War

Annotation

Obscure Canadian soul singer Carla Whitney released only one album, self-titled Carla Whitney (Attic Records # LAT 1005), backed by Choker Campbell and the "Super Sounds". It contained the track "War" - Campbell arranged, produced, and co-wrote the song (with Horace Williams). Whitney sung that although the "killing and dying" is over, there needed to be "no more cheating and lying". Whitney called on people to "show me the love".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: Heard you talking about the war now / About how its been keeping you up tight... / Say it's over, killing and the dying / No can't be over until there's no more cheating and lying / Now that the war is over, show me the love... / You've been telling all your people about whose been right and whose been wrong

About the artist

Canadian soul singer of the 1970s, based in Toronto at the time, who recorded the album 'Carla Whitney with Choker Campbell & The Super Sounds' (Attic Records, Canada, 1975), produced by former Motown bandleader Choker Campbell; 'War' from those sessions was reissued as a UK Jazzman 45 in 2006. [Source: Discogs]

In collections

Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs