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  • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
    @FreeDocumentaryHistory  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    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 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

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

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

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

    • @fayejacobs1043
      @fayejacobs1043 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@jrussellcase perhaps the drugs too😏

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @reneroos2323
    @reneroos2323 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Thank you for taking me back in time. It was an amazing time to be young and alive.

  • @missrayelyn3045
    @missrayelyn3045 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

    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 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

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

    • @missrayelyn3045
      @missrayelyn3045 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @bold58
    @bold58 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

    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  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

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

    • @shootfirst2097
      @shootfirst2097 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

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

    • @victorianidetch
      @victorianidetch 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @thirdsamuel6643
      @thirdsamuel6643 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I came home from the Navy and bought a brand new Mercury comet cyclone in 1966,great music and good times.

  • @mikewithers299
    @mikewithers299 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @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 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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.

    • @FredCarpenter-b3t
      @FredCarpenter-b3t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It didn't last long before it was hijacked by the matrix.

    • @DannyHood-j
      @DannyHood-j 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      If you were 5 years in 1967 means you over 60 years old. Which means you’re OLD. Who am I to say OLD? I’m behind you at 58.

  • @alexiasherman3358
    @alexiasherman3358 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

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

    • @ClassicMoments-bg1bb
      @ClassicMoments-bg1bb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @stevenr8606
      @stevenr8606 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      👍🏻 HS GRAD '74 🎉😊

    • @shootfirst2097
      @shootfirst2097 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

    • @ronsanchez6992
      @ronsanchez6992 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Live long and prosper, fellow boomer, I too am class of 67....
      They were the best of times....
      They were the worst of times😊😢

  • @JollyRoger1969
    @JollyRoger1969 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    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 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @mikenuyen4441
    @mikenuyen4441 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

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

    • @lastofthev8interceptors411
      @lastofthev8interceptors411 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @RoadWarrior-lo9vt
      @RoadWarrior-lo9vt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

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

    • @robertshapiro3733
      @robertshapiro3733 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @timanctil8225
      @timanctil8225 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      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!

  • @martinavila6821
    @martinavila6821 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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

  • @catl1783
    @catl1783 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    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

    • @ChongQingLaowai50
      @ChongQingLaowai50 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      No comparison with the music then and now.

    • @alirioforero9778
      @alirioforero9778 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Good for your brother

  • @WonderWoman88-e2k
    @WonderWoman88-e2k 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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.

  • @glassman56garner76
    @glassman56garner76 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was 5 years old living in San Francisco in 1967. As I grew older, I studied that era a great deal. What a decade it was.

  • @anitakephart3851
    @anitakephart3851 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    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...

    • @elusinheart
      @elusinheart หลายเดือนก่อน

      sorry for your loss, i bet she was wonderful.

  • @kimberlybamford1072
    @kimberlybamford1072 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was 5 years old in 1968. And I can remember my momma buying us 45 records it started my love for music and still does to this days. My parents are passed on now but I can still remember momma in the kitchen with the radio on. 😊

  • @fayejacobs1043
    @fayejacobs1043 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @timcross2510
    @timcross2510 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    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 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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

    • @FredCarpenter-b3t
      @FredCarpenter-b3t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "the newspapers put golf tournaments, show biz and "anything but dead in the jungle" on the front pages and nightly news."
      Typical. The more things change the more they stay the same.

  • @nanabutner
    @nanabutner 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    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”!

  • @shalonfreeman9068
    @shalonfreeman9068 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Born in the 80's but I loved coming into this world on the heels of the 60's and 70's. What a time to be alive.

  • @ruthhaywood3473
    @ruthhaywood3473 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

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

  • @Peeky_blinder3.14
    @Peeky_blinder3.14 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was born on the first day of fall 1967 ! I was listening to the music before I was born! My Mom born with polio loved music and danced to everything!!

  • @gordlawton
    @gordlawton 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 TH-cam 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.

    • @wunderwrldX
      @wunderwrldX 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@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.

