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Open Letter To The President

Open Letter To The President
È una canzone del 1971 che si riferisce alla guerra in VietNam. Recentemente è stata inserita nella raccolta "Does Anybody Know I'm Here? Vietnam Through The Eyes of Black America", Ace/Kent, 2005.

Soul singer Roy C., born Roy Charles Hammond in Georgia, 1939, pleaded with the US president to end the war in Vietnam, in the protest song "Open Letter to the President" - released in 1971 on the New York label Alaga Records (# 1006) which he founded a year before in 1970. Thus, he presumably addressed his open letter to Richard Nixon, in the White House since January 1969. Roy C. recorded under the name The Honeydrippers, releasing the 1973 single "Impeach the President", about Nixon and the Watergate scandal. Earlier in his career he performed in the 1950s group The Genies.

In the first two verses of the song Roy C. imagined a world in which there would be "no more fighting in Vietnam" and... (Continues)
People get ready, there's a new day a-comin'
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2007/7/6 - 23:56




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