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Songs of Social significance

The Radical Songbook is guaranteed to entertain and inform you with great songs of social significance by outstanding singer-songwriters.

Spring 2025

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The Radical Songbook

Saturdays at 2 pm Pacific time on Pirate Butte Radio

From the Old Union Hall Studio in Bend, Oregon

Rebroadcast on Tuesday at 10 am Pacific time

https://piratebutteradio.com/

Playlist for March 22, 2025​

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  1. There is a time.../ Mario Savio

  2. Sing Me a Song with Social Significance/ Rebel Voices

  3. Hard Times Come Again No More/ Scott Cook

  4. Which Side Are You On?/ Dawn Landes

  5. The Emperor is Naked Today-O/ Pete Seeger

  6. Billionaires in Space/ DC Labor Chorus

  7. Get Together/ Youngbloods

  8. Rhymes of Reality? Maya Simmons

  9. They Don't Care About Us/ Michael Jackson

  10. The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain/ Langston Hughes + George Duke

  11. Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem/ Helene Johnson + Angela Bassett

  12. If We Must Die/ Claude McKay + Ice-T

  13. The Weary Blues/ Langston Hughes + Branford Marsalis

  14. No Images/ Waring Cuney + Lou Rawls

  15. The Debt/ Paul Laurence Dunbar + Joshua Redman

  16. Soon/ Leon Damas + Gregory Hines

  17. I Want to Die While You Love Me/ Georgia Douglas Johnson + Alfre Woodard

  18. America/ Claude McKay + August Wilson

  19. Sensemaya: A Chant for Killing a Snake/ Nicolas Guillen + Eartha Kitt

  20. He Was a Friend of Mine/ Patrick Corrigan

  21. A Rally a Day/ Steve Jones

  22. Stand Up/ Bev Grant and the Brooklyn Women's Chorus

  23. Rant/ Ronald Reagan

  24. Sex Machine/ Sly and the Family Stone

  25. Underdog/ Sly and the Family Stone

  26. Dance to the Music/ Sly and the Family Stone

  27. Stand!/ Sly and the Family Stone

  28. I Want to Take You Higher/ Sly and the Family Stone

  29. Somebody's Watching You/ Sly and the Family Stone

  30. Everyday People/ Sly and the Family Stone

  31. Family Affair/ Sly and the Family Stone

 

The Radical Songbook is archived at

https://zeno.fm/podcast/the-radical-songbook/

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