[Pol-92064]

My favorite movie & song from the 1971 Movie Billie Jack. I love this song and movie! :-)

[ansel12]

Here is another song from that group.

Satanic Mass by Coven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPHoJP9GFmY

[Steely Tom]

I remember that song. I was a sophomore in high school. I didn’t really get it, except that I knew it had something to do with the peace movement and hippy culture. There were some kids in my class who were becoming hippies; some kids were getting into the drug culture.

We got a new, young physics teacher that year. He soon disappeared. Many years later I found out he was busted for pot. I think it was handled within the school; I don’t think he was arrested, or that it ever got to law enforcement. Which was good; at that time, NY was under the “Rockefeller drug laws,” and penalties for even possession of an ounce were draconian. For a high school teacher, busted on school property... well, he would have been in a world of hurt.

[dfwgator]

"If only the world could get along as this ice cream cone.. Billy Paul wouldn’t have to kill so many people."

[Tijeras_Slim]

Achieved a level of cinematic pretentiousness that most of us couldn’t appreciate until the 90’s.

[jcmccorm]

I was in elementary school when our teachers took us on a field trip to see this movie. I thought the fighting was cool and I felt special for being able to watch something that my parents definitely would have forbidden.

I saw a clip of it a few years ago. It was the first time I’d seen any of it since that time I was a kid. Wow. What a turd. I agree though with what was posted earlier, their heart was in the right place. It was honest, but they lacked the budget and skills to make what at the time would’ve been considered a “good” movie.

[Fiji Hill]

Here's a song I like from 1971.

The Marching Hippies--Guy Drake

Drake's previous song was Welfare Cadillac (1970), a perennial favorite among conservatives.

[kawhill]

“One Tin Soldier - Billy Jack 1971”. “I’m gonna take this right foot, and I’m gonna whop you on that side of your face ...and you wanna know something? There’s not a damn thing you’re gonna be able to do about it.”

[dfwgator]

Much better song, IMHO

Tin Soldier - Small Faces

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWTtx_PxPo

Marriott was a force of nature.

[Rummyfan]

Laughlin was also responsible for the classic Born Losers.

[Jim Noble]

Bernard! Floor it!

“You’d kill her? Just like that?”
“No. You’ll kill her. And then I’ll kill you. Just..like..that”