"Great songs from the Hippie era" Topic

Rules:
None. YOU can define it however you want.
Wait. You MUST give the artist, the song title, and provide a link.

I have been accused (😱) of being a Debbie Downer about music.

So, here. Your likes.

Bellamy Brothers. Let Your Love Flow.
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If you throw in "Imagine", all I can say is that I will not vote for it

I'll be Debbie Downer, but in a good way. It's too much. Too broad. If I list it all, I will break the internet.

Two the of best (Steppenwolf)

Subject: born to be wild – Google Search


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Subject: magic carpet ride – Google Search


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White Room (Cream) YouTube link

Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In (The Fifth Dimension) YouTube link

White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) YouTube link

California Dreamin' (The Mammas and the Papas) YouTube link

For what it's Worth by Buffalo Springfield
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My mind freezes up, 'cause I have SO MANY I'd like to nominate…

I'll just restrain myself with a classic goofy but popular hit similar in time and tone to some already noted: the one-hit wonder "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum. YouTube link

"Atlantis" by Donovan. YouTube link

"Happy Days Toy Town" by the Small Faces YouTube link

"Lay Down (Candles In the Wind)" by Melanie. YouTube link

"Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple YouTube link

"Iron Man" by Black Sabbath YouTube link

"In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)" by Zager & Evans
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"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly (FULL LENGTH!!) YouTube link

SO MANY!! I have a Swinging Sixties playlist on my iTunes compiled from my library of CDs and downloads and it has 655 sings on it. Not all are "hippie era" songs, but a ton are. These are some of the goofiest,commercially successful "hippie" things. The genuine psychedelic freakouts and mind-blowers would require a whole 'nuther list.

Born too late for the Hippie Era. I didn't really hear the music of the 1960s until college in the late 1970s.

Hippie Era is about when I gave up on songs and went exclusively instrumental. (I'm counting Carpenters as IN but not OF the Hippie Era.) But I'll admit to an affection for the Fifth Dimension--Aquarius (already linked) and Up Up and Away
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piper909 "In the Year 2525" +1

When the good drugs were flowing!

Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict (Pink Floyd):
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Also, Umma Gumma is Pink Floyd's best album.
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+1 White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane), but I'll put in that the mono version of this (and also Someone To Love) is even better than the stereo — Grace Slick's voice comes through so much stronger when it's not being split between the speakers. Such a pity her voice was shot all to crap by the 70s.
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Time has Come Again – Chambers brothers YouTube link
Pressed Rat and Warthog – Cream pressed rat and warthog cream
Oh Well – Fleetwood Mac YouTube link
Dear Mr. Fantasy – Traffic YouTube link
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys – Traffic YouTube link

"To be considered a band of the hippie era, the music generally entails the years 1965 to 1972"

Read MY rules.
You can define it any way you want.

"Those Were The Days My Friend" Mary Hopkin link

"Alice's Restaurant" Arlo Guthrie link

"Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag." by Country Joe Macdonald.
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"Friday On My Mind" Easy Beats YouTube link
"Spicks and Specks" Bee Gees (pre-disco crap) YouTube link
"Fortunate Son" Credence YouTube link

And about 50 others….

Confession time. I do enjoy "California Dreaming" which is already nominated, and checks most of my boxes for hippie era music. Same problem as with Carpenters, I think: I see the Mamas and the Papas as more a continuation of folk--closer to Peter Paul and Mary than hippie music. Leftist, yes, mostly: but without the antagonism to country, reason and work which--along with the (completely unjustified) smug sense of superiority--defined hippiedom.

(For God's Sake) Give More Power To The People -- the Chi-Lites YouTube link

Aquarius – The Fifth Dimension YouTube link

Hurdy Gurdy Man -- Donovan YouTube link

Sunshine Superman -- Donovan again! YouTube link

Stoned Soul Picnic – Fifth Dimension (live performance, mimed) (kudos to Laura Nyro who wrote it) YouTube link

Won't You Try / Saturday Afternoon -- Jefferson Airplane YouTube link

The list goes on and on.

I've been ignoring the Big Boys, like the Beatles, Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, Love, The Who, Stones, Yardbirds, Dylan, Creedence, those folks who were not "hippies" per se but provided great anthems for that short era -- looking at garage bands and woo-bands and the second bananas who indulged in "hippie twaddle" songs (if you want to call it that). Peace, love, beads, bells, incense, and flower power. Groovy, man! I can only nod toward a handful of terrific songs from that era.

Here's a bonus!
"Porpoise Song" -- the Monkees (extended version) YouTube link

Ah, The Yardbirds were musically ahead of the Beetles by several years, pity they couldn't hang onto any of their [great] lead guitarists.

Definitely Mod, not Hippie, but in the "Hippie era"

This one, they had an ample supply of the good drugs:
Hot House of Omagararshid (The Yardbirds)
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And my fave:
Over Under Sideways Down (The Yardbirds)
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What ever the song Jane Fonda used to strip in Barbarossa.

Too lazy for link.

So many good Yardbirds tracks! One hardly knows where to begin with additions to miniMo's start. Not "hippie" exactly, but way cool. Heart Full of Soul, Happenings Ten Years Time Ago, Little Games, Shapes of Things, Think About It, Glimpses … one can go on and on.

Come Saturday Morning by the Sandpipers.

Dave Mason. We Just Disagree

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RIP, Dave. He just passed away. 🎼🎶

Note that I said "hippie era".

"Dominique" by The Singing Nun came out in the hippie era. I would have a hard time calling it psychedelic or protest. Yet it fits my criteria.

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I might point out that my Nun French teacher never tried to have us listen to it. Good thing, since I couldn't understand a thing.

Slade. Run Run Away.
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