  • @ChongQingLaowai50
    @ChongQingLaowai50 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    God I can remember the very first vinyl i bought in the 60's California dreaming the mamas and the papas I was so excited i used to play it all the time.

  • @robynmasters335
    @robynmasters335 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

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

    • @cocoaorange1
      @cocoaorange1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I was born in August 1967.

    • @Messycandy_17
      @Messycandy_17 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      November 1967 😉

    • @FredCarpenter-b3t
      @FredCarpenter-b3t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      In the process of conceiving? Is that what they're calling copulation now? Exactly how were flowers involved? Is it some sort of birds and bees thing?

  • @deboramccallum3987
    @deboramccallum3987 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @dianeruiz0721
    @dianeruiz0721 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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

  • @kimdurig1322
    @kimdurig1322 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I turned thirteen that year what an amazing time to live

  • @Nyqtie
    @Nyqtie 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The music is unmatched❤

  • @jennifervanderdrift3207
    @jennifervanderdrift3207 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely brilliant doco about the greatest time to be young, the memories it has rekindled are wonderful. We were lucky to experience this time.

  • @cathybassett6432
    @cathybassett6432 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @kckazcoll1
    @kckazcoll1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

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

  • @MultiFlange1
    @MultiFlange1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

    • @reneroos2323
      @reneroos2323 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I was a 16 year old Dutch kid and listened to Radio Caroline and Radio Veronica, the Dutch pirate ship.

    • @MultiFlange1
      @MultiFlange1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@reneroos2323 Oh yeah! Veronica! I listened to that too! Great times...

  • @giselematthews7949
    @giselematthews7949 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

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

    • @elizabethmcleod246
      @elizabethmcleod246 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @shootfirst2097
      @shootfirst2097 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @vickiladu6755
    @vickiladu6755 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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!

  • @jrussellcase
    @jrussellcase 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @moniquesilverans3842
    @moniquesilverans3842 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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.

  • @ScarlettFire341
    @ScarlettFire341 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    "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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @jeffbreezee
    @jeffbreezee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    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.

  • @JRNarian
    @JRNarian 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @CraigPrice-zq5wz
    @CraigPrice-zq5wz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

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

  • @ginaferracini9375
    @ginaferracini9375 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

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

    • @stevenhanson6057
      @stevenhanson6057 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Now we’re wearing them!

  • @ronaldzent6321
    @ronaldzent6321 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

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

    • @danilaroche1156
      @danilaroche1156 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @jerrylubrano5052
    @jerrylubrano5052 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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)

  • @DBEdwards
    @DBEdwards 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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.

  • @robertmanley2687
    @robertmanley2687 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @robertmanley2687
      @robertmanley2687 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@danilaroche1156 Purple Haze

  • @danielpollak6075
    @danielpollak6075 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

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

  • @apitheous194
    @apitheous194 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @swimlaps1
    @swimlaps1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1967-The young lady next door of us in Detroit had the 1967 orange/red Mustang! What I wanted, at 8..when I grow up. Remember all the styles, music, protests, civil rights movement/riots, war on news, & changes...as this doc shows.

  • @Argonaut121
    @Argonaut121 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I turned 13 in the summer of 1967. It was a great time to become a teenager.

  • @INgirl812
    @INgirl812 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

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

  • @MichaelLeBlanc-p4f
    @MichaelLeBlanc-p4f 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

    • @zenlandzipline
      @zenlandzipline 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @foto21
    @foto21 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @MrFroglips69
    @MrFroglips69 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Groovy baby, totally trippy.

  • @kso808
    @kso808 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +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)

  • @tentativity4404
    @tentativity4404 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Super documentary! 👍🏻

  • @lelandkelley2199
    @lelandkelley2199 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

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

    • @WayneAmoss-l7z
      @WayneAmoss-l7z 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bs

    • @lelandkelley2199
      @lelandkelley2199 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I didn’t, confused with someone else

  • @richardspurlock8444
    @richardspurlock8444 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was 16. We had the best clothes, hair, cars and music.

