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Election Blues? Protest songs and releases by activists and musicians against fascists

by By Lynda Carson (newzland2 [at] gmail.com)
Woody Guthrie And His Famous Activist Guitar:
Woody Guthrie And His Famous Activist Guitar:

(Note: This release is not meant for children.)

Election Blues? Protest songs and releases by activists and musicians against fascists

By Lynda Carson - November 20, 2024

For those of you who are freaking out, depressed, have the blues, and feel absolutely terrified by the madness of what has been happening lately in our country, see a few links of some releases further below by some musicians, poets, and activists to help keep your spirits up.

The hate, chaos, violence and the mayhem being promoted by the fascist billionaires and their crazy myrmidons taking control of the federal government of this great nation, who scheme to rape, pillage and plunder the federal government, and all of its federal domestic programs assisting tens of millions of Americans, is a catastrophe in the making.

The madness, chaos, and mayhem will eventually result in the deaths of tens of millions of people, destruction of millions of jobs, and families, and will cause tens of millions of people to become homeless or unhoused because of the fascists, and fascism spreading all across the nation. Our country is in dire straits.

Before the fascists take total control of this country, and send military troops, and vicious right-wing neo-Nazi goon squads into the streets to harass, and round up the masses who may be accused of being the "enemy within," for those who may be interested, see a few links below of some releases by some musicians, poets, and activists to help keep your spirits up....

Enjoy....

Lynda Carson may be reached at newzland2 [at] gmail.com

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This Land Is Your Land, By Woody Guthrie, performed by members of the Oakland Symphony.

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtTEHcJvvA

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Woody Guthrie, This Land Is Your Land

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlaqPRCuRhU

This Land Is Your Land, “Included in the video are the images and voices of Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Holly Near, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Hoyt Axton, and others.”

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bphP7Hh_gxU

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Buffalo Springfield - For What It’s Worth

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80_39eAx3z8

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Grateful Dead, U.S. Blues

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdPOAhBp2Ag

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Arlo Guthrie, Alice’s Restaurant

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_tMzSxvoeA

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Quicksilver Messenger Service, Fresh Air

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ejj81Y2ZlM

Quicksilver Messenger Service, What About Me

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4RBB07S5Jo

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Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Woodstock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a99UOqGk8Ds

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Woodstock - Madison Square Garden, NYC

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3MUH8tFZTA

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Joni Mitchell, Woodstock

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEBmKi2xmoU

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Ritchie Havens, Freedom, live at Woodstock…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynxqdNMry4

Richie Havens, What You Going To Do About Me

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1utb4rvuk6U

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Billie Holiday, Strange Fruit

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tJWyk06rQI

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Phil Ochs - I Ain't Marching Anymore (Live)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVTBCtYjoY

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Joan Baez performs "We Shall Overcome" at the March on Washington

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7akuOFp-ET8

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Frank Zappa - Trouble Every Day

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girnJH7tvpM

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Pete Seeger, This Land Is Your Land

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uOgRPYiA0

Pete Seeger, Waist Deep In The Big Muddy

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnJVkEX8O4

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Public Enemy, Fight The Power

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnS53fNfpkE

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The Association, Requiem For The Masses

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jah4eqzYjvQ

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Country Joe and The Fish, Vietnam song

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldjOqdCUUbI

Country Joe McDonald, Agent Orange

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBS01EasTtc

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I Won't Vote Trump! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI8RZhhoBM0

An anti-Trump parody song,

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7kCqrlwDtU

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Joan Baez - Saigon Bride [HD]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbsG30riSro

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(Dedicated to the millions of people who may soon become homeless because of the tyranny of the fascist hostile MAGA Republicans, and their myrmidons. (LC). )

Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSt0is5bSas

Bob Dylan, Like A Rolling Stone, live at Newport Folk Festival

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Kv0vF41Bc

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Jimi Hendrix, Like A Rolling Stone

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amZdiTpvRtY

Jimi Hendrix, Machine Gun

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9oyBwVjxm8

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Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, - Ohio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCS-g3HwXdc

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Sade, Slave Song

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRK0XYlB7CM

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Bob Dylan, All Along The Watchtower

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT7Hj-ea0VE

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Jimi Hendrix, All Along The Watchtower

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

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Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

Gil Scott-Heron, Winter In America

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zKdIcOV5s

Live in concert, Gil Scott-Heron, Winter In America

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN1DurIyHiI

Gil Scott-Heron, Inner City Blues

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7TpAFFzf8

Gil Scott-Heron, Live at Central Park

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dza75447VDc

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Choir! Choir! Choir! & Patti Smith sing "PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER" in NYC with Stewart Copeland

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Wz3i_BYUc

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John Lennon, Give Peace A Chance

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEztCyoy96A

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Official Music Video N.W.A - F___ Da Police

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXpuKuhwsDQ

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Tom Paxton, Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg4qaZQ6QcQ

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The Last Poets

The Last Poets, This Is Madness Chant

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY6OyyC5Y2s

The Last Poets, White Mans Got A God Complex

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pU-392Pu5E

The Last Poets, Related to What Chant

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvaYv5upm34

The Last Poets, Mean Machine Chant

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Umm16l_mcY

The Last Poets, a controversial release…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISwcNGOQcRs

The Last Poets, another controversial release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YehHbYVkF9U

The Last Poets, When The Revolution Comes

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrEPyV24L0

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Barry McGuire, Eve Of Destruction

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_38SWIIKITE

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Curtis Mayfield, Future Shock

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SUC5JGuXB0

Curtis Mayfield, Right on for the darkness

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igC_1jwWR9o

Curtis Mayfield, Back To The World

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2udbdAmdkc

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Eagles, No More Walks In The Wood

