Battle Is Over
1969 · Look 5051 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- The Blue Marble Faun
- Title
- Battle Is Over
- Release
- The Battle Is Over / Going Home
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Look # 5051
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Jim Siegling, Frank Larrabee
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Battle Is Over, The (Blue Marble Faun, The) Folk rock. Anti-war song. Look Records # 5051 - Nashville, Tennessee. Group from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Featured Jim Siegling, Frank Larrabee, Charles Tatum - the first two released a record under the name Siegling & Larrabee. Albuquerque Journal, 1 October 1968, p. 21. "An Albuquerque combo's first record may reach the top of the national hit parade if predictions by two professional record magazines come true. The group: The Blue Marble Faun. The potential hit: "The Battle Is Over." The haunting folk-rock pop styled song by...University of Albuquerque students, already is being pushed on radio stations...in such larger communities as Chicago and Detroit. Both Cash Rox and Record World magazines...picked the disc as a potential hit. Cash Box, in designating it one of a half dozen top discs by new groups, commented that the "gently phrased ballad or protest imagery with a brilliant performance from the Blue Marble Faun should turn "The Battle Is Over" into one of the leading sellers of this year end season. Atmospheric blend in the 'California Dreaming' and Christmas carol tradition wilh exceptional arrangements and vocals highlight an…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Mentioned in Albuquerque Journal, 1 October 1968, p. 21
About the artist
Group from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Featured Jim Siegling, Frank Larrabee, Charles Tatum - the first two released a record under the name Siegling & Larrabee