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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.
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?
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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
June 7th, 2018 at 2:33 pm
Wow. Nice song. Never heard it before.
June 7th, 2018 at 3:55 pm
https://youtu.be/bfiDvWh0uMU