The Buckinghams - Foreign Policy (they used to write them like this!)

[Bluebear]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEd3pvCSOng

To be with uncertainty is our heritage today.
The sins as demented, the sinners have long since faded away.

Little children just waiting for the games to begin,
with no thoughts of all the people down the street,
thinking only "We can win!"

We stand alone to be judged by time,
flush with fertile thoughts upon our minds.
What good are all the words we might say when there's hunger in this world?
And how can we their meanings convey through the thunder of ignorance
and bigotry and war?

Voice of JFK: And is not peace in the last analysis basically a matter of human rights?
The right to live out our lives without fear of devastation?

We're little children just waiting for the games to begin,
with no thoughts of all the people down the street,
thinking only "We must win!"
Only "We must win.
We must win...we must win...only we must win..."

[msongs]

1. kind of a drag, susan. don't you care? mercy mercy mercy nt

[bmbmd]

2. Well done, indeed.

Hope you are enjoying your fifties....

[KharmaTrain]

3. They're Playing At My High School Reunion Next Month

A great long lost treasure...most people outside of Chicago never really heard much of them.

Thanks for posting...

[msongs]

5. very popular in so cal actually, n #1 USA song kind of a drag...

"Kind of a Drag" is a song written by Jim Holvay and recorded by The Buckinghams. The single reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1967, remaining in the top position for two weeks. It was the first of the band's five Top 10 hits in 1967." - wikipedia

[KharmaTrain]

7. A Lot Of Great Chicago Bands...

As a kid, we'd hear and see them along with the Cryan Shames, Robbs and Ides of March. Jim is a graduate of my high school, why they'll be playing. I'll see if I can sneak a camera in and get some shots. Of all their tunes, Kind Of A Drag is the one I've still burned out on...Susan or Mercy, Mercy, Mercy are personal faves.

Cheers...

[SharonAnn]

4. The Kingston Trio foreign policy song is my favorite. "They're rioting in Africa,

The Merry Minuet

"They're rioting in Africa,
They're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida,
And Texas needs rain.

The whole world is festering
With unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans,
The Germans hate the Poles.

Italians hate Yugoslavs.
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much.

But I feel tranquil
And thankful and proud
For man's been endowed
With a mushroom shaped cloud.

And I know for certain
That some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off,
And we will all be blown away.

Sung by the Kingston Trio at the "Hungry I" in San Fransisco in about 1958-1959?

[On the Road]

6. That's Not a Bad Song

"Kind of a Drag" and "Hey Baby (They're Playing our Song)" were the only Buckingham's songs I knew. Loved them in the 9th grade.

On Edits: Some of those other clips are very familiar, too -- "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," "Don't You Care," "Susan," "Gimme Some Loving." Had no idea The Buckinghams had that many Top 40 hits.