In the Mamas and the Papas song "Creeque Alley" the line "McGuinn and McGuire / Just a'gettin' higher / In L.A. you know where that's at" it is Barry McGuire they are talking about, along with Roger McGuinn of the Byrds.
I thought that was cool. I always liked McGuire and was disappointed he didn't have more hit songs.
People as a whole are so blind and lazy, we see whats going on and we dont stand up to the government, we just let them do what ever they want. And all we do is maybe talk about it at the dinner table. The government is getting way to big!!
@bydesighn --- Ummm . . . What God-given countries might these be that you are referring to? The USA? Australia? The UK? The truth is, that humans have always moved around, from country to country.
We are still on the eve of destruction. Even more so than we were then.
The bill—H.R. 347, or the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011” has been the subject of a virtual blackout in the media. In light of the unprecedented nature of the bill, which would effectively overturn the First Amendment, this blackout cannot be innocent. The people's right to petition the government for a redress of grievances has been revoked. Lock and load.. it's going to get ugly.
@blondago56 If god can make your life that much better, why would he ruin it in the first place with alcohol and other drugs? God is motivation boost for usually weak people to change their life, but that doesn't change that fact the he is not real.
@condemned70 --- We were given FREE WILL by Adonai, HaShem, the Creator. We were also endowed with "the good inclination" and "the evil inclination". It is entirely our own free choice which one of the two we choose. We are also obliged to take full responsibility for the choices that we make! - - - As to whether G-d is real or not - well, that is a matter if faith, and the object of faith cannot be either proved or disproved. Faith exists in a separate dimension.
il bello di internet non è il potere che regala al popolo, è vedere che nell'istante in cui tu hai voglia di una canzone, qualcuno dall'altra parte del mondo ha desiderato la stessa cosa!
He Was just interviewed today on 107.9/kwve... this song was written to make people think and it does just that..
Mr. Mcguire became a Christian believer after this song came out.. He had a near death experience and was hooked on alcohol and drugs, pot, etc..He's In his early 70'snow and he said God is the best thing that ever happened to him.
@ruswhit60 Nope. Not until we have destroyed the planet one way or another and of course safely shipped a contingent of us stupid humans off to colonize some other world and start the process all over again.
Wars can be stopped If people put their mind to it-If more people offer their time to pray together they could stop Wars without little resistance-mind over matter-like the film-The Man Who Stare At Goats-We are all electric-magnetic like a generator-that we effect the rotation of the Earth with distorting Time & Space-the present & future-ever had static electricity touching chrome with a shock or static stockings?
Ever attracted bolt of lightening by standing under a tree in rainstorm
"HATE YOUR NEXTDOOR NEIGHBOR, BUT DON'T FORGET TO SAY GRACE, AND YOU TELL ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN, YOU DON.T BELIEVE WE'RE ON THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION." PEOPLE THIS WAS 1965
more wiki: "Sloan was born to an American father and a Romanian-born mother.[2] His family moved to West Hollywood, California in 1957 where his father, a pharmacist, changed the family surname from "Schlein" to "Sloan" after repeatedly being denied a liquor license for his store.[2] At 13, Sloan's father bought him a guitar; at the music store in Hollywood, Sloan met Elvis Presley, who gave him an impromptu music lesson..."
words: "poor man's bob dylan" philip schlein (heard whining on "the little old lady from pasadena! :) look them up on wiki, excerpts: "In 1963, McGuire along with Randy Sparks (the founder of The New Christy Minstrels) co-wrote, and sang lead vocal on, the Christys' first and biggest hit single: "Green, Green."In the 1980s, McGuire left the music industry, and settled for a time in New Zealand with his New Zealand wife Mari (former secretary of McGuire's Agape Force associate, Winkie Pratney). "
I'm an old German who had to live for decades with the danger of the nuclear destruction of Germany, Europe or ..... and this song is the very best to describe our feelings during the "cold war" !
A lot has been said. Does anyone really listen? Does anyone really want to know what's going on 'behind the scenes?" The great authority issues of the 60's, the Military-Industrial complex, was but prelude for what we're dealing with right now. Mark this; the Camps are being prepared. Anyone who wants out of the 'Matrix," will be marked and watched. Hope the sheep enjoy their herd security for now.
@jeff62rey Have U read my book, The Hunger Games? Oh wow....May be something we will all be about. Makes ya think about whats coming and going.. I am on the second book of 3. Having a hard time putting the book down.... Smiles
This song is as relevant then as it is now. We live in a world separated by borders. Everyone has a label, American, Canadian, European. What would happen if those borders were non existent and we realize we all people of Earth ? The governments of each country does not want that. There is no control of the people then. It's better for them that we think of ourselves as separate countries having nothing in common with others.
Problem as it always seems to be, the truly bad guys don't give a rat's ass about your songs and protesting. They just can't wait to get ahold of your land, wealth, and women. And only men that have seen something of this world will understand. The rest have grown manginas.
Heyy jimmy you cannot say that about barry did u actually stand back and have a good look at america , at what was actually going on as he he said if the button is pushed theres no running away .. Do u wanna no why cause everyone is dead how do u fight when you are dead ?? and obviously they dont have as much fighting skills as they do now so before going off at him for telling people what was going on you should actually check it out for yourself cause it is happening and people know it. If an
@kennieboy1000 thats because your ilk dont know how to fight so ya leave it to the usa to bail your ass out..when ever there's a problem everybody looks to the usa to solve it.. guess that makes us the big dog and you the small yappy dog with nuthing better to do than complain.. at least we do something other than complain
@jimmyt568 thats because the usa are a bunch of idiots! they keep fighting wars where they have no bussines fighting them! they wheren't wanted in vietnam,the second world war,all they did was parade around while it where the english,canadian,belgian etc soldiers who won the war! you keep making war all over the world! thats all you know! you guys fight for the ones who don't care about you,their in washingtonf ucking their mistresses!
