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A protest song on the futility of war, written in response to the Vietnam War. Later also covered by Edwin Starr and Bruce Springsteen. "We Didn't Start the Fire" Billy Joel (1989) – a cleverly structured list of historical events of the Cold War period from the 1950s–1980s, making special mention of the "communist bloc". "Weeping Wall ...
Scared (John Lennon song) Scumbag (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) Serve Yourself; Steel and Glass; Stranger's Room; Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Lennon and Yoko Ono song) Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox) Suzy Parker (Beatles song)
Also recorded during this time was the Christmas song "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)". [6] Some Time in New York City (1972), a part-studio, part-live album with Yoko Ono and Elephant's Memory, contained songs by both Lennon and Ono, with lyrics discussing political and social issues and topics such as sexism, incarceration, colonialism and racism. [12]
A smooth, tender ballad, “In the Still of the Night” is one of the most recognizable love songs from the 1950s. The song was written by Fred Parris, the lead singer of The Five Satins, and has ...
Country music has a long tradition of upholding conservative values and patriotism, and by the 1950s, with the Cold War heating up, several country singers had already recorded pro-American, anti-Communist songs.
Paul Lincke, the original German lyrics by Heinz Bolten-Backers, English lyrics by Johnny Mercer The Mills Brothers 3 weeks at No. 1 in 1952 (Billboard charts) 1936 Goody Goody: Matty Malneck: Frankie Lymon (#20 in the US and No. 24 in the UK 1943 Hit the Road to Dreamland: Harold Arlen 1937 Hooray for Hollywood: Richard A. Whiting: 1941 I ...
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
For example, "Masters of War" (1963) which protests against governments who orchestrate war, is sometimes misconstrued as dealing directly with the Vietnam War. However, the song was written at the beginning of 1963, when only a few hundred Green Berets were stationed in South Vietnam and came to be re-appropriated as a comment on Vietnam in ...