Join in the Fight for Freedom
1965 · Film City FC-2013 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Rod Rogers
- Title
- Join in the Fight for Freedom
- Release
- Join in the Fight for Freedom / Ballad of MacArthur
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Film City # FC-2013
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Clarence Boness
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Join in the Fight for Freedom (Rogers, Rod) (Film City Records # FC-2013) Song poem - general patriotic ballad, traditional pop. Draft. Domino theory. Hawkish. B-side - about WW2 and reference to Korean War. "Join in the fight for freedom, freedom fro one and all Join in the fight for freedom, answer your country's call People the whole world over and longing to be free Join in the fight for freedom, to give them liberty We who are free must help them or ours will be taken away Join in the fight for freedom, do what you can each day Give the support that is needed, back-up your country's fight Join in the fight for freedom, and fight for the cause that's right"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Join in the Fight for Freedom (Rogers, Rod) (Film City Records # FC-2013) Song poem - general patriotic ballad, traditional pop. Draft. Domino theory. Hawkish. B-side - about WW2 and reference to Korean War. "Join in the fight for freedom, freedom fro one and all / Join in the fight for freedom, answer your country's call / People the whole world over and longing to be free / Join in the fight for freedom, to give them liberty / We who are free must help them or ours will be taken away / Join in the fight for freedom, do what you can each day / Give the support that is needed, back-up your country's fight / Join in the fight for freedom, and fight for the cause that's right"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Song poem
About the artist
Pseudonym of Rodd Keith (born Rodney Keith Eskelin, 30 January 1937). Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, the best-known figure of the song-poem genre, recording hundreds of compositions from amateur-submitted lyrics under names including Rod Rogers. Died 15 December 1974, falling from an overpass onto the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Source: Wikipedia; LA Times via Last.fm]
Themes
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs