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Eric Burdon & the Animals — San Franciscan Nights
Album: The Best Of Eric Burdon and The Animals
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Released: 1991
Length: 3:21
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 onerb wrote:

I was in SF this past summer. The days weren't even warm let alone the nights...


“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” Mark Twain
Posted 3 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Eric Burdon claimed this song was about a night he spent with Janis Joplin in San Fran...
Posted 14 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
"there's no place left to go" This is the point where Eric began to take himself and his music way too seriously. And then checked out. Awesome voice that guy has, tho.
Posted 14 years ago by sherf    [ Reply ]
The collection may be from 1991, but this song was released in 1967.
Posted 14 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
...huh...
Posted 14 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
 CamLwalk wrote:
Nothing wrong with hippie music.  Peace man!
 
Seriously - an hour or two set of hippie music would take me back to high school and get me very mellow here at work. My staff would think I was stoned.
Posted 14 years ago by nagsheadlocal    [ Reply ]
 onerb wrote:
I was in SF this past summer. The days weren't even warm let alone the nights...
 
yeah that line definitely set off an alarm..

VERY CLEVER for RP to follow it up w/ 'Fake Tales of San Francisco!!'

!!!!!

Posted 14 years ago by floydoftherocks    [ Reply ]
yeah this still works for me
Posted 14 years ago by George_Tirebiter    [ Reply ]
Nothing wrong with hippie music.  Peace man!
Posted 14 years ago by CamLwalk    [ Reply ]
 Jennnn wrote:
One of the stupidest, drug-induced, gosh-awful songs ever recorded!
 
You say that like there's something wrong with "drug-induced."

Posted 14 years ago by rcurrier    [ Reply ]
I see an average rating of 5.8 at this point. Something is terribly wrong here. This song is way good over and above being an absolute avatar of the times.
Posted 14 years ago by FrankMc    [ Reply ]
I was in SF this past summer. The days weren't even warm let alone the nights...
Posted 14 years ago by onerb    [ Reply ]
Nice old Eric Animal and the Burdens! I saw them do this live in the 60's when I was in High School. {#Music}
Posted 14 years ago by DaveInSaoMiguel    [ Reply ]
There's way too little Eric Burdon on Radio Paradise.
Posted 14 years ago by justin4kick    [ Reply ]
 buddhakowski
All Right!
Posted 15 years ago by augenblick    [ Reply ]
Drummer4soul wrote:
Well said my friend, well said.
Peace


amen.

From The City

Posted 16 years ago by alisavox    [ Reply ]
katzendogs wrote:
Bang!...Made me want to go to San Fran.Free sex and drugs.
Ouch!
Posted 18 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Definitely into the Novelty category... but hey, no damage done. :)
Posted 19 years ago by Old_Pool_Skunk    [ Reply ]
Geez, Bill, what is this, "half-baked bad songs by otherwise great artists" day? Historical value only -- put it in the Smithsonian.
Posted 19 years ago by radiojunkie    [ Reply ]
Definitely "off the grid."
Posted 19 years ago by 54-40    [ Reply ]
jadewahoo wrote:
As tacky as the song was even in it time (I remember quite well, thank you) it spoke to the dreams and hopes of a generation of young people who had to step out of the cage of black and white reality to create something... we did not know what would emerge, but anything was bound to be better than where we had come from... something beautiful. Please spend a moment in honor of the courageous people who took the risk to change the status quo. Myself, I was never a hippie. Hippies were the creation of the media, and went back to their future Yuppie status when the summers were gone. Those of us who were living it on a day-to-day level, we were the Freeks. And still today we are in our lives self-determined, autonomous and free.
Well said my friend, well said. Peace
Posted 19 years ago by Drummer4soul    [ Reply ]
Guess you had to be there.
Posted 19 years ago by hcaudill    [ Reply ]
As tacky as the song was even in it time (I remember quite well, thank you) it spoke to the dreams and hopes of a generation of young people who had to step out of the cage of black and white reality to create something... we did not know what would emerge, but anything was bound to be better than where we had come from... something beautiful. Please spend a moment in honor of the courageous people who took the risk to change the status quo. Myself, I was never a hippie. Hippies were the creation of the media, and went back to their future Yuppie status when the summers were gone. Those of us who were living it on a day-to-day level, we were the Freeks. And still today we are in our lives self-determined, autonomous and free. Right Bill?
Posted 19 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
Ho hum, indeed. Sorry, I like the trippy Floyd of Syd years, so it ain't that. This just isn't good.
Posted 19 years ago by Roverfish    [ Reply ]
Kurt_from_La_Qui wrote:
well, it indeed brings back memories. and they are pleasant ones. i uploaded this off the summer of love vol. 1 cd. it also has the cowsells "the rain, the park and other things". which i uploaded too. so shoot me.
Bang!...Made me want to go to San Fran.Free sex and drugs.
Posted 19 years ago by katzendogs    [ Reply ]
On a warm lysergic acid induced San Francisco night.....
Posted 19 years ago by BooKitty    [ Reply ]
well, it indeed brings back memories. and they are pleasant ones. i uploaded this off the summer of love vol. 1 cd. it also has the cowsells "the rain, the park and other things". which i uploaded too. so shoot me.
Posted 19 years ago by KurtfromLaQuinta    [ Reply ]
Jennnn wrote:
One of the stupidest, drug-induced, gosh-awful songs ever recorded!
It's from a different time, I disagree
Posted 20 years ago by billyboy0205    [ Reply ]
I'm nauseous.
Posted 20 years ago by Manbird    [ Reply ]
One of the stupidest, drug-induced, gosh-awful songs ever recorded!
Posted 20 years ago by Jennnn    [ Reply ]
I thought he said Trans LOVE Airways.
Posted 20 years ago by maryann    [ Reply ]
southend wrote:
Whoa, the colors! I'm having flashbacks, man. Groovy. I don't know about flying Trans World Airways, though.
trans love airways; see below: This following program is dedicated to the city and people of San Francisco, who may not know it but they are beautiful and so is their city this is a very personal song, so if the viewer cannot understand it particularly those of you who are European residents save up all your bread and fly trans love airways to San Francisco U.S.A., then maybe you'll understand the song, it will be worth it, if not for the sake of this song but for the sake of your own peace of mind. Strobe lights beam create dreams walls move minds to do on a warm San Francisco night old child young child feel alright on a warm San Francisco night angels sing leather wings jeans of blue Harley Davisons too on a warm San Francisco night old angels young angels feel alright on a warm San Francisco night. I wasn't born there perhaps I'll die there there's no place left to go, San Francisco. Cop's face is filled with hate heavens above he's on a street called love when will they even learn old cop young cop feel alright on a warm San Francisco night the children are cool they don't raise fools it's an american dream includes indians too
Posted 20 years ago by buddhakowski    [ Reply ]
wow, this takes be back to a interesting time.....
Posted 20 years ago by billyboy0205    [ Reply ]
It started out bad with that stupid "Dragnet" opening and went downhill from there.
Posted 20 years ago by KevinM    [ Reply ]
Whoa, the colors! I'm having flashbacks, man. Groovy. I don't know about flying Trans World Airways, though.
Posted 20 years ago by southend    [ Reply ]