The Flower Pot Men - Let's Go to San Francisco / A Walk in the Sky (NRK 1967)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2016
- From The Norvegian Broadcasting (NRK), recorded the 29th of December 1967, in Oslo, and was broadcasted 15th of February 1968.
The Flower Pot Men do a playback of the long version of Let's Go to San Francisco (5:50) and their second single, A Walk in the Sky.
The Flower Pot Men:
Tony BURROWS (mv), Robin SHAW (mv), Pete NELSON (mv) og Neil LANDON (mv) - เพลง
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I am 67 years old and I haven't heard this song since I was a kid in the 1960s. Thanks for putting it on You Tube. Great music!! 😊
Bloody hell we were lucky back in the day with all the
great music,what a time to be young I feel sorry for the people who were not there and who came after us
Fully agree!!😃
Trust me, one look at what your generation did to our planet, your endless wars, your narcissism and disdain for the rest of us...we are very unhappy to be following you dirtbag assholes too. Must be nice to have free Healthcare and be able to own a home.
Such a brilliant song, from an era when music was worth listening too.
So nostalgic and beautiful. As a 60s veteran it almost makes me cry with longing for those times of youth and dreams of a better world. Sad.
My father was 19 years old when he saw this performance on national TV here in Oslo, Norway in early 1968. He's more of a Blues guy but love the Harmony Pop bands of the 60s as well! As for me, I was born in 1980 and starting collecting CDs in 1996 and I've got approximately 15 000 CDs in my collection. I LOVE The Flowerpot Men!!!
Do you aah....love for you
Tony Burrows certainly had lots of hits & was in lots of Groups in the late 60's & early 70s. ☝
This song captured my attention on NZ radio stations in my anxious adolescent years; nostalgic now and love it.
i was only 14yrs old then, what fantastic music we had then.
I wonder what Brian Wilson thought of this. Its got Beach Boys written all over it! No bad thing :-)
The most gorgeous Robin Shaw. Heart throb of my teenage years! Xxxx
This was a big hit in Denmark, when I was in my mid-teens. It was written and recorded by songwriters John Carter and Ken Lewis. Recorded by session musicians with Tony Burrows on lead vocal.
They had to become a band to tour. Later joined by a certain John Lord on Keyboard.
The composition, psychedelic in nature, took vocal and instrumental inspiration from The Beach Boys.
The name The Flower Pot Men was derived from the BBC children's show Flower Pot Men, with the obvious psychedelic era puns on flower power and "pot" (cannabis).
In the US, they were commonly deemed The Flower Men on radio airplay to avoid the drug reference.
Great Information there but I believe the lead vocals were provided by writer/producer John Carter himself.
@@thomasmarthinussen8978 All lead vocals ?
@@StaceyGroover These songs are so intricated and divided into different vocal sections so I see your point. I believe the lead vocals on Lets Go To San Francisco were sung by John Carter, I mean his style is different from Tony Burrows. The lead vocals on A Walk In The Sky is also John Carters. By that I mean, the front lead singing voice, since there are three/four part harmonies going on throughout both songs.
I did see on another blog a comment from John Carter himself who stated that Tony Burrows was not the lead vocalist on Let's Go ..
@@bryanpalmer9660 Yes John Carter was the original singer on the studio track. None of the members in the video have ever recorded the studio track. Only after this song became a hit, John Carter decided to form a band for touring and TV performance.
J aime beaucoup ce groupe c etait la belle epoque aussi musicalement 👩💻🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊💛💛💛💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞💞🦋🦋
J'adore vraiment !! arrangements vocaux d'époque ! magnifique !!
vous devez admettre que c’est aussi ringard que l’enfer, bien que
They are so charming!
The breakdown in the middle of Lets Go To San Francisco sounds very inspired by Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys. I LOVE The Flowerpot Men. They morphed into White Plains in 1970, scoring a nice string of hit singles, including two UK Top 10 hits, My Baby Loves Lovin and Julie, Do You Love Me(a cover of the Bobby Sherman US hit).