@peredebeeste - true about Vietnam (also true of most wars fought by pretty much any country). But that part about WW2 is really ridiculous. Read a history book or two.
Pre-recorded track with live vocals. Look at his facial expressions. He's putting everything into this performance. You can tell he believed what he was singing. Wow! Great performance.Artists stood for something other than just money in those days.
'human respect is disintegratin.' This is probably the most poignant and powerful catalyst for the human demise that threatens us. A little seen, yet sickening piece of news passed my work desk yesterday. Seems that our capitalist brains are now figuring out ways to put increasingly scarce water supplies on the market for speculation just like they are doing with the world's oil and food supplies. "Don't believe we're on the Eve of destruction?" Stand up, shout your disgust and take action
This song touches my heart and soul and it carries me back to a time of hope and despair and when people really did care about each other and did not care what the government or the establishment had to say.
@halle5309 You ask "Why was "Nam" so different then WW2"? If you have to ask you haven't been studying your history. Thr WWII vets came home to a (well deserved) heroes' welcome. The Viet Nam vets came home to scorn, contempt, and worse. They did the same thing WWII vets, and every other war's vets did; they answered their country's call. They deserved our love and respect. Instead they got spit on. God bless all you guys who wore the uniform! I was too young to serve, but I remember.
You fail to focus on how the two wars began. Once was in response to a direct attack to US territory (i.e. Hawaii), the other was started to basically protect the eastern world from Communism. Anti-communism propaganda could only go so far in raising public support for the war. World War II vets were actually fighting for something, something tangible, something real. When you go to war without a just cause, or logical reason, VIetnam happens.
That being the difference in how the veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WW2) and the Soviet-Afghan War were treated.
However I do agree that the vets never deserved that kind of treatment, but we must be careful of the dangers of blind patriotism. Not every soldier is fighting for our freedom in the world today. That is an unfortunate cliche based in propaganda, not reality.
heared this song the first time when the A Team went back to vietnam and had the flashbacks of all the characters, nobody can pull off an anti war song like mr McGuire, he's voice sounds raw and raspy,
The whole Eastern world is still explodin. There is something intuitively more frightful now about the world situation than back in those scary days of the sixties and seventies. Thank God, we still have some youth who recognize that we are crashin' down; the Wall Street youth protestors. and want to take a stand for their future.
@jeff62rey These youth dont seem to have a clue why they're rolling around in their own fecal matter. Occupy this or that. the 1 thing they dont seem to get is the occupation part. someone else has to feed these useless idiots. what is your occupation? Oh I live off of another mans sweat. And I protest his every move.
You know back in that era, the 60s, it was almost impossible to showcase songs like this cos the net works were afraid of upsetting LBJ and all the politicians, it's a miracle this song made it up the charts, it really touched me and millions of others cos the words were true, the turbulent 60s is what that period is called cos of the violence and the deaths of three great Americans, It's one of my favorite folk songs of all time thanks for posting it, you rock!!!
my comment wasnt to make fun at him ,he just looked funny lol but really nothing has change and its sad for nothing more it has gotten worse we the people of the united states for the first time in out history are threaten by other nations i my self at 18 stood in a land that was far from my home thinking what the hell i'm doing here and for what i still have nightmres that never go away , barrys song ring so true too it word nothing really changed . peace
Always loved the song. I served in 'Nam in 1968 and this is one of the songs that we liked to listen to along with The Rolling Stones song Paint it Black.
@JPWilch scuse, how old are you? so i want to say at you that i'm only13 and i have a big respect for the men who died in vietnam, i don't now what's the war because i'm only 13 but when i'm adult i want to be a soldier, a parachutist of the Folgore the italian parachutist, yes i'm italian.
and i was impressed seeing that in my book of history there's only a page on the vietnam war, the most violent war in the story, scuse me for my english but i speak ony a little bit of it. :)
@EdWatts So true, Bro, so true! I played this song when on Active duty with the USAF during Desert Storm and got laughed at by some of the kids I was stationed with. However, when I explained why I was playing it (I played it for out Brothers that won't becoming back because they are still on patrol), they looked surprised and beg for forgiveness (Oh, they also bought me several beers). GOD BLESS THE USA and MAY HE WATCH OUR HEROES THAT ARE IN HARMS WAY AND BRING THEM HOME!
@Schlongster69 Barry is not the author of the song. P. J. Sloan (the real one) is a very known songwriter in that time. Even of Destruction should be recorded by The Byrdys, but they turned down.
Song 100% awsome: author, singer, melody and lyrics!
Definitely one of the most awesome songs ever written!! You can tell he's not lip syncing (like a lot of bands/musicians did back then). I'm sooo glad that I'm an old lady now and grew up in the 60's and 70's!!
simply one of the best songs ever made. Very simple melody so it stays in your head from the first time you hear it and some of the best lyrics ever written
This really was a courageous act - he knew singing this was professional suicide, which proved to be the case. No label would touch him after this. No wonder he sang with such passion. Hats off to hiim
Still on the Eve of Destruction, it's a very long process for man to destroy the world. Greed, Hate, Disrespect, War, Pollution, Overpopulation.... etc etc. ☺
peccato,si peccato si sia dato alla religione,le sue ballate folk avrebbero potuto cambiare un mondo in ebollizione.Così ,invece,solo pochi hanno la fortuna di assistere ai suoi sermoni:comunque rimane sempre un grandissimo tra i grandi
Heard a upsetting story today a friend said that Jerry Lewis spit on her brother when he came back from Vietnam really and he does this I am not understanding this he was marked by that war and to be spit on by the Man that was sick and twisted
@oldcollegegal ....hey 62 years here i was in the viet nam for three years i know a lot about passion when you see your best friend get his fucken head blew off and hold whats left of him in my arms and crying why .and what are we doing here.
