People Are Dying (And We Say We Care)
1970 · Sound 80 S80-24-1373 · Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Artist
- Pierson Lake
- Title
- People Are Dying (And We Say We Care)
- Release
- People Are Dying (And We Say We Care) / Feel So Good ('Cause I'm in Love)
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Sound 80 # S80-24-1373
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Songwriter
- Herb Parker Jr.
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
People Are Dying (And We Say We Care) (Lake, Pierson) Soul / funk, anti-war. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Sick of all this killing. Lets get minds together to stop people dying.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Sound 80, 4444 West 76th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55435, S80-24-1373 A, stereo, © 1970; "People Are Dying (And We Say We Care)" (Herb Parker Jr.), 4:10; produced by Carl Pelto. Upper half of the label is a repeating "Sound 80" lettering pattern. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Pierson Lake has two documented singles: "I Want To Thank You" b/w "Just Give Me A Chance" (Century Records 35501, 1969), produced by Herb Parker Jr. and described by collectors as a private-press blue-eyed soul side, and "People Are Dying (And We Say We Care)" b/w "Feel So Good ('Cause I'm In Love)" (Sound 80, S80-24-1373, 1970), produced by Carl Pelto and written by Herb Parker Jr. and Jerry Tanner. The runout of the 1970 single carries a "GM East Detroit" dead-wax marking. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
In collections
Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs