7 O'Clock News (Silent Night)
1966 · Mercury 72637 · Chicago, Illinois
- Artist
- The Hopeful
- Title
- 7 O'Clock News (Silent Night)
- Release
- 7 O'Clock News (Silent Night) / 6 O'Clock News (America the Beautiful)
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Mercury # 72637
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
About the artist
Unknown - member identities not found in verified sources after searching. Studio folk group whose lone 1966 Mercury single (72637) was produced by Artie Kornfeld, later co-creator of the Woodstock festival: the A-side '6 O'Clock News (America The Beautiful)', with narrator Frank Costa, is Kornfeld's answer to Simon & Garfunkel's '7 O'Clock News/Silent Night', and the flip covers the Simon & Garfunkel collage itself. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
Christmas · Anti-War · MLK · Civil War · Demonstration · Nixon