The Korea Blues / Brothers and Sisters (We Ain’t Gonna Sit in the Back of the Bus No More) [05:22]
This is from album 19 “America at Mid-Century”, side A “From Atomic to Space Age”, of a 20 album series titled “Our Nations Heritage”, produced and provided to schools as a public service by Standard Oil Company.
Spanning the course of over 50 years, their “Standard School Broadcast” was a big deal throughout the golden age of radio, and continued by providing content to schools by tape and LP, often combining music education with history.
The Korea Blues – To President Truman this conflict in Korea is not a war but a “police action,” but to thousands of American soldiers who fought there, it is a war, dirty and thankless. The soldier, naturally, then sings the Blues.
The Blues originated with black musicians in the South during the early part of the century and became a basic source of other musical styles, particularly Jazz and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Brothers and Sisters (We Ain’t Gonna Sit in the Back of the Bus No More) – When Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954, the civil rights movement got underway. A young minister, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., came forward to lead the bus boycott that grew out of this incident.
This song is played in a Soul style more recent than the fifties, but is a direct offshoot of black gospel music, one of the major influences on popular American music.
Written by Clancy Carlile
Copyright 1973 Chevron Research Company
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