The stuff that now passes as "music", particularly rock 'n roll, leaves me cold. So, to start off the week, here's a video of a classic rock artist.
We open the week with Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods and their 1974 hit, "Billy Don't Be A Hero". The song was voted #8 on Rolling Stone magazine's readers' poll of "10 Worst Songs of the 1970s" even though it did hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June 1974.
At the time, some thought it was about the Vietnam War that ended the year before, but it was actually set in the American Civil War.
From Wikipedia:
Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods are an American pop music group, known mainly for their 1970s hit singles, "Billy Don't Be a Hero" and "Who Do You Think You Are".
The band was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1965 by their leader, Robert Walter "Bo" Donaldson. Their first singles were released between 1966 and 1968 on a label owned by Bo's mother, Bea Donaldson. Those four singles went largely unnoticed. The band were first discovered while touring with The Osmonds in the early 1970s and signed with Family Productions, releasing their first single in 1972, "Special Someone", but their big break came after moving to ABC Records and working with the record producer Steve Barri in 1973. Although their first single with ABC, "Deeper and Deeper,” failed to make a big impression on the charts, beginning in 1974, the band began a string of hit songs.
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