Flower Power – It’s All About Love
Gavin Whitner
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MusicOomph.com
It’s February again, and we want to spend the entire month wearing our Janis Joplin-inspired rose-colored glasses while playing our favorite Flower Power love songs until all we hear is the needle scratching that last, empty space of vinyl on the record.
Guests aboard the Flower Power Cruise later next week will get to hear those songs live, snuggling up to some of the most powerful, most romantic and most memorable songs ever written about love. Thanks to Herman’s Hermits and Peter Noone, everyone aboard the 2018 cruise will hear him swoon for Mrs. Brown’s daughter, unabashedly share his bliss by declaring “I’m Into Something Good” and ask with earnest, “Can’t You Hear My Heartbeat?” Not to be outdone, The Hollies will swear that all it took was “Just One Look” at a “Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)” to fall into a love so consuming that it’s “The Air That I Breathe.”
When Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals take the stage, romance will be in full bloom. No one else can match the group’s sunny take on love, with songs like “Good Lovin,” “It’s Wonderful,” “Groovin,” “A Girl Like You,” and the wistful “How Can I Be Sure?” The Association will keep the love alive with their string of hits “Never My Love,” “Cherish” and “Windy.” The Grass Roots will “Live For Love,” serenade their “Bella Linda,” lament a complicated affair in “Midnight Confessions” but forever remain the hopeless romantic by “Lovin’ Things.”
Not to be outdone, the 2019 Flower Power Cruise will pack its own collection of love potions. The Beach Boys, known for their odes to Rhonda, Barbara Ann and all those California girls, will bring their summery songs about sweethearts on the beach. Tommy James & The Shondells aren’t shy about “Gettin’ Together” for some “Hanky Panky” when “I Think We’re Alone Now.” But it might be Jefferson Starship that will sum it up more perfectly than anyone else. Because when it comes right down to love songs, it’s simple all about “Love Lovely Love.”