The Summer of Love
The program for September 23, 2017, offered a range of music dating from around the Summer of Love, fifty years ago.
First hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| Joan Baez | Of the Dark Past | Baptism (Vanguard) |
| Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth | Down So Low | The Best of... (Reprise) |
| Joni Mitchell | I Had a King | Song to a Seagull (Reprise) |
| Styx River Ferry | Seven Bridges Road | Live in San Francisco 1966 (Westmill) |
| Allen Cohen* | (spoken snippet) | (online) |
| New Set | ||
| Unidentified KMPX DJ | (snippet from 1967) | (online) |
| Fred Neil | Other Side to This Life | Bleeker and MacDougal (Collector’s Choice) |
| Otis Redding | (Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay | The Dock of the Bay (Atlantic) |
| Lenore Kandel | (poem, live at Winterland, November 1976) | (online) |
| Michael McClure | (sung poem, live at the Human Be-In) | (online) |
| Tracy Nelson and Mother Earth | Revolution | (single, United Artists) |
| The Charlatans | When I Go Sailin’ By | The Charlatans (Philips) |
| The Youngbloods | Grizzly Bear | The Youngbloods (RCA) |
| Music Under Announcements | ||
| Alicia Bay Laurel and Ramón Sender Barayón | Zither Meditation | Songs for Being of the Sun (s/p) |
| Frumious Bandersnatch | You Gotta Believe | A Young Man’s Song (Big Beat) |
| Mad River | High All the Time | Mad River (Capitol) |
| The Golden Dawn | Starvation | Power Planet (International Artists) |
| The 13th Floor Elevators | Levitation | Easter Everywhere (Charly) |
| Grace Slick and the Great Society | Somebody to Love | Collector’s Item (Columbia) |
| Hour Break: Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg chanting at the Human Be-In | ||
Second hour:
| Artist | Song Title | Album (Label) |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Donahue with Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh | (snippets from KMPX, April 1, 1967) | (online) |
| Grateful Dead | Cold Rain and Snow | Grateful Dead (WB/Rhino) |
| Jefferson Airplane | The Other Side of This Life | Bless Its Little Pointed Head (RCA/BMG) |
| New Set | ||
| The Ace of Cups** | Waller Street Blues | It’s Bad for You but Buy It (Big Beat) |
| Big Brother & the Holding Company Featuring Janis Joplin | All Is Loneliness | Big Brother & the Holding Company (Mainstream) |
| Country Joe & the Fish | Bass Strings | Nuggets from the Golden State: the Berkeley EPs (Big Beat) |
| New Set | ||
| Ken Kesey | (snippet) | the movie Long Strange Trip (Amir Bar-Lev, Director) |
| Jefferson Airplane | Watch Her Ride | After Bathing at Baxter’s (RCA/BMG) |
| Quicksilver Messenger Service | Light Your Window | Quicksilver Messenger Service (Capitol) |
| New Set | ||
| Wavy Gravy and the Ace of Cups | Basic Human Needs | (promo) |
| Lowell Levinger (Banana) | Hippie from Olema | Get Together: Banana Recalls Youngbloods Classics (Grandpa Racoon) |
| New Set | ||
| Gary Snyder and Alan Watts | (snippets from the Houseboat Summit, February 1967, which also included Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg) | (online) |
| Diane di Prima | Revolutionary Letter #19 | (online) |
| The Incredible String Band | Way Back in the 1960s | The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (Hannibal) |
| Sopwith Camel | Hello Hello | Sopwith Camel (Kama Sutra) |
| Kaleidoscope | Keep Your Mind Open | Pulsating Dreams (Floating World) |
| (faded under outro) Alicia Bay Laurel | Waterwheel; Sky Blues | Music from Living on the Earth (s/p) |
A few good books I read for background:
Peter Coyote, Sleeping Where I Fall 3/e, Counterpoint, 2015
Stephen Gaskin, Monday Night Class, Revised & Annotated Edition, Book Publishing Company, 2005
Danny Goldberg, In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea, Akashic Books, 2017
Margaret Grundstein, Naked in the Woods: My Unexpected Years in a Hippie Commune, Oregon State University Press, 2015
Lenore Kandel, Collected Poems, North Atlantic, 2012
Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture, University Press of Kansas, 2009
William Schnabel, Summer of Love and Haight, Le Diable Ermite, 2016
Abby Wasserman, “Sonoma’s Summer of Love,” Sonoma Magazine, July/August 2017
Michael Watts, Cal Winslow, Iain Boal, et al., West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California, PM Press, 2012
*Editor, San Francisco Oracle, during its heyday. The remarkable artist Michael Bowen was its art director. He was also the main organizer of the Human Be-In. The entire run of the Oracle is available in paperback and as a CD-ROM.
**Of the members of the Ace of Cups, Denise Kaufman has a striking web site of her own now.