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| Sales Rank: | 4220 (lower is better) |
| Price Used: | $31.50 |
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| Release Date: | 2007-09-18 |
| Label: | Rhino Records |
| UPC: | 081227998301 |
| Binding: | Audio CD |
| Published By: | Rhino Records |
| ASIN: | B000PHX0VE |
| Category: | Music |
Tracks on Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 by Rhino Records
- Let's Get Together - Dino Valenti
- I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag - McDonald, Country J
- You Were on My Mind - Fricker, Sylvia
- Number One - Wilhelm, Michael
- Can't Come Down - Garcia, Jerry
- Don't Talk to Strangers - Elliott, Ron
- Anything - The Vejtables
- It's No Secret - Balin, Marty
- Johnny Was a Good Boy - Nagle, Ron
- Free Advice - Slick, Darby
- Mr Jones (A Ballad of a Thin Man) - Dylan, Bob
- Stranger in a Strange Land - Omar, Samuel F.
- Who Do You Love - McDaniel, Elias
- She's My Baby - Stewart, Sly
- Coffee Cup - Ehret, Stephen
- Live Your Own Life - Segarini, Bob
- Fat City - Moitoza, Rob
- Human Money - Miller, Jerry
- Bye Bye Bye - Templeman, Ted
- Section 43 - McDonald, Country J
- Hello Hello - Kraemer, Peter
- Psychotic Reaction - Atkinson, Craig
- Got Love - Lanigan, Jim
- Satisfaction Guaranteed - Keefer, Rick
- Foolish Woman - Yoder, Gary
- My Buddy Sin - McPherson, Jim
- Streetcar - Battey, Marty
- Suzy Creamcheese - Conway, Dave
- Rubiyat - Kovacs, Kriss
- Rumors - Sharkey, John
- Sometimes I Wonder - Hockstaff, Jim
- Want Ad Reader - Floegel, Ron
- I'm a Good Woman - Ozen, Barbara
- No Way Out - The Chocolate Watchband
- Hey I'm Lost - Butch Engle & The Styx
- I Love You - White, Chris
- America - Houston, David
- Fly to New York - Baron, Bill
- Thing in "E" - Palmer, John
- Hearts to Cry - King, Jack
- Alabama Bound - Traditional
- Carl Street - Nagle, Ron
- Somebody to Love - Slick, Darby
- Superbird - McDonald, Country J
- Two Days 'Til Tomorrow - Elliott, Ron
- Omaha - Spence, Skip
- Up & Down - Meltzer, David
- The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) - Garcia, Jerry
- Codine - Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Down on Me - Traditional
- Think Twice - Tate, Joe
- White Rabbit - Slick, Grace
- Roll with It - Miller, Steve
- Why Did You Put Me On - Mandell, Mark
- Underdog - Stewart, Sly
- Summertime Blues - Cochran, Eddie
- Glue - Kaufman, Denise
- Soul Sacrifice - Brown, David
- The Bells - Marks, Rose
- Evil Ways - Henry, Sonny
- Red the Sign Post - Roswicky, Ted
- Lemonaide Kid - Yoder, Gary
- 1982-A - Tollestrup, Steven
- How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away - Hicks, Dan
- Amphetamine Gazelle - Hammond, Lawrence
- Quicksilver Girl - Miller, Steve
- Revolution - Martin, Norman
- Murder in My Heart for the Judge - Miller, Jerry
- Light Your Windows - Duncan, Gary
- I'm Drowning - Loney, Roy
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lady - Gregory, John
- White Bird - LaFlamme, David
- Dark Star - Garcia, Jerry
- Fool - Yoder, Gary
- Mexico - Slick, Grace
- Mercedes Benz - Joplin, Janis
- Get Together - Powers, Chester
Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions
Album Description
Rhino's Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 4-CD Box Set Celebrates The 40th Anniversary Of "The Summer Of Love" Forty years ago the world turned its ears toward San Francisco as a wave of talented bands gave birth to the American counterculture. On August 27, Rhino remembers that magical confluence of time and place with LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970, a 4-CD box set of classics and rarities from the golden age of Golden State rock. SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS is the last word on one of popular music's defining regional scenes -- though as scenes go, the music it produced is remarkably diverse. The 77 tracks heard here share little beyond an artistic adventurousness long encouraged in the City by the Bay (which was a magnet for free thinkers from the days of the Beats. Seismic Rumbles, as the first CD of SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS is subtitled, maps the fault lines separating the pop sounds of the early 1960s from more adventurous rock inspired by the arrival of The Beatles and Bob Dylan. By mid-decade, most of the pieces were in place for what would soon be called "The San Francisco Sound," and Disc 1 features the pre-Grateful Dead group The Warlocks, the original line-up of the Jefferson Airplane, a pre-hit Grass Roots, influential existentialists The Charlatans, and Country Joe & The Fish posing that timeless question "And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?"
