Richie Havens-Handsome Johnny

[Ken Burch]

Run time: 03:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyBS39ybcEE   Posted on YouTube: June 07, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 11, 2009 By DU Member: Ken Burch Views on DU: 389

 
Needed to be posted again, because Handsome Johnny is on his way to Kabul.

[abq e streeter]

1. co-written by Louis Gossett Jr.---great and timely ( and timeless) song

actually, I've seen it credited to just Gossett, and seen it credited to both he and Richie Havens together. No matter;this was, and is, a great one...

[Ken Burch]

2. It's right up there with Phil Ochs' "I Ain't Marching Anymore"

n/t.

[abq e streeter]

3. Absolutely right--another great one

I had the privilege of seeing Ochs in the winter of '68/'69....Crazy show; he did his folk stuff, which was magnificent, and then after an intermission, he came back in a gold jumpsuit and announced that he'd been killed at the Democratic convention, but that God had told him that since humanity had very little time left, he could come back for that brief time as anyone he wanted.So he said he told God that he wanted to come back as Elvis, and proceeded to do all '50's rocknroll for the rest of the night.