You're more than welcome, Armando Cruz Perez. I would also like to say a very big thank you very much for uploading this performance of The Animals singing this beautiful song. I've loved this song for so many years, but I've never been able to find any footage of The Animals singing this fantastic song until now. Thank you very much once again, and rock on!!
@@adamhepburn9701 Thank you so much friend. - This video was here some years ago and I was able to save it. Someone helped me to upload it. Sorry for the bad quality. Yes, a BIG Song from the New Animals, a Favourite from the sixties. Thanks again, you´re welcome. And yes, ROCK ON...!!! :D PEACE & LOVE.
It does mine too and I'm born, raised and still here..we used to play this along with Santana, Sly, Tommy James, etc..in Dolores Park, Speedway Meadows, Kelly's Cove, etc..usually drinking Red Mountain Wine
For my money, Eric Burdon was THE male vocalist of the entire '60s. He sang with conviction, selling his soul to the music, taking on the persona, accepting the focus, and belting them out from his deep within...
I was 14 in 1967. and lived just outside "the city" of the SF Bay Area in a very beautiful natural countryside (80% of which is now gone). Hearing Eric & his bros ALWAYS takes my heart & soul back to my beautiful youth! Great music and great times!
I just lost my favorite uncle... He loved this song . I will listen to this song and smile every time I hear it. He showed me the wonderful music of this time. Love you Uncle Roger. Your loving Nephew...
This is my favorite song of theirs. Takes me back about44 years. Back to bikes, bars, and good friends. Then it was time to settle down but I have great memories.
SAN Franciscan Nights (live 1967) Eric Burdon and the Animals and all their unforgetable songs music!thank God that I still can enyou this music !, me I am 70 years old , young and live in Holland !💫💫💫🦋🦋🦋Ine 🙏🙏🙏
My birthday is in September and I too will be seventy. I had lymphoma a few years ago and it's gone. My chest was riddled with tumours and they are gone now. I believe that it's the fear that kills us, the trauma that we experience can exacerbate the cancer I cruised through the treatment and you can do it too. Good luck Jose 🐸
Congrats, Jose. My wife had a brain tumor removed at 5 years old. She became paralyzed on her right side and had to re-learn how to walk, and to live life left-handed. Today, at age 62, you'd never know she endured all this. She's perfect in every way. On another note (a musical one), I saw Eric Burdon & The Animals in concert as a 13 year-old in 1967 - and they were electrifying!
That's right! In fact he was considered as a possible replacement for Jim Morrison in The Doors. He could have definitely sang the tunes but all involved felt the fans would not accept it so it never even went beyond a brief thought.
I had a major crush on Eric Burden back then and I still do today. How fun it has been to grow up listening to such great music. Thank you for sharing this ♡
Love San Francisco; a fabulous city and this is such a groovy musical masterpiece that takes me high up above and I’m floating on a cloud. Dreaming about the people and visuals from ‘67 Monterey Pop and Art Festival…sing it Eric!! 😘
Im a San Franciscan native, I love this song, Eric had a great taste appreciate the beauty of my city, still the best place #1 world best city labeled in yr 2020 2021
Yeah, but all those bums living and crapping in the downtown streets...burglaries and robberies with no consequences...the high taxes and prices...sorry, pal...the SW USA is where it's at. We have California weather with Arizona and Texas justice....the best of both worlds...and low unemployment, no state tax, reasonably priced real estate...last i heard, almost 1,000 ppl from the West Coast move to Phoenix, Santa Fe, Austin, Dallas, and Houston every day, and for the most part leave their mostly liberal politics behind. I been here 55 years and u couldn't pay me to live anywhere else. We get the occasional hurricane and humidity 6 months a year, but it sure beats mudslides and wildfires.
@Leticia I have ALWAYS known it! At least since exactly 40 yrs by now, (mayB caus' a lil' bit o' THAT crime series😉, too. Right now they show all episodes again on German TV, even the pilot btw.), when i went there aged 12 with my parents 4 vacation. We stayed in Mountain View, when we did home exchange. I♥️SF, especially 4 seein' the Golden Gate once in my lifetime. What a stunnin' overview over the city in the background. 2day i would rather WALK across instead o' drivin' !!! And i even like the whole left n' shoreside of the Bay area 2. (Haven`t been on the right side, but in Sacramento, too btw.). So many gr8 songs & movies about & around THAT city! Beautiful resident in a beautiful city! Just let me add that......Greets from🇩🇪. But tell me, what`s goin' on right now across the US with all those shootings in the last weeks? Even in a hospital. It`s so terrible. Just very recently (last night CET) in Philly, Phoenix & Tennessee again......and Michigan. When will it ever end???
