Silent Majority
1970 · Atlantic SD 8259 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Eugene McDaniels
- Title
- Silent Majority
- Release
- Outlaw
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Atlantic # SD 8259
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Anti-Nixon, anti-war track "Silent Majority" (Atlantic # SD 8259), a reference to Nixon's Vietnam War speech on 3 November 1969: "and so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support". (1) The lyrics contained a minor anti-war Christmas reference: "war in, war out, they peddle Christmas trees, gaggin' on their own hypocrisies".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born 12 February 1935 in Kansas City, Kansas. Died 29 July 2011 in Kittery Point, Maine, USA