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fwA5zr1ZRg

Eagles, Long Road Out Of Eden

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nhM1BJOHu8

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Bruce Cockburn, If I Had A Rocket Launcher

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w

Live in concert - Bruce Cockburn, If I Had A Rocket Launcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOjHior0RfU

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Marvin Gaye, Inner City Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_PxgSQ9Vf4

Marvin Gaye, What’s Going On

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M

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Spirit, Natures Way

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsTK2LHZKPQ

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Nina Simone, The Pusher

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9KB_gGd374

Nina Simone, Mississippi Goddam

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HM2S6TVYII

Nina Simone, Strange Fruit

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnuEMdUUrZQ

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Steppenwolf, The Pusher

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv6PY1BQLBE

Steppenwolf, The Pusher, live at the Matrix in San Francisco (1967)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXA64Qo4DM

Steppenwolf, Don’t Step On The Grass Sam

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q6sUP4NHVs

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WAR, The World Is A Ghetto

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvH7Uf-7kw

Live in concert - The World Is A Ghetto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ4USEMH_PQ

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Donny Hathaway, The Ghetto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZo-ASM1SB4

Live in concert - Donny Hathaway, The Ghetto

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkfTLnE5Vtk

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Herbie Hancock, Watermelon Man

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzPZvKSdN7g

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Sly and the Family Stone, Theres A Riot Going On

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdr2rMBOlBo

Sly and the Family Stone, Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pnoVMEH7QI

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Comments (Hide Comments)
by Lynda Carson
Correction:

The song called Machine Gun up above, is not the original anti-war song by Jimi Hendrix.

The link below is to Jimi Hendrix and his original song called Machine Gun.

(LC)

Jimi Hendrix, Machine Gun

Click below...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw2L_vGUMtE

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by Scott Cooper
Today's the Day I Started Drinking Again
by Scott Cooper

https://scottcooperjams.bandcamp.com/track/todays-the-day-i-started-drinking-again
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Woody Guthrie And His Activist Guitar


Election Blues? A little bit more music in case you have the blues...

By Lynda Carson

If you are still freaking out because of the fascists, and the above links to some music have not been enough to help calm you down for a moment, then perhaps a few more links to some music further below may, or may not help out.

When considering that our country is in dire straits and we are in the midst of catastrophe because the fascist convicted felon Trump and his Republican myrmidons have promoted tyranny, mayhem, and chaos all across the nation since the November 5, 2024 election, a little bit more music may help to calm the soul if you still experience the Election Blues.

If interested, or curious, see a few more links below...

Lynda Carson may be reached at newzland2 [at] mail.com

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The Blues Brothers, Sister Mary Stigmata...The Penguin (1980)

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ook1wyU4wuA

(BLUES BROTHERS Deleted Scene 10)
The Blues Brothers, John Lee Hooker on Maxwell Street, Chicago

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp9Hwlaa5yg

The Blues Brothers | Aretha Franklin Sings "Think" in 4K HDR

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTXszRHc0qs

The Blues Brothers, with Ray Charles (1980) - Shake a Tail Feather Scene

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdbrIrFxas0

The Blues Brothers, The Blues Brothers with James Brown pastor Scene Gospel in church. The Old Landmark. (longer version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0TEagjwEbQ

The Blues Brothers, with James Brown - The Old Landmark (feat. The Blues Brothers) (shorter version)

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKKVVnKjr2g

The Blues Brothers, The Rawhide Song

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUMVJHccBq8

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Santana - Soul Sacrifice 1969 Woodstock live

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaT_HRb4GU

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Carlos Santana with Jerry Garcia 08/02/89

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3TliKN9aOw

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Mandrill, "Mandrill" 1971

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayhpzgUrPQM

Mandril, Children Of The Sun

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbpuaoZc4wA

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(Rotary Connection)

Rotary Connection, I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DR_NMtBEj4

Rotary Connection, Didn't Want to Have to Do It (1967) (originally by John Sebastian)

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwDHitCW8Ic

John Sebastian, Didn't Want to Have to Do It

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP69Vdu002o

Rotary Connection, Like A Rolling Stone (originally by Bob Dylan)

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXe_rm7IyU

Rotary Connection, Soul Man (originally by Issac Hayes & Dave Porter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqkiD28MgAQ

(Rotary Connection released a Peace, Christmas release in 1968?)

Rotary Connection, Last Call For Peace

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHE1ynESqDA

Rotary Connection, Peace At Last

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpoC2HnnVh0

Rotary Connection, Sidewalk Santa

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHFMwH_vdGg

Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection Peace, Shopping Bag Menagerie

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOdLMG6IpSI&list=PLKplS8xCH_64rNMhQtOQDrBayCyzQIpKp&index=4

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(Sweetwater played at Woodstock in 1969)

Sweetwater, What's Wrong

Click below…..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68Yr3x6pu2k

Sweetwater - What's Wrong LIVE (Playboy After Dark) 1969

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY7H9EhEJXE

Sweetwater, Motherless Child

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BllH1H8EARI

Sweetwater, In a Rainbow

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jCGx6YT8w

Sweetwater, My Crystal Spider

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFasSGI-8kU

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Osibisa, Sunshine Day

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF7g5lW6Wjw

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Beatles, Hey Jude

Click below….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkApuQWCPdM

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Moody Blues, Tuesday Afternoon (longer version)

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmMPBQ4kYKk

Moody Blues, Tuesday Afternoon (shorter version with moving images)

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5N7qHmEgxA

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Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (complete)

Performances from the 1968 film featuring The Rolling Stones, John Lennon, The Who, Taj Mahal, and Marianne Faithfull.

Click below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTMp4_sy1E&list=PLA26O6DcPwiaMAzvHCrOqZmnE46UyQQjU

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Vanilla Fudge, You Keep Me Hanging On

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaiTEQc_y4o

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