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Music CD - Various Artists: Summer of Love, Vol. 1: Tune In (Good Time & Love Vibrations)
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Music CD: Summer of Love, Vol. 1: Tune In (Good Time & Love Vibrations)
Artist: Various Artists
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $8.14
Your Save: $ 3.84 ( 32% )
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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1. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie
2. Reach Out Of The Darkness - Friend And Lover
3. Get Together - The Youngbloods
4. The Flower Children - Marcia Strassman
5. Love Is All Around - The Troggs
6. Groovin' - The Young Rascals
7. The Rain, The Park & Other Things - The Cowsills
8. Up-Up And Away - The 5th Dimension
9. Windy - The Association
10. Lazy Day - Spanky & Our Gang
11. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) - Harpers Bizarre
12. Groovy Summertime - The Love Generation
13. Sunshine Girl - The Parade
14. Neon Rainbow - The Box Tops
15. King Midas In Reverse - The Hollies
16. San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227106522
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 1992-09-01
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Summary: A Veritable Gold-Mine Of Some Hard-To-Find Late 1960's Hits
Comment: This 1992 Rhino compilation will, of course, appeal greatly to those who simply loved the "flower-power" music that prevailed in the late 1960s. However, it was also a boon to collectors of hit singles since, while also containing some tracks that were (and still are) available on any number of such volumes (i.e., tracks 1, 6, 7, 8, 9 to 11, 14 and 16), also contained a fair number that are as hard to find today as they were when this was first released.
These include: Friend And Lover's summer 1968 # 10 Billboard Pop Hot 100 hit, Reach Out Of The Darkness, one of just two hits for the husband-and-wife duo of Jim and Cathy Post on the Verve Forecast label; Get Together by The Youngbloods, a minor # 62 Hot 100 in the fall of 1967 on RCA Victor, but revived in summer 1969 when used as the theme for the National Conference Of Cbristians And Jews, at which time it soared to # 5; Love Is All Around, the last North American hit for the British group The Troggs, a # 7 in early 1968 on the Fontana label; Groovy Summertime, one of just two minor hits for The Love Generation (# 74 in summer 1957 on Imperial); Sunshine Girl, the only hit for The Parade, and a # 20 in May 1967 on A&N; and one of The Hollies' lesser hits, King Midas In Reverse, a # 51 Hot 100 in November 1967 on Epic.
The sound reproduction is excellent on all tracks, and with the insert you get six pages of detailed background notes written by noted music critic Barry Alfonso, along with pictures of Marcia Strassman, Scott McKenzie, Friend & Lover, The 5th Dimension, Spanky & Our Gang, The Association, The Box Tops, and The Hollies.
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Summary: Great CD!
Comment: This collection pulls together many of the great songs from this very short time of musical history. This particular volume, though, is the best of the set. I did not get the others due to the tracks they include.
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Summary: Psychedelia and the Summer of Love
Comment: There are songs on this CD which will take you right back to the days of Flower Power, peace signs, Love In's and chemical alteration (smile). I was disappointed in a few of the tunes included - not what I would call TOP 40 at all - obsure ones. There were though, enough to get me to purchase it. I simply burned it to my computer, and deleted the few that just didn't reach me. So - if you have a hankering for remembering these days (which I will always have - and not the chemical alteration phase - just the memories of living for something larger than yourself)... buy it.
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Summary: nostalgic collection
Comment: For some, the summer of 1967 was a special moment in time. Briefly, optimism and idealism combined with youthful enthusiasm to create a feeling than change was happening all around and that anything was possible. Songs from this collection fairly represent some of the feeling of that time.
For those who lived through that brief moment, this music will likely take you back. It is pleasant nostalgia, just before violence and drug commerce made all of that change into an ugly thing. The songs are light and hopeful. For those who are interested in that time, a listen to the music from then is revealing. However, these songs are, for the most part, pretty light weight. Some are quite forgetable, and a few have aged so poorly as to make one cringe to hear them now (Eric Burdon's "trans-love airways" for example).
So this is a collection for those who want a pleasant spin down memory lane or who just want to examine that moment in the past. Others may wonder why anyone would listen to this simple stuff. Musical style has grown and progressed way past these pleasant numbers now.
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Summary: If you want it, you've got it!
Comment: This is a high quality compilation for those who really dig this genre of music. Personally, I bought the CD just for the two gorgeous songs "San Francisco" and "Love is All Around." Either one of those would be worth the price of the CD, but there are lots of classics included. A few of the tracks don't seem to stand the test of time particularly well, but may be worthwhile to those who have an historical interest.
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