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Generic Other

(28,979 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2014, 08:02 PM Sep 2014

Simple Song Of Freedom

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Simple Song Of Freedom (Original Post) Generic Other Sep 2014 OP

Wonderful watch...no idea Bobby Darrin ever did this song.... KoKo Sep 2014 #1

Bobby Darin WROTE the song! Jim Lane Sep 2014 #2

It should be The Wizard Sep 2014 #3

Live version... we lost him way too soon... 1monster Sep 2014 #4

KoKo

(84,711 posts)

1. Wonderful watch...no idea Bobby Darrin ever did this song....

Reply to Generic Other (Original post)

Thu Sep 11, 2014, 09:41 PM

Sep 2014

Recommend!

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)

2. Bobby Darin WROTE the song!

Reply to KoKo (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 04:50 AM

Sep 2014

Tim Hardin's cover version became the best known -- so much so that a Hardin compilation album was titled Simple Songs Of Freedom: The Tim Hardin Collection.

As you'd guess from "Simple Song of Freedom", Darin was politically aware and active. He worked on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign and was at the Ambassador Hotel when Kennedy was assassinated.

The Wizard

(12,534 posts)

3. It should be

Reply to Generic Other (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 07:41 AM

Sep 2014

sung from the rooftops across the country. For most of our lives our country has been at war. Stop the madness. Stop the greed.

1monster

(11,012 posts)

4. Live version... we lost him way too soon...

Reply to Generic Other (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 11:44 AM

Sep 2014

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