We Have Overcome
M.S.R. 329 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Dick Kent
- Title
- We Have Overcome
- Release
- We Have Overcome / What God Might Like to Say About the War in Viet Nam
- Label
- M.S.R. # 329
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Roger McBride
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
- song poem, religion, anti-war, traditional pop - b-side: things getting out of hand in Vietnam - need peace on earth - narrated from perspective of god - a-side: generic peace, religious message
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- Song poem, religion, anti-war, traditional pop, both sides - Label: M.S.R. Records # 329 - Hollywood, California -A-Side: "We Have Overcome" -Performer: Dick Kent -Songwriter: Roger McBride -Theme: generic peace, religious message
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Song Poem M.S.R. Records, 6331 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA, 329, maroon label, MAHZL Publishing, BMI; 329-1 "We Have Overcome" (Roger McBride), 2:12, Dick Kent; 329-2 "What God Might Like to Say About the War in Viet Nam" (Violet W. Hickerson), 2:09, Rodd Rogers. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
American song-poem vocalist: one of the regular house singers for the Los Angeles-based MSR Records song-poem label through the 1960s and 1970s, recording hundreds of amateur-submitted lyrics (often with The Lancelots); anthologised on 'The American Song-Poem Anthology'. [Source: songpoemmusic.com (AS/PMA) / Last.fm]