SORM Playlist #15-10: Finger Pointin’ Songs, pt. 2
(airing the week starting 3-04-15)
This week we conclude our two part feature focusing on Topical Songs. We’ll hear songs about Human Rights, The Environment, The Never Ending War and Politics with a Comical View. Songs written or performed by The Freedom Singers, Pete Seeger, Paul Simon and Phil Ochs you may be surprised at some of the selections.
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways
Ed Sweeney / “Free America” / Not For Ourselves Alone / PBS Records
Peter, Paul & Mary / “The Times They Are A’Changin’” / The Very Best
of Peter, Paul & Mary / Warner Brothers-Rhino
SNCC Freedom Singers / “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around” / Sing
For Freedom-The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through It’s Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
HARP / “Take back the Night” / A Time to Sing / Appleseed
Emma’s Revolution / “I Will Stand” / Roots, Rock & Revolution /
Self Produced
Pete Seeger / “Garbage” / Pete / Living Music
Blue Highway / “Clear Cut” / The Journey Home-Still Moving
Mountains / Aurora
Susie Glaze-Kenny Kosek-Peter & Jon Pickow / “Now is the Cool
of the Day” / Singin’ the Moon Up: The Voice of Jean Ritchie / Self Produced
Martin Simpson & Joseph Weed / “To Be A Pilgrim” / Not For
Ourselves Alone / PBS Records
Elli Paul / “Plastic Soldiers” / Chasing Beauty / Black Wolf
Paul Simon / “The Side of a Hill” / The Paul Simon Songbook /
Columbia Legacy
Tom Paxton / “Born on the Fourth of July” / New Songs from the
Briarpatch / Vanguard
Phil Ochs / “Love Me I’m A Liberal” / Phil Ochs in Concert / Elektra
Ry Cooder / “Mutt Romney Blues” / Election Special / Nonesuch
Bob Dylan / “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” / The Witmark
Demos 1962-64 / Columbia Legacy
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways