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    In 1967 an expressive, colourful musical force painted a backdrop of social change, fashion, love, turmoil and war. The world remembers the Summer of Love in 1967 as one of those moments when a unique and creative explosion of music and popular culture arrived in the UK and USA.
    This documentary is driven by the soundtrack of the time, which kept the troops company in Vietnam, powered the Anti-War and Civil Rights movements, and opened the hearts and minds of baby boomers who had matured into teens. This special celebrates 1967 as a famous year full of music and change. “Stick a flower in your hair and remember that you are Us not Them.”
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Komentáře • 367

  • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
    @FreeDocumentaryHistory  Před 2 měsíci +55

    This documentary is driven by the soundtrack of the time, which kept the troops company in Vietnam, powered the Anti-War and Civil Rights movements, and opened the hearts and minds of baby boomers who had matured into teens. This special celebrates 1967 as a famous year full of music and change.

    • @jrussellcase
      @jrussellcase Před 2 měsíci +12

      One thing about this time period: It was driven by the music.

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  Před 2 měsíci +9

      @@jrussellcase quite amazing I must say. And such iconic songs. They’ve stood the test of time

    • @fayejacobs1043
      @fayejacobs1043 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@jrussellcase perhaps the drugs too😏

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 Před 2 měsíci

      Hey Chuck ! Ton documentaire est très mal fait. C'est brouillon, on ne voit rien, les images passent beaucoup trop vite, on ne peut pas apprécier. C'est raté. Je ne te félicite pas. Dommage...
      *** Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

    • @pikespeak8669
      @pikespeak8669 Před 2 měsíci

      USA PULLED OUT OF VIETNAM 🇻🇳 THE NORTH COMMUNIST CAME SOUTH
      POOR PEOPLE STILL CONTROLLED BY NORTH.
      SO MANY MEN WOMEN DIED😭.
      The only time no soldier's been send to
      War with President Trump.
      Look bushes made war's.

  • @bold58
    @bold58 Před 2 měsíci +79

    I can remember my mother in the summer of 67 at the kitchen counter with sun shining through the window on her bleach blonde hair and her transistor radio on the counter next to her playing the songs of 67 .
    The Association , the Turtles, The Beatles etc.
    She seemed so happy then.

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  Před měsícem +11

      Love your anecdote. You transport the reader to that space. Thank you

    • @shootfirst2097
      @shootfirst2097 Před měsícem +8

      I remember walking with my sister to school in '65 and hearing "Satisfaction" and "Get Off My Cloud"
      playing on her transistor radio. Also being at an outdoor teen dance at the city park's tennis courts
      and hearing "Ferry Cross the Mersey." I think it was even a live band.

    • @patriciamasci6172
      @patriciamasci6172 Před měsícem +7

      Those were "happier" times then - Moms like yours & mine are harder to find today....sadly.

    • @victorianidetch
      @victorianidetch Před 17 dny +2

      I am sure she was, I was 6 and having a wonderful summer. My parents, brothers and sisters were all still alive and young.

  • @missrayelyn3045
    @missrayelyn3045 Před 2 měsíci +68

    My uncle was drafted, and in Vietnam in '67. I was 10, and I remember watching the news trying to see if I could spot him. I remember being scared until he came home. I can't imagine how scared my grandparents must've been. That was a time when there was a dark cloud hanging around.

    • @ThomasCranmer1959
      @ThomasCranmer1959 Před 2 měsíci +13

      My uncle was drafted. He was never the same. Became an alcoholic and died of heart trouble in his 40s.

    • @missrayelyn3045
      @missrayelyn3045 Před 2 měsíci +11

      @ThomasCranmer1959 my uncle wasn't the same either. He is still alive, but that war took away a part of his personality that never came back. To this day, he's afraid of the dark.

    • @hurdygurdyguy1
      @hurdygurdyguy1 Před 2 měsíci +8

      My wife's brother was a Marine and spent a good amount of time at the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. Her sister's boyfriend served on an aircraft carrier. She remembers the worry they all went through. She has a cousin who was a Green Beret and had grim experiences in Vietnam...

    • @tundrawomansays694
      @tundrawomansays694 Před 2 měsíci

      I don’t know why we still think we can send people to war and have them return unchanged as a result of their experiences. That’s not realistic at all.

    • @cherylmarcuri5506
      @cherylmarcuri5506 Před měsícem +3

      My uncle also served in Nam that year. I wonder if your dad knew my uncle?

  • @mikenuyen4441
    @mikenuyen4441 Před 2 měsíci +46

    i remember all this stuff. 10 years old in 67. I got the best time to be alive in America.

    • @lastofthev8interceptors411
      @lastofthev8interceptors411 Před měsícem +2

      I was nine, living in an innocent South Pacific paradise, New Zealand.We were second tier boomers, the first gen had to fight our oldies in the sixties to gain their freedom, by the time the seventies rolled around parents had given up, leaving a stroppy bunch of long haired rebels to pretty much do as we pleased!

    • @blossom1643
      @blossom1643 Před měsícem +1

      Second tier Boomers! Love it ! Never heard it put like that ! We Did live in The Best Era for music! Nothin else comes Close!✌️🇺🇸

    • @TerryFlynn-sd1ho
      @TerryFlynn-sd1ho Před měsícem +1

      I turned 10 in Nov 67 but already playing both guitar and drums, had 45s of Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds etc.lived in 'Littleton 'Denver at the time but made a living playing music for decades so I guess The Summer of 67 rubbed off on me .Peace ❤

    • @ConnieM777
      @ConnieM777 Před měsícem

      I was 11. You can’t imagine how magical that year was, you had to live it.