@689321546 You & I are part of the same generation. Can't remember how many of my former classmates were buried that year...singers still make faces like that now, but where is their passion for reality? They don't care enough to even pull up their pants. Thanks for your service. They didn't let women into the military back then, except for nursing. Hard to listen to this song 45 years later & realize that nothing has changed. Good old Barry, now pushing 80, is doing the PBS My Music tour!
I like this video on so many levels -- Jerry Lewis' aesthetic contrasted to Barry McGuire's. The tight pants and sincere delivery. The modern dancers and set concept. It's a periscope onto the eve of changing tides in American culture. So cool.
I sasw this on TV in 1965. The song is still very appropriate for our time. One question: the "bodies floating" line refers to a picture that was published in a magazine. I don't think that it was Life magazine but maybe Look magazine. Does anyone know. I would like to get a copy of the picture.
I remember hearing this for the first time in '65 only a few months out of Boot Camp. I think it was written more with the cold war in mind than Vietnam as it hadn't really started escalating at that time. It was on it;s way and started really getting a head of steam in '66. I got there in '67.
This was written for a different era for the cold war. You cannot compare this song to today because the threat of all-out nuclear war is gone, so stop trying.
@CAPCBMERRITT After 9/11, can you honestly say that there is no longer a threat of all-out nuclear war? I mean, we STILL don't know WHO has weapons of mass destruction and who does not (well, we DO know that Iraq does NOT - even if that idiot Dubya doesn't want to believe it *rolls eyes*). I do understand where you're coming from, though. THIS generation needs it's OWN anthem-writers...and they just don't exist.
Oh the threat of nuclear attack is definitely there. But not in the way that would've happened in the cold war. Our biggest enemy that has nuclear weapons (China) still doesn't even have a viable platform for them to fly into earth orbit, cross the pacific ocean, and even hit hawaii.
The only way for a nuclear attack is to smuggle it here and detonate it.
And yes, he did have WMD, definately not nukes, but he did have WMD's. Why else would he deny UN inspector's access...
@CAPCBMERRITT In regards to your comment about china's nukes. You left out the word "yet". They are a copy-cat nation and will soon figure something out. They have a stealth bomber and WTF was that number they pulled off the coast of Florida earlier this year? Second, why does noone make a connection between sattelite photos of truck convoys leaving Iraq into Libya and then all-of-a-sudden, Gaddafi says "I surrender my nuclear program to the Americans".
@MsStaciejm Hussein had a formidable cache of weapons. How do I know? Because we gave them to him back in the mid '80s when he was an ally and Muammar Gaddafi was more of a threat to him than he was to us because of proximity. And when Bush (foolishly) announced he was sending weapons inspectors to Iraq, dozens of trucks convoyed from there into Libya and everyone except the American liberal is asking where did Gaddafie's nuclear program come from?
Barry McGuire looked about 40 yrs old here...and he was 19...and he had the PIPES of a 40 yr old man! I've loved this song since middle school (and I ain't saying how many decades ago that was!).
THE REPUBLICANS WILL SURELY HAVE US THERE IN NO TIME ONCE THEY GET RID OF OBAMA AND HIS POLICIES AND INSTALL THEY,RE RIGHT WING I HATE U ALL BUT THE CONSERVATIVES AND RICH AGENDA
Dude... Obama has killed as many as Bush did. As long as people like you turn the other way when YOUR political party does something, but throw fits if the other party's leader engage in the same killing, the anti-war crowd will continue to be a fringe, totally partisan group of people. I seem to remember he promised to get us OUT of the wars we were committed to, not INCREASE their number.
Besides, change Obama to Bush, republicans to democrats, and conservative with liberal, and you have your the marching cry of the democratic party in 2008. But I'm betting that the hate was approved by you at that time.
We need to lock all you Ds and Rs up for about 6 months so the rest of us can clean up your messes.
@craig99ist U need help my friend, OBABMA killed osama bin laden but recieves no credit for it. instead he is mocked and u REPUBLICANS try so hard to make it seem so simple to do.Learn International Politics my American brother and YOU will understand why it was a tough decision.killing him was not the issue it was how we were going to kill him was the issue Learn before you speak on a subject u have no clue about the world.Just keep listening to Rush,Sean Hannity and others like him and remain
@johnlovesroxy15 Airhead, BHO did not kill OBL it was the brave men of SEAL TEAM 6. The only thing he had to do was say "GO!" and then sit on his ass and sweat. Now he wants to get all the glory for something that GHWB sat in motion during his term. So, Airhead, before you open mouth and stick your foot in do your homework. "PUT BRAIN IN GEAR, BEFORE OPENING MOUTH!"
@JPWilch old man i thank u for your service but ur senile Give the man his credit Your little puppet bushy was not even a good war president look at the stats old geezer and change your pamper and put on your hearing aid because obama has been pulling strikes on all these al queda cowards bush barely did 1/5 of what obama is doing to these bastards check the stats fox news even said obama is more of a war president than puppet bush ever was.U NEED TO DO UR HOMEWORK.THAT WAS A BIG TIME ORDER
Tea , For Two, and Breakfast at Tiffanys written by William Capote , And that's a still young Jerry Lewis , 1965 , This what 46 yrs does to Us , but Never Sorry , If One always Learns , Nothing Is BAD !
worst thing i've ever heard
basehead617 11 hours ago
Lyrics, more relevant now than ever. Listen to the last verse.
supergailey1 1 day ago
In the Mamas and the Papas song "Creeque Alley" the line "McGuinn and McGuire / Just a'gettin' higher / In L.A. you know where that's at" it is Barry McGuire they are talking about, along with Roger McGuinn of the Byrds.