Amazon.com
It wasn't all peace, love, and drugs that made San Francisco the fulcrum of the burgeoning hippie scene in the mid '60s. According to this sprawling 77-track, four-disc set--the third in Rhino's ongoing Nuggets series--it was the music that nurtured and helped create Haight-Ashbury. This expansive package succeeds in presenting the disparate acts involved in that cultural revolution through a detailed aural exploration. Sure, the usual suspects like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Janis Joplin are here, but it's the obscurities and oddities--some never previously available and many more extremely difficult to find--that provide intimate glimpses into the crevices, building blocks, and influences of what was later dubbed the "San Francisco Sound." The platters are broken down into rough category/chronological groupings, with disc three focusing on 1967, the Summer of Love whose 40th anniversary this box's release celebrates. Even there, acts such as the Ace of Cups, the Mystery Trend, and the Loading Zone fly way below the radar. There's lots to absorb, even for genre enthusiasts, but compiler Alex Palao's extensive, track-specific liner notes provide concise yet vital contextual background to guide the listener through a wildly diverse landscape that runs from the British Invasion-styled pop of the Beau Brummels and the soft folk of the Youngbloods to the furious garage psychedelia of the Count Five and the eardrum-bursting, proto-metal power rock of Blue Cheer. --Hal Horowitz
Customer Reviews
C'mon People Now ... - Reviewed on 2008-12-26
I was growing up in New York when all this was happening. Some of it got big enough to be heard back there, but most of this is new for me, and takes me back to that feeling of a local, richly creative, wide open pre-corporate music scene. So this set captures the feeling of a time and place. And what a beautiful storm of music on these 4 discs before things became formulaic, and the feelings trite and derivative. There's something happening here and what it is ain't exactly clear (pardon the L.A. reference), but I sure wouldn't want to do without it. It's also interesting to note the explosion of women in rock, from the obvious Grace and Janis, to Bev Bivens (We Five), Jan Errico (The Vejtables The Mojo Men), Sherry Snow, and Lydia Pense to name just a few represented here. And the set is bookended beautifully, beginning with Dino Valenti's acoustic demo of Let's Get Together, and ending with The Youngbloods touching version of the same. It is a good song to convey the hopes and dreams of 60s American youth, and the naivte as well. But hey, it doesn't hurt at all, in post-election 2008, to once again feel the touch of the winds of change.
A Real Time Machine!!! - Reviewed on 2008-10-22
1 customer found this review helpful.
My wife purchased this wonderful box set for me as a gift - considering that she always refers to me as an "aging hippie" and an afficiando of the Psychedelic Sound from the 60's, she could not have given me anything better than this box set!
Sandwiched between the musical bookends of "Let's Get Together" performed by Dino Valenti (erstwhile vocalist of Quicksilver Messenger Service) and "Get Together" by the Youngbloods, these 4 amazing CDs contain such gems by Moby Grape, Sly and the Family Stone, Grateful Dead, The Charlatans, Blue Cheer, Ace of Cups, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, The Count Five, some lesser known bands of that time period, and soooooo much more - not to mention the really interesting and informative book that accompanies the CDs (or is it the CDs that accompany the book? Now that's an interesting thing to groove on when listening). Read it while the songs are playing - there are notes on each artist in order of the songs on each CD as you can journey through them one by one.
I play these CDs over and over in my office - and I've had this "collection" by Rhino for nearly a year now, and I have not gotten tired of listening to the tunes that this wonderful box set provides. The CDs are the best ear candy I have listened to, and the book the best eye candy I've seen on this very magical period of rock music that ever existed or ever will exist.
If you are a fan of that time and age, and even if you remember those times (or don't!), this is the quintessinal gift to ask for - or if you know someone who is "stuck in the psychedelic sixties" then it's the quintessinal gift for him or her.
Incredible stuff - it was like going back in time in your own personal time machine - I could have sworn that the memories, smells, feelings, and overall atmosphere of the times were captured with the CDs and the book itself better than any other media I've seen or heard regarding that special time in the history of rock n roll!
Hats off to Rhino for a great job well done!
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Book Subjects
- Folk-Rock
- Garage Rock
- Pop
- Pop/Rock Music
- Psychedelic
- Rock
- Rock/Pop Collections
- V/a Compilations
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