Conversation
1968 · CMS 615 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Toby Lurie
- Title
- Conversation
- Release
- One Boy Has Died in the War / Conversation
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- CMS # 615
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Pop · Experimental Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
One Boy Has Died in the War (Lurie, Toby) Conversation (Lurie, Toby) Spoken narration, chant. A-side: Angry anti-war. Boy has died - Hear it on the news, mother gets a knock at the door. B-side: generation gap, war.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
American avant-garde poet and composer associated with San Francisco's Beat scene, creator of a spoken-word 'word music' form and composer of 13 spoken-language symphonies; still performing into his 90s. Both master tracks appear on his LP 'Word Music! The Poetry of Tobie Lurie' (CMS Records CMS 615, 1971; poems copyright 1966-1969), digitally reissued in 2023. [Source: The Beat Museum / Discogs / WFMU]
Themes
Anti-War · Soldier's Perspective · Home Front Perspective · K.I.A. · Generation Gap