On this thread people have come up with compilation's based on any various ideas. My idea was to come up with a list of songs about actual events or people in history. ( all PRE 9-11 songs)
Here's my list.
Year of event "Song Title", Musician
(historical relevance/explanation)
1814 "Star Spangled Banner", Francis Scott Key
(written by an attorney as a poem about the flag that flew of Fort McHenry during the war of 1812)
1853-1890 "Vincent", Don McLean
(Tribute to Vincent Van Gogh)
1863 "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore
(Written for the Union Army men returning from the Civil War)
1863,1963, 1961, "Abraham, Martin and John", Richard Holler
(This song is a tribute to assinated politicians, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, and John F. Kennedy)
1940's "As Above, So Below", Manfred Mann's Earth Band
(by a recording made in Surrey, England during the Second World War, by an ornithologist intending to record Nightingales.The bombers flew over at the same time and were recorded by accident. The recording has been incorporated in 'As above, So below'.)
1962 (May 19th) "Happy Birthday Mr. President", Marilyn Monroe
(Marilyn Monroe sang to President JFK at Madison Square Garden)
1962 "Candle in the Wind" Elton John
(tribute to Marilyn Monroe)
1966 (May 4th) "Ohio", CSNY
(Kent State killings "4 dead in Ohio")
1966 (June 16th) "Hurricane", Bob Dylan
(Rubin Carter accused of murder that occurred that night)
1968 (Nov 8th) "Hey Jude" The Beatles
(Written by Paul McCartney, for Julian Lennon as a song of comfort to Julian as related to the break up of his parents marriage, John and Cynthia Lennon. Originally titled "Hey Jules" The divorce was final Nov 8th, 1968)
1969 (April 22nd) "Give Peace a Chance", John Lennon and Yoko Ono
(Theme song for Bed In for Peace)
1975 (Nov 10th) "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", Gordon LIghtfoot
(wreck of the freight liner "The Edmund Fitzgerald.)
1980 "Beautiful Boy", John Lennon
(Tribute to the birth of his son Sean)
1984 (November) "Do They Know it's Christmas/ Band Aid Feed the World"
(raise money for famine in Ethiopia)
1985 (Jan 28th) "We Are the World", Various Artist/USA for Africa
(Money for Africa)
1985 (July 13th) "Scarecrow", John Cougar Mellencamp
(Farm Aid)
1988 "One Moment in Time", Whitney Houston
(Tribute to the 1988 Summer Olympics)
1990 "Candle in the Wind", Elton John,
(re-released as a tribute to Princess Diana)
1992 "Tears In Heaven", Eric Clapton
(Song relating to the death of his son Coner)
1995 (May) "Hang In There Superman", Hal Ketcham
(Dedicated to Christopher Reeves after he was paralyzed in a horseback riding accident)
1996 "My Favorite Mistake", Sheryl Crow
Written about the breakup between she and Eric Clapton.....(ok ok, I threw that in there for fun, I have not seen this info specifically written anywhere......but seems to work for me!! )
What's Missing?? Any suggestions?? |
