Song of the Day 6/19: The Rascals, “People Got to Be Free”
How does an old white guy celebrate Juneteenth? I’m going with blue-eyed soul from some of its early practitioners, the Rascals.
The sentiment sounds hokey today — they don’t play this one much even on oldies radio — but it was widespread in 1968, when this song spent five weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 and reached No. 14 on what Billboard then called its Soul Singles chart.
“Fight the Power” would be my choice.
A good choice, but though I’ve slipped up a few times, I try not to repeat songs I’ve previously used as SOTD.
https://delawareliberal.net/2020/06/16/song-of-the-day-6-16-public-enemy-fight-the-power/
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