I thought that was cool. I always liked McGuire and was disappointed he didn't have more hit songs.
TravelerDiogenes 1 day ago
People as a whole are so blind and lazy, we see whats going on and we dont stand up to the government, we just let them do what ever they want. And all we do is maybe talk about it at the dinner table. The government is getting way to big!!
lonjohn1980 1 day ago
I hate the fucking media more so the bbc shit and the androids that watch this crap.
bydesighn 1 day ago
so true a song.but worse today than yesterday ,untill people stay in thier own lands given by god
thier will be worse things to come,a fox will now start living in the city something never known ,can you blame the fox???
bydesighn 2 days ago
@bydesighn --- Ummm . . . What God-given countries might these be that you are referring to? The USA? Australia? The UK? The truth is, that humans have always moved around, from country to country.
Borsey379 21 hours ago
We are still on the eve of destruction. Even more so than we were then.
The bill—H.R. 347, or the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011” has been the subject of a virtual blackout in the media. In light of the unprecedented nature of the bill, which would effectively overturn the First Amendment, this blackout cannot be innocent. The people's right to petition the government for a redress of grievances has been revoked. Lock and load.. it's going to get ugly.
alderan218 2 days ago
amazing.
stasha6764 2 days ago
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924jkp 4 days ago
this is one of my favorite songs...
could eve of destruction be updated?
Freyja1133 5 days ago
@blondago56 If god can make your life that much better, why would he ruin it in the first place with alcohol and other drugs? God is motivation boost for usually weak people to change their life, but that doesn't change that fact the he is not real.
condemned70 1 week ago
@condemned70 --- We were given FREE WILL by Adonai, HaShem, the Creator. We were also endowed with "the good inclination" and "the evil inclination". It is entirely our own free choice which one of the two we choose. We are also obliged to take full responsibility for the choices that we make! - - - As to whether G-d is real or not - well, that is a matter if faith, and the object of faith cannot be either proved or disproved. Faith exists in a separate dimension.
Borsey379 21 hours ago
As I posted in response to a clip of Donovan singing Universal Soldier the terrible thing about this song is that it is still relevant today
GoweExile 1 week ago
Amazing set design and choreography. I thought I had seen it all.......
soarornor 1 week ago
One of the truest songs ever sung, and it still holds up to this day. Rmaze
Rmaze420 1 week ago
Play after Donovan's universal soldier and try and think will they ever learn.
charles1952ify 2 weeks ago
klasse , erinnerungen werden wach .-
MultiOtty 2 weeks ago
il bello di internet non è il potere che regala al popolo, è vedere che nell'istante in cui tu hai voglia di una canzone, qualcuno dall'altra parte del mondo ha desiderato la stessa cosa!
animorock 2 weeks ago
Probably one of Charles Manson's favs.
jimbamboozled 2 weeks ago
He Was just interviewed today on 107.9/kwve... this song was written to make people think and it does just that..
Mr. Mcguire became a Christian believer after this song came out.. He had a near death experience and was hooked on alcohol and drugs, pot, etc..He's In his early 70'snow and he said God is the best thing that ever happened to him.
blondago56 3 weeks ago
How true. Will we ever learn??
ruswhit60 3 weeks ago
@ruswhit60 Nope. Not until we have destroyed the planet one way or another and of course safely shipped a contingent of us stupid humans off to colonize some other world and start the process all over again.
kealoa9 2 weeks ago
See...
iamthewitness. c o m
23ord 4 weeks ago
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Wars can be stopped If people put their mind to it-If more people offer their time to pray together they could stop Wars without little resistance-mind over matter-like the film-The Man Who Stare At Goats-We are all electric-magnetic like a generator-that we effect the rotation of the Earth with distorting Time & Space-the present & future-ever had static electricity touching chrome with a shock or static stockings?
Ever attracted bolt of lightening by standing under a tree in rainstorm
dardingz 1 month ago
this world has never learned anything
MrMacca1951 1 month ago 5
"HATE YOUR NEXTDOOR NEIGHBOR, BUT DON'T FORGET TO SAY GRACE, AND YOU TELL ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN, YOU DON.T BELIEVE WE'RE ON THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION." PEOPLE THIS WAS 1965
mdwlcx 1 month ago 4
Nick Nolte is such a good singer here isn't he?
liquidreality127 1 month ago 5
This song is still relevant, yet complete destruction has not eventuated. That means we're fucking the place up really slowly.
GranthamStreet 1 month ago
more wiki: "Sloan was born to an American father and a Romanian-born mother.[2] His family moved to West Hollywood, California in 1957 where his father, a pharmacist, changed the family surname from "Schlein" to "Sloan" after repeatedly being denied a liquor license for his store.[2] At 13, Sloan's father bought him a guitar; at the music store in Hollywood, Sloan met Elvis Presley, who gave him an impromptu music lesson..."
therealartwerx 1 month ago
words: "poor man's bob dylan" philip schlein (heard whining on "the little old lady from pasadena! :) look them up on wiki, excerpts: "In 1963, McGuire along with Randy Sparks (the founder of The New Christy Minstrels) co-wrote, and sang lead vocal on, the Christys' first and biggest hit single: "Green, Green."In the 1980s, McGuire left the music industry, and settled for a time in New Zealand with his New Zealand wife Mari (former secretary of McGuire's Agape Force associate, Winkie Pratney). "
therealartwerx 1 month ago
I'm an old German who had to live for decades with the danger of the nuclear destruction of Germany, Europe or ..... and this song is the very best to describe our feelings during the "cold war" !
softie461 1 month ago 2
Aside from being used now and then for bumper music on coast to coast, this song has been banned from the airwaves for the past 21 years.
jmen4ever 1 month ago
I interview him for Los Angeles Free Press this Friday.....january 20th, 2012. I am thrilled.
throbbingdominoes 1 month ago 3
no truer word,s were spoken bobmccoy not a lot has changed from thhen and now
sophie1065 1 month ago
he's 19 ? my feckin hole! looks 40 and sounds 60.
bogartification 1 month ago
@bogartification I don't think he wrote it.
jwmellott 1 month ago
@bogartification It was written by 19 year old P.F Sloan..Barry McGuire recoeded it
suebug2000 1 month ago
yes i due recalled that very well.
hildman5 1 month ago
Important song to me growing up in the 60's. They were turbulent times. Great Song.
