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Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls (1968)
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- Опубликовано: 30 дек 2021
- In 1968 this was a summer favorite despite not rising very high on the U.S. national charts. Up against songs destined to be rock classics like "Born To Be Wild," "Journey To
The Center Of The Mind," and "Sky Pilot," the Fever Tree's "San Francisco Girls" nevertheless offered a unique psychedelic sound never before heard nor ever since. Beautiful and trippy, this song may well have been the very first foray into "trance music" ... you could achieve a state of euphoria just listening to it. I know I certainly did. It should have been on the Top 10 in my opinion.
Although the song is about the girls of San Francisco during the years 1967 and 1968, the lyrical narrative seems to be about a guy breaking up with his girlfriend because he is sick of their lifestyle and wants to get back to the simplicity and good times in The Bay area. I have always been too focused on the music to notice this fact, but it would explain why the song is subtitled "Return Of The Native."
It is indeed the music this excellent psychedelic masterpiece should be remembered for. Various clips of film footage are from San Francisco during 1967, 1968, and 1969. As to the photos, although a few of the young women appearing in this video are actually Boho-chic fashion models (for transition effect), most are images from 1967-69.
i had totally forgot about this song. i grew up in the san francisco bay area in the 60s. great times with great great music. wish i could go back to those fabulous days with so many friends and great times. the times were so different than they are now back then. im 73 now and still being groovy. AGE IS ONLY A NUMBER. ☮ ✌ 🌼
This song just elicits such wonderful emotions for me of a wonderful time so long ago and far away. How I wish I could relive those years once again listening to San Francisco girls.
I know what you mean... I feel they same way, even though I was only 14. Thanks.
Do it
I was a kid too. I loved this song. I remember it on am radio playing in my parents kitchen. Life was really good then.
Thank you for remembering and your reply. Yes, life was good then because we were young. The songs were also great. Where did the time go? I'm 70 now. I wish I could relive it all over again! Is that really your picture from back then? You have a great smile! @@Hiwynds
@@ReneDelPradosame here OMG 😳🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 but we're All still the youngest we're ever going to be right now 💥 frikin let's go peeps 💙 fever tree and incense and peppermints forever 💥💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Being native SF guy who was 15 when this came out, to many of us this was THE definitive hippie song that really touched the psychedelic sound..The flutes, the words, the guitars, the ending especially..
Over here on the other coast I never saw anyone who didn't get into this song when it played on the beach pavilion jukebox ... and it got played a LOT. I was 14. I doubt most of us read Cash Box or Billboard in the summer of 1968, lol. Thanks for commenting.
Very nice place to grow up!
Lots of fun to have ☮️❤️😊
@@jimfladwood4393 it sure was..harsh at times, but wouldn't trade it for the world.
I remember studying to get into Med School in '68-'69. Headphones, Moody Blues, Fever Tree, Emmerson Lake and Palmer... Great music from a bye-gone era.
"San Francisco Girls" meant so much to me when I listened to it in 1968! I was serving in the U.S. Air Force. I grew up in Millbrae, 15 miles south of San Francisco. Loved San Francisco girls. Thank you for posting it!
You're so welcome! This song is almost the first one I think of when I think of psychedelic music in 1968! One of the very best, should have charted high!
My second cousin played bass in this Houston band. Great guy! And talented.
As far as I am concerned, he was then a member of one of the greatest psychedelic rock groups of all time. They never got the recognition they deserved. Neither did It's A Beautiful Day or Gale Garnett & The Gentle Reign.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 I cannot disagree. But I am biased with him being family. I will let him know you said that about them.
He is a really good, hard working man. And has always been good to me which I don’t deserve.
I REMEMBER WHEN SCOTT AND VIVIAN HOLTZMAN WERE ON 100 FM RADIO IN HOUSTON
Everyone has their very own views and epitome of that psychedelic era. This one is my epitome, my little island of paradise. How it still transcends into grandiose plains of existence, forever to be immortalized in the grandest way imaginable.
I was only 14 when I first heard this song in late spring or summer 1968, but it grabbed me, and I couldn't hear it enough. Not many psychedelic songs had so large an impact on me as this one, although there certainly were some others. Many I would discover via FM radio later on in 1969, like Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 I know what you mean. Hard to believe that 57 years it still moves me like back then !
