Just Another Day
1967 · Crisis LP-001 · USA
- Artist
- Bill Frederick
- Title
- Just Another Day
- Release
- Hey, Hey LBJ: Songs of the US Antiwar Movement
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Crisis # LP-001
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Folk · Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
A collection of 12 anti-war songs (Crisis Records # LP-001) from 1967 written and performed by Bill Frederick aka Fred Stanton, from Philadelphia. The songs are strongly focused on attacking Lyndon B. Johnson. Frederick, well-known on the New York folk scene in the 1960s, had 12 songs published in Broadside magazine. (1) The title song, "Hey, Hey LBJ", repeated the famous chant popular at anti-war demonstrations throughout the mid-1960s: "how many kids did you kill today?". Frederick went on to implicate several American companies that supplied the US government with materials used in Vietnam: "LBJ goes all the way with Dow, GM, and Boeing" - Dow refers to Dow Chemical, which produced napalm and agent orange. The track "The Dean Rusk Song" particularly stands out on the album, with several aspects of the war contained within its versus. At the end of the song Frederick strongly mocks the US government's role in Vietnam: "we will teach the reds a lesson...stop attacking our marines...and don't invade the little land where you were born". He also mocks their portrayal of the anti-war movement, saying that they're "stirring up the races and yelling nasty things at LBJ. Yes the enemy…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Folk singer prominent on the New York folk scene in the 1960s; performed at antiwar demonstrations and released the LP Hey, Hey... LBJ! And Other Songs of the U.S. Antiwar Movement (1967). No birth or death details found in verified sources. [Source: Journal of Texas Music History (VWSP article); History Today; Discogs]