• Four-hour, 3-CD 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’ anthologises 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 – 1. Its 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 – Thursdays 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 – Whats It Gonna Be? – Paul Revere & the Raiders 19. Six OClock – the Lovin Spoonful 20. Groovin (Single Version) – the Young Rascals 21. Come To the Sunshine – Harpers Bizarre 22. Why Dont You Do Me Right – the Mothers of Invention 23. Transparent Day (Single Mix) -the West Coast Pop Art Experim 24. No More – the Morning Dew 25. Egyptian Gardens – the Kaleidoscope 26. You Can Live In Our Tree – the Blue Things 27. Cant Put a Thing Over Me – Eternitys Children 28. Optical Sound (Promo Version) – the Human Expression 29. House of Painted Glass – the Sandals 30. Rest In Peace (Single Edit) – Chad & Jeremy – 2 – 1. Aries – the Zodiac 2. You Keep Me Hangin On – Vanilla Fudge 3. Hideaway – the Electric Prunes 4. Hurricane Fighter Plane – the Red Crayola 5. Fall On You – Moby Grape 6. Evergreen Part One – the Stone Poneys 7. March of the Flower Children (Single Version) – the Seeds 8. Lady Friend – the Byrds 9. I Talk To the Sun – the Rare Breed 10. Thats How It Will Be – the Liberty Bell 11. Going Home – Ngc-4594 12. Its a Happening World – the Tokens 13. Its a Lazy Summer Day – the Peppermint Trolley Company 14. Penny Arcade – the Cyrkle 15. Mary Jane – the Everly Brothers 16. Parade of Uncertainty – the Raggamuffins 17. I Live In the Springtime (Drum Version) – the Lemon Drops 18. Morning Glory – Tim Buckley 19. Little Toy – the Unforscene 20. Shes Got the Magic – the Parade 21. Next Plane To London – the Rose Garden 22. Electricity – Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band 23. The Expectation – Dutch Masters 24. Gonna Send You Back To Your Mother – the Endd 25. God is Alive In Argentina – the Doppler Effect 26. Paisley Dreams – Tommy Roe 27. Pammies On a Bummer – Sonny – 3 – 1. A Question of Temperature – the Balloon Farm 2. Im the Kind of Guy – Richard Pash & the Back Door Society 3. No One Was There – the Gates of Eden 4. She Laughed Loud – the Merry-Go-Round 5. Bluebird – Buffalo Springfield 6. The Proper Ornaments (Single Mix) – the Free Design 7. 1941 – Nilsson 8. Rainy Day Mushroom Pillow – Strawberry Alarm Clock 9. East River Lovers – Culver Street Playground 10. The Ostrich (Single Version) – Steppenwolf 11. Foreverlasting Plastic Words – Lost & Found 12. She Lives (In a Time of Her Own) – the 13th Floor Elevators 13. Flying On the Ground – Summer Snow 14. I Wonder What Shes Doing Tonight – Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart 15. Love and Hate – Jan & Dean 16. Not This Time – the Jackson Investment Co. 17. Lazy – Georgy & the Velvet Illusions 18. Echoes of Time – Lemon Fog 19. Astrologically Incompatible – the Bonniwell Music Machine 20. Lila – Fapardokly 21. Sand – Clear Light 22. White Light/White Heat – the Velvet Underground 23. Mirror of Yesterday – the Zakary Thaks 24. Time Has Come Today – the Chambers Brothers 25. Time Goes Backwards – Jim & Jean 26. Another Time – Sagittarius 27. A Moment of Being With You – the Critters 28. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