Best city? You couldn't pay me to live there. Their DA just was recalled as the city decended into a cesspool of crime and rampant drug use. Add to that the large homeless population that are allowed to deficate in the middle of the city in broad daylight! Won't be too long before it looks like a third world shithole if it hasn't already.
I am happy that I got to see The Animals. It wasn't too many years ago, at a local casino. My son and his son and myself went. I think it was a sweet thing that a member of three generations attended that show and we all loved it!
I spent 1983 in San Francisco and I thought it was just fine. Very nice feel to it. I had to get used to it at first because I had lived a long time in New York and NY has 10 million people and SF had 100,000 then, so it was lonely until I figured out the good places to go to and all. The weather is perfect ; in the 70s all year long and every night the fog rolls in from Sausalito and chills the city , so you have to wear a sweater or a jacket, even in summer. I love that. Also washes away any pollution so the city is always clean and pretty. I'll always have the memory of San Francisco. I hope it hasnt changed . I wrote a poem back when I was there about the city, which I lost, but I still remember the ending : "As time and hearts beat their soft nocturnal rythms , in San Francisco , at midnight".
ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS' "San Franciscan Nights" Hits THE HOT 40 Billboard Chart on 8/19/1967 at No. 9 for 8 Weeks on MGM Records (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.)
I was born in Scandinavia in 1967. In 1985 I took an English lesson. The teacher played this tune on a tape as we could write down the lyrics and our teacher did interpret the song. I never forgot the song but I never bought Eric Burdon's/The Animals' album. About 2010 I did search the song on youtube. I still like the melody and the song and I am still listening. It's 2020.
@@alisonshenton I assume that he liked this song. Weird choice imo but I am just happy for the weird choice. Sometimes 'weird' is good. I know he did performed Wake Up Little Susie. The reason is say weird, well, San Fransican Nights was out of our league. I had barely heard of The Animals, well, only The House of the Rising Sun. Also our teacher, if I'd guess, I'd say conservative. Hard to say. The school year were unforgettable. It is a 'Folkehøyskole'. You may recognize as 'Folk High School' (FHS) the the only aim is to develop individual character for universal humanistic values. We have lots of FHSs in Norway and the Nordic. Socializing and culture activity is essential. My FHS did offer class in agriculture, music, media, sports and outdoor life (hunting, fishing, haiking, camping, skiing, interest in nature etc) and household subject (primarily preparing food). We worked on culture projects. We had theater groups, we sang and played. We had concerts. You may compare to the tv show Fame. The location for my school is at the Russian border. We could see a Russian City from the school. Just a few miles east, and we'd be in Russia. The border is in the midle of The Pasvik River which is just nearby the school. Pasvik FHS had a tradition to end the school year with an annual school trip to /USSR/Russia. So did we in April 1986. You may already know The Chernobyl accident that happened in late April of 1986 just when we were about to head for Russia. We got green light from the Norwegian authorities. We could go on school trip to USSR. We did celebrate May 1st in a parade in St.Petersburg (Leningrad at that time). It was a little rainy and I remember our teachers did small in the air. They claimed they could smell sulfur. I couldn't smell anything. After Leningrad, we flew Aeroflot over Chernobyl and Kyiv to Odesa. Odesa is a harbor. It was city with a disturbing atmosphere. I bet there were sailors from all over the world. One afternoon just before sunset, a man pointed a hand gun at us from his hotel balcony. We were standing at our hotel room balcony one or two floors above. We jumped back and inside our hotel room. Two girls started to cry. We called our teachers. The girls explained but they cried so hard. One teacher looked at me and asked very seriously. - What happened? I said. - It is like the girls say. Someone pointed a hand gun at us. Back from school trip, on the Norwegian/USSR border, representatives from The State's Radiation Service meet us. They could find a little bit radiation on a shoe. Pasvik FHS TH-cam Channel: th-cam.com/channels/LrlPQcvcVx5bK6JGYdUNbg.html Pasvik FSH homepage: www.pasvikfolkehogskole.no/folk-high-school Google maps: www.google.no/maps/place/Pasvik+Folkeh%C3%B8gskole/@67.4556047,30.9259827,4z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x4434ab48f01b0dd3:0x8749f7dede92b3f4!8m2!3d69.4552865!4d30.0492651
The fact you had to try and affirm he was not racist pretty much proves he is a racist but you like his music so you have to desperately try and defend him. So typical
I was in the U.Va. hospital in 1967 recovering from a serious auto accident, and this song was one of th ones I remember well. My room was always full of "pink ladies" ( I was 18) and music got me through it all! Thanks Eric!
