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4:53 PREVIEW Tobacco Road. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I would have thought that could only be possible by having everything they did.

His classic "Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" was pointedly about being drafted to serve in Vietnam, but if you substitute any international conflict, the words still ring true. Tom Paxton is another one of those artists who has just penned song after song of exquisite empowerment and protest.

. That changed when the anthemic protest song "War" went to the top of the charts in 1970.

Originally recorded by the Temptations, this song was popularized in 1970 by Edwin Starr.

Although this was a Pete Seeger composition, it's most frequently linked to Peter, Paul & Mary, who helped popularize it. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. That changed when the anthemic protest song "War" went to the top of the charts in 1970. This double-disc War best-of is so definitive that Rhino marketed it on TV! The CD is a very good one to play while you are driving along in the car. It's a simple, easy song to remember.

Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. At the end of his week-long "bed-in" in 1969 with his new wife Yoko Ono, John Lennon had recording equipment brought into the hotel room. And it's certainly a big part of what has taken her work to legendary status. She is also the Community Manager for the folk music magazine NoDepression. War - The Best of War and More - Amazon.com Music.

Through the silliness of the lyrics, Ochs was able to paint a clear picture of the opposition to the draft so many men felt during the Vietnam war era.

First Class, no problems what so ever. The story is of the cycle of war, beginning with young girls picking flowers that eventually end up on the graves of their dead soldier husbands. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Haydn – Mass in Time of War. The Best of War and More War Format: Vinyl. Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2013. The 10 best: first world war music Morale-boosting songs, stirring marches and elegies for the fallen, as chosen by the Observer’s classical music critic Fiona Maddocks. High quality processing sounds great on my mid level stereo system so if you have a high end stereo, you'll really be pleased. Political protest songs cover all kinds of issues, of course, from the environment to marriage equality, economic stability, and civil rights.

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War never failed to "deliver the word" ... or the rhythms.

and 'Summer.' It remains one of the most powerful simple statements about the futility of war and is considered one of the most commercially successful protest songs of all time.

Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. That Pete Seeger really knows how to write those protest songs.