Flowerpot men morphed from the ivy league... Created by Carter , lewis ..Stevens.. who no longer wanted to tour...after flowerpot men came.. first class..." Beach baby".....hey, all good 👍
@@josephstevenson7997 Marvellous. I feel both The Ivy League and The Flowerpot Men are criminally underrated. Heck, sane goes for The First Class! They released two superb album, one in 1974 and one in 1976. White Plains had their fair share of commercial success but they were taken that seriously by the critics. They operate on the " Pop" end of the spectrum, after all!
Thomas, you were correct about the inspiration on the song. If you trust what Wikipedia states on their article about "The Flower Pot Men". The Wikipedia article states that Lewis and Carter took Vocal and Instrumental inspiration from the Beach Boys. Oh Tony Burrows was one busy man back in the late 60s and early 1970s. He reminds me of the American Session singer Ron Dante.
magnifiques voix avec des "vibratos exceptionnels
John Carter and Ken Lewis of The Ivy League, the song's writers sang created and recorded this in the studio. They were first heard doing background vocals for The Who on their hit single "I Can't Explain".
The backing band (not appearing here), for this singing group ... was known as "The Garden" and featured future Deep Purple upstarts Jon Lord (organ/keys) , Nick Simper (bass) .... along with noted session drummer Carlo Little.
Love this version
I believe the sound is a little sped up, making them sound like Popsike Harmony singing Chipmunks! Anyway, great band with great songs. By 1970 they had changed their name to White Plains and would score a string of hit singles between 1970 and 1974, including My Baby Loves Lovin and Julie, Do You Love Me.
grande chanson de 1967!
Wonderful song in my memory since its release the first, so long time in 1967.
God bless John Carter. He wrote some lovely stuff. Xxx
Not just a songwriter. He was actually the original singer on the studio recording.
Brings back memories ❤
Amazing.
Decca's contribution to building the Flower Power generation.
Some interesting trivia. Robert Fripp of King Crimson fame, and who is probably your favorite musician's favorite musician's favorite musician, backed them up at a show in a club in London in the late 60's.
This is so psychedelic. The middle part with suuuuuuun, and the video. lol. It's like Beach Baby on acid.
Every member of The Flowerpot Men sans Neil Landon would go on as White Plans, releasing their first single in early 1970 and hitting the UK Top 10 with the Bubblegum Pop classic My Baby Loves Lovin.
And all of it was Tony Burrows the writer and voice behind several one hit wonders like this.
@@Moneytane1976 Actually John Carter and Ken Lewis were the composers and original singer on this song. John Carter wasn't interested in performing on TV and touring. He decided to form a band for touring after he recorded this song.
I was about six lol. Loved it x
Awsome clothes.
Superb
Great!
I knew that Tony Burrows was in this band and I knew that they had recorded this song I just never bother to try to find it. Not to bad on a song. The special effects of their singing performance is a little wild. It reminds me of a video that was created of an early 1967-68 performance by CCR singing ether Susie Q or I Heard It Through the Grapevine.
Agree. The effects are dizzying and unnecessary at all. Actually none of the members performing in the video have ever sung on the studio recording and they're literally miming to John Carter's studio vocals. A common formula that applies to different UK groups in the 60s and 70s. Tony Burrows was hired to be the incarnation of John Carter for the Flowers Pot Men 'Let's Go To San Francisco' TV performance and touring band in 1967. Andy Locke was hired to be the incarnation of Tony Burrows for Edison Lighthouse 'Love Grows' in 1970 and Del John was hired to be the incarnation of Burrows for the First Class 'Beach Baby' in 1974. A series of interesting con. Hahaha..
@@boojaboo7507 I have seen a video of a "group" playing the song Love Grows(Where My Rosemary Goes). Is that Andy Locke? All those Musicians look like they are really playing instruments. I have been playing guitar for 58+ years I know what chords look like and chord progressions are. I know there was a lot of foolishness on the part of bands and appearances of TV shows back in the 60s. I know here in the States that there was squabbling on the record companies part about paying any performance royalties to performers.