This has to be one of the finest songs in the history of pop music, the lyrics, the music, the voice, the guitar solo, the actual story behind the song, there are good songs, there are great songs, but surely this song has to be one of the very best, it just doesn't get any better than this ! 🙂👌💜🙏🏴
Living in Haight/Ashbury 50yrs later, that's where this song takes me, and yes I was born n raised in the City. Love, Love, Love This Song, And ERIC BURTON ~~~
Wow! My dad, a California native, was in the Army. We drove through San Francisco in 1969 and even thought I was young, I was a hippie at heart and so thrilled to be in the city! I remember passing by people who had long hair and ducking to the floor of the car because I didn't want to be seen with my father, who was "square" and out of touch, because he had just returned from Viet Nam. The fact is, he wasn't so square after all. He took us everywhere, including Haight/Asbury, and all over the world and when he got out of the military, he grew his hair out fast! So cool that you lived there! I love Eric Burdon, too!
pattio smith I lived in the Haight Ashbury also. As soon as I graduated high school I moved there. Lived there 16 yrs. I’m just an old hippy. Had to leave for family reasons or I’d still be there
Have got my own journey to Frisco story at age 19 in 1975. Alas, I was too late and beat retreat to my home, LA. Have seen The Animals, the original band and Eric Burdon and...a number of times. Always a great experience, I'd see Eric again even if he's pushing 80. Thank you Eric!
Ditto -- but as a lifelong resident of the famous fog belt (outer Richmond district) -- I have to laugh my head off every time I hear it. WARM San Franciscan night? It would have to be in late Sept or October!
I had the biggest crush on Eric Burdon in part because of this video and especially when out of nowhere he clowns around and sings the line "San Francisco" with his playful Pancho Villa accent followed by that little grin at 1:55. Love that he had fun with this one.
Just found this! I was born there. My parents had met and married there and brought me home there. I love sf and I love this song just as much! I wasn't born yet when this sf serenade was being taped....but I'm adding this to my all time list. Thank you eric burdon.
I, too, was born in S.F.; so were Clint Eastwood, Steve Jobs, Bruce Lee, Barry Diller, Courtney Love, Monica Lewinsky, Robert Frost and many others. I love bragging about being a native of the City by the Bay.
52 years ago when I was 13 years old this was the second record I ever purchased...on 45. Waves of warm nostalgia wash over me when I listen to it now. I really don't know why I liked it then but I did and still do.
This was from the Shebang music & dance television show that aired on June 24, 1967 hosted by Casey Kasem who introduced them on this episode. Shebang was a 1960s teen music & dance TV show hosted by Casey Kasem. It was broadcast in color from Hollywood, California and, like "Bandstand," artists were invited to perform their latest records. Casey talked with the teenagers in the audience and interviewed the "happening" people of the day. Shebang was broadcast in a limited number of markets from 1965 to 1968. It was filmed at KTLA studios (Los Angeles, CA Channel 5) owned by Gene Autry and was aired on that station as well as a limited syndication in various metro areas around the country and some networks also picked the show up.
1967 was THE year in rock and roll history imho.This great song would be followed on the radio by "Light my Fire","Somebody to Love","With a Little Help from my Friends"--and too many others to mention.A peak in creativity never reached again.
Yes, I was 18. The radio was playing so much great music- and thanks to TH-cam, we can re-live in our minds and memories. I'm doing it all day here inside while it rains.
The bands fed off each other,new bands heard what was happening and tried to emulate,but not copy what the current sound was.So much great rock and roll that carried into about 1971--plus the softer sounds of Simon and Garfunkle,Bread,The First Edition and instrumentals like "Love is Blue". A bolt of lightning it was.
The bands fed off each other,new bands heard what was happening and tried to emulate,but not copy what the current sound was.So much great rock and roll that carried into about 1971--plus the softer sounds of Simon and Garfunkle,Bread,The First Edition and instrumentals like "Love is Blue". A bolt of lightning it was.
I was in an Ace Hardware yesterday morning in LA, and not typical of these daze, they had a great OK Boomer music mix, cued up, and while studying all the endless options of how to hang a picture on the wall of my apt. without doing any damage blah blah blah, this came on, and an instant grin came over my face .
Christel María Steinmann...your words are my words too. very interested because I like this group also very much. Can it be you're a Germán womán? I lived until 2011 in Bavaria North and now in Carib/ Dom. República. Please write me to: pgiebfried390@gmail.com -ok?
