to it now when I spot just as many older people addicted to their phones and iPads. The hypocrisy of the baby-boomer generation defies comprehension, to me. But there I go grouping them all together, you see? It's way too easy to do. But I know what happened to those who stuck it out with the idealism of the 60s, the rest of their generation took a steaming dump on them for "not growing up" ever. Can't tell you how many times I've seen the idealistic baby-boomers get marginalized for not leaving the 60s in the past (in terms of the idealism).

[@karensummers1724]

Your loving spirit will never die Scotty. I was but only a child at the time of this recording , but your your voice is your instrument- it's an entire orchestra. Your song speaks to me as if I've known you my entire life. You earned your eternal crown of flowers in your hair, now may you Rest In Peace. I will know you at the glorious love-in when my time comes, in God's promised heaven. Loving you always with Peace & Blessings❤

[@viceversa7562]

There are stipulations

[@legendarycollins538]

Great music from the 60s Peace and summer of Love in San Francisco, CA Where's the Cannabis y'all? Let's light up grab your bongs

[@anderssonarad2552]

If you're going to San Petersburg Be sure to be sure to wear a cap on your head.......Wintertime will be a freezing day

[@NinoBellieny]

This is a music that is 100% connected to the 1960s. It has so few connotations that it is so strong. It is to hear and immediately return to the period, with what was good and bad, a perfect melodic picture. I was a child at the time, but I wanted to be in my 20s, even at the risk of having gone to Vietnam, the horror of the horrors of that time, but that's it: a portal song for the 1960s.

[@rareandwonderfull]

I was 7 years of age at the time, we had just moved to a farm to be self sufficient. The hippies were coming and going all of the time, I loved to sit and listen for hours on end the philosophic discussions. Fifty years have flashed by, for the past 25 I am convinced that the road to this happy idealism is via Jesus Christ, not what the churches push which is polluted, but Jesus words and deeds alone.

[@philiptucci2458]

Magnificent Masterpiece from the greatest musical decade, great music & great memories of life

[@moonchild3805]

Penso che questo brano rispecchi la vera vita degli hippy.Io ho passato la sessantina questo brano mi è rimasto dentro l'anima.Mi fa ancora un certo effetto sentirlo.La nostagia di quei giorni che ormai non torneranno più indietro.

[@joepromedio]

In 1968 I was 13. My uncle, who was a student at UCLA, took me to a love-in at Griffith Park. As a hormone filled teenager, I thought I was in heaven. All the young women there were not wearing bras. It was mostly a anti-war demonstration. The hippie movement was going strong in LA then. Far out, peace, groovy and long hair was the order of the day. Not long after that my uncle took me to an anti-war demonstration in front of the Federal Building on Wilshire Blvd. But, when I turned 18 I signed up for the draft. Nixon stopped the draft when I was 19, the age most got drafted. I saw many of my friends come home from Vietnam either messed up or not at all. Gas was .35 cents a gallon. At 16 I rented a 2 bedroom apartment for 145.00 a month, furnished. I was working as a receiving clerk at Pronto Market making 1.55 an hour. My checks were between 80.00 and 90.00 a week.

[@CristianoRonaldo-pc9zr]

So it was so cheap?

[@melancholypuppy3595]

@@CristianoRonaldo-pc9zr not really that's almost 2 paychecks like it is today

[@AlcibiadesMD]

Great memories Joe, those are the memories that keep me going too, What we become in the last 2.5 years is catastrophic, San Francisco is sadly no more.

[@joepromedio]

@@AlcibiadesMD Agreed. This song reminds me of those days growing up in LA. All the hippies were preaching equal rights, peace in Viet Nam. The vision of equal rights, from then to now, has changed dramatically.

[@margretjacobsen7837]

Boah, wo ist nur die Zeit geblieben. Ich höre noch heute sehr gerne die alten Songs und möchte die tolle Zeit nicht vermissen. Bin 68 Jahre alt und im Herzen noch jung. Aber die Zeit kann nur jemand verstehen der sie erlebt hat.

[@faydence8152]

Ich bin 16 und liebe diese art Musik. Was für andere Lieder hast du den gehort, die in der art sind? Weiß nur nicht wo ich gucken solle:D

[@margretjacobsen7837]

@@faydence8152 ich bin nun 70 Jahre alt und liebe diese alten Songs noch heute. Nur hab ich ne andere Erinnerung daran. Wir saßen am Lagerfeuer und einer konnte so super Gitarre spielen und auch singen. Und wenn ich diese Lieder höre, dann kommen sehr viele Erinnerungen hoch. Aber es war eine schöne Zeit.

[@keenanhopkins602]

This song makes me remember of when I was a hippie walking down through San Francisco fields ...... In my Dreams

[@isrulius]

Keenan Hopkins San Francisco is a city you dumb fuck, there aren’t any fields.

[@davidebonfrate23]

I recently visited San Francisco and it was awesome city… this song was the soundtrack of my lotte tour….