Re: Protest songs on radio

[hmglaz@webtv.net (Howard Glazer)]

Joseph Ross wrote:

>I haven't noticed any oldies stations
> playing Bob Dylan or Pete Seeger or
> Joan Baez.

None of their antiwar songs were hits. WDRC-FM Hartford is still playing
Edwin Starr's "War," Tommy James and the Shondells' "Sweet Cherry Wine"
and Jackie DeShannon's "What the World Needs Now Is Love," though. Yes,
even Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction."

And on satellite radio, XM's folk channel is playing tons of antiwar
music, from Phil Ochs' "I'm Not Marching Anymore" to Dylan's "Masters of
War."

Of course, all these songs, except for McGuire's, were recorded in
response to the Vietnam War. The only song I've heard even remotely
connected to the current crisis is a new Arlo Guthrie song that
references Afghanistan; heard it a couple of times on XM. Are any other
old folk stalwarts recording anti-Iraq war songs?

Howard