Back in the day I bought this album, played it over and over again. Thought my then husband was going to throw me and my record player out of our house.
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Thanks everyone for the support. I´m Mexican. :D Don´t Suscribe PLEASE., I don´t have more videos.
You're more than welcome, Armando Cruz Perez. I would also like to say a very big thank you very much for uploading this performance of The Animals singing this beautiful song. I've loved this song for so many years, but I've never been able to find any footage of The Animals singing this fantastic song until now. Thank you very much once again, and rock on!!
@@adamhepburn9701 Thank you so much friend. - This video was here some years ago and I was able to save it. Someone helped me to upload it. Sorry for the bad quality. Yes, a BIG Song from the New Animals, a Favourite from the sixties. Thanks again, you´re welcome. And yes, ROCK ON...!!! :D PEACE & LOVE.
@SandyQuinn50 Exactly. The world needs this MAGIC again. Thank You so much. Hello from Puebla, México. :D
What brother 👋👋saludos desde Bensalem Pennsylvania USA
@@enriqueramirezgarcia383 :D Hola, gracias. Saludos también desde Puebla, Mexico.
Scott Mackenzie's 'San Francisco' was one vision of this great city, but Eric Burdon expresses the vibe of my San Francisco.
It does mine too and I'm born, raised and still here..we used to play this along with Santana, Sly, Tommy James, etc..in Dolores Park, Speedway Meadows, Kelly's Cove, etc..usually drinking Red Mountain Wine
Expresses the vibe and the culture of the time what amazing times those were
@@danadesimone9322One of my favorite. SF Nights are rarely warm-But Eric’s forgiven😉 He caught the vibe. It was warm in the heart.
@@sattwa2cool response👍✌️
Great vibes and vibrations emitting from the lovely scenery.
Eric Burdon proves again he was one of the best singers/voices of the 60s.
Very very good
Paul Brucker The best and the sexiest
Oh how I was in Love With Him. He was so yummy to me. I see him now I go back to the day I fall in Love W/ Him.💞😁💞.
Oh hell yes!! Eric😃
Cmon, as a vocalist myself this is trash. Eric is bored to tears, and mailed this one in. No accounting for taste....
this group is so underrated... true superstars
definitely
That ‘word’ again 😛
Only by those who don’t know music
Appropriate song for perhaps at one time one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
But now it's a shithole
Sadly no more!!!😢
For my money, Eric Burdon was THE male vocalist of the entire '60s. He sang with conviction, selling his soul to the music, taking on the persona, accepting the focus, and belting them out from his deep within...
Steve Garcia Well said
Eric was the epitome of cool, & an extremely underrated vocalist.
He was not underrated whatsoever
maybe because you just discovered him. eric burdon is a legend
Not that ‘word’ again…😛
I was 14 in 1967. and lived just outside "the city" of the SF Bay Area in a very beautiful natural countryside (80% of which is now gone). Hearing Eric & his bros ALWAYS takes my heart & soul back to my beautiful youth! Great music and great times!
I just lost my favorite uncle... He loved this song . I will listen to this song and smile every time I hear it. He showed me the wonderful music of this time. Love you Uncle Roger. Your loving Nephew...
This is my favorite song of theirs. Takes me back about44 years. Back to bikes, bars, and good friends. Then it was time to settle down but I have great memories.
Come on Cindy, hop on the back of my Harley, we'll hit the bars 😉
@@mickjagger8439 Lol
@@cindycindy2894 🤪
1980 ?
@@tonywright8294 there about, maybe even 1978-79. I was about 20 years old or so.
I'm from New York and this classic always touch my soul and it still does at age 67.
Hi Gary, ich bin jetzt 75, und mich hat dieses Video so ergriffen, daß ich nur noch aus Freude weinen musste.
This was one of the soul songs of the 60's , if we could only go back there ! What a time !
From Newcastle to San Fran..total respect to Mr Burdon,..what a guy
One of the most under acredaditad vocalists. Top 5, in my opinion.
SAN Franciscan Nights (live 1967) Eric Burdon and the Animals and all their unforgetable songs music!thank God that I still can enyou this music !, me I am 70 years old , young and live in Holland !💫💫💫🦋🦋🦋Ine 🙏🙏🙏
I remember this being played on the radio in the late 70’s
I WAS BORN IN 1953 ,I WILL BE 70 IN A WEEK . HAD BRAIN TUMOR REMOVE AND STILL ❤ THKS SONG
My birthday is in September and I too will be seventy. I had lymphoma a few years ago and it's gone. My chest was riddled with tumours and they are gone now. I believe that it's the fear that kills us, the trauma that we experience can exacerbate the cancer I cruised through the treatment and you can do it too. Good luck Jose 🐸
Congrats, Jose. My wife had a brain tumor removed at 5 years old. She became paralyzed on her right side and had to re-learn how to walk, and to live life left-handed. Today, at age 62, you'd never know she endured all this. She's perfect in every way. On another note (a musical one), I saw Eric Burdon & The Animals in concert as a 13 year-old in 1967 - and they were electrifying!