MrJ20tower 1 month ago
As relevant today as it ever was!
bobmccoy 1 month ago 22
A lot has been said. Does anyone really listen? Does anyone really want to know what's going on 'behind the scenes?" The great authority issues of the 60's, the Military-Industrial complex, was but prelude for what we're dealing with right now. Mark this; the Camps are being prepared. Anyone who wants out of the 'Matrix," will be marked and watched. Hope the sheep enjoy their herd security for now.
jeff62rey 1 month ago
@jeff62rey Have U read my book, The Hunger Games? Oh wow....May be something we will all be about. Makes ya think about whats coming and going.. I am on the second book of 3. Having a hard time putting the book down.... Smiles
inatizzy2 1 month ago
This song is as relevant then as it is now. We live in a world separated by borders. Everyone has a label, American, Canadian, European. What would happen if those borders were non existent and we realize we all people of Earth ? The governments of each country does not want that. There is no control of the people then. It's better for them that we think of ourselves as separate countries having nothing in common with others.
rhennessey 1 month ago
Problem as it always seems to be, the truly bad guys don't give a rat's ass about your songs and protesting. They just can't wait to get ahold of your land, wealth, and women. And only men that have seen something of this world will understand. The rest have grown manginas.
joesphx19 2 months ago
Heyy jimmy you cannot say that about barry did u actually stand back and have a good look at america , at what was actually going on as he he said if the button is pushed theres no running away .. Do u wanna no why cause everyone is dead how do u fight when you are dead ?? and obviously they dont have as much fighting skills as they do now so before going off at him for telling people what was going on you should actually check it out for yourself cause it is happening and people know it. If an
misschl0bear 2 months ago
This was the first song I learned on a guitar. Loved the simple D Dsus D2 rift
gjr555 2 months ago
Hey JP I was at Nui Dat in 68 loved listening to AFRV I remember em Peace brother !
1434bigkev 2 months ago
today or yesterday this song is still true ...
hollandampsguy 2 months ago
Jerry Lewis sure had some guts back in 1965 to have this song on his show. Way to go Jerry.
Classicguy66 2 months ago
You yanks do talk some big shite, you started more wars than i have had shits.. shame you never finished them...
kennieboy1000 2 months ago
@kennieboy1000 go shit and die, asshole
pacoloco729 2 months ago
@pacoloco729 You gave us an answer that prove it's true.
dunbunter 2 months ago
@dunbunter such as?
pacoloco729 2 months ago
@pacoloco729 That people can't agree with eachother.
dunbunter 2 months ago
@dunbunter sad, but true
as long as there are people,
there will be differences,
hopefully, not many violent
ones, just saying, happy new
year to all
pacoloco729 2 months ago
@kennieboy1000 thats because your ilk dont know how to fight so ya leave it to the usa to bail your ass out..when ever there's a problem everybody looks to the usa to solve it.. guess that makes us the big dog and you the small yappy dog with nuthing better to do than complain.. at least we do something other than complain
jimmyt568 2 months ago
@jimmyt568 thats because the usa are a bunch of idiots! they keep fighting wars where they have no bussines fighting them! they wheren't wanted in vietnam,the second world war,all they did was parade around while it where the english,canadian,belgian etc soldiers who won the war! you keep making war all over the world! thats all you know! you guys fight for the ones who don't care about you,their in washingtonf ucking their mistresses!
peredebeeste 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@peredebeeste - true about Vietnam (also true of most wars fought by pretty much any country). But that part about WW2 is really ridiculous. Read a history book or two.
TheAzmountaineer 1 month ago
these pants were inappropriate for television in 1965
ejectorerector 2 months ago
Man, they went all out on the set design.
Clay3613 2 months ago
He just needs to take a good dump.
jtnoodle 2 months ago
I remember my parents listening to the Big Bands of the 40s.
talk about growing old.
railcarcounter 2 months ago
I was on an Army base when this came out and they weren't allowed to play this song, but you would hear it everywhere. It's still so true.
justicewaiting 2 months ago 20
STOP OBAMA NOW!
Halftrac 2 months ago
#Occupy ... NEVER Give Up !!!
MasterFeelgood 3 months ago
He has such a great voice. Man they did some good music back then, this song always makes me sing-along.
condemned70 3 months ago
Alright !! A real white man packin some meat..
blueticecho 3 months ago
@blueticecho go to streammate to see girls packing. MYHONEYPOTSJUICY is a good one.
railcarcounter 2 months ago
♪♪♪♪♪♪▼
Khultan 3 months ago
Pre-recorded track with live vocals. Look at his facial expressions. He's putting everything into this performance. You can tell he believed what he was singing. Wow! Great performance.Artists stood for something other than just money in those days.
bluejazz51 3 months ago
Does he believe? I don't know. But we were in '65 and I think we still are nearly 47 years later.
marilisa616 3 months ago
second favorite song piano man is 1rst
nintendojunky89 3 months ago
Lol back when your pants didn't need to be six sizes too small to sport a bulge
shakakamooroar 3 months ago
Great song, but his pants are a little odd
Spencerh1279 3 months ago
'human respect is disintegratin.' This is probably the most poignant and powerful catalyst for the human demise that threatens us. A little seen, yet sickening piece of news passed my work desk yesterday. Seems that our capitalist brains are now figuring out ways to put increasingly scarce water supplies on the market for speculation just like they are doing with the world's oil and food supplies. "Don't believe we're on the Eve of destruction?" Stand up, shout your disgust and take action
jeff62rey 3 months ago
is that a banana in his pocket?
