Stop
1977 · Windsong BXL1-2589 · USA
- Artist
- Doonesbury's Jimmy Thudpucker
- Title
- Stop
- Release
- Greatest Hits With The Walden West Rhythm Section
- Year
- 1977
- Label
- Windsong # BXL1-2589
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Pop · Soft Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
- "Stop" - Reference to My Lai massacre - Soft rock
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Hello, yes it’s me / I heard you on the air / You spoke of foreign wars /And how you used to care / I wouldn’t want to hold you / To words of way back when / But now is not so very far from then / Stop, in the middle of your life for asking / Who came of age with youthful rage at My Lai / Stop, in the middle of your life / Take another look at the wayward fight / Stop and remember what the winds of change were like
Notes
Track A4. Writer credit on the record is simply "Thudpucker". Windsong was John Denver's RCA-distributed label.
About the artist
Jimmy Thudpucker is the fictional rock star of Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" strip (from 1975); for the 1977 NBC "A Doonesbury Special" and this Windsong LP he was voiced and sung by James Allen "Jimmy" Brewer, with Steve Cropper producing at Clover Studios and a session band including Donald "Duck" Dunn, Jeff Porcaro, Jay Graydon and David Foster. [Source: Wikipedia; Sessiondays; Discogs]