Just heard this for the first time the other day. Not sure what kind of reception it got back in '65, but still seems relevant today. more things change, more they stay the same.

The hippies loved it. The rest of us laughed at it.

The song was banned from radio airplay in a number of areas around the country, as I remember…..

Left-wing anti-war propaganda.

Where's the pic of Hanoi Jane dry humping the cannon?

I remember that song well. Here's lyrics:

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The Eastern world, it is explodin'
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill but not for votin'
You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're totin'?
And even the Jordan river has bodies floatin'
But you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction
Don't you understand what I'm trying to say
Can't you feel the fears I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no runnin' away
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave
Take a look around you boy, it's bound to scare you, boy
And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction
Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin'
I'm sittin' here just contemplatin'
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation
Handful of senators don't pass legislation
And marches alone can't bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'
And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction
And think of all the hate there is in Red China
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama
Ah, you may leave here for four days in space
But when you return, it's the same old place
The poundin' of the drums, the pride and disgrace
You can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace
Hate your next door neighbor but don't forget to say grace
And you tell me
Over and over and over and over again, my friend
You don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
No no, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction
Source: Musixmatch

Yep remember it well too. A lot of stations wouldn't play it but the 45s were floating around. It was heard.

I liked the song back then, the Turtles also recorded it. But didn't believe then, nor do I believe now, that we are on the eve of destruction. To be sure, guys going to ****hole Vietnam could feel their lives might have been on the eve of destruction. And for way too many, it turned out that way. But those back home were fat and sassy, unimpacted by it all. Just like now.

I just heard this for the first time a couple weeks ago on one of my Spotify channels. Crazy so many people are just now hearing it. I thought it was something relatively new until I looked it up.

I listened to the Turtles version and all these old songs popped up on YouTube. Funny how so many songs that I liked back in the day, I wonder why I ever did lol. But then The Seekers showed up, always had a thing for Judith Durham.

This song was featured in one of the last "Greatest American Hero" episodes back in the 80s.

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I liked the song back then, the Turtles also recorded it. But didn't believe then, nor do I believe now, that we are on the eve of destruction. To be sure, guys going to ****hole Vietnam could feel their lives might have been on the eve of destruction. And for way too many, it turned out that way. But those back home were fat and sassy, unimpacted by it all. Just like now.

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The Raiders recorded it, too. I don't know if Paul Revere as it on it, though.

I am class of 70 and was drafted 6 months after graduation. The song was popular because the majority of the country was fed up with the war in Vietnam. This thread is the first I've heard of it being banned on some radio stations.

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I am class of 70 and was drafted 6 months after graduation. The song was popular because the majority of the country was fed up with the war in Vietnam. This thread is the first I've heard of it being banned on some radio stations.

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The only song I remember hearing about being banned very soon after it came out was "They're Coming To Take Me Away" by Napolean XIV.

How bout Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around"? I had never heard that one until about a month ago.

I always liked this song:

The good ole days when the political left was anti-establishment.

LOYAL AG said:

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The good ole days when the political left was anti-establishment.

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We knew where we stood back then.

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The good ole days when the political left was anti-establishment.

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We knew where we stood back then.

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Help me out, Eric. Not sure what you mean.

Tia

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The good ole days when the political left was anti-establishment.

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We knew where we stood back then.

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Help me out, Eric. Not sure what you mean.

Tia

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Back then, we didn't see leftists pretending to be Conservative. For example, if you were protesting the war, you weren't a Conservative. If you were supporting Martin Luther King, Jr, and his Socialist ideas, you weren't a Conservative. If you were talking about how great the leader of any enemy nation was, whether it be Russia, China, North Korea, ..., you weren't a Conservative. If you were supporting the terrorists instead of Israel, you weren't a Conservative.

Actually, if you support those today, you aren't a Conservative today, either. But back then, the leftists knew they weren't Conservatives.

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Lead singer dodged the draft so he was really a fortunate one.

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Fogerty? Damn. Had no idea !

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LOYAL AG said:

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eric76 said:

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The good ole days when the political left was anti-establishment.

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Help me out, Eric. Not sure what you mean.

Tia

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Back then, we didn't see leftists pretending to be Conservative. For example, if you were protesting the war, you weren't a Conservative. If you were supporting Martin Luther King, Jr, and his Socialist ideas, you weren't a Conservative. If you were talking about how great the leader of any enemy nation was, whether it be Russia, China, North Korea, ..., you weren't a Conservative. If you were supporting the terrorists instead of Israel, you weren't a Conservative.

Actually, if you support those today, you aren't a Conservative today, either. But back then, the leftists knew they weren't Conservatives.

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Got it, ok. Thanks for the clarification. Agree completely.

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Lead singer dodged the draft so he was really a fortunate one.

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That's false. Fogerty enlisted in 1966 and served from '66 to '68 with some of that time being active and some being reserves.

https://www.military.com/off-duty/2019/09/26/52-years-later-rock-legend-john-fogerty-remembers-time-army.html

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Fogerty? Damn. Had no idea !

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That's because it's not true. See my post above.

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Lead singer dodged the draft so he was really a fortunate one.

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Fogerty? Damn. Had no idea !

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That's because it's not true. See my post above.

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Hell yeah, baby! Thanks for the DEBOONK!



Fogerty Forever!

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I always liked this song:

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I did too, I think it was the first record I bought, or the second one (after Red Rubber Ball by The Cyrkle, lol). I was 13 years old and surrounded by WWII veterans, father, uncles, parent's friends, almost all of whom had seen combat in one theater or the other.

Of course, as a kid I knew nothing about it all, didn't pay close attention or read about it. But as I recall the support for the war, at least among the people I was around, was still supportive. Maybe hungry for a United States win again after the Korean War not being anything like the victories over Japan and Germany, the war that they had fought in. As I recall, those opinions started to change, sometime after My Lai.

I bet I played that record 500 times.

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I bet I played that record 500 times.

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Me too. Then I played it another 500 as a BQ

My dad, who was active duty from 49-69 and served in Vietnam, had no complaints against people who weren't sent to Vietnam, were in the Reserves, or in the Guard. His point was that they did what was honorable and there was no certainty that they would not be called up for active duty and sent to Vietnam.

Man, we've got some olds in here.