The Battle Is Over

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 outstanding song." The other magazine termed it "a message disc that asks some pertinenl questions. Somber beat will compel attention." Other members of the ensemble include University of Arizona students and University of New Mexico students" "The record is being released nationally by the Look label, a Nashville-based company. Albuquerqueans John Wagner and brother Dr. Rex Wagner are partners in the production company that leased the recording lo Look. They recently opened a recording studio at 202 Wisconsin NE at a cost of same $50,000. Wagner is diplomatic about Albuquerque becoming a pop music center. "We have several good musical groups here, as well as sonic writers that could click," he explained. One problem he has found in the past is that local stations lend to consider records by local groups as not overly important even though they have received national distribution".1Sources1Newspapers.com↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Look Records 5015, light-blue label, 45 RPM, vocal, "A Product of Starday Records, P.O. Box 8008, Nashville, Tenn.", matrix L-5029; "The Battle Is Over" (Jim Siegling/Frank Larrabee), Tarheel/Kimkris/BMI, time 2:40; "A John Wagner Production". [From the record sleeve and labels]

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

Themes

Anti-War

In collections

Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]