I was in the Haight during July 1967. I'm surprised I remember it😁
i dont remember much
I’m SURE I was there,because I don’t remember a thing.🙃
Eric Burdon turned 80 on May 11/2021.
I do love Eric Burdon! He’s an excellent singer and his stage presence and performance are awesome.
My pops got me into the animals and the who at a young age. Thank you pops such a beautiful band and song
Absolutely amazing oh my God the mandolin makes it I'm all choked up good God why can't we just go back to this peace and loveliness we need help
We will sweetheart ❤️
It's an electric guitar played to sound like a mandolin. Sounds really nice,
I come back here every now and then bcuz it's such a great song...and oh...that cute little grin just kills me.
This guy is definitely cheated out of recognition of one of the best voices in the music industry.
That's right! In fact he was considered as a possible replacement for Jim Morrison in The Doors. He could have definitely sang the tunes but all involved felt the fans would not accept it so it never even went beyond a brief thought.
@@CiscoDuck Thank you. I can see why. He is not a citizen of this sewage pond..
Eric is definitely recognized in and out the industry 🙏
@@antonevelone1439 You keep track of his citizenship status.
Eric Burdon was just was so damn cool. Wow, what a great song!
Eric Burdon was pioneer in rock music and his contribution to music is legendary. Peace Eric.
Omg, omg. Omg...best voice ever. I grew up in the 60s/70s, this song still gives me goose bumps.
People say that about all singers.
@@maxsmith695 Wow, really.
Can never get tired of listening to Eric's unique voice..
One of the most underrated bands. They were geniuses.
Are you the person that says everything is underrated when it’s not
I was 16 and was never blown away by a song like I was by this one.
Absolutely!!! Such a feeling never felt since.
same
I was 18, and I felt exactly the same as you, what a singer, what a song ! 👌💜🙏🏴
played this on a 45 back in 1976 as a 6 year old, the intro and vocals just grabbed me. The words were poetic, Indians too!
I was 14yrs old when this song came out. The Animals had a huge impact on rock history.
What a great classic song. That says so much abot the 60's and the scene in S.F. Eric has such a amazing tone in his voice! Thanks!
Eric was so young and yet his voice and personality is so old....Almost Uncanny
No it’s very canny
Announces with an American accent and sings with an English one. Good song. Never heard it before. Thanks for posting,
Don't forget the Mexican-American accent... smiles when he does it....
Eric personifies the place and time of this song. He's so damned cool.
Good looking too😍😍
Sure is and a major hottie 😮💨!!
Crazy I was born in 57. I recall this song. Great band! Thank u for this!
I'm from 55 and also recall it from the day...
I was born 56 and remember this song too
Same year here. Great song, band, era!
Eric is a genius...and the band is so together smooth...
a sweet song I've been going through the best songs of the Animals and what an experience
I had a major crush on Eric Burden back then and I still do today.
How fun it has been to grow up listening to such great music.
Thank you for sharing this ♡
Love San Francisco; a fabulous city and this is such a groovy musical masterpiece that takes me high up above and I’m floating on a cloud. Dreaming about the people and visuals from ‘67 Monterey Pop and Art Festival…sing it Eric!! 😘
and acid is easy to find 🤪
Im a San Franciscan native, I love this song, Eric had a great taste appreciate the beauty of my city, still the best place #1 world best city labeled in yr 2020 2021
it is the best!!
The left has made San Fran the garbage dump of america! Thanks pelosiiiii
Yeah, but all those bums living and crapping in the downtown streets...burglaries and robberies with no consequences...the high taxes and prices...sorry, pal...the SW USA is where it's at. We have California weather with Arizona and Texas justice....the best of both worlds...and low unemployment, no state tax, reasonably priced real estate...last i heard, almost 1,000 ppl from the West Coast move to Phoenix, Santa Fe, Austin, Dallas, and Houston every day, and for the most part leave their mostly liberal politics behind. I been here 55 years and u couldn't pay me to live anywhere else. We get the occasional hurricane and humidity 6 months a year, but it sure beats mudslides and wildfires.
