Eve Of Destruction-Barry McGuire 1965--Old Anthem For a New Time

Barry McGuire ^ | 1965

[Be Careful]

Bobby Kennedy Jr and Trump are correct....what has happened to the 60's Progressive Anti-War Movement now, 55 years later?...please listen to this again....and forward to all of the young people in your life.

[SaveFerris]

John Deutschendorf ?

Wow

[Bubba_Leroy]

They played this song at the end of the movie Run, Hide, Fight. It is a great movie and recommend it if you get a chance to see it. It is basically "Die Hard" with a teenage girl as the protagonist who survives because her father taught her how to hunt.

[Pelham]

“Eisenhower was going to call this new animal the “military-industrial-congressional complex,” which most would agree today is a pretty accurate description of the system since it includes all the players. But the outgoing president, apparently worried about political blowback, deleted “congressional,” “

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/01/ike-was-wrong-the-military-industrial-congressional-complex-turns-60/

[Fiji Hill]

An answer to "Eve of Destruction." This one made the Top 40

The Dawn of Correction--The Spokesmen (1965)

[Fiji Hill]

This answer to "Eve of Destruction" sounds like it could have been recorded in 2023. It made #35 on the Billboard Hot Hundred and #14 on the country-western charts.

The Day for Decision--Johnny Sea (1966)

[Third Person]

or Dave Mustaine’s Symphony of Destruction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfpgpf6QVnI

[Fiji Hill]

A couple more songs that sock it to the turncoats, cowards and peaceniks:

• The Minutemen Are Turning in their Graves--Stonewall Jackson (1966)

• Freedom's Cause--Bill Floyd (1966)

[Publius]

The Spokesmen

The description failed to note that Ray Gilmore of WIBG changed his air name to Sean Casey and became a radio star in New York.

[Fiji Hill]

For What It's Worth by the Buffalo Springfield was played regularly over Boss Radio 93 KHJ in December, 1966, although I later read that it wasn't released until early in the new year. An earlier release, Nowadays, Clancy Can't Even Sing got a lot of airplay on KHJ but did not make the national charts.

[21twelve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRE9ZNUyKDA

Above is a guy watching and reacting to a Paul Harvey radio thing from 1965 - “Freedom to Chains”. I first started listening to him react to music, and now he is doing other stuff.

He is a black guy raised in a liberal family with cousins and uncles always in trouble. He realized he was the one that needed to set a good example for his younger siblings. He had gone down the conservative rabbit hole as he searches for truth and knowledge.

He is amazed at how Paul Harvey got it right.

[Fiji Hill]

Another pop singer takes to social commentary, perhaps inspired by Barry McGuire

Home of the Brave--Jody Miller (1965)

[Gay State Conservative]

A genuine classic!

[Gay State Conservative]

Or The Universal Soldier by Buffy St Marie.

[chajin]

Hitler once said that for the good of the German people, there should be a war every 20 years.

Clemenza said that they needed to go to the mattresses, "These things gotta happen every five years or so, ten years. Helps to get rid of the bad blood." In polite society we call it term limits, I think.

[Fiji Hill]

The Universal Soldier--Buffy Sainte-Marie (1965)

Perhaps my least favorite song of the sixties because the lyrics are so stupid.

But without him, how would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him, Caesar would have stood alone.

Dachau was created and run not by soldiers but by party hacks, bureaucrats and police. It was American soldiers who liberated it.

If Caesar had stood alone, Western civilization would have been swept away by the barbarian hordes.

I like Jan & Dean's answer song:

The Universal Coward

[Boiler Plate]

There was a funny remake of this called

“The Eve of Construction”

Regarding the endless construction on the Ohio Turnpike.

[VTenigma]

A lot of the lyrics from rock in the ‘60s and ‘70s is prescient for this time period.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’ve never experienced combat myself but during my Army service (’69 to ‘75) I’ve had contact with many men who’ve been badly injured in combat.Wars...even the necessary ones....are always incredibly tragic.

[Fiji Hill]

This group of Top 40 hitmakers waxed one of the few pro-Vietnam War songs of the sixties:

Take the Time--The Shangri-Las (1967)

And this group, known for being laid back and mellow and certainly not political, cut this militant anti-war anthem:

Revelation: Revolution '69--The Lovin' Spoonful (1968)

[Clutch Martin]

Now there was a happy little ditty...