Gene Marshall

What's Wrong With America

1971 · Preview 1999 · Hollywood, California

What's Wrong With America – Gene Marshall (A-side label)

Artist
Gene Marshall
Title
What's Wrong With America
Release
What's Wrong With America / Please Let Our Love Grow
Year
1971
Label
Preview # 1999
Format
7" · Single
Language
English
Country
Hollywood, California, USA
Songwriter
Clarence Harden
Genre
Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
Primary theme
Peace, Protest & Anti-War

Annotation — Song Poems

- "What's Wrong With America" - Label: Preview Records # 1999 - Songwriter: Clarence Hardem - Traditional pop, song poem - Drugs, hippies, demonstrations, pollution, war, general protest, home front situation - People taking dope for a joke, avoiding reality. - We are not together, what are we doing? - Sex is a theme, pollution, overseas war - Hippies on the march, DC on alarm - Fighting in the streets, we mus unit!

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs

What's Wrong With America (Marshall, Gene) Traditional pop, song poem. Anti-protest theme People taking dope for a joke, avoiding reality. We are not together, what are we doing? Sex is a theme, pollution, overseas war Hippies on the march, DC on alarm Fighting in the streets, we mus unit!

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Preview Records 1999-1, 6311 Yucca, Hollywood, Arthur Music, A.S.C.A.P.; "What's Wrong With America", Clarence Harden, 2:19. [From the record sleeve and labels]

About the artist

Born San Francisco, California, USA

Themes

Protest · Drugs · Counter-Culture & Hippies · Demonstration · Ecology · Washington D.C. · Song Poem

In collections

Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]

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