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Release Liberation Music Orchestra
Year 1970–1971
Label Impulse! # AS-9183
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Songs here 2 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra; cite each song by its SongID

Liberation Music Orchestra

1970 · Album · Impulse! # AS-9183 · 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, Chicago Seven.
Annotation
Experimental jazz artists, born on 6 August 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, USA, and died on 11 July 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA, released this anti-war record. In the linear notes of the record, Haden said that the composition "Circus '68 '69" (Impulse! # AS-9183) was related to the 1968 Democratic Party convention, Chicago., saying "After the minority plank on Vietnam was defeated in a vote taken on the convention floor, the California and New York delegations spontaneously began to sing 'We Shall Overcome' in protest. Unable to gain control of the floor, the rostrum instructed the convention orchestra to drown out the singing. 'You're a Grand Old Flag' and 'Happy Days Are Here Again' could then be heard trying to stifle 'We Shall Overcome'. To me this told the story, in music, of what was happening in our country politically."1
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
The songs
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1971 · Album · Impulse! # AS-9183 · New York City, New York · Liberation Music Orchestra

born on 6 August 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, USA, and died on 11 July 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA

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1970 · Album · Impulse! # AS-9183 · New York City, New York · Liberation Music Orchestra

born on 6 August 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, USA, and died on 11 July 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA