The Great Society
1968 · Audio Fidelity AF 143 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- The Carlyes
- Title
- The Great Society
- Release
- The Great Society / Please Give Us Our Ship Back
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Audio Fidelity # AF 143
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- F. Stacy Holmes II
- Genre
- Novelty · Novelty
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Draft Songs
Great Society (Carlyles, The) Weird novelty protest, pop. Anti-imperialism. LBJ takes the Great Society to Asia. References the C.I.A., communism, taxes, inflation, the draft, the U.N., and the atomic bomb. "Wage war for peace". B-side "Please Give Us Our Ship Back" - return captured ship to the US - not a spying, we are a peace loving nation. But if not, we will drop the bomb. Another weird novelty. 1968 - Vietnam-era, Cold War.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Themes
Protest · LBJ · Communism · CIA · Atomic · United Nations · Draft · Anti-Imperialism · Inflation · Economic