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    A Most Unusual Protest Song

    Posted by David Foster on June 5th, 2018 (All posts by )

    …from the 1960s.

    P F Sloan, When the Wind Changes

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    This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 at 2:04 pm and is filed under Europe, History, Human Behavior, Music, Russia, USA, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

    8 Responses to “A Most Unusual Protest Song”

    1. Ginny Says:
      June 5th, 2018 at 5:08 pm

      Thanks David – though you’ve sent me down a lot of rabbit holes since I’d never heard of him. By the way, I do feel my children are more grateful than we were in the late sixties, but this song seems different from his others – and powerful.

    2. David Foster Says:
      June 5th, 2018 at 10:10 pm

      Ginny…”I do feel my children are more grateful than we were in the late sixties”

      Speaking of Gratitude and lack thereof, Sarah Hoyt has a post on the common belief that “the older generation made a mess of the world”

      https://accordingtohoyt.com/2018/06/05/we-were-never-the-scintilla/#comments

    3. Brian Says:
      June 6th, 2018 at 9:13 am

      This guy wrote Eve of Destruction.

      Sounds like there is a very interesting story that could be told about his life:
      http://www.kausfiles.com/2015/11/18/r-i-p-p-f-sloan/
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_W9HLWZfOo

    4. Grurray Says:
      June 6th, 2018 at 10:57 am

      Regarding the part about sending trainloads of wheat back in 1932, maybe he was thinking of ’42? I doubt any food was allowed to get through during the worst part of the famine to “keep your millions alive”. It would be interesting if he had some inkling of something resembling the Holodomor catastrophe had occurred, what with the state of information behind the Iron Curtain. Or am I reading too much into that line?

    5. David Foster Says:
      June 6th, 2018 at 4:09 pm

      Grurray…there was significant US food aid to Russia in 1921-23:

      https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2011/pr-famine-040411.html

      …I can’t find any reference to food aid in 1932, with a cursory search.

      Maybe Sloan confused the dates, or maybe he just thought “1932” rhymed better.

      I’m impressed that he even knew about it, though.

    6. David Foster Says:
      June 6th, 2018 at 4:12 pm

      More about the famine and the US aid:

      https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2011/marchapril/feature/the-politics-food

    7. OBloodyHell Says:
      June 7th, 2018 at 2:33 pm

      Wow. Nice song. Never heard it before.

    8. OBloodyHell Says:
      June 7th, 2018 at 3:55 pm

      https://youtu.be/bfiDvWh0uMU

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