    • @RoadWarrior-lo9vt
      @RoadWarrior-lo9vt Před měsícem +1

      I was born in July '67. The heart of the summer of love. I hate to say.. I don't remember much of the summer of love. I think I cried alot! 🥴

  • @ThomasCranmer1959
    @ThomasCranmer1959 Před 2 měsíci +54

    Rock music of the 60s was incredible. The Hammond organ has a unique sound.

    • @robertshapiro3733
      @robertshapiro3733 Před 2 měsíci +2

      And according to Al Kooper, Dylan’s organist on the album “Highway 61 Revisited”, a most difficult instrument to play. He was unable to even find its power button. But as the songs themselves attest, it brought, for example, the song “Like a Rolling Stone” to immeasurable heights.

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 Před 2 měsíci

      @@robertshapiro3733 : Stevie Winwood, Jimmy Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Booker T. Jones jouaient aussi sur des orgues Hammond.

    • @timanctil8225
      @timanctil8225 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I sold a first series Hammond at a garage sale in the eighties for $40...oops!
      My memory got a little clearer, it wasn't a Hammond, it was a Moog... but either way, oops!

  • @mikewithers299
    @mikewithers299 Před 2 měsíci +44

    What a time to be alive and witness history changing. I was 5 years old then. The music of that time will never fade away for me.

    • @yaraviera4444
      @yaraviera4444 Před 2 měsíci +3

      I was born in 1982..an before it was a little dispute about presidential election I believe in Dominican 🇩🇴 republic. Then I came to USA 🇺🇸 by 9 years of age..an started learning about the history of USA in high school..but this a history they don't teach in high school..or college unless you don't read about it

    • @pikespeak8669
      @pikespeak8669 Před 2 měsíci

      @yaraviera4444
      50 yr's ado teacher's don't teach real history.
      America bad sociolist great (wrong).
      We thought or son's
      The real history.

    • @KaryannFontaineikary4
      @KaryannFontaineikary4 Před měsícem +2

      I was 17 in 1967. Loved the music, lost older friends to the war. The Viet Nan War was heartbreaking. The body bags of our men on the news. Hated the War and respected our Vets. Many men who came home, turned to drugs to cope, some could not cope at all. The draft was feared. Our generation had a better way than the rigid establishment who reviled us. Love, communication, understanding.

  • @timcross2510
    @timcross2510 Před 2 měsíci +29

    My world war two era uncles were upset that summer because young boys were dead in Nam and the newspapers put golf tournaments, show biz and "anything but dead in the jungle" on the front pages and nightly news.
    I was 8. Never forgot that.

    • @cocoaorange1
      @cocoaorange1 Před měsícem +1

      WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, that's 3 wars in 3 decades, it was too much, I was born in August of 1967.

    • @davidmc8475
      @davidmc8475 Před 22 dny

      What are you talking about? It was constantly in the news. NY Times, LA Times, LIFE Magazine. Walter Cronkite consistently reported on the war. Cronkite, Morley Safer reported in the field and there were war correspondents who reported EVERY nights broadcast. News coverage was a main reason why it ended. The Vietcong man executed on camera getting his brains blown out on camera, the nude girl running from a napalm attack, soldiers being carried on stretchers, the tiger cages used on U.S. soldiers.
      News coverage was a main reason why it ended. The public and particularly students could actually see what was happening unlike Afghanistan or Iraq.
      Google newspapers vietnam war coverage

  • @alexiasherman3358
    @alexiasherman3358 Před 2 měsíci +29

    I graduated HS in '67. Both fabulous and sad times with the best music ever. Would not want to be any other age than I was then and am now.

    • @jimmyflanagan5938
      @jimmyflanagan5938 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Graduated HS 1967 west high Torrance California. What a time to me a teenager in L A

    • @ClassicMoments-bg1bb
      @ClassicMoments-bg1bb Před 2 měsíci +2

      You describe ’67 very accurately. Great music during a sad era.

    • @stevenr8606
      @stevenr8606 Před 2 měsíci +1

      👍🏻 HS GRAD '74 🎉😊

    • @shootfirst2097
      @shootfirst2097 Před měsícem +1

      I could rather stay in my late teens and early 20s. Best times of MY life.

  • @gordlawton
    @gordlawton Před 2 měsíci +19

    I turned 17 in 1967. So many things were happening at the time. I wouldn't pick a different time to grow up.

    • @humboldthammer
      @humboldthammer Před měsícem

      Consider this . . . never before RIGHT NOW -- not in the entire history of men and women on Earth -- have so many educated people lived so freely and so abundantly. And for just 18 years, since Google bought CZcams and TV went digital in 2006, we have been connected to a shared, worldwide experience with near-instant communication. It is GUARANTEED to wake "THIS" generation up.

    • @user-vn4rj6tj3r
      @user-vn4rj6tj3r Před 16 dny

      @@humboldthammerits already in motion. Lots of young people despise the government for essentially taking away 2-3 years of their lives. Almost half the generation did not get to experience a traditional high school graduation.

  • @anitakephart3851
    @anitakephart3851 Před měsícem +10

    My baby sis was born in '67.
    She is already gone.
    I still can't believe it.
    I can't quite get over it.
    Wish she was here.
    I used to sing all these songs to her in my 65 Ford Falcon and it still is one of my favorite memories of back then . I was 10 yrs older and felt like I was supposed to look after here.
    It was a time that is hard to get younger people of today to get to understand.
    I guess you just had to be there.
    What a time, what a time, what a time...

