Please! Mr. President (Give Them a Date)
August 333 · USA
- Artist
- West
- Title
- Please! Mr. President (Give Them a Date)
- Release
- Please! Mr. President (Give Them a Date) / Mad Dog Oakie Shuffle
- Label
- August # 333
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- D. Cimino, C. Cimino, McCasland
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
"Please! Mr President (Give Them a Date)" (West) psychedelic rock. only partial recording Written by D. Cimino and M. McCasland with music by C. Cimino. Published by Monterey Park Music Pub. Anti-war. Questions why war still going on even though govt had been negotiating for over three years. Criticisim of Nixon. Reference to silent majority and hawks turning against the war. "Please Mr. President, give them a date and negotiate For all mankind, we don't want to see another boy die The hawks are changing to doves, silent majority is having doubts We love our country...so answer us We've been in Vietnam such a long time That's the reason we've written this song We've been at peace talks for more than three years But nothings been done, except we've lost more sons"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs
"Please! Mr President (Give Them a Date)" (West) psychedelic rock. only partial recording Written by D. Cimino and M. McCasland with music by C. Cimino. Published by Monterey Park Music Pub. Anti-war. Questions why war still going on even though govt had been negotiating for over three years. Criticisim of Nixon. Reference to silent majority and hawks turning against the war. "Please Mr. President, give them a date and negotiate / For all mankind, we don't want to see another boy die / The hawks are changing to doves, silent majority is having doubts / We love our country...so answer us / We've been in Vietnam such a long time / That's the reason we've written this song / We've been at peace talks for more than three years / But nothings been done, except we've lost more sons"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Please! Mr. President (Give Them A Date)" b/w "Mad Dog Oakie Shuffle" (August Record Company 33), the title and punctuation matching the master exactly. This is a distinct Discogs entity from the documented Epic Records band West (Ron Cornelius et al.), whose two album tracklists were checked and do not carry the song - so that band is NOT assigned. A POW-release plea, c.1970-72. [Source: Discogs]