Gold:summer Of Love (2007)

Product Summary Label: Universal Music Group UPC: 00602517389885 Release Date: 7/24/2007 Buy.com Sku: 204850864 Item#: M3NN6E Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie ~ Various Artists 2. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane ~ Various Artists 3. Creeque Alley - The Mamas & The Papas ~ Various Artists 4. Just Like A Woman - Richie Havens ~ Various Artists 5. Let's Live For Today - The Grass Roots ~ Various Artists 6. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine - Country Joe & The Fish ~ Various Artists 7. Changes - Phil Ochs (Live) ~ Various Artists 8. Society's Child - Janis Ian ~ Various Artists 9. (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet - Blues Magoos ~ Various Artists 10. Sunday Will Never Be The Same - Spanky & Our Gang ~ Various Artists 11. I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder ~ Various Artists 12. Happy Together - The Turtles ~ Various Artists 13. Incense And Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock ~ Various Artists 14. I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James & The Shondells ~ Various Artists 15. Windy - The Association ~ Various Artists 16. Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. San Franciscan Nights - Eric Burdon & The Animals ~ Various Artists 2. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison ~ Various Artists 3. I'm A Man - The Spencer Davis Group ~ Various Artists 4. Sock It To Me Baby - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels ~ Various Artists 5. Pushin' Too Hard - The Seeds ~ Various Artists 6. I'm A Believer - The Monkees ~ Various Artists 7. Happy - The Sunshine Company ~ Various Artists 8. Little Bit O' Soul - The Music Explosion ~ Various Artists 9. Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville ~ Various Artists 10. Respect - Aretha Franklin ~ Various Artists 11. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) - Hombres ~ Various Artists 12. Wake Me, Shake Me - The Blues Project ~ Various Artists 13. You Keep Me Hanging On - Vanilla Fudge ~ Various Artists 14. I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night - The Electric Prunes ~ Various Artists 15. Whiter Shade Of Pale, A - Procol Harum ~ Various Artists (P) 2007 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. (C) 2007 Universal Music Enterprises, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Audio Remasterer: Doug Schwartz. Liner Note Author: Scott Schinder. Photographers: Guy Webster; Ed Caraeff; Andrew Kent; Tom Gundelfinger; Jan Persson; Tony Gale; Harry Goodwin. Arrangers: George David; Nola Leone; Vic Briggs; Jimmy Wisner. The summer of 1967, the so-called Summer of Love, was just that, a brief, flowery explosion that signaled a pronounced shift in social, political, and cultural priorities. The duration was short, lasting just nine months even by the most liberal estimates, from the first Human Be-In in San Francisco in January of 1967 through to the ceremonial "Death of the Hippie" event in the same city that following October. Musically, the opening salvo was the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's in June of 1967, an album that created an almost impossible-to-match template for rock music. Seemingly overnight, AM radio was filled with psychedelic-laced pop singles full of vocal and instrument phasing, odd sound effects, and attempts at expansive lyrics and themes. It's impossible to imagine a song like Procol Harum's bizarre and dirge-like "A Whiter Shade of Pale" making the pop charts without Sgt. Pepper's first paving the way, for instance, and songs like the Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints" would most likely never even have been written. Unfortunately, nothing by the Beatles is included in this two-disc set devoted to the music of the Summer of Love, undoubtedly due to licensing problems (make no mistake, this new expansive pop music was marketed every bit as much as bubblegum was -- nothing happens in the music business for free and without spread sheets), and a fair amount of what is here actually hails from 1966 (the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations," the Seeds' "Pushin' Too Hard," the Monkees' "I'm a Believer," the Electric Prunes' "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night"), so this collection really isn't a carefully assembled archival survey of the music from that singular summer at all. That doesn't mean it isn't fun and interesting, but it also doesn't make for a historically accurate document. In the end, of course, love didn't conquer all, and war, hate, greed, racism, and the other insistent scourges of the human spirit remained to torment us all, but for a brief moment there, in the warmth of the sun in the summer of 1967, there was the illusion that everything would be different. ~ Steve Leggett Producer: Jac Holzman; Brian Wilson; George "Shadow" Morton; Elliot Chiprut; P.F. Sloan; Mark Abramson; Joe Wissert; Bob Wyld; Art Polhemus; Marcus Tybalt; Jeff Katz; Chris Blackwell; Jerry Wexler; Bo Gentry; Rick Jarrard; Bob Crewe; Joe Saraceno; Ritchie Cordell;   Technical Info Release Date : 07/24/2007 Original Release Date : 2007 Catalog ID : 09367 Label : Hip-O Records Number of Discs : 2 Runtime : 96m : 32s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00602517389885    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray