Credited on the record as Jim Hartley and The Orange State Playboys.
Telling It Straight in '68 - Part 2
1968 · Orange W-1968 · USA
- Artist
- Jim Hartley
- Credited on the record as
- Jim Hartley and The Orange State Playboys
- Title
- Telling It Straight in '68 - Part 2
- Release
- Telling It Straight in '68 - Part 1 / Telling It Straight in '68 - Part 2
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Orange # W-1968
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Hartley, Ostrin
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
A bluegrass political novelty about the 1968 election and the Vietnam War, which referenced the main candidates Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the outgoing president Lyndon B. Johnson, and backed the candidacy of George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, who ran on a racist platform, supporting segregation and discrimination. This song, on side two, "Telling It Straight in '68 - Part 2" (Orange # W-1968), which referenced the demonstrations outside the Democratic convention, not surprisingly took the side of the police and Mayor Richard J. Daley, calling the demonstrators "commies". The song dealt with Vietnam, and issues around Civil Rights.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
A bluegrass political novelty about the 1968 election and the Vietnam War, which referenced the main candidates Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the outgoing president Lyndon B. Johnson, and backed the candidacy of George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, who ran on a racist platform, supporting segregation and discrimination. This song, on side two, "Telling It Straight in '68 - Part 2" (Orange # W-1968), which referenced the demonstrations outside the Democratic convention, not surprisingly took the side of the police and Mayor Richard J. Daley, calling the demonstrators "commies".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Well the Democrats held a big convention, they came from near and fall / It looked just like a circus... / The mayor stopped the riots, and his policemen kept control / So the commies called him Hitler, and the newsmen damned his soul / And the capital of our great nation the burned and looted with pride / The policemen had to stand and watch cause there hands were tied... / Now we mentioned the convention held in the stock yards in Illinois, with the big cattle barren from Texas
Notes
Orange W-1968-A / W-1968-B, 45 R.P.M., orange labels; "Telling It Straight in '68" Part 1 and Part 2 (Hartley-Ostrin), by Jim Hartley and The Orange State Playboys; "A Jim Hartley production". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Currently Miama, Florida, USA.
Themes
Patriotic · Wallace · Chicago Seven · Hitler · Anti-Protest · Hubert Humphrey · VC · LBJ · Demonstration
In collections
1968 Chicago Seven / Eight Songs · Civil Rights Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]