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(spoken) This following program is dedicated
to the city and people of San Francisco,
who may not know it but they are beautiful,
and so is their city - this is a very personal song

The introduction to the Animals' "San Franciscan Nights" used to piss me off in 1967. It still does.

First, there is the inappropriate use of "This". In such a context, "this" (whatever it is) cannot be indicated by the speaker and thus is a gross violation of speech. Tsk tsk.

But that simply pales when it's followed by the redundant use of "and so is their city". Clearly, "the city and people" are the subject of "who may not know it" and "they are beautiful". (Let's leave aside the matter of whether a city can be a 'who').

The end result is that the city apparently does not know that (a) it possesses a city and (b) it may not know that it is a beautiful city that the city possesses.

Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins, and McCulloch are fine examples of Newcastle edimification.

Wake up on the wrong side of the bed today, meade? Or has this been pissing you off for the last 48 years or so, and you couldn't control yourself? Then again, maybe it's best that you got it off your chest; it's a lot of baggage to carry around for all those decades.

Next, perhaps you can tell that they don't "gotta get out of this place" or anywhere else.

wait till LJ hears about this. He goes ape shit over that song too.

Oh, don't get me started....

You forgot my favorite line:

"save up all your bread, and fly Trans Love Airways..."

That and:

"Heavens above, he's on a street called love..."



I believe I mentioned before that I didn't hear this song until I was I high school in the mid-70's and it was so over-the-top insipid I thought it was parody of 60's songs; done either by The National Lampoon Radio Hour or Firesign Theater...

It would have fit in really well in either Nat Lamp's Woodstock parody, or Firesign Theater's "Returned for Re-grooving"....

Tee hee, Big RR. No, it was just brought back to life because I habitually have my PC playing tunes (35 hours worth) while muted in order to stop the laptop going to "sleep" - it annoys me to have to wake it up again. I decided to actually listen to them while working on some spreadsheets and "San Franciscan Night" came around.

"Gotta get out of this place".... well, I forgive that as colorful use of dialect rather than pig ignorance.

What LJ said too also as well

To My Dear Friend, Lord Jim................................with LOVE

San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)

Scott McKenzie



If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation
Such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation
With a new explanation
People in motion
People in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

That's a period piece, but it's such a pretty song it doesn't bother me...

(It's a good example of the type of song that I thought "San Franciscan Night" was intended to parody...)

This is my favorite San Francisco song:

This SF song ALWAYS does it for me!

MajGenl.Meade wrote:(spoken) This following program is dedicated
to the city and people of San Francisco,
who may not know it but they are beautiful,
and so is their city - this is a very personal song

The introduction to the Animals' "San Franciscan Nights" used to piss me off in 1967. It still does.

First, there is the inappropriate use of "This". In such a context, "this" (whatever it is) cannot be indicated by the speaker and thus is a gross violation of speech. Tsk tsk.

But that simply pales when it's followed by the redundant use of "and so is their city". Clearly, "the city and people" are the subject of "who may not know it" and "they are beautiful". (Let's leave aside the matter of whether a city can be a 'who').

The end result is that the city apparently does not know that (a) it possesses a city and (b) it may not know that it is a beautiful city that the city possesses.

Burdon, Briggs, Weider, Jenkins, and McCulloch are fine examples of Newcastle edimification.

Of course they had Eric Burden so they made it work ok.


yrs,
rubato

You need to let go of those resentments.
They are the number one enemy of alcoholics.

Animal Sounds:

Loved the snowy owl eating a lemming. I like owls.


yrs,
rubato