L908u 3 months ago
This song touches my heart and soul and it carries me back to a time of hope and despair and when people really did care about each other and did not care what the government or the establishment had to say.
ButtercupOmega 4 months ago
おお、日本語！
FanciDreama 4 months ago
Stephen kings the stand made me research this song
bobburkeen 4 months ago
I remember this as a little baby 1965 when I was born while this was at number one in America.
vipnon1965 4 months ago
This song used to freak me out when I was 8 years old...LOL
CheckM8King2 4 months ago
@halle5309 You ask "Why was "Nam" so different then WW2"? If you have to ask you haven't been studying your history. Thr WWII vets came home to a (well deserved) heroes' welcome. The Viet Nam vets came home to scorn, contempt, and worse. They did the same thing WWII vets, and every other war's vets did; they answered their country's call. They deserved our love and respect. Instead they got spit on. God bless all you guys who wore the uniform! I was too young to serve, but I remember.
MrData98 4 months ago
@MrData98
You fail to focus on how the two wars began. Once was in response to a direct attack to US territory (i.e. Hawaii), the other was started to basically protect the eastern world from Communism. Anti-communism propaganda could only go so far in raising public support for the war. World War II vets were actually fighting for something, something tangible, something real. When you go to war without a just cause, or logical reason, VIetnam happens.
Same thing happened to the Soviets.
Allante715 3 months ago
Respond to this video...
That being the difference in how the veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WW2) and the Soviet-Afghan War were treated.
However I do agree that the vets never deserved that kind of treatment, but we must be careful of the dangers of blind patriotism. Not every soldier is fighting for our freedom in the world today. That is an unfortunate cliche based in propaganda, not reality.
Allante715 3 months ago
this song is relevent today
jivesublime 4 months ago
heared this song the first time when the A Team went back to vietnam and had the flashbacks of all the characters, nobody can pull off an anti war song like mr McGuire, he's voice sounds raw and raspy,
Timmyboy505 4 months ago
Happy birthday, Barry.
holyburn 4 months ago
McGuire, that one hIt wonder!
FCiervo 4 months ago
The whole Eastern world is still explodin. There is something intuitively more frightful now about the world situation than back in those scary days of the sixties and seventies. Thank God, we still have some youth who recognize that we are crashin' down; the Wall Street youth protestors. and want to take a stand for their future.
jeff62rey 4 months ago
@jeff62rey These youth dont seem to have a clue why they're rolling around in their own fecal matter. Occupy this or that. the 1 thing they dont seem to get is the occupation part. someone else has to feed these useless idiots. what is your occupation? Oh I live off of another mans sweat. And I protest his every move.
TheArtbell 4 months ago
Why was "Nam" so different then WW2. My Granddad served in Europe for 3 years. He never put a bummer sticker on his car. Never wore a hat that said
WW2 Vet. He did what he thought he had to do. Kill Germans. He did see action.
But he never really talk about it. He was not proud. He simply did what he had to do.
hallie5309 4 months ago
I miss this age
mrunclesi 4 months ago
today our radio is bound in corporate chains... It's the same song playing three times a day or more
Norseman870 5 months ago
You know back in that era, the 60s, it was almost impossible to showcase songs like this cos the net works were afraid of upsetting LBJ and all the politicians, it's a miracle this song made it up the charts, it really touched me and millions of others cos the words were true, the turbulent 60s is what that period is called cos of the violence and the deaths of three great Americans, It's one of my favorite folk songs of all time thanks for posting it, you rock!!!
theloveman11378 5 months ago
excellent
totallylate 5 months ago
Excellent everytime I watch this oldie!!!!!
neilembo55 5 months ago
Timeless message.
karose1175 5 months ago
my gawd tell me about relevance! its not a bit different between now and then!!
jay94271 5 months ago 2
My Name Is Barry McGuire And Thats What Brought Me Here.....
BazzaMcG 5 months ago
my comment wasnt to make fun at him ,he just looked funny lol but really nothing has change and its sad for nothing more it has gotten worse we the people of the united states for the first time in out history are threaten by other nations i my self at 18 stood in a land that was far from my home thinking what the hell i'm doing here and for what i still have nightmres that never go away , barrys song ring so true too it word nothing really changed . peace
689321546 5 months ago
He looks very constipated
hamptonwickster 5 months ago
Always loved the song. I served in 'Nam in 1968 and this is one of the songs that we liked to listen to along with The Rolling Stones song Paint it Black.
JPWilch 6 months ago 24
@JPWilch Thankyou for serving !!!!!!
MrStrongarms 5 months ago
@JPWilch yeaaah you mean in black ops right lol?
88pie88 5 months ago
@JPWilch scuse, how old are you? so i want to say at you that i'm only13 and i have a big respect for the men who died in vietnam, i don't now what's the war because i'm only 13 but when i'm adult i want to be a soldier, a parachutist of the Folgore the italian parachutist, yes i'm italian.
and i was impressed seeing that in my book of history there's only a page on the vietnam war, the most violent war in the story, scuse me for my english but i speak ony a little bit of it. :)
OrsoFriulano1998 4 months ago
@JPWilch
Don't forget "We've Got To Get Out of This Place" by The Animals!
