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The Flowerpot Men – Let’s Go To San Francisco
1967, UK-Charts #4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4KylcQK9GU&

Ein Psych-Pop-Nugget und The Beach Boys-Pastiche, das viel zu unbekannt und beispielsweise dem anderen San-Francisco-Hippie-Song von Scott McKenzie deutlich überlegen ist.

Fun Fact 1: “later lampooned in the fake rock documentary This Is Spinal Tap, whose fictional first hit was called „(Listen to the) Flower People“, a reference to „Let’s Go to San Francisco“” der Flower Pot Men.

Fun Fact 2: “The name The Flower Pot Men was derived from the BBC children’s show Flower Pot Men, with the obvious psychedelic era puns on flower power and „pot“ (cannabis). In the US, they were commonly deemed The Flower Men on radio airplay to avoid the drug reference.”

Das obige Video stammt übrigens aus der deutschen Sendung Beat-Club von 1967.