Tame the Lion
1972 · Dunhill D-4315 · USA
- Artist
- Emitt Rhodes
- Title
- Tame the Lion
- Release
- Tame the Lion / Golden Child of God
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Dunhill # D-4315
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Emitt Rhodes
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]
Tame the Lion Folk rock, anti-war Children in Hanoi and Saigon suffering USA out of control, having tasted blood This war is evil
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Also issued in the UK on Probe PRO 565 (1972). [From Discogs] Dunhill D-4315, promotional copy with "Tame the Lion" on both sides, mono (45-01575) and stereo (45-01575-S), 2:53; ℗ 1972 ABC Records, Inc.; Thirty Four Music Co. (ASCAP); produced by Emitt Rhodes for Ice Age, Inc. [From the record label] Sent with a lyric sheet and two letters. The label tried the record on college radio first, unsure how commercial radio would react to a song dealing "strongly and directly" with war and killing, and lists 24 stations. [From the promotional inserts]