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"No More Songs" Studio recording: Greatest Hits (1970) Live recording: Amchitka, The 1970 Concert That Launched Greenpeace (October 16, 1970,) The studio recording was the last song on the last studio album released during Ochs's lifetime. [60] "Not Fade Away" Live recording: Gunfight at Carnegie Hall (March 27, 1970,) Written by Charles Hardin ...
The song, like many other popular songs of the day, gave its name to a gun truck used by United States Army Transportation Corps forces during the Vietnam War. The truck is on display at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum and is believed to be the only surviving example of a Vietnam-era gun truck. [30]
The song reflects on those who served in the Vietnam War and whose names are forever etched in stone at the Vietnam War Memorial. As of this writing, the wall currently has 58,000 names and counting.
It became a Vietnam anti-war movement anthem and an expressive symbol of the counterculture's opposition to executive power grabs, including opposition to the draft and solidarity with the soldiers fighting the Vietnam War. [5] The song has been featured extensively in pop culture depictions of the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement. [6]
[1] AllMusic writes that "2 + 2" is "a frightening, visceral song that stands among the best anti-Vietnam protests." [ 2 ] Music historian and editor of the Vietnam War Song Project Justin Brummer comments that by 1968 "songs began to emphasise the war’s length, military failures and growing fatality rate.
Many months later, when Epic gave Vinton the choice of which song should be the twelfth and final selection for his greatest-hits album, he chose "Mr. Lonely". [9] Following its inclusion on the album, many radio disc jockeys started to play the track—particularly those who remembered Buddy Greco's version and how Vinton had been prevented ...
War (The Temptations song) The War Is Over (Phil Ochs song) We Gotta Get Out of This Place; What the World Needs Now Is Love; What's Going On (song) Where Are You Now, My Son? Where Do We Go from Here? (Chicago song) The Windows of the World (song)