Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012

Subject: Obit: Scott McKenzie
From: Little Robyn
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 08:15 AM

On TV news just now.
Farewell Scott
Robyn

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie
From: Girl Friday
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 08:27 AM

Beautiful song . Happier times. Another good man gone.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie
From: JennieG
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 08:28 AM

Ohhhhhh......I remember that song so well. Another slice of my youth gone!

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie
From: alanabit
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 10:06 AM

He will always be remembered for that one song. It was a song which caught the mood of its time. I know very little about the man who sang it.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie
From: bassen
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 11:21 AM

Loved that song, then hated it. Then after a long time heard the beauty of his voice in it, loved it again. The flip side of the single had a song that meant a lot more to me at one time...

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 11:30 AM

The song was written by John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas. For sure it struck a note in the so-called 1967 Summer of Love.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 11:45 AM

Scott certainly had a wonderful voice.
He appeared as a "Papa" in a later incarnation of "The Mamas and Papas".
His first album - which I think was produced by John Phillips - is worth a listen. A nice collection of interesting songs.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: GUEST,Stim
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 12:57 PM

He and John Phillips were folkies first, as The Journeymen. Run, Maggie, Run-The Journeymen and still very much worth listening to. Also, John's daughter, McKenzie, is named after him.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: The Sandman
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 01:17 PM

folk pop, sorry , I liked it at the time, but then I discoverd the real thing.woody guthrie.
I am sorry that he has died, the song brings back a lot of memories

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 06:07 PM

If I remember correctly he did a pretty fair version of "Reason to Believe" on the B side.
RIP.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: Little Robyn
Date: 20 Aug 12 - 07:46 PM

Here in NZ the B side of his 'San Francisco' was 'What's the Difference'.

'Hey friend wake up, I'm throwing rocks at your window pane....

What's the difference if we don't come back
Who's gonna miss us in a year or so...

Robyn

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: Northerner
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 02:51 AM

I think I might have bought the record. Lovely song. RIP.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: bassen
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 11:02 AM

That's the one Robyn. Young and feeling out of sync with everything around me, it was those two lines that spoke to me.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: Little Robyn
Date: 21 Aug 12 - 05:11 PM

Me too!

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: GUEST,Lindy
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 01:27 AM

Ah, yes, I remember that song and loved to sing along whenever I heard it. Saw Scott on some TV program some years ago and of course he sang that song. He still sounded and looked good.
I never got to San Francisco but I did wear "flowers in my hair" in L.A. I always thought he had a really good voice. RIP Scott.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 10:06 AM

do somebody the song   I want to be alone it was a bside off No No No

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: GUEST,wordfella
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 10:25 AM



Widely believed, but not so. When Miss Phillips was born in 1959, Scott was still Philip Wallach Blondheim. In her bio, Miss Phillips says that McKenzie was a name from her mother's side of the family.

Subject: RE: Obit: Scott McKenzie 10 Jan 1939 - 18 Aug 2012
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 25 Aug 12 - 11:44 AM

The opening bars of the song always send a shiver down my spine. One of the all-time classic pop songs.