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"South California Purples" (originally titled "Southern California Purples") is a song written and sung by Robert Lamm for the rock band Chicago and recorded for their debut album Chicago Transit Authority (1969). [1] [2] [3] The song quotes the opening line from The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus:"
Americans wear red poppy flowers on Memorial Day to honor the men and women in armed forces who lost their lives protecting our country.
The ukulele was popularized for a stateside audience during the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, held from spring to autumn of 1915 in San Francisco. [19] The Hawaiian Pavilion featured a guitar and ukulele ensemble, George E. K. Awai and his Royal Hawaiian Quartet, [20] along with ukulele maker and player Jonah Kumalae. [21]
In the U.K., the poppy pins are sold by the Royal British Legion to help raise money for veterans. Though less common, the U.S. also employs the poppy — the Veterans of Foreign Wars conducted ...
Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician and actor. He enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes.
Kate began wearing three poppy pins to Remembrance Sunday as far back as 2015, having worn one just the year before, according to The Sun. She continued to wear the set of three every year until ...
"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is an American pop song, [2] written by John Phillips, and sung by Scott McKenzie. [5] It was produced and released in May 1967 by Phillips and Lou Adler , who used it to promote their Monterey International Pop Music Festival held in June of that year.
Jeff Beck – "Poppy Appeal" (2014) Ian Stuart Donaldson & Stigger (1991), as "Green Fields of France" on the album Patriotic Ballads June Tabor (1977), as "No Man's Land / The Flowers o' the Forest" (with the later song as an instrumental fade out of the former), on the album Ashes and Diamonds and on Folk Anthology