  • @deboramccallum3987
    @deboramccallum3987 Před měsícem +8

    Best times ever from a ten year olds eyes. We used to have slumber parties and pretend we were Motown singer's. I'll never forget it.

  • @sarasarah1810
    @sarasarah1810 Před 2 měsíci +19

    throughout all the turmoil going on through the 60s worldwide, all the good and all the bad, one thing stands out more to me than anything. that decade gave the world the best music we have ever heard.

  • @JollyRoger1969
    @JollyRoger1969 Před 2 měsíci +24

    Really enjoyed the soundtrack of this documentary, I'm a 90s kid but always felt a spiritual connection to this time. Can appreciate how people wanted change, thinking and do things differently.

    • @JRNarian
      @JRNarian Před měsícem +1

      As a 90s kid as well, I remember the 60s and 70s making a comeback during that time :)

  • @kimdurig1322
    @kimdurig1322 Před 2 měsíci +18

    I turned thirteen that year what an amazing time to live

  • @maryrod9882
    @maryrod9882 Před měsícem +3

    While on a cruise I met a lovely lady and her husband - around their latte 70’s or early 80’s.
    We would often attend the same afternoon event and sit together.
    Once when her husband left for a few minutes, she shared that she would drive from Seattle to San Francisco every Friday after work and drive back on Sunday!
    She said it was the time of her life in the 1960’s!
    She never missed a weekend and sometimes would not get any sleep- she would arrive in Seattle and go straight to work on Monday! San Francisco was the place to be!!!
    The Vietnam Memorial in Washington is solemnly deeply moving.
    All Honor, Gratitude and Respect to all Veterans.

  • @giselematthews7949
    @giselematthews7949 Před 2 měsíci +27

    I was only 13 in 67. But i remember it well.

    • @elizabethmcleod246
      @elizabethmcleod246 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I was 10 years old. What a time to be alive.

    • @shootfirst2097
      @shootfirst2097 Před měsícem +2

      @@elizabethmcleod246 Yes, I was ten, too. And my older sisters were music fanatics, so I was
      DRILLED with this great music constantly. We also had a AM disc jockey down the street who gave my sisters free promo albums and singles.

    • @elizabethmcleod246
      @elizabethmcleod246 Před měsícem +1

      @@shootfirst2097 Nice! It was my hip Mom who bought me albums from
      various artists. Oh course, I listened to the radio all the time to.

  • @robynmasters335
    @robynmasters335 Před měsícem +11

    My mom was 18 and in the process of conceiving me in '67. I was the result of Flower Power.

  • @nanabutner
    @nanabutner Před 2 měsíci +11

    I remember the “SUMMER OF LOVE” very well! We had the whole world at our feet and yes--we could do anything! I took part in “PROTEST MARCHES” and so many other things. “WE ALSO LOST SO MANY GOOD THINGS AS WELL”!

  • @JRNarian
    @JRNarian Před měsícem +6

    I'm a millennial but my parents came of age during this time and I grew up with the music of this era at our house :)

    • @chimom7112
      @chimom7112 Před měsícem +1

      I'm a boomer and I brought my kids up with music from 60s to 80s.

  • @dianeruiz0721
    @dianeruiz0721 Před 2 měsíci +7

    I was 7 in 67 but remember it well. The music on the radio was great!! I remember seeing the Vietnam War coverage on the news. My immediate family didn’t have any one out there fighting. My Dad fought in the Korean War. Everything was great but then only I was too young to realize it

  • @JeffHogue-em6zx
    @JeffHogue-em6zx Před 14 hodinami +1

    Oh, yeah ! I graduated from high school in June of 1967. Played music in bands. Ten years later, I was playing at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas with singer Bobbie Gentry. In '78, we were at the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas. Grooooovy times !

  • @kckazcoll1
    @kckazcoll1 Před měsícem +8

    thanks for this perspective, very enjoyable! Love all the music used in this doco, too

  • @fayejacobs1043
    @fayejacobs1043 Před 2 měsíci +7

    Excellent Doc, this was definetly my mom's era. I just sent her this Doc to watch. My mom graduated high school in '67, i will have to talk to her about her version of "Summer of Love"Man what a time to have been alive!!!

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 Před 2 měsíci

      Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

    • @marymacdonald2379
      @marymacdonald2379 Před měsícem

      I am your Mom's age. I spent the summer of 1967 in L.A. marijuana from Mexico (not so strong as weed today) was everywhere. Concerts were affordable even for an 18year old with a summer job. Way lower crime and teenagers could get jobs easily.

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 Před měsícem

      @@marymacdonald2379 :
      Sae, the same age we art.

  • @MultiFlange1
    @MultiFlange1 Před 20 dny +1

    As an American teenager living in Belgium in the 60's, I used to love listening to Radio Caroline!

  • @yassir1776
    @yassir1776 Před 2 měsíci +12

    Looks like we're headed for another summer of love

  • @robertmanley2687
    @robertmanley2687 Před 2 měsíci +7

    I had a Jimi Hendrix poster with a black light and Hey Joe written in day-glo paint on my bedroom wall in 1967.

    • @danilaroche1156
      @danilaroche1156 Před měsícem

      I loved his music too but keep in mind, he was an occultist. I'd steer clear. Beatles were occultists too.

    • @robertmanley2687
      @robertmanley2687 Před měsícem

      @@danilaroche1156 Purple Haze

  • @jrussellcase
    @jrussellcase Před 2 měsíci +7

    Tammi Terrell's passing was a huge loss. I was born a year and a half after she passed. She had a helluva voice, and was easy on the eyes.