@@dekrue2009 Hi Dale! When I do old songs, besides the newer ones I also do, it is these kinds of songs I go for, the ones that still have impact on me today (or at least at the time I made the video). I have tons of oldies, but only maybe 10% of them I feel are worth turning into music videos.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 I will definitely keep your videos on my radar. I love watching great old stuff, especially from the Psychedelic era. Nice meeting ya Mike and good luck !!
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Hey MIke. Are you on Facebook at all? It'd be nice to share music likes I have a very diverse knowledge of more of the classic rock. D
What an era that was!!! ;-)
Wish San Francisco was still San Francisco
I agree. San Francisco today is a shadow of it's former self. I used to live there. Such a beautiful place! But now it's a city in decline. So sad.
Yeah, minority groups trashed it.
Great late ‘60s Texas psych rock band.
I saw them a dozen times in ‘67 & ‘68, they were great live too!
I think they were the first guys I ever saw with really long hair!
All so talented, Dennis Keller’s voice was fantastic!
Get their first album, a masterpiece!
Great era of music,such a wonderful band and great time. I miss the era.
Neat people having a wonderful time 🌙☮️
It was so brief a period, yet at the time it seemed to go on forever. Even if the music wasn't always "beautiful" (in the pop standard sense), it was innovative and a blast to listen to. Nothing like it before or after.
I was 18 in 68' and this song realy was big.......today is the first time in ohhh who know's how many years that i have heard this WOW
I opened a gig with them at the Astro Hall in 1968. Iron Butterfly was there too.
Sounds like it was a fabulous lineup. I saw some great concerts in my life, some great groups, but should have seen a lot more than I did.
Had me at "out there, it's summertime".
This song will always be summer to me. Thanks.
If summertime is 60 degrees.
Be sure to wear flowers in your hair
Beautiful sound
I miss it so very much ☮️✌️❤️ what a blessing
Yep. Brings tears to my eyes when I listen to it now in my 70's.
@@ReneDelPrado It was a wonderful time to be young!
It probably won’t happen again. Thank you for the post ☮️❤️
Outstanding video footage for an incredible song of the hippy Frisco area!!!!!
Thanks! This has always been one of my favorite early videos using documentary and dance footage, doing it taught me how to make some of my later videos ... as well as this song by Fever Tree being one of my fav psychedelic tunes of the late 60's. The guy who stocked the jukebox at that time did us all a big favor as this was not getting any radio airplay around here.
One of the quintessential SF sound songs. Fantastic arrangement. Pushing new sounds in interesting directions. Taping into the sensuality of Love Generstion. Still sounds cutting edge today.
Thanks for listening!
This song elicits such deep emotion & a longing that can't be understood on this mundane level...I spent a lot of time trying to track it down pre internet, just to listen to it again.. It is worth experiencing if you haven't yet. Love, luck, & blessings
I agree about the emotional level this song has besides being a great psychedelic classic. It is one of the more positive ties I have to those times along with possibly Jose Feliciano's "Light My Fire."
Absolutely fantastic song-love it!!
great Fever Tree Mike..super era for music..big like.. j/b.
Thanks so much! It should've charted higher, lol .. but now it's a classic anyway in spite of that!
This song was quite frequently played on the local Top 40 station in Burlington, Vt., when I lived there in '69-'70 (which prompted me to buy the album). The single must have had a second life on the East Coast, a couple of years after it was released.
I'm not sure about post 1970, but I first heard the single in summer 1968. maybe spring and summer, when the guy who owned the campgrounds we used to camp at, with a large artificial lake and lots of sandy beach, loaded it into the jukebox he kept in a pavilion we kids used to flock to smoke cigarettes and mix with the girls, sitting on picnic benches he set up for people to sit on. This song got a lot of play that year. So did "Sky Pilot" by Eric Burdon. I plunked a lot of coins into that machine over the years, until 1975.
Nicely done Mike video really brings out the song.....
Thanks! It was an early vid, but one I worked hard on to try to do exactly that. Glad it worked out ... I consider it one of the best psychedelic songs of the period.
Used to sneak out at night and play the FT album on his car stereo in his 68 Cameron with the best 8 track stereo offered. Love "Where do you go", "Come with me (so beautiful), Imatation Situation", etc
The album is here on RUclips, try it!
Great talent there.
Although I was only 13 years old in 1968, I remember the song well and this video brings back a lot of memories of how things were, especially fashion.
Same here, great memories. I was 14, sometimes seems like only yesterday, so strange. It is true, life is too short and the days that go into each year are really not all that many.
Thank you Ross English for turning me on to this band!
This was one of the better Texas bands that did well nationally. There were a bunch of good rock bands from Texas back then. I think "Girl Don't Push Me " did well too.
