Please Give Us Our Ship Back
1968 · Audio Fidelity AF 143 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Margaret Warncke
- Title
- Please Give Us Our Ship Back
- 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 — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]
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
Notes
Audio Fidelity AF 143 P, white "Promotional Copy" label, "A Study in High Fidelity Sound", "Produced by Audio Fidelity Records Inc., New York 19, N.Y."; "Please Give Us Our Ship Back" (F. Stacy Holmes II), 2:50, Matador Music (BMI). [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Margaret Warncke, also credited as Margarete Warncke, was an American singer and stage actress whose Discogs artist entity is registered as a member of the Original Broadway Cast of 'Jesus Christ Superstar'; a performer of that name appeared on Broadway in 'Jesus Christ Superstar' (Mark Hellinger Theatre, from October 1971), in 'Knockout' (Helen Hayes Theatre, 1979) and in 'Marlowe' (Rialto Theatre, 1981, as Queen Elizabeth I), and was also credited in the films 'Children's Games' (1969) and 'Shaft' (1971). "Please Give Us Our Ship Back", written by F. Stacy Holmes II, was issued as a…