# Hippie Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913 "2014-10-10T01:34:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/41 "2014-10-16T00:34:04Z")
Savoy Brown got a lot of play on Beaker Street. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/42 "2014-10-16T02:01:24Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Strawberry Alarm Clock? If you play them, you should also play some [Chocolate Watchband](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chocolate_Watchband). Ooh, and some [Vanilla Fudge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Fudge). I don’t know if Chocolate Watchband has any singles people would know, but their sound would be recognizably 60s. I’d never actually heard of Vanilla Fudge before finding that page… ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/43 "2014-10-16T02:41:08Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Gotta be Pig-Pen era. I have a bootleg somewhere of Pigpen and Janis Joplin singing _Turn On Your Love Light_. Winterland, I think, but maybe the Fillmore. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/44 "2014-10-16T04:28:01Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > And their Magic Bus. And there is tonight’s earwig. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/45 "2014-10-16T06:13:05Z")
Signs- Five Man Electrical Band. Don’t bother with Tesla’s version. Get the original. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/46 "2014-10-16T07:34:44Z")
I’ll second “It’s A Beautiful Day,” [White Bird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUNgQ03D2qA) is their “big hit” but most [everything from that album](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ili5LdQFrQA)works, as stated. A little Spirit would certainly hit the spot, especially "[Mechanical World."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCc_5oMwI_M). And from their “12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus” there’s [Nature’s Way.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXXdZjispHs) A little Curved Air would work, I think [Jumbo](http://www.last.fm/music/Curved+Air/_/Jumbo) has an eerie psychedelic quality. And how about Renaissance doing a little [Running Hard](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sRO7Kqn-c)? ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/47 "2014-10-16T09:35:39Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Creedence Clearwater Revival I’m no expert on why, but CCR is often held up as an example of non-hippie rock (Elvis is another, as is Skynyrd). I guess it’s because of the whole “swampers”/Southern Fried Rock thing. Hippies weren’t region-specific, but their music skewed heavily toward San Francisco artists, much the same way Grunge skewed mostly toward Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/48 "2014-10-16T13:00:29Z")
[Crimson and Clover - Tommy James & The Shondells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpGEeneO-t0) The long version of course. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/49 "2014-10-16T13:33:34Z")
As originally conceived, “Hair” is just as hippy as anything else. It’s not like Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote it. It pissed off the right people and pushed boundries. The movie however…ehh ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/50 "2014-10-16T13:39:03Z")
What, no Partridge Family?!? No Archies?!? :eek: No one’s mentioned Scott McKenzie?!? Or have I missed something??? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913/51 "2014-10-16T13:43:40Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > As originally conceived, “Hair” is just as hippy as anything else. It’s not like Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote it. It pissed off the right people and pushed boundries. > > The movie however…ehh It pissed me off when I took a girlfriend to see some of her friends taking acting at college, and they simulated intercourse on stage. Yeah, I was a prig during college. :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hippie-music/700913.md?page=2)