    • @fabrikk60
      @fabrikk60 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Whenever I see Tammi I feel a little emotional, about how sad her early passing was. She seemed like a sweet and beautiful person.

  • @lelandkelley2199
    @lelandkelley2199 Před 2 měsíci +6

    I was four years old and remember the music and cars and fashion. In highschool I had a 67 mustang

  • @user-qs7gx7rp7m
    @user-qs7gx7rp7m Před 2 měsíci +14

    As a Canadian '67 was a defining moment for an 18 year old. The Nam war was a blessing. By 70 as as a would be 'hippie' inan age when feminis declared peace in the war between the sexes, bras were burned and birth control pills were everywhere, the CND was at par with the US $ and Europe not yet recovered from WWII was dirt cheap. I got to visit France, Spain twice, Morocco (extraordinary adventures everywhere in near pre-tourist Europe) and lasty old England. Cost $850 for 6 months of truly remarkable adventure (Can pay for a moron was $80 per week). Few Americans males - so no competition, but no shortage of Yankee Gal college grads, lots & lots of Aussis and many interesting Brits. In 75 years of life I can truly honestly say God was more than good to me for all of that time. It still makes me smile and the special loves experienced along the way leave me happily-sad for having lived it. Not afraid of dying any time. Fate allowed me the very best even if a poor man then and now.

    • @fabrikk60
      @fabrikk60 Před 2 měsíci +4

      "The Nam war was a blessing". WTF??

    • @zenlandzipline
      @zenlandzipline Před měsícem +2

      @@fabrikk60maybe he got a lot of poon because all the men went to Vietnam to fight. A lot of lonely girls here. Just guessing, because I can’t think of any reason why war would be a blessing.

  • @MrFroglips69
    @MrFroglips69 Před 2 měsíci +8

    Groovy baby, totally trippy.

  • @tommyasprion4394
    @tommyasprion4394 Před 2 měsíci +14

    I am also proud of our troops that served during Vietnam War- they were standing against evil regime, just as ww2 vets and Korea. Now darkness has descended on our once great nation.

    • @sharyllee7094
      @sharyllee7094 Před měsícem +3

      I'm proud of them, too. AND, a lot of the evilness of that time, lived in our own Government...

    • @scottfagerstrom9312
      @scottfagerstrom9312 Před měsícem

      I'm proud of them, too, but we were definitely fighting on the wrong side in that war.

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 Před měsícem

      I'm a vet. We soldiers got swindled. All the way back to WWII and earlier. (See General Butler's book, "War Is a Racket.")
      Don't blame the soldiers. We followed orders and thought we were serving our families and country. In your 20's, you haven't read the Constitution that many times and don't think that you may have been sent to an unconstitutional "war." I would never do it again.

  • @ginaferracini9375
    @ginaferracini9375 Před 2 měsíci +6

    I was born in 1967 I remember my mums and sisters dresses amazing loved the music too ..60s 🎶 🌼🧡

  • @robertcombs55
    @robertcombs55 Před 2 měsíci +13

    in 1968...I arrived in Vietnam....or Hell as we called it...

    • @olhickory6420
      @olhickory6420 Před 10 dny

      I know it was Hell but thanks for serving.

  • @ruthhaywood3473
    @ruthhaywood3473 Před 2 měsíci +7

    This is a great documentary. Will watch again. Thanks 4 the memories

  • @ronaldzent6321
    @ronaldzent6321 Před 2 měsíci +10

    So sad about both Tammy Terrell and Marvin Gaye. Marvin was never the same after she died so young.

    • @danilaroche1156
      @danilaroche1156 Před měsícem

      I met Tammi at a Motown picnic. She was very attractive. She got beat up by the industry and abusive men.

  • @martinavila6821
    @martinavila6821 Před měsícem +2

    1967 ,i turned 13 in January. Enjoyed my youth. Remember listening the world news with Walter Cronkite, and what was happening at that time. The music and the bands that played them were great. What Me Worry ,i was too busy being a kid

  • @ronaldzent6321
    @ronaldzent6321 Před 2 měsíci +14

    Twiggy, the first Supermodel. Those eyes!

    • @tiffanyroseangeles34
      @tiffanyroseangeles34 Před 2 měsíci +1

      That was a cool look! I wish I’d been around to see it all Loved Mary Quants designs as well….I wasn’t born until 1961 …
      like many here. I loved the kohl eyeliner …..

    • @MaureenDeVries-wd9mh
      @MaureenDeVries-wd9mh Před 2 měsíci +2

      Jean Shrimpton?

    • @n9oqu
      @n9oqu Před 2 měsíci +1

      she had eyes but mothing else!

  • @juliejackman2649
    @juliejackman2649 Před 2 měsíci +97

    My Dad fought in the Vietnam war and I'm very proud of him and all the rest for fighting for freedom. 🇺🇸

    • @caroleminke6116
      @caroleminke6116 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Was he drafted? ❤️‍🩹

    • @kcollinsgallhollcom
      @kcollinsgallhollcom Před 2 měsíci +39

      It was a foolish war escalated by LBJ to line his pockets and the pockets of his friends.
      However the troops are not to blame, were heroes and were treated terribly by our government. Vets shouldn’t be treated that way

    • @sharolynwells
      @sharolynwells Před 2 měsíci +22

      My late husband served in Cambodia during the Vietnam War -- Jan. 1970 to Dec. 1971. I'm fighting for him mow because he was exposed to Agent Orange over there. He died from a dead liver a year ago.i miss him so much.