  • @nekomantix598
    @nekomantix598 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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 🙂

  • @ReWilliams-h1s
    @ReWilliams-h1s 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was only 6 years old. Now looking back I realized they things for the best.

  • @ericrlaz39
    @ericrlaz39 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @juliejackman2649
    @juliejackman2649 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

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

    • @caroleminke6116
      @caroleminke6116 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Was he drafted? ❤️‍🩹

    • @kcollinsgallhollcom
      @kcollinsgallhollcom 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      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 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      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 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

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

    • @ThomasCranmer1959
      @ThomasCranmer1959 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

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

  • @EvaristoMerced
    @EvaristoMerced 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    1967, Summer of love❤, I'm so happy...I was born in 1967.

  • @timr31908
    @timr31908 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Janis Joplin loved Otis Redding.. that makes me love Janis Joplin even more

  • @SMDsoulnumbers
    @SMDsoulnumbers หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fabulous documentary

  • @yassir1776
    @yassir1776 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Looks like we're headed for another summer of love

    • @eddenoy321
      @eddenoy321 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      we need it

    • @EllyWoman777
      @EllyWoman777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Never Again
      There is too much division in this country!
      Un United Nations of Chaos & Confusion!
      Woodstock was about ✌️ ❤️ & 🎶

  • @j.g.8494
    @j.g.8494 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.

  • @ronaldzent6321
    @ronaldzent6321 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Twiggy, the first Supermodel. Those eyes!

    • @tiffanyroseangeles34
      @tiffanyroseangeles34 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Jean Shrimpton?

    • @n9oqu
      @n9oqu 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      she had eyes but mothing else!

  • @adrianmedforth3033
    @adrianmedforth3033 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Great documentary

  • @tommyasprion4394
    @tommyasprion4394 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @scottfagerstrom9312
      @scottfagerstrom9312 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @davidb2206
      @davidb2206 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @bettierusso5410
    @bettierusso5410 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @robertlear2712
    @robertlear2712 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @howardquinn5911
      @howardquinn5911 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ⁠@@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?

  • @francisebbecke2727
    @francisebbecke2727 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @andyhowat4624
      @andyhowat4624 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It became a life style for those who wanted change

  • @RoadWarrior-lo9vt
    @RoadWarrior-lo9vt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    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.
    ✌🙂

  • @nickfairhead2355
    @nickfairhead2355 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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.

  • @robertcombs55
    @robertcombs55 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

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

    • @olhickory6420
      @olhickory6420 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I know it was Hell but thanks for serving.

    • @crazy4bruno1
      @crazy4bruno1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for your service

    • @EllyWoman777
      @EllyWoman777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you for serving!

  • @smesui1799
    @smesui1799 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Seems so ancient now. I wonder how many in these videos are still with us ?

  • @peterfreiling6963
    @peterfreiling6963 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I went to HS at St. Ignatius, a short walk to the Haight Ashbury district, and i remember all of this. I was disappointed that SF did not hold a "Summer of Love" 50th anniversary event in 2017. It was talked about, but not done. Does anybody know why?

  • @Shanehutcheson841
    @Shanehutcheson841 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great Video!!

  • @victorsuarez3546
    @victorsuarez3546 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    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.

  • @trevorwakefiel870
    @trevorwakefiel870 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    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 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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.

  • @Catherine-259-s5u
    @Catherine-259-s5u 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    My 28 year old brother came home in a body bag in 1967 because of the Vietnam War. He was a medic and his name was John.

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Catherine-259-s5u RIP John

    • @Catherine-259-s5u
      @Catherine-259-s5u 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@FreeDocumentaryHistory Thank you for that. ❤️

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Catherine-259-s5u I think the tragedy of this war was that young men were sent off thousands of miles to a country no one knew anything about. And nobody really knew why. I’m really sorry for the loss of your brother.

