If I Had My Way
1971 · VMP VMP 109 · USA
- Artist
- Troy Keyes
- Title
- If I Had My Way
- Release
- If I Had My Way / If I Had My Way (Instrumental)
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- VMP # VMP 109
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Troy Keyes
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Civil Rights Songs
- Soul, peace, anti-war, Civil Rights - Why so many men go far away to die? - People should live as one - Brothers and sisters under one sun
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]
Soul, peace, anti-war, Civil Rights Why so many men go far away to die? People should live as one Brothers and sisters under one sun
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
VMP 109/110 (stereo issue VMP 108/111); written and produced by Troy Keyes, arranged by Richard Tee; recorded at Broadway Sound Studios. Why do so many men go far away to die? People should live as one, brothers and sisters under one sun. Picture sleeve: line drawing (plantation, Klan march, Washington Monument, a soldier's bayonet at a seated child, Martin Luther King) titled "If I Had My Way"; the back prints the full lyrics, signed "— Troy Keyes —", under an epigraph by Gerold Boulding ("My eyes have seen injustice, Discrimination, Brothers against Brothers, and littered lots, where ragged children play"). Label: VMP 109, mono; Landy Publishing, BMI, 3:00; produced by Troy Keyes; recorded at B'Way Sound Studios, audio engineer Pat Jaques; arrangements by Richard Tee; product of V.M.P. Entertainment, Inc., Bklyn., N.Y. [From the record sleeve and label]
Themes
In collections
Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs