The Voice of Alabama

Annotation

Racist group, on the Crowley, Louisiana-based record label Reb Rebel - which contained an image of the confederate flag on its standard 7" releases. Founded by J.D. Miller - he was a self-proclaimed segregationist. Despite, this, he owned an interracial studio band, and recorded many African-American artists on other labels he owned. But this label was saved specially for offensive, hyper-racist material. (1). The A-side of this song "Flight NAACP 105)" was a spoken racist novelty about Civil Rights, mocking Martin Luther King, Jr. and African Americans. The B-Side "The Voice of Alabama" took an anti-government and anti-Vietnam War perspective, while featuring patriotic content - the basis of its arguments are State's rights and isolationism. On the issue of Civil Rights, the lyrics complained that federal law enforcement had entered the state: "why did you send combat ready troops all the way down here to my cotton field". In the Vietnam issue, the lyrics asked "why was my kid brother sent to Vietnam", concluding that "we've lost our freedom of speech, our state's rights". So this is one of the few records crossing into both the anti-war / anti-government, and patriotic song…

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

About the artist

Unknown - "Son of Mississippi" is a persona billing, not a documented name. The release is "Flight NAACP 105" / "The Voice Of Alabama" (Rebel Records 500, 1966), both sides written by J. Norris, published by Jamil Music (BMI), catalogued by Discogs as non-music/comedy, the A-side carrying the printed disclaimer "Some say it is like this, but it is not true" - a segregation-era novelty record. No individual identity established. [Source: Discogs]

Themes

Demonstration · Civil Rights · WW2 · Korea · Hitler · Lincoln

In collections

Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs