Scott McKenzie (January 10, 1939 – August 18, 2012) died in Los Angeles. His greatest hit: “San Francisco (If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair)”, written by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and sung by Scott McKenzie 1967.
title=”Homage to San Francisco (at Dusk)” by Geoffrey Quinn / gcquinn, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr
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more and more musicians of my generation reached the dead line: this month Scott McKenzie; of course we all try to live as long as possible – I was born 1945, a year when many died – let’s try to make music till the very end – Gloria Gaynor’s I WILL SURVIVE:
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1) I WILL SURVIVE, fingerstyle guitar instrumental
2) myself playing the same tune on banjo
3) Nina Nyembwe (coming from Kinshasa), Lutz (keyboards) and Michael (saxophone): “I will survive”, performed in my current hometown:
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Ditto Fritz http://geetoni.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/cyklopps-remembers/
Love it..
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a sad loss
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I do enjoy your posts.
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Fabulos Tribute, awesome music. So cool the different verions of a tune that was once my victory song.
Thanks for the stroll down memeory lane and the great music. ~ BB
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http://life.time.com/culture/life-at-woodstock-1969/?xid=newsletter-life-weekly#18
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How MANY times did I sing along with this one! RIP, indeed!
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I will get a nice post out for him tonight.
I enjoyed your rendition of I Will Survive.
George.
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Greetings from my youth
Now he is a real legende
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An older video found on you tube
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Leider ist dieses Video, das Musik von SME beinhaltet, in Deutschland nicht verfügbar, da die GEMA die Verlagsrechte hieran nicht eingeräumt hat.
Das tut uns leid.
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I loved that song. I’m so sad that my internet here is too slow to listen to your clips. 😦
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you are living at a fine place:
so sweet, your baby polar bear
with his red plastic ‘comfort toy’…
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All across the nation, there’s a strange vibration . . . still vibrating in that beautiful song!
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RIP. Two great songs and a poignant post. Great tribute.
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