@Leticia I have ALWAYS known it! At least since exactly 40 yrs by now, (mayB caus' a lil' bit o' THAT crime series😉, too. Right now they show all episodes again on German TV, even the pilot btw.), when i went there aged 12 with my parents 4 vacation. We stayed in Mountain View, when we did home exchange. I♥️SF, especially 4 seein' the Golden Gate once in my lifetime. What a stunnin' overview over the city in the background. 2day i would rather WALK across instead o' drivin' !!! And i even like the whole left n' shoreside of the Bay area 2. (Haven`t been on the right side, but in Sacramento, too btw.). So many gr8 songs & movies about & around THAT city!
Beautiful resident in a beautiful city! Just let me add that......Greets from🇩🇪.
But tell me, what`s goin' on right now across the US with all those shootings in the last weeks? Even in a hospital. It`s so terrible. Just very recently (last night CET) in Philly, Phoenix & Tennessee again......and Michigan. When will it ever end???
Best city? You couldn't pay me to live there. Their DA just was recalled as the city decended into a cesspool of crime and rampant drug use. Add to that the large homeless population that are allowed to deficate in the middle of the city in broad daylight!
Won't be too long before it looks like a third world shithole if it hasn't already.
Cool how Eric managed to corral the whole neat generation to be his band.
WHAT AN ABSOLUTE LEGEND THAT SMILE LOVE IT ❤️ ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS
I am happy that I got to see The Animals. It wasn't too many years ago, at a local casino. My son and his son and myself went. I think it was a sweet thing that a member of three generations attended that show and we all loved it!
Such great music to grow up with. Every generation should have this kind of a legacy.
I spent 1983 in San Francisco and I thought it was just fine. Very nice feel to it. I had to get used to it at first because I had lived a long time in New York and NY has 10 million people and SF had 100,000 then, so it was lonely until I figured out the good places to go to and all. The weather is perfect ; in the 70s all year long and every night the fog rolls in from Sausalito and chills the city , so you have to wear a sweater or a jacket, even in summer. I love that. Also washes away any pollution so the city is always clean and pretty. I'll always have the memory of San Francisco. I hope it hasnt changed . I wrote a poem back when I was there about the city, which I lost, but I still remember the ending : "As time and hearts beat their soft nocturnal rythms , in San Francisco , at midnight".
Wish I'd been in San Francisco in 1967 for the Summer of Love! Was only 12 years old then...😢
I remember when this song came out, I was 8 years old and loved it !
punk ,,, i was 14
My brother had the 45 - I remember being mesmerized by Eric Burdon’s voice even though I was only 10 or so. Still love him!
Wow! I remember this song when I was about 8 or 9 year old. Love it!
Love Eric Burdon.
Eric really got into the feel of the era with this one. That and Sky Pilot are hugely underplayed songs.
ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS' "San Franciscan Nights" Hits THE HOT 40 Billboard Chart on 8/19/1967 at No. 9 for 8 Weeks on MGM Records (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.)
I was born in Scandinavia in 1967. In 1985 I took an English lesson. The teacher played this tune on a tape as we could write down the lyrics and our teacher did interpret the song. I never forgot the song but I never bought Eric Burdon's/The Animals' album. About 2010 I did search the song on youtube. I still like the melody and the song and I am still listening. It's 2020.
YOUR ENGLISH TEACHER HAD EXCELLENT TASTE IN MUSIC ❤️ WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE TO TAKE CARE ❤️
@@alisonshenton I assume that he liked this song. Weird choice imo but I am just happy for the weird choice. Sometimes 'weird' is good. I know he did performed Wake Up Little Susie. The reason is say weird, well, San Fransican Nights was out of our league. I had barely heard of The Animals, well, only The House of the Rising Sun. Also our teacher, if I'd guess, I'd say conservative. Hard to say.
The school year were unforgettable. It is a 'Folkehøyskole'. You may recognize as 'Folk High School' (FHS) the the only aim is to develop individual character for universal humanistic values. We have lots of FHSs in Norway and the Nordic. Socializing and culture activity is essential. My FHS did offer class in agriculture, music, media, sports and outdoor life (hunting, fishing, haiking, camping, skiing, interest in nature etc) and household subject (primarily preparing food). We worked on culture projects. We had theater groups, we sang and played. We had concerts. You may compare to the tv show Fame.
The location for my school is at the Russian border. We could see a Russian City from the school. Just a few miles east, and we'd be in Russia. The border is in the midle of The Pasvik River which is just nearby the school.
Pasvik FHS had a tradition to end the school year with an annual school trip to /USSR/Russia. So did we in April 1986. You may already know The Chernobyl accident that happened in late April of 1986 just when we were about to head for Russia.
