A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle ...
Merle Haggard followed his patriotic hit "Okie From Muskogee" with "The Fightin' Side of Me", which hit NO. 1 o 1970.
People say art and politics should be kept separate, but these heroic soldiers and their tribute songs prove otherwise.
NEW YORK (AP) – “Country” Joe McDonald, a hippie rock star of the 1960s whose “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was a ...
'That's really special when you get to do a job like that.' ...
In remembrance of an American legend, we’ve taken a deep dive into the vault and pulled together some performances from Country Joe McDonald’s career. The protest singer, Vietnam veteran advocate, and ...
After the 1960s, he worked for various U.S. veterans’ causes in addition to his decades-long performing arts career.
Prolonged war looms as White House seeks to dominate. Creatives respond with protest songs. Will Congress fail to represent the people?
Exactly 60 years ago today, on March 11, 1966, a song that was widely embraced at the time was the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. While 'The Ballad of the Green Berets' by Staff Sergeant Barry ...
The First National Touring company of “Some Like It Hot” is onstage, 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 ...
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