    • @johndoe-od6ge
      @johndoe-od6ge Před 2 měsíci +12

      @@sharolynwells I'm sorry for your loss !!!

    • @ThomasCranmer1959
      @ThomasCranmer1959 Před 2 měsíci +10

      ​@@kcollinsgallhollcomIt was a foolish war started by.... drum roll..... PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS. JFK.

  • @jeffbreezee
    @jeffbreezee Před 2 měsíci +4

    I was a one year old in 67, but I heard plenty of stories from that year. My dad was Korean War vet, so he was a regular working stiff. He had two younger brothers who served in Vietnam in 67. One in the Air Force and one in the Marines.

  • @CraigPrice-zq5wz
    @CraigPrice-zq5wz Před měsícem +4

    Still best music of our times. Great 😊 and keep on trucking.

  • @catl1783
    @catl1783 Před 28 dny +1

    pretty awesome doc. I can remember my father disinheriting my brother for fleeing to Canada to avoid the draft. I loved Jim Morrisson, Janis Joplin, jimi Hendrix. Todays music can't touch any of this, culturally, historically and just pure sound! So delicious, textural, and deep....sadly missing today

  • @danielpollak6075
    @danielpollak6075 Před 2 měsíci +5

    👏👏excellent documentation of the summer of love👏👏well done👍~ty

  • @nickfairhead2355
    @nickfairhead2355 Před 13 dny

    I'm proud of being apart of '67 in London. I made my contribution running a light show, working at the Roundhouse and consuming copious amounts of acid. One of the voices that this doco misses was Bob Dylan's trilogy Highway 61, Bring it all back home and Blonde on blonde. These were the background music of '67.

  • @robertlear2712
    @robertlear2712 Před 2 měsíci +6

    I was in college in 1967 and I was in a band. I just wanted to do music. I only stayed in college because I didn’t want to be drafted, which I barely escaped.

    • @jessiem276
      @jessiem276 Před měsícem

      So you figured someone else could go instead of you??

    • @howardquinn5911
      @howardquinn5911 Před měsícem

      ⁠@@jessiem276I was 4F and lucky. My dad and his three brothers went to WWII. Two didn’t come back. The other two did, but it wasn’t easy. Our dad stayed in 20 years. I always wonder what he might say to someone like you. He didn’t talk much about his experience. What’s your story?

  • @j.g.8494
    @j.g.8494 Před 5 dny

    Unlike most of the commentators below who were still children in 1967, I was in my mid-20s - the best time in one's life to live through such a memorable year. It was the year when The Beatles issued their LP "Sergeant Pepper." June 1967 was memorable for their global satellite broadcast "All You Need is Love". The pop music scene in June 1967 was so special that I remember saying to myself: "This is so good, it can't go on!. The Summer of Love's music theme was Scott Mackenzie's "San Francisco". The hippies were featured in a cover story in Time magazine. There was so much going on in The Summer of Love that it's not easy to describe the whole scene. In the autumn of 1967, there was a general feeling, reported in the media, that humanity was on the verge of attaining the universal brotherhood of man. The dream petered out as the '60s came to a close.

  • @francisebbecke2727
    @francisebbecke2727 Před měsícem +2

    For most of us being a hippy was for just a season, but what a season!

    • @andyhowat4624
      @andyhowat4624 Před měsícem

      It became a life style for those who wanted change

  • @Shanehutcheson841
    @Shanehutcheson841 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Great Video!!

  • @foto21
    @foto21 Před měsícem +1

    RIP Bob Simon, I really admired his work in journalism.

  • @ericrlaz39
    @ericrlaz39 Před měsícem +1

    I was born in December '67. Tail end of the summer of love. A truly different world it was

  • @trevorwakefiel870
    @trevorwakefiel870 Před 2 měsíci +5

    Im British born but my family emigrated to Australia on BOAC in 1969..
    Australian Soldiers & NZ soldiers also fought in Vietnam even as a young child and seeing fhe conflict daily on black & white TV.
    Australians where rallying also in capitals cities to end the Vietnam war and young men called up for 2 years national service ...
    Alot of young men came back mentally medically ill ruined alot men forever and not to mention deformed children being born due to Vietnam vets in the field sprayed from above with agent orange and caused alot of cancers to some ex Vietnam vet's.

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 Před měsícem

      The U.S. had only 5 allies in Vietnam: Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, Philippines. Though we were all wrong with LBJ's unconstitutional "war," may God bless our Oz mates always. My cousin got drafted and is dead from the Agent Orange.

  • @DBEdwards
    @DBEdwards Před 12 dny

    I was 12 years old. It's the great music I remember. The British bands. Lawrence Welk. Ed Sullivan. Life was free then. I had no troubles. Now the world is upside down.

  • @cathybassett6432
    @cathybassett6432 Před měsícem

    Thank you for this fabulous video! I was 15 turned16 in 1967. What a fabulous time to be alive. The most EXCELLENT music. Lucky me lucky us.

  • @INgirl812
    @INgirl812 Před měsícem +1

    I was in 6th grade then. I remember the music, the war, and the fashions. Twiggy was an idol to me.

  • @bettierusso5410
    @bettierusso5410 Před měsícem

    I was just 10 years old in 1967. I was living for a year in Okinawa while my Dad was a Country Music musician and was on tour with his band playing for the troops in the Vietnam War. He was a veteran of WWII on the Beaches of Normandy. I, being an American, always believed the "summer of love" was 1969..Candlestick Park, Height Ashbury in San Fransisco, WOOD STOCK! It was a blast to grow up then. I remember these three years as constant TV of the war, and being spoiled rotten by the lonely American Soldiers who missed their family, especially their little sisters back home when they saw my sister and I. They saw a little girl with blond hair, and big blue eyes, who spoke English. The Hippy movement was earlier in London, then hit America in full color in 1969. I loved the music of the time, and my Dad and Mom didn't ...just like most parents of the time! This brings a lot of memories.