EdWatts 4 months ago
@EdWatts So true, Bro, so true! I played this song when on Active duty with the USAF during Desert Storm and got laughed at by some of the kids I was stationed with. However, when I explained why I was playing it (I played it for out Brothers that won't becoming back because they are still on patrol), they looked surprised and beg for forgiveness (Oh, they also bought me several beers). GOD BLESS THE USA and MAY HE WATCH OUR HEROES THAT ARE IN HARMS WAY AND BRING THEM HOME!
JPWilch 4 months ago
@JPWilch Thank you for you service
johnthegreatdriver 4 months ago
@JPWilch I'm with you..... Semper fi
jo47dy 2 months ago
And Thanks joseph
Schlongster69 6 months ago
Oh he was 30 by the time he sang this song no wonder lol
Schlongster69 6 months ago
Damn he doesn't sound or look 19.
Schlongster69 6 months ago
@Schlongster69 Barry is not the author of the song. P. J. Sloan (the real one) is a very known songwriter in that time. Even of Destruction should be recorded by The Byrdys, but they turned down.
Song 100% awsome: author, singer, melody and lyrics!
joseph1973ish 6 months ago
you blacks did not start rar we did
EllyIrish1660 6 months ago
"UN Attacks Libya",...... just weeks after being voted to the 'Security Council' ....of the UN...... How is this possible?
hanksnow2 6 months ago
Definitely one of the most awesome songs ever written!! You can tell he's not lip syncing (like a lot of bands/musicians did back then). I'm sooo glad that I'm an old lady now and grew up in the 60's and 70's!!
joyhaydon 6 months ago
I hope for our sake he's right and the war machines aren't on the horizon
drjasonjcampbell 6 months ago
simply one of the best songs ever made. Very simple melody so it stays in your head from the first time you hear it and some of the best lyrics ever written
OpsAleKop 6 months ago
This really was a courageous act - he knew singing this was professional suicide, which proved to be the case. No label would touch him after this. No wonder he sang with such passion. Hats off to hiim
boasorte 6 months ago
Still on the Eve of Destruction, it's a very long process for man to destroy the world. Greed, Hate, Disrespect, War, Pollution, Overpopulation.... etc etc. ☺
StLouisEarl 6 months ago 19
@StLouisEarl And Obama , Pelosi and the Demotards !
617AV86892 4 months ago
barry mcguire is a born-again christian!=)
HaWkBeAtLeSnElSoN 6 months ago
I'm 14. And i love this song.
GreenDayRockerin 6 months ago
peccato,si peccato si sia dato alla religione,le sue ballate folk avrebbero potuto cambiare un mondo in ebollizione.Così ,invece,solo pochi hanno la fortuna di assistere ai suoi sermoni:comunque rimane sempre un grandissimo tra i grandi
MrGiuliano1949 6 months ago
Poor guy. He seems in need of an ex-lax or two, washed down with a big glass of prune juice.
Strife1969 6 months ago
Heard a upsetting story today a friend said that Jerry Lewis spit on her brother when he came back from Vietnam really and he does this I am not understanding this he was marked by that war and to be spit on by the Man that was sick and twisted
77sunsetable 6 months ago
If Barry only knew the future!!!...this is a very prophetic song..A
1122IslamAni 6 months ago
truth
lskadowski 7 months ago
does he look like he has to take a crap
689321546 7 months ago 2
@689321546 You must be too young to understand passion about a subject.
oldcollegegal 5 months ago
@oldcollegegal ....hey 62 years here i was in the viet nam for three years i know a lot about passion when you see your best friend get his fucken head blew off and hold whats left of him in my arms and crying why .and what are we doing here.
689321546 5 months ago
@689321546 You & I are part of the same generation. Can't remember how many of my former classmates were buried that year...singers still make faces like that now, but where is their passion for reality? They don't care enough to even pull up their pants. Thanks for your service. They didn't let women into the military back then, except for nursing. Hard to listen to this song 45 years later & realize that nothing has changed. Good old Barry, now pushing 80, is doing the PBS My Music tour!
oldcollegegal 5 months ago
I like this video on so many levels -- Jerry Lewis' aesthetic contrasted to Barry McGuire's. The tight pants and sincere delivery. The modern dancers and set concept. It's a periscope onto the eve of changing tides in American culture. So cool.
EZsWoodshed 7 months ago
it's still a relevant song , I Concur :) QC
Quaaludedude714 7 months ago
I sasw this on TV in 1965. The song is still very appropriate for our time. One question: the "bodies floating" line refers to a picture that was published in a magazine. I don't think that it was Life magazine but maybe Look magazine. Does anyone know. I would like to get a copy of the picture.
iamkwk 7 months ago
He's really good n articulate! Love the way he sings it!!!
jhmoonman 7 months ago
I remember hearing this for the first time in '65 only a few months out of Boot Camp. I think it was written more with the cold war in mind than Vietnam as it hadn't really started escalating at that time. It was on it;s way and started really getting a head of steam in '66. I got there in '67.
coastie378 7 months ago
pimp your dick like Barry ! :-)
Great Song !
mueckenfurz 7 months ago
This was written for a different era for the cold war. You cannot compare this song to today because the threat of all-out nuclear war is gone, so stop trying.
CAPCBMERRITT 7 months ago
@CAPCBMERRITT After 9/11, can you honestly say that there is no longer a threat of all-out nuclear war? I mean, we STILL don't know WHO has weapons of mass destruction and who does not (well, we DO know that Iraq does NOT - even if that idiot Dubya doesn't want to believe it *rolls eyes*). I do understand where you're coming from, though. THIS generation needs it's OWN anthem-writers...and they just don't exist.
MsStaciejm 7 months ago
@MsStaciejm
Oh the threat of nuclear attack is definitely there. But not in the way that would've happened in the cold war. Our biggest enemy that has nuclear weapons (China) still doesn't even have a viable platform for them to fly into earth orbit, cross the pacific ocean, and even hit hawaii.
