::: The Summer of Love :::

”The Summer of Love“ actually was the summer of 1967 – but basically started with the beginning of 1966 and ended in August 1969 with the Woodstock Festival.

Cass Elliott of the Mamas and Papas in a bed of flowers – a double page advertisement from the US magazine Billboard and very typical for the flower-power era.

Before her time with The Mamas and Papas Cass Elliott was the voice of The Big Three (not to confound with the British band of the same name) and The Mugwumps. Other members of this band were Denny Doherty (Mamas and Papas lateron) and Zal Yanovsky (The Lovin′ Spoonful).

The Hippie-movement started in Haight Ashbury, a quarter of San Francisco. In the middle of the 1960s this Californian city was subject for many songs – for example of Scott McKenzie and Eric Burdon (the Billboard Magazine advertised for the songs with the posters above) or the British Flower Pot Men with Neil Landon.

The stepping stone for a lot of bands of the Frisco-scene was the Fillmore concert hall opened 1965 by Bill Graham, followed 1968 by the Fillmore East in New York. Both locations closed 1971.

A central figure in flower power music was John Philips. For Scott McKenzie with whom he played together for ”The Journeymen“ he wrote the song ”San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)“, he was the head of The Mamas and the Papas (their ”California Dreamin′“ was the reason for many young Americans to leave home for the westcoast) and lateron he recorded solo lps, e.g. the one above, ”Wolfking from L.A.“, has been released in 1970.

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