  • @deejay4922
    @deejay4922 Před měsícem +1

    Good Historical Doco.

  • @vickiladu6755
    @vickiladu6755 Před měsícem

    I was 13 in the summer of love. all those songs I knew well and loved so much! Loved soul music and blues and pop, of course. Great te to be on the younger side, not having to worry about being an adult yet, the war, just still being a kid coming of age!

  • @MarcGoudreau
    @MarcGoudreau Před měsícem +2

    That age almost transformed America from a corporate "forever war" Govt to a more agreeable partner in efforts for global peace. The Kent State event really highlighted how American youth hated the hypocrisy of the Vietnam war.

  • @gogoyubari366
    @gogoyubari366 Před měsícem +1

    I remember in 1850 I was In the turkey war. We had little flutes to sing in Orlando with the rice in soy sauce. Can't do that no more with the woodcraft in Alabama.

  • @ScarlettFire341
    @ScarlettFire341 Před měsícem +2

    "First we overlook evil, Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil." Fr. Dwight Longenecker
    “In the Last Days, Good will be called Evil and Evil will be called Good.” Are We There YET ?

    • @hollyringo8198
      @hollyringo8198 Před měsícem

      I think your on to something, a child of 1967, & what an explosive time of creativity, & makes me understand me better, I think the word evil in your analogy is bit harsh, but I can see your leaning but, I believe it’s more of the Ying/Yang thing, the dark took far too many but they weren’t evil, just curious & f’n talented. Make good choices kids.

  • @kso808
    @kso808 Před měsícem +1

    EXCELLENT documentary on the best year for music IMHO! Thank you for putting this together. You’ve captured the zeitgeist of that pivotal year where music intersected so perfectly with society and politics.***** (5 stars)

  • @healthyone100
    @healthyone100 Před 7 hodinami +1

    May 18 1967 my mother died i was almost 17 didn't realize how much it affect me i had to grow up real fast my 2 brothers and i my father had his own problems so he could not take care of us had to go live with my uncle but ii made it through high school was a good athelete so everything turned out ok i'm 74 now going strong with my strict vegan diet and exercise, i feel i'm getting younger as i get older, the music of the 60"s was the best so it was a great time to grow up i wouldn't change a thing execpt i wish i a strict vegan back in my teens

  • @Jayjay-qe6um
    @Jayjay-qe6um Před 2 měsíci +5

    "The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves."
    -- Yoko Ono

  • @alejandromontalvo3423
    @alejandromontalvo3423 Před 3 hodinami

    I was also 17 in 1967, graduated from high school later that year in Los Angeles. At 18 i got my draft notice to appear for the physical downtown LA. Due to a bad wrestling injury on my right arm i was disqualified. At the end of the exam you were handed the paperwork declaring that you either passed or failed. When i was handed mine, the officer said with a smirk...You are APF. I was puzzled by that qualification as "4F" was the official term then for being disqualified. Turns out "APF" was slang for "After Pregnant Women". It was meant to shame me, but just felt i dodged a bullet and a bus trip to the closest bus ride to Fort Ord and a flight to Vietnam. The transport buses were all waiting on the curb outside for the trip to the bases.

  • @moniquesilverans3842
    @moniquesilverans3842 Před měsícem +1

    Les années 1966 et 1967 en Europe c'était formidable. Tout était si fou alors qu'en 2024 tout est si sage et monotone. Je suis née en 1947 donc j'ai vécu cette période, c'était une joie et une folie, j'ai adoré. Et maintenant les vieux (comme moi) sont mécontents sur les jeunes mais moi je les trouve trop sages, qu'ils s'amusent plus car la jeunesse n'a qu'un temps.

  • @ericsahagun5344
    @ericsahagun5344 Před měsícem +3

    Bonnie in minute 34 of this 43-minute video you talk about the Ed Sullivan Show and the doors with pissed me off so bad about that Is Jim wasn't allowed to say the word higher and so he went and said it and Mr Sullivan said you'll never come back and of course Jim said that's okay we've already done it! And if I'm not mistaken by the following year Sly in the family stones came on singing the song WANNA TAKE YOU HIGHER and suddenly the word higher to Mr Sullivan was not a problem ... Ironic isn't it 🤔🥴😆

  • @lindasimons691
    @lindasimons691 Před měsícem +1

    Good movie, thx.

  • @andyhowat4624
    @andyhowat4624 Před měsícem

    The baby boomers had it all. The 50s. Greatest decade ever. Music cars no worries. I'm glad I was there.

  • @jerrylubrano5052
    @jerrylubrano5052 Před měsícem +1

    I was 16 in 1967. Absolutely an incredible time to be alive in America except for the war and the Beatles. The so-called Fab Four couldn’t hold a candle of the greatest of them all - The Stones ( they are still touring! Can you believe it? And to sold out crowds)

  • @apitheous194
    @apitheous194 Před měsícem +1

    As a white kid growing up in the late sixties and mid seventies I loved rock and Motown, What a great time for music.

  • @charlieconnelly5514
    @charlieconnelly5514 Před 29 dny

    Big Billy McNeil with the European Cup,right on man 👌🍀🇮🇪

  • @Nick-fi1mc
    @Nick-fi1mc Před 2 měsíci +4

    It is criminal what happens when the who went on stage at the Monterey Pop festival.... Where is their music???