The Yardbirds would have created an all time EPIC with this riff...
I think you're right. I wonder if they heard this song and enjoyed it?
When I listen to this I’m 13. I’m 68 when I don’t.
Hi Mike, I’m so glad to have bumped into your new channel. I didn’t know you were bounced from YT. (I got hit by em too) but obviously I m back). I don’t upload videos, I just enjoy quality content like yours. I’m very glad you are back sir!
Thanks Allen, welcome back!
Thanks Mike been waiting for this to come back
It seems to becoming very popular again. I'm glad. Thanks so much for the comment.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 it's my favourite video on RUclips thanks again
this truly is one of your best...
Thanks so much!
The guitarist's tone is a dead-ringer for the legendary Robert Fripp - but this song came out well before the debut King Crimson album did. Wonder if RF ever heard it?
I'm sure Fripp didn't emerge in a vacuum. He may well have heard this and other work that paralleled his own musical preferences, especially as early as 1967-68. Fever Tree had a distinctly unique sound, even for the psychedelic era. The entire album is that way, actually. Lucky for us that there were disc jockeys who liked their sound and this song in particular even though it did not chart well nationally.
Cracking song 👍
Good times !
Yes it was!
I was stationed there when this came out..! Height and Ashbury was over but there was still… Happening!
I've never been on the West Coast.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 WHAT? Now THAT’s a surprise.
Bitchin'...KOO-OOL!! LOVE THIS...Wish this period never had to end...'cept the 'effing war...(sob...)
I agree. One of several periods I wish could have went on forever (I liked the late 70's/early 80's too, for example). Oddly enough though, it was because of the war that the times were the way they were. And that was bad for the people forced to go over and fight it. When it came to an end, so did the times.
Milk and Honey 🍯 days!☮️❤️✌️
Whenever I came home to Portland, I would request this on KINK. Everybody knew I was home.
There wouldn't have been too many other requests as memorable as this one. But that's how I remember it on WNIA.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 at the time, this was never played anymore. DJ said it was on storage in the basement. I always made a special effort to get it played.
@@solarguy1702 I see what you mean. By summer '69 the songs of summer '68 were already becoming a fuzzy memory (thanks to the radio jocks and record producers). But today with hindsight we can see what a mistake that was.
Im feeling fever
Those final notes, I don't know how they made them, still play games with my head. Magnified on jukebox speakers, I think we all fell into a trance. This was a psychedelic experience without needing drugs.
I remember seeing this video a long time ago with a bunch of comments. Has it been reissued? It's a terrific song and video. 👍👍👍
Thanks! I uploaded this video (my video) back in late 2013 on my last channel, MUNROWS RETRO, and, for the most part of the time, it was viewable until my channel was terminated in August 2019. There were a few times during those 6 years it got blocked worldwide, but only for a few months and then unblocked. After I lost my channel in 2019, I uploaded it at my account at Vimeo (where it still is). Now that I am back at RUclips with a new channel since November 2021, I re-uploaded the video here again.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Sounds like a long road to get it back up. After all of this time, I came back to it. Glad you got it back up. 👍👍👍
What's happening , life chips away at all of us, but man it's hard to have had our greatest moments seem to w and have the companies, internet, things like that tell me to put new things on, I say flick on the radio .
Sorry I'm a bit censored .. But I don't care,. I think what's been said to me, the web and such . What's a web but to entangle you. Get free and be free .
I'd be happy to go back to the way things were in the late 60's and 70's, but it would have to be a level playing field for everybody. It could never be the same if a large minority or majority were still using PCs or smart phones and getting on the Internet. Back then, those things did not exist so we were all on the same playing field.
I think that would work better for people who are just users of the web. It is harder for those of us who are artists and need the computer tech and the net to thrive. Being free in my case would mean relearning how to play guitar and writing poetry again for small press mags.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973boo whoo
At some parts of it, it Sounds like the song Liar, Liar.
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Mini skirts.
Everything culturally happening now in 2024 can be traced to that time as the trigger.
The 60's had a long reach, but it goes even deeper ... we seem to have come full circle back to those times in some ways, but without the more utopian outlook. No hippies, just a bunch of dystopian morons.
Yeah. My perspective on that time: It was a great ride, but we were duped big time.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Yeah. My perspective on the time: It was a great ride but we were duped big time.
This music with some nice strain of weed yeah.
Spent my 1960's time in Los Angeles, it was better than Frisco!