Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"One Tin Soldier" is a 1960s counterculture era anti-war song written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. Canadian pop group The Original Caste (consisting of Dixie Lee Innes, Bruce Innes, Graham Bruce, Joseph Cavender and Bliss Mackie) first recorded it in 1969 for both the TA label and its parent Bell label.
The songs employ the use of strings, horns, and organ which adds a swinging, pop-friendly sound. "One Tin Soldier" was a hit in Canada and reached No. 34 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1970. [3] The follow-up single, "Mr. Monday", was a big hit in Japan and Canada but not in the United States. The two singles combined, worldwide, sold ...
"One More Parade" Phil Ochs: 1971 "One Tin Soldier" Coven: 1988 "Orange Crush" R.E.M. 1972 "The Patriot's Dream" Gordon Lightfoot: 1971 "People, Let's Stop the War" Grand Funk Railroad: 1968 "Por Vietnam" Quilapayún: 1970 "Question" The Moody Blues: 1972 "Readjustment Blues" John Denver: 1967 "Requiem for the Masses" The Association: 1992 ...
The 4th chord in the One Tin Soldier progression is the tonic. If they were exactly the same progression, it might warrant mention, but so many musical pieces share parts of chord progressions that any mention of the similarities of these two works implies a significance that does not exists.
English musician Tony Burrows sang the lead vocal on five one-hit wonders: Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" (February 1970); White Plains' "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (March 1970); the Pipkins' "Gimme Dat Ding" (April 1970); the First Class' "Beach Baby" (July 1974); and "United We Stand" (1970) by the first incarnation of ...
Coven was an American rock band formed in Chicago in the late 1960s. They had a top 40 hit in 1971 with the song "One Tin Soldier", the theme song of the movie Billy Jack. ...
Tin Soldier was originally written by Steve Marriott for singer P. P. Arnold, but Marriott liked it so much he kept it himself. [5] It was a song that he wrote to his first wife, Jenny Rylance. P. P. Arnold can be heard singing backing vocals on the song and also performed as guest singer at television recordings of the song.
Side one of the album showcases a variety of musical styles. The opening title track is an instrumental re-working of "I've Got Mine", a failed single from 1965.This recording uses a Hammond Organ treated with wah-wah pedal and orchestral flourishes from a string section led by David McCallum Senior (the father of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. star David McCallum.) [citation needed].