Don't know if anyone mentioned them or not, but Sunshine Superman and Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan are really up there on my list.

Not terribly psychedelic but you couldn't get much more hippy than Vashti Bunyan.

Same here. Also: one of my favorite Donovan hippy-psych-jazzy songs is "Sunny Goodge Street" on his earlier Fairytale album.

Donovan wrote about this song in his autobiography: "The pure line that opens the first track of Miles’s [Davis’s] Seven Steps To Heaven was a call to me in 1963 in St. Ives, a herald announcing a new consciousness in music. We all heard it. Now, a year or so later, at eighteen years of age, I wanted to project a new meaning into music – 'Love and Compassion.' I began a song in the jazz feel that spring of 1965, called 'Sunny Goodge Street.'”




On the firefly platform on sunny Goodge Street
A violent hash smoker shook a chocolate machine,
Involved in an eating scene.

Smashing into neon streets in their stonedness,
Smearing their eyes on the crazy coloured goddess,
Listenin' to sounds of Mingus mellow fantastic.
"My, my", they sigh,
"My, my", they sigh.

In doll house rooms with coloured lights swingin'
Strange music boxes sadly tinklin'
Drink in the sun shining all around you.
"My, my", they sigh,
"My, my", they sigh.

"My, my", they sigh,
"My, my", they sigh.

The magician, he sparkles in satin and velvet.
You gaze at his splendour with eyes you've not used yet.
I tell you his name is Love, Love, Love.
"My, my", they sigh,
"My, my", they sigh.

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Hadn't heard that one before. Nice. Thanks!

You're very welcome, glad you enjoyed it! :wave:
I'm a big Donovan fan -- so much love in his heart.

This song embraces all hippy culture.

I'm a big Sabbath fan -- so much bloodlust in their hearts. :laughing:

(P.S.: God is not dead. Stop killing my buzz! ;))

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Does this count?



Another premier hippie song IMO.

That was beautiful. Had never heard of her before.