Ballad of the Plastic Prince
1974 · Burning Star 7401 · USA
- Artist
- Robin St. Pierre
- Title
- Ballad of the Plastic Prince
- Release
- Ballad of the Plastic Prince
- Year
- 1974
- Label
- Burning Star # 7401
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Bill Kaan, Robin St. Pierre
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Ballad of the Plastic Prince (St. Pierrs, Robin) Folk rock, anti-war, anti-Nixon. War is over - will we move on? Hawks and doves. Goodbye Vietnam: tears of shame, lots of dead, Saigon whores, black market. Nixon a plastic prince: 'peace with honor'. References napalm, MLK, RFK
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Burning Star BSM-7401A, stereo, ℗ 1974, Burning Star Music (BMI), time 3:43; "Ballad of the Plastic Prince", lyrics by Bill Kaan, music composed and arranged by Robin St. Pierre; produced by Bill Kaan. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
Anti-War · Saigon · Prostitution · Nixon · Peace With Honor · Watergate · Civil Rights · RFK · MLK
In collections
Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]