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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 ...
The song was cut in Nashville on August 31, 1950 with Rose producing. Williams was backed by Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Sammy Pruett (electric guitar), Jack Shook (rhythm guitar), Ernie Newton or Howard Watts (bass) and Owen Bradley or Fred Rose (organ).
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.
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 ...
Written during the Great Depression and popular among socialists in the late Weimar Republic. [29] Der heimliche Aufmarsch: Wladimir Vogel: 1930 Germany: Lyrics are from a 1929 poem by Erich Weinert. The most famous version was arranged by Hans Eisler. In 1957, the words were rewritten in East Germany for the Cold War, renamed as "Der offene ...
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 ...
Songs with a theme of nuclear war have been a feature of popular culture since the early years of the Cold War. [1] "4 Minute Warning" By Radiohead (2007) "137" By Brand New (2017) "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" by Jimi Hendrix "1999" By Prince (1982) "2 Minutes to Midnight" By Iron Maiden (1984) "540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit" by Fear ...
"The Deck of Cards" is a recitation song that was popularized in the fields of both country and popular music, first during the late 1940s.This song, which relates the tale of a young American soldier arrested and charged with playing cards during a church service, first became a hit in the U.S. in 1948 by country musician T. Texas Tyler.