We all were lied to bands were (for the most part) miming to either a prerecorded performance or the record). I didn't notice then but have as an adult guitars are not hooked up to amps. I saw Creed Barton playing around on a Grassroots "performance". Most people who made any money (band wise) were the record companies unless the band had a good manager) Brian Epstein of he Beatles.
To many bands ended up like the tragedy of Badfinger.
Yes you can hear the Bach like diminished cord harmonies on the interude simple and very effective probaly put together by a pianist since most guitar players then were either into chacargo blues or Django Rienheart and Wes montgomery ? I love the song though cheers for posting
Some truth in that. Diminished chords weren't used much, but as a guitar player of the 60s I sometimes used them. A good example, on the piano, was Love Letters by Ketty Lester.
Happy days
- I Remenber To My Sacred MoTher WiTh This Marvelous Song...~🤨🌌👵🏻🌉🍑
Let's go to Milton Keynes
The Flowerpot Men were talented session musicians and didn`t fool the genuine hippies one bit with their catchy summer of love hit "Lets go to San Francisco" . Tony Burrows did his usual disappearing act after doing a couple of TV shows with the band . Still a beautifully produced pop classic . I think the group was put together after the record was made but the omnipresent Burrows was probably on it anyway .
Tony Burrows singing lead.
1 hit wonder king
Crazy. It's the early primitive version of Beach Baby.
This is not Primitive Beach at all, but I kinda think I know what you're saying. This is cutting edge 1967 Harmony Pop with psychedelic influences. These guys were just as contemporary sounding as The Beach Boys in 1967/1968.
Hi Tom! I misread your comment. I thought you wrote Beach Boys but I see now you wrote Beach Baby and I totally agree with you!
You can hear "Let's Go To San Francisco" at the 4:40 mark of the long version of "Beach Baby."
What ever happened to all the good days?
We're the beeatch boiz
*there's nothing at all special about San Francisco that'd make you pack up everything and go there, that's for sure*
there was in 1967
George Harrison admitted years later he was disappointed when he was there as all he saw was lots of ugly,stoned people who smelled badly
The flower power
Great video. "A Walk in the Sky" sounds sped-up though.
Woah! Slow down with "Let's Go to San Francisco" - too fast! Better version at correct speed can be seen with "(Original Video) The Flowerpot Men - Let's go to San Francisco". Compare the two and see what you think!
You're correct. Haven't notice it before. Have a suspicion what went wrong here. Can be the program I used to record this, or it can be that NRKs recording did a mistake. Anyway, thanks for pointing it out.
William Lynd904 - It's the way it was performed and the band have artistic license.
I had the 7inch version of this and it is the correct speed.
Youre absolutely correct! They sound like Popsike Harmony singing Chipmunks! It DOES sound rather cool, however! I LOVE The Flowerpot Men/ The Ivy League/ White Plains and The First Class. Everything involving John Carter and Tony Burrows is Top Notch!
@@ddanson5831 Do you mean this TV performance had the correct speed or your single record? This TV recording is obviously recorded at the wrong speed. Its way to fast. I have the original Flowerpot Men recordings on CDs and they contain the original versions and proves this TV performance was recorded waaay to fast. They sound like Harmony singing Chipmunks!
Is John Lord there? (Later of 'Deep Purple').
The lead singer in this video is not Tony Burrows.
Yes it is.
@@DannyBhoy88 yup, must've had way tooooooooooooo much wine
Its John Carter is'nt it
Its not trippy enough, nothing says 1967 like this.
Pourquoi ne voit on pas le principal chanteur ??? et d,avantage le chœur ?? Il est moins bankable ! L.original de ce tube est moins rapide !!!
Sabían ellos acaso que esta sociedad se iba ir al traste?
They wouldn't sing that about 2022 San Francisco.....
TEMPO trop rapide !!....
Miles too fast
Let's go to Gaza 😮
You can if want to
With Tony Burrows