  • @the4thway51
    @the4thway51 Před měsícem +1

    I'm surprised, this is well put together.

  • @nekomantix598
    @nekomantix598 Před měsícem

    My moms dad is a Mexican american Vietnam Veteran and grandmother was the cute girl with a beehive hairstyle and cute skirts and heels, they listened to fats domino and other oldies And my dad’s dad and grandmother were in San Francisco, with flowers in their hair 😊 they even experienced the famous Altamont CA concert lol they are all alive and well today, I’m glad I have been raised to know about what they’ve experienced and their perspectives 🙂

  • @Farsider3955
    @Farsider3955 Před 2 měsíci +8

    🤔….and the year after the “Summer of Love” Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated.
    Woodstock (‘69) brought some renewed hope for the Hippie generation, but the “free” concert at Altamont later that year ushered in the darkness that follows naivety.
    Then 1970, the U.S. Military shoots down students, killing 4 and injuring almost a dozen others at Kent State University.
    Back to this vid though….this “Free Documentary” was pretty good….not great, but not horrible either. Didn’t flow well….seemed unorganized.
    Interviews with the ‘flower children’ in S.F. mixed in would have added much needed richness - and a glimpse into the actual mindset of the youth of that era.
    Of lot of great music artists were mention, but for 1967 how could they have left out Procol Harum?

  • @arthurdalton517
    @arthurdalton517 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I am from Santa Cruz and I think that this documentary is great .I think that we in the S F bay and around it were at least 3 to mabey 5 years ahead of the rest of the Country . Monterey pops. Festival was great and According to Grace Slick it was the best one of the 3 it's been said that Janice Joplin was the Artist that everyone came to see.

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 Před 2 měsíci

      Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

    • @arthurdalton517
      @arthurdalton517 Před 2 měsíci

      @@danielgiraud1118 are you from there

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 Před 2 měsíci

      @@arthurdalton517 : "Are ye from there" ? From where ? Can ye speak english properly, pliz ?

    • @arthurdalton517
      @arthurdalton517 Před měsícem

      @@danielgiraud1118 are you from the San Francisco bay area or Monterey Bay.
      I am and I thought it was done very well

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 Před měsícem

      @@arthurdalton517 : Et alors Doolin'-Dalton ?

  • @yaraviera4444
    @yaraviera4444 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Thanks for sharing this. Lovely video about what was the 60s like I was born in the 80s.yet I know black community suffered a lot..

  • @suestephan3255
    @suestephan3255 Před měsícem +1

    It was a great time to be a young person, all about the music, transistor radios, record players, going to the near by 5 & 10 to buy the latest 45. I was born 10/50 so I was 17 that summer. I didn’t pay that much attention to the Viet Nam war. My Dad died in ‘57 and I didn’t really watch the news. I was working nights and out with friends walking when not working. I did due to my neighbor who gave me the address of the of the paper that had Marine’s names and I did write to them about 60 letters and they wrote back.

    • @suestephan3255
      @suestephan3255 Před měsícem

      The magazine was Sea Tiger. Like I said I wrote to about 60 marines in 67-68

  • @tomsmith-rj3vw
    @tomsmith-rj3vw Před měsícem

    Wow best information thanks Google.

  • @timcross2510
    @timcross2510 Před 2 měsíci +6

    11,000 young Americans died in Viet Nam that year. More than Dday ,911 ,and Pearl Harbor combined.

    • @marymacdonald2379
      @marymacdonald2379 Před měsícem

      In 1967, at18 I was having the time of my life living with my friends in Hollywood. The only dark cloud was my 19 year old brother was in Vietnam. I wrote to him and mailed him the newest albums (he was at the air base outside Saigon).

    • @humboldthammer
      @humboldthammer Před měsícem +1

      @@marymacdonald2379 I know a story of two brothers having the time of their lives on the Hollywood Strip. Then, the older brother over-dosed and died.

    • @cynthiamckenzie1034
      @cynthiamckenzie1034 Před měsícem

      🤯💔💔😰

    • @Msmith-yd7bz
      @Msmith-yd7bz Před měsícem

      I was in Saigon 2024 Jan,went to the war museum,no one in their right mind would want to attend that situation first hand if they had any idea of the suffering.The pictures were a reflection,I didn't want to see to much of that.Sorry war sends so many boys into a grinder.Around the same time in China great change erupted also,the cultural revolution,so many left the country to go to other countries to live.There were other factions of opinion in China at the time,but a dominant aspect of government established a type of stability. Its difficult to judge things from the outside and hard to see! When your in the middle,of change.Were all on the same planet taking our next breath,for a time.There are more similarities than differences by far! Surprised I be!

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 Před měsícem +1

      12,520 Americans were killed or missing in the battle for Okinawa alone in 82 days in WWII.

  • @RoadWarrior-lo9vt
    @RoadWarrior-lo9vt Před měsícem

    White Rabbit: One of the most powerful thought provoking outstanding pieces of musical art ever made. It's definitely on a very short list. Shame it's so damn short, no pun intended.
    ✌🙂

  • @justinkauffman731
    @justinkauffman731 Před 2 měsíci +8

    And then came Tet

  • @Sabotage_Labs
    @Sabotage_Labs Před měsícem +1

    12:40 Motown changed America and possibly the world! Motown was one of the best things for race relations in America. Black performed like the Supremes were chic. The music had a positive and relatable message. One that transcended race. My god...the talent!!! National treasures like Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. The song writers!!! Just so much talent. It helped to teach America that our differences stop at skin and hair. That there were very little differences and the ones their were....were cultural just like the cultural differences between European countries and ethics groups.
    Sadly...we apparently have forgotten all of this and are sliding backwards into a very dangerous time. A time that is being repeated when our politicians, especially one political party and movement, uses race as a means to gain political power. We've seen what happens when this tactic is used. It burned down the European continent last century!!! We are walking down a very similar path with blinders on! Its terrifying!