We got green light from the Norwegian authorities. We could go on school trip to USSR. We did celebrate May 1st in a parade in St.Petersburg (Leningrad at that time). It was a little rainy and I remember our teachers did small in the air. They claimed they could smell sulfur. I couldn't smell anything.
After Leningrad, we flew Aeroflot over Chernobyl and Kyiv to Odesa. Odesa is a harbor. It was city with a disturbing atmosphere. I bet there were sailors from all over the world. One afternoon just before sunset, a man pointed a hand gun at us from his hotel balcony. We were standing at our hotel room balcony one or two floors above. We jumped back and inside our hotel room. Two girls started to cry. We called our teachers. The girls explained but they cried so hard. One teacher looked at me and asked very seriously. - What happened? I said. - It is like the girls say. Someone pointed a hand gun at us.
Back from school trip, on the Norwegian/USSR border, representatives from The State's Radiation Service meet us. They could find a little bit radiation on a shoe.
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Hands down, one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. As MC Hammer said, "Can't touch this."
Love it! Eric's playful Mexican accent on "San Fran-ceesco" cracks me up. Trust me - Eric didn't have a racist bone in his body!
The fact you had to try and affirm he was not racist pretty much proves he is a racist but you like his music so you have to desperately try and defend him. So typical
@@brianwilson8983 😵💫 🤐
I was in the U.Va. hospital in 1967 recovering from a serious auto accident, and this song was one of th ones I remember well. My room was always full of "pink ladies" ( I was 18) and music got me through it all! Thanks Eric!
This has to be one of the finest songs in the history of pop music, the lyrics, the music, the voice, the guitar solo, the actual story behind the song, there are good songs, there are great songs, but surely this song has to be one of the very best, it just doesn't get any better than this ! 🙂👌💜🙏🏴
Wunderschöne Musik und eine Zeit, die nie zurückkommt.Ich bin glücklich, sie erlebt zu haben!!!
Got that boyish smile. Great voice. Loved the. era.
What a masterpiece!!! Loved this song since I was a kid. So blessed to grow up in the Rock 'n Roll era.
Eric, you are a genius. Thank you. Old Hippy from Cape Town.
Living in Haight/Ashbury 50yrs later, that's where this song takes me, and yes I was born n raised in the City. Love, Love, Love This Song, And ERIC BURTON ~~~
Wow! My dad, a California native, was in the Army. We drove through San Francisco in 1969 and even thought I was young, I was a hippie at heart and so thrilled to be in the city! I remember passing by people who had long hair and ducking to the floor of the car because I didn't want to be seen with my father, who was "square" and out of touch, because he had just returned from Viet Nam. The fact is, he wasn't so square after all. He took us everywhere, including Haight/Asbury, and all over the world and when he got out of the military, he grew his hair out fast! So cool that you lived there! I love Eric Burdon, too!
I love your story, You are so Cool!!
pattio smith I lived in the Haight Ashbury also. As soon as I graduated high school I moved there. Lived there 16 yrs. I’m just an old hippy. Had to leave for family reasons or I’d still be there
horseygurl143 excellent story
Have got my own journey to Frisco story at age 19 in 1975. Alas, I was too late and beat retreat to my home, LA. Have seen The Animals, the original band and Eric Burdon and...a number of times. Always a great experience, I'd see Eric again even if he's pushing 80. Thank you Eric!
I live in SF, and this song, for me, captures the spirit here in such a pure, beautiful way.
Ditto -- but as a lifelong resident of the famous fog belt (outer Richmond district) -- I have to laugh my head off every time I hear it. WARM San Franciscan night? It would have to be in late Sept or October!
Summer of ‘86 was hot
Wish I lived in San Francisco too, a wonderful city 🏙️
I had the biggest crush on Eric Burdon in part because of this video and especially when out of nowhere he clowns around and sings the line "San Francisco" with his playful Pancho Villa accent followed by that little grin at 1:55. Love that he had fun with this one.
A flash back to when I was young. Loved it then and now.
Just found this! I was born there. My parents had met and married there and brought me home there. I love sf and I love this song just as much! I wasn't born yet when this sf serenade was being taped....but I'm adding this to my all time list. Thank you eric burdon.
I, too, was born in S.F.; so were Clint Eastwood, Steve Jobs, Bruce Lee, Barry Diller, Courtney Love, Monica Lewinsky, Robert Frost and many others. I love bragging about being a native of the City by the Bay.
Don't forget Natalie Wood..and i'm a native, and still live here...although it has really changed..
