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Songs about Heroes or Heroines
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Songs about Heroes or Heroines
Just trying to think up a new song topic, so maybe try this one. Think of songs about your heros or heroines. Songs may have hero in the title or lyrics (those are easy), but others may be inferred by something a person has done, or be in reference to a particular person. Be creative!
So here are my first picks to get started -
Holding Out for a Hero - Bonnie Tyler
Candle in the Wind - Elton John (in reference to Marilyn Monroe and later Lady Diana)
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"Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo" * Brook Benton
Daniel 3: 13-28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv6XDEz7JW4&ab_channel=GlendenningCram
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"Johnny Yuma" * Johnny Cash
Nick Adams title role - 1958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a34ta4rN9Pw&ab_channel=tunapup1
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Dedicated to everyone who has risked their lives to provide for us. T'was ever thus:
The Ballad of the Springhill Mining Disaster (1956 coal mine cave-in) This version was done by The Brothers Four. https://youtu.be/I230FEiZr1I
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Thank you for posting the link to this song. I've never heard it, or of John Stewart. Great singer!
Armstrong - John Stewart (Neil Armstrong)
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Here's to the heroes - all of us, but especially our first responders. Written by the late John Stewart after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy. John and his wife Buffy Ford had been traveling with what John would later call "The Last Campaign" It has just been done by the current Kingston Trio. I am putting both John's and their versions here for you::
"Survivors" https://youtu.be/ZBnSULbNx-w https://youtu.be/iM0aYuvUAQk
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"Major Tom" {coming home} * Peter Schillling
Armegeddon - 98' - NASA astronauts heroics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cr04_goBGk&ab_channel=LoBoToMia1987
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"Tarzan Boy" * Baltimora
Johnny Weissmuller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJkgrIBp90&t=174s&ab_channel=HollywoodClassics33Returns
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"Color Him Father" by the Winstons
"I love this man I don't know why
Except I'll need his strength till the day that I die
My mother loves him and I can tell
By the way she looks at him when he holds my little sister Nell
I heard her say just the other day
That if it hadn't been for him she wouldn't have found her way
My real old man he got killed in the war
And she knows she and seven kids couldn't of got very far
She said she thought that she could never love again
And then there he stood with that big wide grin
He married my mother and he took us in
And now we belong to the man with that big wide grin
Think I'll color this man father
I think I'll color him love
Said I'm gonna color him father
I think I'll color the man love, yes I will"
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The Reverend Mr. Black - The Kingston Trio
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Desert Pete - The Kingston Trio
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"Daddy, You're A Fool To Cry" * Rolling Stones
Fathers carrying on
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Speaking of Prince, Grammy Salute to Prince airs Tuesday on CBS, 9E/8C. Quite the line-up!
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"Jesus Christ Superstar" * Murray Head
original 71 recording with the original 'judas iscariot'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFw7K5-MV8I&ab_channel=LiveVideoAZ
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Yeah! I have both record set too! I also got the third best two lp set, "The Concert for Bangledesh". I saw the movie on JCS and the play. We saw "Bangledesh" concert movie many times, cause in a way it was one of the first movie/video concerts. Harrison played many a song from the "ATMP" in that movie. A great time that was. Interesting that Murray Head would surface later with the "decadent" ,One Night In Bangkok recording later in the 70's.
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Another song by Bruce Springsteen - involving both trying to be a "Hero" and having to "Travel" to do it. I'm posting this in both threads.
I Came For You - this version is Manfred Mann's Earth Band: https://youtu.be/2sJygu903kU
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"Pretty Boy Floyd" * Woody Guthrie
"Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen."
Oklahoma knew him well,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBF3aXvquHs&ab_channel=JohnKirch
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My very favorite version of Heroes by David Bowie is the English-German version, with a video extracted from a German movie "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" about a young girl's true story of falling to heroin addiction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6sXLQwlJU
Edit: my German co-worker was astonished when I asked him about the movie a couple years back. He was astonished that anyone here in the US had even heard of the movie. Made me happy to see him so excited about this.
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