The great music of the Summer of Love in the Haight-Ashbury comes alive in this amazing book and CD compendium, featuring early Santana, Youngbloods, Dan Hicks, Janis Joplin, Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Beau Brummels, Sons of Champlin, Country Joe & The Fish, Charlatans and Warlocks.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Let's Get Together - Dino Valenti
2. I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag [EP Version] - Country Joe & the Fish
3. You Were on My Mind - We Five
4. Number One - The Charlatans
5. Can't Come Down - Warlocks
6. Don't Talk to Strangers - The Beau Brummels
7. Anything - The Vejtables
8. It's No Secret - Jefferson Airplane
9. Johnny Was a Good Boy - The Mystery Trend
10. Free Advice - The Great Society,
11. Mr Jones (A Ballad of a Thin Man) - The Grass Roots
12. Stranger in a Strange Land - Blackburn & Snow
13. Who Do You Love [Demo Version] - Quicksilver Messenger Service
14. She's My Baby - The Mojo Men
15. Coffee Cup - Wildflower
16. Live Your Own Life - Family Tree
17. Fat City - The Sons of Champlin
18. Human Money - The Frantics
19. Bye Bye Bye [Warner Bros. Single Version] - The Tikis
20. Section 43 [EP Version] - Country Joe & the Fish
21. Hello Hello - The Sopwith Camel

Disc 2:

1. No Way Out - The Chocolate Watchband
2. Hey I'm Lost - Butch Engle & The Styx
3. Psychotic Reaction - The Count Five
4. Got Love - Front Line Assembly
5. Satisfaction Guaranteed - The Mourning Reign
6. Foolish Woman - Oxford Circle
7. My Buddy Sin - Stained Glass
8. Streetcar - The Otherside
9. Suzy Creamcheese - Teddy & His Patches
10. Rubiyat - The Immediate Family
11. Rumors - The Syndicate of Sound
12. Sometimes I Wonder - The Harbinger Complex
13. Want Ad Reader - The New Breed
14. I'm a Good Woman - The Generation
15. No Way Out - The Chocolate Watchband
16. Hey I'm Lost - Butch Engle,
17. I Love You - People
18. America - Public Nuisance
19. Fly to New York - Country Weather
20. Thing in "E" - Savage Resurrection
21. Hearts to Cry - Frumious Bandersnatch

Disc 3:

1. Alabama Bound - The Charlatans
2. Carl Street - The Mystery Trend
3. Somebody to Love [LP Version][Version] - The Great Society,
4. Superbird - Country Joe & the Fish
5. Two Days 'Til Tomorrow - The Beau Brummels
6. Omaha - Moby Grape
7. Up & Down - Serpent Power
8. Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) - Grateful Dead
9. Codine - Quicksilver Messenger Service
10. Down on Me [Live] - Big Brother & the Holding Company
11. Think Twice - Salvation
12. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
13. Roll with It - Steve Miller Band
14. Why Did You Put Me On - Notes from the Underground
15. Underdog - Sly & the Family Stone
16. Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer
17. Glue - Ace of Cups
18. Soul Sacrifice - Santana
19. Bells - The Loading Zone

Disc 4:

1. Evil Ways - Santana
2. Red the Sign Post - Fifty Foot Hose
3. Lemonaide Kid - Kak
4. 1982-A - The Sons of Champlin
5. How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
6. Amphetamine Gazelle - Mad River
7. Quicksilver Girl - Steve Miller Band
8. Revolution - Mother Earth
9. Murder in My Heart for the Judge - Moby Grape
10. Light Your Windows - Quicksilver Messenger Service
11. I'm Drowning - The Flamin' Groovies
12. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Lady - Seatrain
13. White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day
14. Dark Star [Single Version] - Grateful Dead
15. Fool [Single Version] - Blue Cheer
16. Mexico - Jefferson Airplane
17. Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin
18. Get Together - The Youngbloods

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9836 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-18
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: 2.11 pounds

Album Description
Rhino's Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 4-CD Box Set Celebrates The 40th Anniversary Of "The Summer Of Love" Forty years ago the world turned its ears toward San Francisco as a wave of talented bands gave birth to the American counterculture. On August 27, Rhino remembers that magical confluence of time and place with LOVE IS THE SONG WE SING: SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS 1965-1970, a 4-CD box set of classics and rarities from the golden age of Golden State rock. SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS is the last word on one of popular music's defining regional scenes -- though as scenes go, the music it produced is remarkably diverse. The 77 tracks heard here share little beyond an artistic adventurousness long encouraged in the City by the Bay (which was a magnet for free thinkers from the days of the Beats. Seismic Rumbles, as the first CD of SAN FRANCISCO NUGGETS is subtitled, maps the fault lines separating the pop sounds of the early 1960s from more adventurous rock inspired by the arrival of The Beatles and Bob Dylan. By mid-decade, most of the pieces were in place for what would soon be called "The San Francisco Sound," and Disc 1 features the pre-Grateful Dead group The Warlocks, the original line-up of the Jefferson Airplane, a pre-hit Grass Roots, influential existentialists The Charlatans, and Country Joe & The Fish posing that timeless question "And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?"

