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Release 'Broadside Ballads, Vol. 4: The Time Will Come and Other Songs from Broadside Magazine'
Year 1967
Label Broadside # BR 306
Format LP · Compilation
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 2 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Various Artists, 'Broadside Ballads, Vol. 4: The Time Will Come and Other Songs from Broadside Magazine'; cite each song by its SongID

'Broadside Ballads, Vol. 4: The Time Will Come and Other Songs from Broadside Magazine'

1967 · Compilation · Broadside # BR 306 · USA
2 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Anti-War.
Annotation
Artist background
Tom Parrott, born in Washington D.C., USA, in 1944, a prominent member of the contemporary folk scene in the 1960s, wrote many political songs addressing the Vietnam War, such as the song"The Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" (1967), the song"Hole in the Ground" (1968), and two songs about the My Lai massacre: "The Massacres of My Lai (Song My) and Truong An" (1969) and "Pinkville Helicopter" (1971). He frequently appeared in Broadside, with eleven songs published.1 This was a mimeographed publication founded in 1962 by Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen, that promoted contemporary folk and protest songs. It also had a music label: Broadside Records. It usually published both lyrics and notations of songs, as well as articles and interviews about folk music, and newspaper clippings of current events. While many of the songs would have been played at the folk clubs and festivals, not all of them were recorded.
The contemporary folk song song "The Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" by Tom Parrott of course took an anti-war / peace perspective, highlighting the hypocrisy in American foreign policy, running through a series of historical events. This included Indigenous Americans: "we drove the Indians from their land... for they were not red men's freedoms that we were fighting for" , and onto the Civil Rights issue, noting that for the Civil War, "emancipation was the cause" , however, "the slavery of two hundred years lived another hundred more, for they were not Negro freedoms that we were fighting for" . On to the Vietnam War: "our boys in Viet Nam drive out the Viet Cong, behind them come the landlords to continue all their wrongs" .
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 2 curated collections.
The songs
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Broadside Records BR 306, "The Time Will Come and other songs from Broadside Magazine", © 1967 Broadside Records, 701 Seventh Ave., New York, New York 10036; Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. R67-4140. The cover drawing, of the Kitchen Sing, O'Farrell Street, San Francisco (a heart on the wall reads "Love one another, the time is at hand"), is by Agnes Friesen; the cover lists Elaine White, Will McLean, Teatro Campesino, Chris Gaylord, Blind Girl Grunt, Paul Kaplan, Tom Parrott, Zachary 2 and Matthew Jones. Side II, Band 3 is "I've Been Told" by Paul Kaplan (Kaplan), and Band 4 "Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" by Tom Parrott, with John Mackiewicz on 2nd guitar (Parrott). The eight-page "Broadside Vol. 4" booklet in the pocket opens with a note by Gordon Friesen describing this as the fourth in a series of records of performer/songwriters singing songs first printed in Broadside Magazine of New York, giving "a hearing to new songwriter/performers who are using music and lyrics to say something deep and vital and honest about the screwed-up world in which they find themselves", and ends "Long live folk music!"; it also lists the earlier albums BR 301–303 and the magazine's address, 215 West 98th St., New York (Agnes Cunningham, Editor). The booklet prints words and music of every song as they appeared in Broadside: "I've Been Told" (Words & Music: Paul Kaplan, © 1967 Paul Kaplan, Broadside #83), with a drawing of a girl reading "War! Comics" and a note that Kaplan "is 18, from Chicago, was raised on Pete Seeger, Weaver, and Almanac records"; and "The Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" (Words & Music by Tom Parrott, Copyright 1967 by Tom Parrott, Broadside #82), introduced by Parrott's account of carrying a sign reading "Support Our Boys In Vietnam - Bring Them Home Now!" with Suzanne Nachtigal to a "Support Our Boys In Vietnam" parade on Saturday, May 13th, where the sign was torn up by hecklers, and illustrated with a drawing captioned from Revelations, "... and the beast cast out of his mouth fire upon them who did not worship him." Other pages include Will McLean's "Osceola's Last Words" with an editorial note comparing the Seminole war of the 1830s with Vietnam, a Reuters clipping "Vietcong Captives Cheer For Indians in Movies", Zachary 2's "Genocide" and El Teatro Campesino's "El Picket Sign". [From the record sleeve and labels]

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1967 · Compilation · Broadside # BR 306 · Chicago, Illinois · 'Broadside Ballads, Vol. 4: The Time Will Come and Other Songs from Broadside Magazine'

Broadside Records BR 306, "The Time Will Come and other songs from Broadside Magazine", © 1967 Broadside Records, 701 Seventh Ave., New York, New York 10036; Library of Congress Catalogue Card No. R67-4140. The cover drawing, of the Kitchen Sing, O'Farrell Street, San Francisco (a heart on the wall reads "Love one another, the time is at hand"), is by Agnes Friesen; the cover lists Elaine White, Will McLean, Teatro Campesino, Chris Gaylord, Blind Girl Grunt, Paul Kaplan, Tom Parrott, Zachary 2 and Matthew Jones. Side II, Band 3 is "I've Been Told" by Paul Kaplan (Kaplan), and Band 4 "Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" by Tom Parrott, with John Mackiewicz on 2nd guitar (Parrott). The eight-page "Broadside Vol. 4" booklet in the pocket opens with a note by Gordon Friesen describing this as the fourth in a series of records of performer/songwriters singing songs first printed in Broadside Magazine of New York, giving "a hearing to new songwriter/performers who are using music and lyrics to say something deep and vital and honest about the screwed-up world in which they find themselves", and ends "Long live folk music!"; it also lists the earlier albums BR 301–303 and the magazine's address, 215 West 98th St., New York (Agnes Cunningham, Editor). The booklet prints words and music of every song as they appeared in Broadside: "I've Been Told" (Words & Music: Paul Kaplan, © 1967 Paul Kaplan, Broadside #83), with a drawing of a girl reading "War! Comics" and a note that Kaplan "is 18, from Chicago, was raised on Pete Seeger, Weaver, and Almanac records"; and "The Freedoms We've Been Fighting For" (Words & Music by Tom Parrott, Copyright 1967 by Tom Parrott, Broadside #82), introduced by Parrott's account of carrying a sign reading "Support Our Boys In Vietnam - Bring Them Home Now!" with Suzanne Nachtigal to a "Support Our Boys In Vietnam" parade on Saturday, May 13th, where the sign was torn up by hecklers, and illustrated with a drawing captioned from Revelations, "... and the beast cast out of his mouth fire upon them who did not worship him." Other pages include Will McLean's "Osceola's Last Words" with an editorial note comparing the Seminole war of the 1830s with Vietnam, a Reuters clipping "Vietcong Captives Cheer For Indians in Movies", Zachary 2's "Genocide" and El Teatro Campesino's "El Picket Sign". [From the record sleeve and labels]