Remembering song from fragments of memory

[darter]

Can anyone figure out what song might fit with these memories as I am trying to locate the song.

I think it was a hit maybe 1967? +- a few years. Maybe later?
Had a flute - prominent
I think there was kind of a dreamy narrative maybe with an a British or Jamaican narrator/singer - maybe
I think the theme was sort of 'drifting through the day' (?) - or moving through a place (maybe a little tripily?)
The narration is punctuated with the flute playing.

I looked on Billboard but still haven't found it. It was hit that played on the AM/FM bands in the United States on the push button car radios!
Maybe a summer song?

I believe that once I locate this song all the disjointed aspects of my life will be unified I will attain self actualization - or I'll just move on to some other distraction - not really sure about that.

[Silent Majority]

Sounds a bit like Going Up the Country by Canned Heat.

[Dr. Medulla]

Sounds a bit like Going Up the Country by Canned Heat.

Good call. Meets all the criteria.

[revbob]

Sounds a bit like Going Up the Country by Canned Heat.

I like the Kitty Daisy and Lewis cover of this. It made me actually like the song.

[darter]

I think the narrator has an 'exotic' accent and maybe there is a lyric like: you are walking in a garden (jungle?)

Here is a list of one hit wonders for different years.

http://tunecaster.com/special/one-hit-wonders/1965.html

It may be on such a list.

[darter]

Also bongos. Bongos, flute and maybe a Jamaican or British narrator - not really a sung song but more narrated. But I don't think it is that Donovan song but maybe of the same ilk which is more sing-songy. The narrator might be guiding the listener along a path or a beach or along some water and then there is a flute and I think it kinds of builds towards something.... I dunno. Maybe the song has been disappeared or something - I can't find it. Unless, of course, I am just confused!

I found this but it ain't it:

https://longshotsblues.wordpress.com/20 ... s-project/

Flute Thing

but nice anyway

Okay, now I got it. It was a field of grass not a path or beach; it was 1970 not '67 (but I did write +- a few); it is 'narrated' mainly; the singer is British; and maybe not actual bongos but some other drums: congas. Also there was another song that kept popping into my head but which I dismissed ('put the wine in the coconut') but I knew that was not the song. But I was sooooo close. The song is "Spill the Wine' and it is indeed trippy. Here it is:

[revbob]

Yeah im coming up empty. Was thinking about Harry Belafonte but no...

[tepista]

The song is "Spill the Wine' and it is indeed trippy

Cool! I wish I helped guess it, but I'm glad you got it!

[revbob]

What a great voice. I havent explored his stuff with War really. I know this song but dont know if I could name another

[matedog]

Reminds of the great pool party scene in Boogie Nights.

[eumaas]

Oh hell, I know that song. My dad was a War fan.

[tepista]

What a great voice. I havent explored his stuff with War really. I know this song but dont know if I could name another

Me too, but War had a handful of hits after Eric left