  • @hurdygurdyguy1
    @hurdygurdyguy1 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I was only 12 in '67 and living in a small farm-based town got only a glimpse (aka what was allowed) of Hippies, the Counter Culture etc. By the time I was in high school all that had been commercialized and diluted, made "safe" but still with a whiff of forbidden fruit! The nearest mall (an hour's drive away) had The InStore where you could buy black light posters and all manners of Hippie stuff, all commercialized and heady stuff for a small town kid!
    I pretty much missed really experiencing the Summer of Love and all it represented by a good 5 years or so.... and it's just as well.. 🤣
    And in the words of George Harrison, "All things must pass..." even the Summer of Love...

  • @gr8witenorth61
    @gr8witenorth61 Před 2 měsíci +2

    alot of this was being fed by the beatles and the rolling stones, and that group from '67- 72, then you got into jefferson starship and 'white rabbit', i was a kid at this time living in a restaurant in middle ontario, it truely was the best of time and the worst of times, for me....................

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Ah, the summer of love, I was 7, figures, my timing sucks.

    • @fabrikk60
      @fabrikk60 Před 2 měsíci +2

      I'm the same age. At least I had a much older sister who brought home all the cool music for me to grow up to. Steppenwolf, Airplane, Hendrix, Cream, Love, Zappa, Traffic, Mayall, Blues Project...I was way into that stuff at age 7 so the late 60s has always felt like a familiar time to me.

  • @lorigoshert6667
    @lorigoshert6667 Před měsícem +1

    Thanks for this. I've seen a lot of documentaries about this era, but none that have presented the British perspective (aside from a few band-specific docs). I'd never heard of Radio Caroline, for example, and it was interesting to hear the different ways the older generation responded to youth culture.
    The audio seems to be messed up around the time Janis Joplin is singing, though.

  • @Jatadhari1000
    @Jatadhari1000 Před 2 měsíci +3

    excellent documentary, i was a kid then, but i lived through those times

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 Před 2 měsíci

      Hey Chuck ! Yer documentary is very poorly done. It's messy, ye cannie see anything, the images go by way too quickly, ye cannie appreciate it. Yewh blew it !. I'm nae a-congratulatin' thee. Too bad...

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 Před 2 měsíci +3

    The summer of self indulgence and absolute excess, did you say?? LOL

  • @michellebarry-devries1082
    @michellebarry-devries1082 Před měsícem +1

    I was born in 61 and loved how the hippie daughters dressed and let them make out in there room at only 14...

  • @bobwhite2
    @bobwhite2 Před 2 měsíci +2

    They hurt nobody.

  • @heidibee501
    @heidibee501 Před měsícem +5

    The Vietnam war was a warmongers dream. People died so the rich could get richer. Sadly nothing has changed. The name may be different but the game is always the same.

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 Před měsícem +1

      LBJ's wife sold them the helicopters.

  • @andyhowat4624
    @andyhowat4624 Před měsícem

    Tune In drop out

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 Před měsícem

      Glad I didn't. (turn on, drop out). I tuned in to an education and productive, drug-free life.

  • @haileeclark2311
    @haileeclark2311 Před 6 dny

    my dad was 10 years old at the time.

  • @somystery
    @somystery Před 2 měsíci +4

    I wanted to be a hippie when l was 5 years old 😂

    • @Birdyblue12
      @Birdyblue12 Před 2 měsíci

      😂

    • @cathylindeboo.9598
      @cathylindeboo.9598 Před 2 měsíci

      Me too!! I was 6 in '67.

    • @JuliaR60
      @JuliaR60 Před 2 měsíci

      Me too

    • @humboldthammer
      @humboldthammer Před měsícem +1

      heh-heh. I probably dated you when you were twenty. Hey! I was just 28 when you were twenty, and singing lead in a band.
      You were irresistible. "I Love the Flower Girl."

  • @victorsuarez3546
    @victorsuarez3546 Před měsícem +3

    1967: Love -Peace- LSD. 2024: Fentanyl- War- Mistrust. Lets not forget LBJ and Biden. A time to me alive and see changes. A time when America was America that cared for the citizens.When you can trust someone and you had a person as a friend not a cell phone or I-pad. Long live our youth Long live the 60's and the values there once was.

  • @docdurdin
    @docdurdin Před měsícem +1

    London was the new center of the universe in 67, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? It's LONDONSTAN now. If you took every culture, every belief, all the love, and all the hate and put it in a blender on high; That was the year that was truly Everthing, Everywhere, All at once.

  • @goodbarbenie5477
    @goodbarbenie5477 Před měsícem +1

    Human rights are flowers and the rights are the roots, so as to have human rights U have to have the roots...so without the roots there can never be flowers 🌺 🤨🤔🤕😊

  •  Před 9 dny

    Like the drummer of Jimi Hendrix said about the 60's - love and peace or I will break your arm.

  • @andyhowat4624
    @andyhowat4624 Před měsícem

    I waa drafted but flunked my physical. Oh Joy. I streced 67 to 78. We thought we could change the world. Give peace a chance

  • @juliemcarthur3004
    @juliemcarthur3004 Před 19 dny

    The Monkees im a beliver was the number one song of 1967