Never been to San Francisco or the Usa, but everyone from the 60's and 70's knows how important It was to the Hippy Movement. A magical time when Young people was trying to find out to live a Life of Peace and Love and convey this beautiful message Worldwide. Greetings from Brazil
Monterey, when i was young, help me girl house of the rising sun, dont let me be misunderstood, sky pilot,that aint where its at, we gotta get out of this place, its my life, spill the wine eric burdon and war. Alot of good memories!
One of the purposes of art is to record the present time in which the artist resides. It usually applies to art as in painting/drawing, however in this case Eric Burden is a painter. His genius lyrics and sound captured the City that was the Capital of the Flower Power era of the 60's. An incredibly important time in our history recorded for posterity.Thank you Eric!
On a cool Salinas night Eric B and the Animals performed this song for the first time at the Monterrey Pop Festival. Friday night they sang as the fog slowly rolled in. Chills, freedom for this 16 year old. 50 + years ago, still can feel the cool air on my skin.
I know it's natural for the next generation to make their own music. And it's natural for each generation to hold their own music as the best. But dammit, the music of this era truly is greater than most. I wouldn't condemn the young for having their own style, but I certainly would welcome a retro movement that valued musicians that put music to poetry over dancers that lip-sync to computerized sound. Lets all hope for a comeback.
This song takes me back to the summer of 1967 I was living in Rancho Cordova, California and I was 12 years old my dad would always take us San Francisco on the weekends my dad loves that city.
These old songs are in my head all the time they are my comfort because inside my head is where I stay a lot it is my only comfort zone without these old songs I would not still be here peace and God bless to yesterday ! Yesterday where has it gone!? Peace and God bless to everyone it'll never die in here with me!!! Do you
should see what George Harrison wrote about San Francisco and the flower children when he and wife Pattie visited expecting to find some utopian society. It shows you it wasn't it all cracked up to be even then.
The prologue is based upon a popular TV show opening theme. The song is about the divide between the young counterculture of San Francisco and the strict adult parenting/law enforcement. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nx5GwULPU90.html One should also compare this Animals song with San Francisco(Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) - sung by Scott McKenzie. The timing of thes had a lot to do with the Monterey Pop Festival that may have been more influential on the culture than Woodstock, two years later.
I heard this song first time as a (german) boy of 8 years and fell in love to the song. 42 years later I fell in love to my american wife in San Francisco.
Non li ascoltavo da tantissimi anni ma appena li ho sentiti ho ricordato la magia di questi musicisti....davvero bravi, Eric ha una voce speciale, inconfondibile ,davvero emozionante
lams morales I'm sure glad I was in there and I'm sorry about my opinions I no I'm not I'm still up in your native that was back then and I have still today and I won't back down if you don't like me turn your head and walk away don't judge a book by its cover
Hilton Valentine, the original lead guitarist for The Animals, passed away in Connecticut on January 29th, 2021. He was 77 years old... Between 1964 and 1983 the British band had nineteen records on Billboard's Top 100 chart, three made the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "The House of The Rising Sun", for three weeks in August of 1964... Besides "The House of The Rising Sun", their other two Top 10 records were "See See Rider" at #10 for two weeks in October of 1966 and "San Franciscan Nights" at #9 for one week in September of 1967... The Animals were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994... May he R.I.P.
I have a wonderful childhood memory of my father (who was part of the Peace-Love Generation) singing to this song while we riding were in the car together. I had never heard him sing a song before in my life, and never heard him sing once since, which is why this song is special to me.
This is why I don't typically post personal sentiments in RU-vid discussions. There's always some asshole troll that has to come along and piss on it. Notice that that this piece of shit never asked if my father went to Vietnam. He just assumed he didn't because he liked a song. Rather than take out his anger on the government that sent him over there, and did little to support him when he came back, he would rather attack people who didn't think he should have been sent there in the first place. Same shit, another decade.
Feel all right. San Francisco is the HOUR as it was in the Summer of Love. Thank you, Eric Burdon and the Animals. Let's spread to everywhere the 'feel all right.'