Amazon.com
It wasn't all peace, love, and drugs that made San Francisco the fulcrum of the burgeoning hippie scene in the mid '60s. According to this sprawling 77-track, four-disc set--the third in Rhino's ongoing Nuggets series--it was the music that nurtured and helped create Haight-Ashbury. This expansive package succeeds in presenting the disparate acts involved in that cultural revolution through a detailed aural exploration. Sure, the usual suspects like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Janis Joplin are here, but it's the obscurities and oddities--some never previously available and many more extremely difficult to find--that provide intimate glimpses into the crevices, building blocks, and influences of what was later dubbed the "San Francisco Sound." The platters are broken down into rough category/chronological groupings, with disc three focusing on 1967, the Summer of Love whose 40th anniversary this box's release celebrates. Even there, acts such as the Ace of Cups, the Mystery Trend, and the Loading Zone fly way below the radar. There's lots to absorb, even for genre enthusiasts, but compiler Alex Palao's extensive, track-specific liner notes provide concise yet vital contextual background to guide the listener through a wildly diverse landscape that runs from the British Invasion-styled pop of the Beau Brummels and the soft folk of the Youngbloods to the furious garage psychedelia of the Count Five and the eardrum-bursting, proto-metal power rock of Blue Cheer. --Hal Horowitz

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Customer Reviews

Beyond The Fringe
What raises this collection above the norm is the selection of obscure tracks by the lesser known bands of the California scene of the middle 60's. There is a sprinkling of familiar songs spread throughout the collection, but the lion's share are tracks you've never heard before, some not so great, but many a delight. Add to that one of the best packages I've ever seen in a box set; a large format book packed with rare photos and details about the bands and songs.
This collection is a must have, one of Rhino's best ever.

The Music By The Bay
Lot's of reviewers have gone after Rhino Records concerning their box set releases. Sound quality, packaging, track selection of past sets have been a big issue of nasty negatives for many reviewers. Well, about this set called: "Love Is The Song We Sing"; San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970, I will go on record to say that Rhino, has hit a home run here.

This is a hardcover book of 120 pages, filled with great text and some wonderful photographs of the biggest American music city of the 1960's. Packed into this insightful book are 4 amazing audio compact discs of music. All the right bands are here with only a few of my favorites missing.
From the Beau Brummels {the first SF band to recieve air-play} thro to the Youngblood's massive 1969 hit of Dino Valenti's: "Get Together", good and bad, loud and soft, this was the sixties, that I remember growin' up in, and it was the most magical place on the Planet (along with London/ Liverpool}.

Two AM radio stations were our: 'Colors.' They were 1260 KYA and KFRC. On tiny transistor radios we could listen to: The Jefferson Airplane or Moby Grape, just as often as: The Beatles or The Stones. Wild posters on storefront walls and windows in day glo, advertised dance hall concerts featuring: "The Mystery Trend" or "The Sons Of Champlin". R.Crumb was peddling a strange little 'Comix' book outta a baby's carriage on Haight Street. It was for me, at the time, the very center of The universe.

The song selection over the course of these four Discs is indeed vast, with The Dead and Quicksilver right next to The Family Tree and Public Nuisance. There are 77 selections in this collection, some bands you have heard of: "Santana" and "Steve Miller Blues Band", to some that you only knew from posters: "The Oxford Circle" and "The Mojo Men" and some groups, I sure can't remember at all: "Butch Engle & The Styx" and "Teddy And His Patches". From bands that sounded just like: The Yarbirds, as: "The Count Five" with the garage anthem: "Psychotic Reaction" to the soaring violin of David LaFlamme and It's A Beautiful Day's, classic: "White Bird". This Box/Book is quite a ride of music and history.

This box set along with the great book: "San Francisco Rock", 1965-1985, by Jack McDonough, are two sides of the same coin. Rhino Records, have really produced an enjoyable set of music and history with this excellent package. It is an honest account {with the good & the bad included} of what went down in northern California, from: 1965-1975. Some of this music drives my Wife and Kids crazy...and, that is exactly what it is supposed to do! This is not for everyone....but, if your ears still work and you are ready to expand your mind a bit sideways, over under down....this could be your: "E-Ticket" to the Magic Kingdom.
FIVE STARS !!!

Seventy seven slices of paradise
There are a few very well known songs here, but wisely Alec Palao decided to give the main focus to lesser known artists and songs, while still giving ample coverage to all of the giants of the scene and moment. Very beautifully composed 120 page hardcover book with essays and tons of photos as well as track-by-track commentary from Palao. I grew up on this music and still there are many songs or versions of songs I'd never heard before. The single version of Dark Star?! Too bad Rick Griffin didn't live long enough to do the metallic-on-black cover art. Anyway, DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!