    • @Yesitisbrett
      @Yesitisbrett 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I'm sorry for your loss....I actually cry for you and him, what a terrible rotten thing to happen for a guy who was fighting to safe lives....to lose his. I was born in 1967....I know when we lose loved ones, whether it's an hour, a day, a year or 57 years ago, a true feeling heart never really heals...but you fill the void with memories of them with fond thoughts and reminisce turning stones and relish a look they gave, a word they said, the good they brought to your life. They are not gone, but just around the corner in your mind. PEACE TO YOU and prayers 🙏 😢

    • @Catherine-259-s5u
      @Catherine-259-s5u 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Yesitisbrett You’re so sweet! Thank you for your lovely reply! ❤️ I was born in 1959. I was eight when he died. I don’t remember a whole lot of what happened to him until years later when my parents started to open up about what happened. He was just my big brother to me. Still sorely missed after all of these years. My parents have been gone a long time too.

  • @suestephan3255
    @suestephan3255 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @arthurdalton517
    @arthurdalton517 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danielgiraud1118 are you from there

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @arthurdalton517
      @arthurdalton517 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@arthurdalton517 : Et alors Doolin'-Dalton ?

  • @ziggyplay
    @ziggyplay 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So many protests, so much passion and affection, so much effort and desire put in... And here we are again, 2024 fighting again for even greater injustices and stupidities.

  • @shilohauraable
    @shilohauraable 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    My older sister had so many male college friends in Vietnam. And many from our church. I know one of the guys she dated was killed in combat and she cried for months. 😢 My husband was wounded in Nam in 68 and spent 2 years in and out of VA hospitals until he found a private surgeon that fixed his problem on an "emergency" basis so that VA still paid for it. 🙄 He still will not go to VA doctors even tho he has full, free coverage. He now also suffers from Agent Orange poisoning. He's an amazing guy! ❤️
    The music of our time was amazing! Notice current groups are covering a lot of them today. And a lot of movies are remakes of our movies & TV shows! We truly effected culture even if we were on the sidelines. A lot for the good &, sorry to say, some for the bad.

  • @veggigoddess
    @veggigoddess 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun fact! The guy talking about how he was on radio Caroline was in the movie Pirate Radio about that boat

  • @Sabotage_Labs
    @Sabotage_Labs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    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!

  • @anitakephart3851
    @anitakephart3851 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Jackie Wilson was every bit a great dancer as James Brown without all the drama and controversary

  • @deejay4922
    @deejay4922 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good Historical Doco.

  • @lorigoshert6667
    @lorigoshert6667 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

    • @FreeDocumentaryHistory
      @FreeDocumentaryHistory  6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Glad you liked it and we’ll check out the audio - thanks!

  • @kurtalbrethsen3863
    @kurtalbrethsen3863 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was turning 12 but aware of all the turmoil, political unrest, the Cold War, all of it and particularly the music.

  • @ruthiruthhausen5912
    @ruthiruthhausen5912 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    My Darling was born in 1967 ❤!

  • @Jatadhari1000
    @Jatadhari1000 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

    • @danielgiraud1118
      @danielgiraud1118 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      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...

  • @biglongcadillac
    @biglongcadillac 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Quite a good documentary.

  • @yaraviera4444
    @yaraviera4444 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +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..

    • @jessiem276
      @jessiem276 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lots of people suffered!

  • @LisaRichards_123
    @LisaRichards_123 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    People trying to define the 60s that weren’t here for it

    • @donaldmarcus9655
      @donaldmarcus9655 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The problem is the society does not listen to people that are old that speak you got to be young and good-looking well they just won't listen to you when I was young I used to love picking my grandfather's brain they're walking is like a PDS but they don't look at that today we're worthlessness taboo

  • @rahsunallah2825
    @rahsunallah2825 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I was born June 2 1977 but feel like I was born 67. 😊

  • @the4thway51
    @the4thway51 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm surprised, this is well put together.

  • @gogoyubari366
    @gogoyubari366 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

    • @Fawn91193
      @Fawn91193 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @hurdygurdyguy1
    @hurdygurdyguy1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    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...