Washington We're Watching You
1974 · Stax SS-01559 · Chicago, Illinois
- Artist
- The Staple Singers
- Title
- Washington We're Watching You
- Release
- Washington We're Watching You / My Main Man / There Is a God
- Year
- 1974
- Label
- Stax # SS-01559
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Songwriter
- Carl Hampton, Homer Banks, Ray Jackson
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul · Gospel
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs
Washington We're Watching You Reference to war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Civil Rights Songs
- Washington We're Watching You - Reference to war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Track A3. Producer Al Bell. Published by East/Memphis Music (BMI). Silver foil cover original; North Avalon address on labels. Matrix: STXS-0924-2 SS-0643 / STXS-0925-3 SS-0644-R; lacquers cut at Ardent Studios (L. Nix / Bohannon); pressed by Sonic Recording Products. Also issued on 7" promo Stax SS-01559 (1974, r13307888) and 7" Stax STA-1060 b/w 'A House Is Not A Home' (Discogs date 1982, r4510086). Also on the album City in the Sky (Stax STS-5515, 1974). Your copy is the reissue single Stax STX 1060. Owned copy is the later single, Stax STX-1060 (Side A, STX-1060-A), red "Promotion Copy – Not For Sale" stereo label, ℗ 1982 Stax Records, distributed by Fantasy Records, Berkeley, California; East/Memphis Music BMI, time 3:40; written by H. Banks / C. Hampton / R. Jackson. [From the record label]
About the artist
Family gospel-soul group formed in Chicago by Roebuck 'Pops' Staples with his children Cleotha, Pervis and Mavis (later Yvonne), singing in Chicago churches from 1948 and recording hits for Stax in the late 1960s-70s. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
In collections
Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs