March Of The Flower Children: American Sounds Of March Of The Flower Children: American Sounds Of CD

Three CD set. A four-hour overview of the American music scene in 1967. A dazzling cornucopia of psychedelia, garage punk, folk-rock and sunshine pop that acted as the soundtrack to the Summer of Love (US division). By 1967, rock's eternally restless spirit had moved on from Liverpool, the British Invasion and Swinging London and found a new place to dwell. The scene's new creative epicentre was San Francisco, from whence the underground's tentacles spread throughout the nation and beyond as flower-power erupted into full and glorious bloom. Over three CDs and four hours of music, 'March Of The Flower Children' anthologizes the sounds of American rock and pop during a year that would become enshrined in the history books as the Summer of Love. New names - The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, Vanilla Fudge, Strawberry Alarm Clock - are joined by established hit-makers (The Monkees, The Byrds, Lovin' Spoonful, etc), an emerging breed of singer/songwriter (Tim Rose, Tim Buckley) and a handful of older acts adopting a voguishly flowery sheen (Tommy Roe, the Everly Brothers, Jan & Dean). Among such a beatific scene, we also find space for not-so-merry pranksters like The Velvet Underground, The Mothers Of Invention and Captain Beefheart, all of whom had little in common with the peace 'n' love vibe surrounding them. Featuring hits, misses, key album tracks and a whole host of hugely collectable one-off local 45 nuggets, 'March Of The Flower Children' - housed in a clamshell box with accompanying 48-page booklet - is a fascinating aural and visual document of this most pivotal of pop-culture years.

1. It's a Happening Thing - the Peanut Butter Conspiracy 2. !Que Vida! - Love 3. She Hangs Out - the Monkees 4. Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) - the Cryan' Shames 5. Morning Dew - Tim Rose 6. Strange Mysterious Sounds - the Spike Drivers 7. Pipe Dream - Blues Magoos 8. No Time Like the Right Time - the Blues Project 9. Merry-Go-Round - the Youngbloods 10. Strangers from the Sky - Kim Fowley 11. Love Comes, Love Dies - the Troyes 12. Boil the Kettle, Mother - the Id 13. Help, Murder, Police - Thursday's Children 14. Two Days 'Til Tomorrow (Single Edit) - the Beau Brummels 15. Respect - the Vagrants 16. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) - the Grateful Dead 17. Hey, Hey - the Sound Barrier 18. Him or Me - What's It Gonna Be? - Paul Revere ; the Raiders 19. Six O'Clock - the Lovin' Spoonful 20. Groovin' (Single Version) - the Young Rascals 21. Come to the Sunshine - Harpers Bizarre 22. Why Don't You Do Me Right - the Mothers of Invention 23. Transparent Day (Single Mix) -The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band 24. No More - the Morning Dew 25. Egyptian Gardens - the Kaleidoscope 26. You Can Live in Our Tree - the Blue Things 27. Can't Put a Thing Over Me - Eternity's Children 28. Optical Sound (Promo Version) - the Human Expression 29. House of Painted Glass - the Sandals 30. Rest in Peace (Single Edit) - Chad ; Jeremy 31. Aries - the Zodiac 32. You Keep Me Hangin' on - Vanilla Fudge 33. Hideaway - the Electric Prunes 34. Hurricane Fighter Plane - the Red Crayola 35. Fall on You - Moby Grape 36. Evergreen Part One - the Stone Poneys 37. March of the Flower Children (Single Version) - the Seeds 38. Lady Friend - the Byrds 39. I Talk to the Sun - the Rare Breed 40. That's How It Will Be - the Liberty Bell 41. Going Home - NGC-4594 42. It's a Happening World - the Tokens 43. It's a Lazy Summer Day - the Peppermint Trolley Company 44. Penny Arcade - the Cyrkle 45. Mary Jane - the Everly Brothers 46. Parade of Uncertainty - the Raggamuffins 47. I Live in the Springtime ('Drum' Version) - the Lemon Drops 48. Morning Glory - Tim Buckley 49. Little Toy - the Unforscene 50. She's Got the Magic - the Parade 51. Next Plane to London - the Rose Garden 52. Electricity - Captain Beefheart ; His Magic Band 53. The Expectation - Dutch Masters 54. Gonna Send You Back to Your Mother - the Endd 55. God Is Alive in Argentina - the Doppler Effect 56. Paisley Dreams - Tommy Roe 57. Pammie's on a Bummer - Sonny 58. A Question of Temperature - the Balloon Farm 59. I'm the Kind of Guy - Richard Pash ; the Back Door Society 60. 3No One Was There - the Gates of Eden 61. She Laughed Loud - the Merry-Go-Round 62. Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield 63. The Proper Ornaments (Single Mix) - the Free Design 64. 1941 - Nilsson 65. Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow - Strawberry Alarm Clock 66. East River Lovers - Culver Street Playground 67. The Ostrich (Single Version) - Steppenwolf 68. Foreverlasting Plastic Words - Lost ; Found 69. She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) - the 13th Floor Elevators 70. Flying on the Ground - Summer Snow 71. I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Tommy Boyce ; Bobby Hart 72. Love and Hate - Jan ; Dean 73. Not This Time - the Jackson Investment Co 74. Lazy - Georgy ; the Velvet Illusions 75. Echoes of Time - Lemon Fog 76. Astrologically Incompatible - the Bonniwell Music Machine 77. Lila - Fapardokly 78. Sand - Clear Light 79. White Light/White Heat - the Velvet Underground 80. Mirror of Yesterday - the Zakary Thaks 81. Time Has Come Today - the Chambers Brothers 82. Time Goes Backwards - Jim ; Jean 83. Another Time - Sagittarius 84. A Moment of Being with You - the Critters 85. Just Dropped in (To See What Condition My Condition Was in) - the First Edition