The only way for a nuclear attack is to smuggle it here and detonate it.
And yes, he did have WMD, definately not nukes, but he did have WMD's. Why else would he deny UN inspector's access...
CAPCBMERRITT 7 months ago
@CAPCBMERRITT In regards to your comment about china's nukes. You left out the word "yet". They are a copy-cat nation and will soon figure something out. They have a stealth bomber and WTF was that number they pulled off the coast of Florida earlier this year? Second, why does noone make a connection between sattelite photos of truck convoys leaving Iraq into Libya and then all-of-a-sudden, Gaddafi says "I surrender my nuclear program to the Americans".
unreal203 7 months ago
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@MsStaciejm
access into the country? And besides, he's famous for the fact that he used chemical and biological weapons on his own people!
CAPCBMERRITT 7 months ago
@MsStaciejm Hussein had a formidable cache of weapons. How do I know? Because we gave them to him back in the mid '80s when he was an ally and Muammar Gaddafi was more of a threat to him than he was to us because of proximity. And when Bush (foolishly) announced he was sending weapons inspectors to Iraq, dozens of trucks convoyed from there into Libya and everyone except the American liberal is asking where did Gaddafie's nuclear program come from?
unreal203 7 months ago
I lived through the 60s, where are the songwriters now in these time of trouble?
paladen1000 7 months ago
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Where are the songwriter now, bob dylan ?
paladen1000 7 months ago
Where are the songwriter now?
paladen1000 7 months ago
I cant believe bob dylan did not wright this lol
streakyology 7 months ago
Barry McGuire looked about 40 yrs old here...and he was 19...and he had the PIPES of a 40 yr old man! I've loved this song since middle school (and I ain't saying how many decades ago that was!).
MsStaciejm 7 months ago
@MsStaciejm Wrong! I knew Barry at that time and he was 30. Not 19. Flip Sloan was 19.
HepcatNZ 7 months ago
@HepcatNZ Sorry - I misread the description. You don't need to get your silky drawers all in a bunch ;).
MsStaciejm 7 months ago
@HepcatNZ
but he looked like 60 ;)
best song!
Milfyway89 7 months ago
I wish someone would put the Rancid version of this song up somewhere!
TheMr02drop 7 months ago
Excellent quite apt for today in England if you ask me!!!!
billtheblagger 7 months ago
Loved this song since I heard it years ago. We have always been on the eve of destruction, What happens on the morning after?
54animalgirl 7 months ago
This song came out in 1965 and the world didn't get it, here it is, in the year 2011 and the world STILL doesn't get it.
SerenitynPeace 7 months ago
That costume is really something!
Cromag99 7 months ago
Ron Paul for american president!
Thesortvokter 7 months ago
Ron Paul. He's against all war.
endris76 7 months ago
THE REPUBLICANS WILL SURELY HAVE US THERE IN NO TIME ONCE THEY GET RID OF OBAMA AND HIS POLICIES AND INSTALL THEY,RE RIGHT WING I HATE U ALL BUT THE CONSERVATIVES AND RICH AGENDA
craig99ist 8 months ago
@craig99ist
Dude... Obama has killed as many as Bush did. As long as people like you turn the other way when YOUR political party does something, but throw fits if the other party's leader engage in the same killing, the anti-war crowd will continue to be a fringe, totally partisan group of people. I seem to remember he promised to get us OUT of the wars we were committed to, not INCREASE their number.
drewlovs 7 months ago
Besides, change Obama to Bush, republicans to democrats, and conservative with liberal, and you have your the marching cry of the democratic party in 2008. But I'm betting that the hate was approved by you at that time.
We need to lock all you Ds and Rs up for about 6 months so the rest of us can clean up your messes.
drewlovs 7 months ago
@drewlovs
And what, pray tell, is the god-like group of rose-colored-glasses people that you hail from?
museack 7 months ago
@craig99ist U need help my friend, OBABMA killed osama bin laden but recieves no credit for it. instead he is mocked and u REPUBLICANS try so hard to make it seem so simple to do.Learn International Politics my American brother and YOU will understand why it was a tough decision.killing him was not the issue it was how we were going to kill him was the issue Learn before you speak on a subject u have no clue about the world.Just keep listening to Rush,Sean Hannity and others like him and remain
johnlovesroxy15 7 months ago
@johnlovesroxy15 Airhead, BHO did not kill OBL it was the brave men of SEAL TEAM 6. The only thing he had to do was say "GO!" and then sit on his ass and sweat. Now he wants to get all the glory for something that GHWB sat in motion during his term. So, Airhead, before you open mouth and stick your foot in do your homework. "PUT BRAIN IN GEAR, BEFORE OPENING MOUTH!"
RETIRED E-6 and am proud to have served.
JPWilch 5 months ago
@JPWilch old man i thank u for your service but ur senile Give the man his credit Your little puppet bushy was not even a good war president look at the stats old geezer and change your pamper and put on your hearing aid because obama has been pulling strikes on all these al queda cowards bush barely did 1/5 of what obama is doing to these bastards check the stats fox news even said obama is more of a war president than puppet bush ever was.U NEED TO DO UR HOMEWORK.THAT WAS A BIG TIME ORDER
johnlovesroxy15 5 months ago
@JPWilch LEARN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS GEEZER TEA PARTY SUPPORTIN MORON
johnlovesroxy15 5 months ago
@JPWilch
For what it's worth:
"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02
"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)
jursamaj 5 months ago
Tea , For Two, and Breakfast at Tiffanys written by William Capote , And that's a still young Jerry Lewis , 1965 , This what 46 yrs does to Us , but Never Sorry , If One always Learns , Nothing Is BAD !
cseaavalosroger 8 months ago