When this song came out it inspired my friends and I to take a road trip up to the Bay area from our homes in So Cal back in the day. It was a revelation.
I use to live Alameda just across the bay from San Francisco where I had a super view of the bay bridge and the skyline of this great city. I grew up in Colorado Springs Colorado as a teenager during the British Invasion. I was 11 years old when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show and shortly the British Invasion of music. As a small child I visited San Francisco with my parents and loved this city from then on. When I heard this song for first time in the dead of winter there in Colorado I sure wished I was there when I heard the part of the song on a warm San Franciscan night I wished I was there being in on all of the fun that was happening there. While in the navy I got stationed at NAS Alameda just across the bay and lived there as a civilian for 10 years and more less lived alot of the fun that city has to offer but however the warm San Franciscan nights were few and far between. Most of the time it was cold and chilly and had to dress warm but none the less I had great times there since there is so much to do in this great city. I know every hill and street. There are some steep grades where the sidewalks are steps the city where you can climb a street. San Francisco has a tempo all of its own. A city that never sleeps and a rolling national monument namely rhe Cable Car System which to the locals it's just part of the transit system but to visitors it's a very unique attraction. Love this great city no other one like it.
Once Lived in San Francisco, Pacific Heights district, Later, on Van Ness. What a wonderful place to spend one's life. The people are unlike anywhere in the world.
Ha!!! I remember this song!! I was 10 years old....way over on the East Coast....hearing this through the earbud attached to the transistor radio hidden under my pillow on school nights!!! Maaaaaan.....I heard some GREAT stuff coming over that little AM radio from across the country at night....rocked my little 10 year old soul....and it STILL does. We had it sooooooo good with our music in the 60s & 70s :-)
I grew up in the North Bay area and I remember this song when it was released. The local nightly tv news showed a video to go with it. Just scenes of San Francisco while the song played over the visuals. I don't know if the station created the video or if the record company did but it was a nice one.
none of your damn business hip hop don't hold a candle stick to Eric Burdon ..all they do is remake all the good old songs with a hip hop beat and change the words and when there not doing that all there talking about is banging some hoes
@@alexandrathrift4241 how long did you look before you found misspelled word? He made his point, then you troll along and say absolutely nothing about music.
Born & Raised In The City. Am Approaching 8 Decades & Still Love The City Of SF. Even though I live in Portland these days You never forget your Roots. ;)
This s one of the songs that brought me to san Francisco, Haight ashbury I Am 66 yrs old now but I was in the middle of it at a really good time in hiistory
Peace Love & Drugs, Flower Children. Watched them dance on family picnic outings at the park. VW buses, Born To Be Wild blairing, me 8yrs old taking this in :)
29 years old, Hawaii resident, dont let me be misunderstood though. Pop turned me on to this 2 years after I bought him and mom tickets to see Eric Burdon live. Can't believe of all the good times that I've wasted having good times listening to other stuff and always passed this gem up... When I was young, I guess I never fully dived into anything thoroughly enough. I guess It's my life...
i was a baby in highschool at the time of this song,but the tenderness appealed to me somehow...still does...oh how wonderful, wonderfilled was the times, despite the craziness...thank you Laysa Damaris for your efforts &you tube
I never felt like the second version of the Animals with Weider, McCullogh, Briggs and Jenkins ever got their due. I have a ten CD changer in my car and "The Twain Shall Meet" has been in the rotation for three years cause I never get tired of it.
Eric and The Animals. I had no idea this was their song. Yes, I could not live there, but San Francisco is a beautiful City by The Bay. Worth at minimum 3 days of touring. Nice song about a beautiful City
A los 6 años, mi papá me regaló un tocadiscos portátil de color crema y amarillo, y con él dos discos de 45 rpm. Cada disco tenía dos canciones. En uno estaba esta canción y era la que más me gustaba. En el otro estaba "Flowers in your hair"... Los ponía una y otra vez, especialmente los sábados en la mañana. Deambulaba descalza por toda la casa con mi tocadiscos en la cabeza. Que bonito era...
