Gil Scott-Heron & Pretty Purdie
Credited on the record as Pretty Purdie and the Playboys, narration: Gil Scott-Heron.
Artificialness
1971 · Mega 615-0065 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Gil Scott-Heron & Pretty Purdie
- Credited on the record as
- Pretty Purdie and the Playboys, narration: Gil Scott-Heron
- Title
- Artificialness
- Release
- Funky Mozart / Artificialness
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Mega # 615-0065
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Scott-Heron, P. Purdie
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Jazz-Funk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Artificialness (Purdie, Pretty & Gil Scott-Heron) Jazz funk, protest, Nixon Dear Nixon - wife has left me. I am a victim of the Vietnam War. In the DM zone at home, struck my wife before she struck me. Locked her in hotel. Please don't employ your next war, I'm following your lead.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Mega 615-0065 (M2PM-1472), mono "Promo Copy"; "Artificialness" (Scott-Heron-Purdie), 3:05 (intro time 0:02), credited to Pretty Purdie and the Playboys with narration by Gil Scott-Heron; published by Bob Thiele Music Ltd. (ASCAP), produced by Bob Thiele, "From Mega Album M51-5001 'Stand By Me'"; "Mega Records & Tapes, Inc. USA". In a blue-and-white Mega "Records and Tapes" company sleeve. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Bernard Purdie - born 11 June 1939, Elkton, Maryland, USA. Currently New York, USA. Gil Scott-Heron, Born 1 April 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 27 May 2011, Manhattan, New York, USA
Themes
In collections
Jazz Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs