Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
"Old Hippie" is a song written by David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was released in April 1985 as the first single from their album Howard & David . The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in July 1985 [ 1 ] and No. 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. [ 2 ]
Songs about hippies. Pages in category "Songs about hippies" ... Oblivion (Terrorvision song) Old Hippie; S. San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) W.
"Carey" is a song from the 1971 Joni Mitchell album Blue. It was inspired by her time spent with Cary Raditz, living with a cave-dwelling hippie community at Matala , on the Greek island of Crete .
It was briefly revived in 1988 however, as can be heard on the live album The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life. [1] On the performance selected for the album, Mike Keneally performs the monologue at the end of the song in a style reminiscent of Johnny Cash's, who was very unlike the hippie portrayed in the song.
The lyrics of the song relate to a 1940s Los Angeles–based group called "Nature Boys", a subculture of proto-hippies of which Ahbez was a member. [ 2 ] "Nature Boy" was released during the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) ban of 1948.
The song won a Grammy in 1958 for best R&B performance, and in 2001, the song was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Michael Ochs Archives - Getty Images “Diana” by Paul Anka (1957)
"Going Up the Country" (also "Goin' Up the Country") is a song adapted and recorded by American blues rock band Canned Heat. Called a "rural hippie anthem", [3] it became one of the band's biggest hits and best-known songs. [4] As with their previous single, "On the Road Again", the song was adapted from a 1920s blues song and sung by Alan Wilson.
The lyrics have also invited interpretation as a message to the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, and alternatively as a comment on fame. George Harrison performed the song during his visit to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in August 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love. The track later appeared on the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour ...