The UK Summer Of Love Poll

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I have used everyhit.com's Retro chart feature here to created a Top 40 of the most popular UK singles from June until August 1967. Which brings a list of 40 songs, several of them very strong and very classic. But what was the greatest song (single) of the Summer of Love?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Kinks Waterloo Sunset	10
Stevie Wonder I Was Made To Love Her	4
Pink Floyd See Emily Play	3
Young Rascals Groovin'	3
Aretha Franklin Respect	2
Nancy Sinatra / Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood You Only Live Twice / Jackson	2
Jimi Hendrix Experience The Wind Cries Mary	2
The Small Faces Here Come The Nice	1
Scott Mckenzie San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)	1
Petula Clark Don't Sleep In The Subway	1
Lulu Let's Pretend	0
Gladys Knight & The Pips Take Me In Your Arms And Love Me	0
The Beach Boys Then I Kissed Her	0
The Tremeloes Even The Bad Times Are Good	0
The Four Tops Seven Rooms Of Gloom	0
Alan Price Set The House That Jack Built	0
Engelbert Humperdinck Release Me	0
Vince Hill Roses Of Picardy	0
The New Vaudeville Band Finchley Central	0
Cream Strange Brew	0
The Dubliners Seven Drunken Nights	0
Procol Harum A Whiter Shade Of Pale	0
Johnny Mann Singers Up, Up And Away	0
The Mamas & The Papas Dedicated To The One I Love	0
Engelbert Humperdinck There Goes My Everything	0
The Beatles All You Need Is Love	0
Vikki Carr It Must Be Him (Seul Sur Son Etoile)	0
The Monkees Alternate Title	0
The Turtles She'd Rather Be With Me	0
The Tremeloes Silence Is Golden	0
The Hollies Carrie-Anne	0
Tom Jones I'll Never Fall In Love Again	0
Dave Davies Death Of A Clown	0
Topol If I Were A Rich Man	0
The Supremes The Happening	0
Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Okay!	0
Anita Harris Just Loving You	0
Traffic Paper Sun	0
Arthur Conley Sweet Soul Music	0
The Mamas & The Papas Creeque Alley	0

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 27 October 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

Several great candidates. Voted "Waterloo Sunset" although it pains me not to be able to vote for "See Emily Play" nor "All You Need Is Love".

"Respect" will probably get all the votes from ILM's many R&B fans and win.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 27 October 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

Voted "Waterloo Sunset"

indeed

― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 27 October 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

I've never understood the Death of A Clown = Dave Davies solo single idea. It was on a Kinks album, wasn't it?

Waterloo Sunset seems like an obvious choice, but I might give my vote to Creeque Alley since no one else will.

― musically, Saturday, 27 October 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

Although I stand by "Waterloo Sunset", there are lots of gems here. I mean, "Itchycoo Park", "A Whiter Shade Of Pale", "Paper Sun", "I Was Made To Love Her". Surely that summer has become legendary for a reason.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 27 October 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

Aretha, duh! "Groovin'" for second place, cause it's, like, a perfect summer hit and all. "Waterloo Sunset" would probably come in third for me.

― JN$OT, Saturday, 27 October 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

I've never understood the Death of A Clown = Dave Davies solo single idea. It was on a Kinks album, wasn't it?

They tended to release the Dave Davies tracks as Dave Davies solo singles though. In the same way, "Caroline No" was released from "Pet Sounds" as a Brian Wilson solo single.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 27 October 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Waterloo Sunset it is.

Ray Davies is once reputed to have said "'Waterloo Sunset' is better than I am."

To which he should have added ".....and I'm pretty great to start with."

― PhilK, Saturday, 27 October 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not that keen on Waterloo Sunset and have no idea why it is so rated.

Lee and Nancy's 'Jackson' is on there as a half od the 'only live twice' so its already better then everything on the list times two.

― Sandy Blair, Sunday, 28 October 2007 08:03 (eighteen years ago)

No love for Scott McKenzie? Every time San Francisco comes on the radio in the morning I know it will be a good day. There is something very touching about it. For me it is by far the song which connects best with the summer of love. It captures the atmosphere of the times with Scott's gentle voice, the sluggish tune and the spot-on lyrics.

― alex in mainhattan, Sunday, 28 October 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

would that "Itchycoo Park" were on this list...I'll go with "Here Come The Nice", for the funny drug reference...

― henry s, Sunday, 28 October 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I think I must not have looked closely enough. Surely, it's "Here Come The Nice" and not "Itchycoo Park" on this list. The latter was later in the autumn.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 28 October 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Voted for Stevie, tho my runners-up ("See Emily Play", "Wind Cries Mary" are surely more representative of The Summer, at least as I like to imagine it. (I myself was a mere foetus at the time.)

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 1 November 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

not a lot there I rate. I went with "The Wind Cries Mary."

― Matos W.K., Thursday, 1 November 2007 08:42 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Monday, 5 November 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Okay who else voted for the Young Rascals?

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 5 November 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

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