[Squawk 8888]

iBut maybe someday when they've learned
The Cherokee Nation will return

After more than half a century, still relevant on either side of the Canada/USA border.

[dfwgator]

Best organ ending, ever.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Great song then and now.

[EvilCapitalist]

This is Elizabeth Warren’s song, right?

[chajin]

The essence of the music was found in the Hammond, not the guitar/bass; it created an unusual timbre for the song, making it more like soft-core Vanilla Fudge or ELP than the other music of its day. As one drawn to the organ for the last 50 years or so, that grabs me deep in the soul.

[Vermont Lt]

I didn’t realize this was the third time around for this song.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

We come from Cherokee blood. Always loved this song.

[lee martell]

Woo-Woo-Woo! That was good music!

[sauropod]

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[Liberty Ship]

Cherokees fought with the Confederacy.

[JBW1949]

I am part Ani-Yun-Wiya and I have loved this song since it was recorded in 1971....Got to see Paul Revere and the Raiders (the original group) at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge years ago...

[Maine Mariner]

Great music. However, I also like the Orlando Riva version.
The dancer is quite good looking! :)

[Chode]

vs cher’s pathetic arttempt

[Dr. Sivana]

Rush Limbaugh used it for his Injun Update, but somebody got him to stop. That is only one of three update songs he stopped due to outside forces. The other two were “Would You Like to Ride (in My Beautiful Balloon) for the condom update on his NYC program (WABC-A770) and Born Free (Andy Williams version), dropped at the request of Andy Williams. He also stopped announcing that Connie Chung was still ovulating at the request of her husband, Maury Povich.

[Dr. Sivana]

That group also did one of the few anti-drug top 10 hits from thr 60’s: Kicks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7vRfvOVaIM

[John Milner]

I think at this point the label just said “Raiders.” Not Paul Revere and the Raiders.

[Mount Athos]

I gave this song an honest listen but I didn’t like it.
Some of this bands other songs are good though like kicks

[Getready]

Song written by John Loudermilk.He also wrote “tobacco road” (Nashville teens), “Ebony eyes”( Everly Brothers, “then you can tell me goodbye”(Casinos). Probably living large off the residuals.
First released in 1959 by Marvin Rainwater, first hit version by Don Fardon, an English Rocker, then the Raiders. Has been done by others since. Another good and touching Cherokee song is “Cherokee Bend” written and recorded by the late Gordon Lightfoot.

[Fiji Hill]

This is the original version, by its composer, John D. Loudermilk, who wrote many hit songs. I believe this was originally released only as a demo.

The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian (1965)

[Roadrunner383]

I believe The Raiders played Vox Super Beatle amps, as did Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers early on. Petty still had some of the amps onstage for much of his career, although the band actually played through other amps. Amp expert Richie Fliegler said the Super Beatles sounded like a blizzard of nails. The amps looked cool and The Raiders were featured in some print ads for the amps.

[Fiji Hill]

My favorite Paul Revere & the Raiders tune is The Great Airplane Strike because I can relate to it. In the early summer of 1966, the machinists at several airlines walked off the job, and the picket lines were still going strong by mid-August. At the time, we were in Germany and needed to get home to California.

We found a flight to New York aboard Trans-Caribbean airlines, an airline that I had never heard of and haven't heard of since. Then we found a flight west out of the Big Town, but it only went as far as Dallas.

We had to stay in Big D for a weekend before finding seats aboard a Delta Airlines flight to Los Angeles. At the time, Delta was a regional airline serving mostly Southern airports, and the stewardesses spoke with Southern accents.