Flower power music suggestions please!

The usual suspects?

The Move - Flowers in the Rain
Scott McKenzie- San Francisco (flowers in your hair)
Flowerpot Men - Let's Go To San Francisco

Thanks Analyst, I forgot to add: any hippy type music classics too?

Oh lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin

"My friends all have Porsches, I must make amends"

(Clearly, they don't work as DJ's then)


A good source of hippy music would be the Woodstock collection,

OOoooooohhhh, Alvin Lee and Ten Years After - I'm Going Home

Traffic - Hole In My Shoe
Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Kites
Lemon Pipers - Green Tamborine
Gary Pucket - Young Girl
Jackie - White Horses - Well it was at the same time - LOL

Bob Dylan Tracks
The Grateful Dead
Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire
San Francisco (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair ) - Scott McKenzie
Living in the past - Jethro Tull
Jimi Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane
Crosby, Stills, Nash (& Young)

There's the old adage 'If you can remember the 60s you weren't there' so here's my suggestions............










OK - well I was very young

Build Me Up Buttercup was not only a 60s song but mentions a flower as well so it must count

The Beatles went through a hippy/ peace stage which was the end of them with realy, as a known band Sergent Pepper album was released with things like Yellow Submarine etc.. Woman came from John Lennon and Yoko.
As for flower power Let's to Sanfransisco, Flowers in the rain, Calfornia dreaming where the most popular tunes of the day then.
This was the start of Glastonebury as well but cant think what came out of that at present, other than Jethro Tull, Tiny Tim etc. There where groups around like Small faces, Marc Boland etc who where taking pop into another dimention.

"The Sixties Summer of Love" double CD ( if still available )contains some useful stuff and if the CBS collections "Fill Your Head With Rock" are available, they're good too.

Otherwise The Byrds, Love, Doors, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Country Joe & The Fish, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, Canned Heat, Santana, Spirit, Moby Grape, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Electric Flag, Blood Sweat & Tears, Al Kooper, Chicago, Mike Bloomfield, Pacific Gas & Electric, Leonard Cohen, Arlo Guthrie, Steppenwolf, The Band and Johnny Winter are all relevant.

5th Dimension - Aquarius (Let the sunshine)

Zager evans - 25 25
Crispian St Peters - Pied piper
David garrick - Lady Jane
Donovan - Colours
Foundation - Baby Now That I Have Found You
Harpers Bizzare - 59th St Bridge Song (Feelin Groovy)
Humble Pie - Natural born boogie
It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird
Ivy League - Funny How love can Be
Jim Groce - Time in a bottle
Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine
Mama Cass - It's getting Better
Moody blues - Go Now
Procul Harlem - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Scott McKenzie - San Fransico
Small faces - Itchycoo Park
The Edwin Hawkers singers - Oh Happy Day
The Move - Flowers in the Rain
Some Are not quite 'Hippy' but would be acceptable
Jimbo

Traffic - Paper sun
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
the Byrds - 8 miles high
Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth
Cream - Sunshine of your love
Hendrix - almost anything he did
Chambers Brothers - Time has come today
Jellybean Bandits - Generation
the Monkees - Porpoise song
the Beatles - Here there & everywhere
Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to love

Thought of some more:

Donovan - Sunshine Superman
the Zombies - The time of the season
C S & N - Marakesh express
the Move - I can hear the grass grow
the Smoke - My friend Jack
Pink Floyd - Intersteller overdrive
the Yardbirds - For your love
Spirit - I've got a line on you
Sonny & Cher - the beat goes on
Mamas & Papas - Creeqe alley
The Doors - Waiting for the sun

& not realy from the flower power era but orever associated with it:
the Animals - House of the rising sun

Eric Burdon & The Animals " San Franciscan Nights" could be added plus anything by The Mothers of Invention.

A lot depends on how "authentic" you want to get.

That's a wicked selection, many thanks to you all.

Tip: If you should get any die hard fans who try to catch you out about who played at Woodstock, look it up on Wikipedia.

A poignant addition

Love - Alone again or

RIP Arthur

I agree with corrabar pete
r.i.p arthur lee
seven and seven is
or little red book

Gig's over! Thaks for all the input

And the gig didnt require any flower power music