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
- Robin St. Pierre
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-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
About the artist
Unknown - "Ballad Of The Plastic Prince" was released as a single in 1974 on Burning Star (BSM-7401) and later anthologised on the 2010 Bear Family box "...Next Stop Is Vietnam: The War On Record 1961-2008"; the composer credit reads "B. Kaan and R. St. Pierre". No biographical documentation was located. [Source: Discogs; AllMusic]
Themes
Anti-War · Saigon · Prostitution · Nixon · Peace With Honor · Watergate · Civil Rights · RFK · MLK