52 years ago when I was 13 years old this was the second record I ever purchased...on 45. Waves of warm nostalgia wash over me when I listen to it now. I really don't know why I liked it then but I did and still do.
😍😁😍
I was 17 and the world was a constant wonder. Music was really good and no one knew fear.
Except dudes goin’ to, you know, ‘nam.
@ElimGarakSpoonHead everyone had the choice mahumad Ali took
My Dads favourite tune. He said as born in the slums of Manchester.
This was from the Shebang music & dance television show that aired on June 24, 1967 hosted by Casey Kasem who introduced them on this episode.
Shebang was a 1960s teen music & dance TV show hosted
by Casey Kasem. It was broadcast in color from Hollywood, California and, like
"Bandstand," artists were invited to perform their latest records. Casey talked
with the teenagers in the audience and interviewed the "happening" people of the
day. Shebang was broadcast in a limited number of markets from 1965 to 1968. It was filmed at KTLA studios (Los Angeles, CA Channel 5) owned by Gene Autry and was aired on that station as well as a limited syndication in various metro areas around the country and some networks also picked the show up.
2024, if only it was still beautiful.
Cop's face is full of hate, heaven's above, he's on a street called love. ❤️
Eines meiner Lieblingstitel! Super! Leider gibt es solche Musik heute nicht mehr!
1967 was THE year in rock and roll history imho.This great song would be followed on the radio by "Light my Fire","Somebody to Love","With a Little Help from my Friends"--and too many others to mention.A peak in creativity never reached again.
Yes, I was 18. The radio was playing so much great music- and thanks to TH-cam, we can re-live in our minds and memories. I'm doing it all day here inside while it rains.
Why do you think that was?
The bands fed off each other,new bands heard what was happening and tried to emulate,but not copy what the current sound was.So much great rock and roll that carried into about 1971--plus the softer sounds of Simon and Garfunkle,Bread,The First Edition and instrumentals like "Love is Blue".
A bolt of lightning it was.
The bands fed off each other,new bands heard what was happening and tried to emulate,but not copy what the current sound was.So much great rock and roll that carried into about 1971--plus the softer sounds of Simon and Garfunkle,Bread,The First Edition and instrumentals like "Love is Blue".
A bolt of lightning it was.
I love you Eric burdon 😍 you're the best voices 😍
Thank you Armando Eric has one of the best voices in rock.
Ultra cool
Ultra groovy
Ultra charismatic
Fantastic !!!
I was in an Ace Hardware yesterday morning in LA, and not typical of these daze, they had a great OK Boomer music mix, cued up, and while studying all the endless options of how to hang a picture on the wall of my apt. without doing any damage blah blah blah, this came on, and an instant grin came over my face .
This song brings back such good vibes! Eric's voice was powerful and beautiful and so moving!!
WHAT A LOVELY SMILE THINK YOU'RE AMAZING ERIC BURDON YOUR MUSIC AND LYRICS WILL NEVER END TAKE CARE ❤️🦋🌈
One of the best songs I've ever heard, great live rendidtion.
Lip synced
How I loved and love this song!
Yes, me too. :D
Christel María Steinmann...your words are my words too. very interested because I like this group also very much. Can it be you're a Germán womán? I lived until 2011 in Bavaria North and now in Carib/ Dom. República. Please write me to: pgiebfried390@gmail.com -ok?
He was so yummy 😋to me
Very beautiful song played by a very good band❤❤❤❤❤
I’m 17, again! What a Summer that was! 🏄🏻♀️
Had forgotten how great the Animals were...
konnte sie nie vergessen ;)
Happy Birthday Eric! Thanks for always 'bringing it'!
Cat Tarbell ouch I forgot it was his birthday , i'm a bad fan :/ lol
LOVE Eric Burdon. Wonderful song.
Many thanks Armando for uploading this beautiful music. ❤🎸🎶
In my heart, there will always be a warm San Franciscan night... always...
GREAT MUSIC TO GROW UP WITH WISH THEY WERE STILL HERE
Back in the day I bought this album, played it over and over again. Thought my then husband was going to throw me and my record player out of our house.
Great voice!! From the Animals!!!!!
This is the kind of song Eric Burdon’s voice was made for.
Thank you brother I was a child when this song Came out my father was in Vietnam at the time.And I will never forget that.
A different time. Awesome live. Nice post
this song speaks to a time, a place, a life....
Live TV performance - not lip synched. Great! Thanks!~
ERIC BURDON IS A GENIUS that's all I can say ❤️✝️🇺🇸☮️💗