Love, Peace & Flower Power by Coco Beach is a selection of all 60’s and 70’s most popular songs that brought our best memories back and we love it. CD1 starts with the gentle pop melody written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas and made world-class by one of the singer, Scott McKenzie; “San Francisco – Be Sure to Wear Flowers In Your Hair” that is one of the best-selling singles of the 1960s. It is followed by Dusty Springfield “Son Of A Preacher Man”, Joe South -“Games People Play”, The Guess Who “American Woman”, Small Faces “Lazy Sunday”, The Fifth Dimension “Aquarius Let the Sunshine In” (The Flesh Failures), The Animals “House Of The Rising Sun”. But it won’t be complete without Janis Joplin legendary “Mercedes Benz”, registered on October 1st 1970, 2 days before her death at the Sunset Sound recording studio in Los Angeles when she asked producer Paul Rothchild to roll tape because she has a song she’d like to sing and that’s it. Let’s go on now with Fleetwood Mac “Albatross” and Humble Pie “Natural Born Bugie.”
Now you can feel the simple beauty of The Moody Blues “Nights In White Satin” song and be transported to the thoughts of an old lover, before listening to Melanie “Ruby Tuesday”. The next one “Like a Rolling Stone” was released in 45 singles on July 20, 1965. Despite its length, twice the maximum recommended by the radios at the time, it became Dylan’s greatest hit so far, remaining in the charts Americans for three months and reaching second place behind Help! of the Beatles. “Like a Rolling Stone” transformed Dylan’s image from folk singer to rock star, and is considered one of the most influential compositions in postwar popular music. At an auction in 2014, Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to the song fetched $2 million, a world record for a popular music manuscript.
And we go on with The Easybeats “Friday On My Mind”, Albert Hammond “It Never Rains in Southern California”, Santana “Samba Pa Ti”, Eric Burdon & The Animals “San Franciscan Nights”, and before ending this so perfect collection, if you’re not already singing, it’s time to start with the famous lyrics “How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man…” and the warmth of the voice of Joan Baez featuring “Blowin’ In The Wind”, Norman Greenbaum “Spirit In The Sky”, Donovan “Atlantis” definitely ends this first CD.
CD2 by far surpasses the expectations featuring the hippie wave and the summer of love best songs starting with The Lovin’ Spoonful “Summer In The City” and Pete Seeger “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?”. To talk a little about Simon & Garfunkel “Mrs. Robinson” that was completed in 1968, and released some months after the film The Graduate, there is a special history running around after Paul Simon and the producer. Because of the character in the picture they just began using the name ‘Mrs. Robinson’ to fit and one day while they were sitting around talking about ideas for another song. Art Garfunkel said « What about Mrs. Robinson? », and Mike shot to his feet. ‘You have a song called “Mrs. Robinson” and you haven’t even shown it to me?’ So they explained the working title and sang it for him. And then Mike froze it for the picture as ‘Mrs. Robinson’.
Some other famous follow like The Flowerpot Men “Let’s Go To San Francisco”, The Byrds “Mr. Tambourine Man”, Procol Harum “A Whiter Shade Of Pale”, The Beach Boys “Good Vibrations”, Marmalade “Reflections Of My Life”, The Kinks “Lola”, The Lemon Pipers “Green Tambourine”, The Monkees “I’m A Believer”, Barry McGuire “Eve Of Destruction”, Sonny & Cher “I Got You Babe”, The Spencer Davis Group “Keep On Running”, The Tremeloes “Silence Is Golden”, Vanity Fare “Hitchin’ A Ride”, The Walker Brothers “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”, Zager & Evans “In the Year 2525”, The Mamas & The Papas “Monday, Monday”, Ten Years After “I’m Going Home”.
