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1966 single past Buffalo Springfield

"For What It'south Worth"
For What It's Worth single.jpg
Single by Buffalo Springfield
B-side "Do I Have to Come Right Out and Say Information technology?"
Released December 23, 1966 (1966-12-23)
Recorded December 5, 1966
Studio Columbia Square, Hollywood
Genre
  • Folk rock[ane]
  • country rock[2]
  • psychedelic rock[iii]
Length ii:37
Label Atco
Songwriter(s) Stephen Stills
Producer(south)
  • Charles Greene
  • Brian Stone
Buffalo Springfield singles chronology
"Burned"
(1966) 		"For What It's Worth"
(1966) 		"Bluebird"
(1967)

"For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What'southward That Sound)" (ofttimes referred to as simply "For What It's Worth") is a song written past Stephen Stills. Performed by Buffalo Springfield, it was recorded on December 5, 1966, released as a unmarried on Atco Records on Dec 23, 1966, and peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the spring of 1967.[four]

It was later added to the March 1967 second pressing of their first album, Buffalo Springfield. The championship was added after the song was written, and does non appear in the lyrics.[five]

Background [edit]

Although "For What It's Worth" is often considered an anti-war vocal, Stephen Stills was inspired to write the song because of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles in Nov 1966—a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place betwixt police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, commencement in mid-1966, the same year Buffalo Springfield had get the house band at the Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip.[6] Local residents and businesses had get bellyaching by how crowds of young people going to clubs and music venues forth the Strip had acquired late-nighttime traffic congestion. In response, they lobbied Los Angeles County to pass local ordinances stopping loitering, and enforced a strict curfew on the Strip after 10 p.chiliad. The immature music fans, notwithstanding, felt the new laws infringed upon their ceremonious rights.[vii]

On Saturday, November 12, 1966, fliers were distributed on the Sunset Strip inviting people to join demonstrations later that day. Several of Los Angeles's rock radio stations as well announced a rally outside the Pandora's Box club on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights. That evening, as many as i,000 immature demonstrators, including hereafter celebrities such as Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda (who was handcuffed by police) gathered to protestation confronting the curfew's enforcement. Although the rallies began peacefully, problem somewhen broke out.[8] The unrest continued the adjacent night, and periodically throughout the residuum of November and December, forcing some clubs to shut downward within weeks.[7] Information technology was against the groundwork of these civil disturbances that Stills recorded "For What It's Worth" on Dec 5, 1966.

Cash Box said the single is a "throbbing, infectious protester circling 'round the electric current happenings in Cal."[9]

Product [edit]

Stills said in an interview that the proper name of the song came about when he presented information technology to the record company executive Ahmet Ertegun (who signed Buffalo Springfield to the Atlantic Records-owned ATCO label). Stills said: "I have this song here, for what it's worth, if y'all want it."[v] Another producer, Charlie Greene, claims that Stills start said the higher up line to him, only credits Ahmet Ertegun with giving the single the parenthetical subtitle "End, Hey What'due south That Audio" in guild that the song would be more hands recognized.[5] [10]

The song was recorded on December five, 1966, at Columbia Studios, Hollywood. Tom Dowd claimed he mixed the song at Atlantic's studio in New York, though this has been disputed.[11] Dowd did take role in the product of Cher'southward version of the song in 1969.[12] One of the most recognizable elements of the vocal is Neil Young'southward apply of guitar harmonics.[five]

Legacy [edit]

"For What It's Worth" quickly became a well-known protest song.[xiii] In 2006, when interviewed on Tom Kent's radio show Into the '70s, Stills pointed out that many people think the song is about the Kent State shootings of 1970, fifty-fifty though its release predates that result by over iii years.[14] Neil Young—Stills's bandmate in both Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY)—would later write "Ohio" in response to the events at Kent State.[15]

An all-star version of "For What It's Worth", with Tom Petty and others, was played at Buffalo Springfield'south consecration into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997; Neil Young did not attend the event.[16]

The song is a staple of period piece films about 1960s America and the Vietnam War, such as Forrest Gump, and often used every bit a common shorthand to rapidly establish the atmosphere of 1960s counterculture move and protests.[17]

The song appears in the intro to the 2005 film Lord of War, showing the lifecycle of a bullet, from industry to firing.[ commendation needed ]

On August 17, 2020, Billy Porter sang "For What Information technology's Worth" for the 2020 Autonomous National Convention backed by Stephen Stills on guitar, a nod to the vocal's resurgent use in the summer 2020 American protests.[18] [19]

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Covers and sampling [edit]

"For What It'south Worth" has been covered, sampled, and referenced in numerous musical performances. Versions include those by the Staple Singers (U.s. #66 in 1967)(Tin #46 in 1967),[30] Art (1967 unmarried from Supernatural Fairy Tales), Ken Lyon & Tombstone,[31] Rush, Cher, the Candyskins, Oui 3 (Great britain #28),[32] Queensrÿche (on their album Have Comprehend), Miriam Makeba (on her album Proceed Me in Mind), Public Enemy, Ozzy Osbourne and (həd) p.e. (retitled Children). Cher'southward 1969 cover did not make the Billboard Hot 100; AllMusic retrospectively called her version "mature [and] forceful".[33]

Sergio Mendes and Brasil'66 recorded a version of this vocal. Information technology reached #x in the Adult Gimmicky Music Nautical chart on September 19, 1970.[34] Vocaliser Karen Philipp suggested to Sergio that he should cover the song. Karen does all of the vocals for this song by overdubbing. Ii versions of this vocal exist: The mono 45 has a more than extreme overdubbing of Karen'south vocals with a dissimilar organ solo than the LP.[35] The LP version is in stereo with a dissimilar vocal arrangement.[36]

David Cassidy recorded an extended live version for his 1974 album Cassidy Alive! (Bong Records, UK #9; recorded live in United kingdom in May 1974).

In 1998, Les Rythmes Digitales released a version nether the title "(Hey You) What's That Sound?", a rail from their anthology Darkdancer.

"For What It'southward Worth" is performed by an opossum (Jerry Nelson) and a chorus of woodland animals on episode 2.21 of The Muppet Show. The third verse is rewritten past an uncredited writer to give the song an anti-hunting theme.

The hip-hop grouping Public Enemy sampled "For What It's Worth" on their 1998 song "He Got Game", which featured Stephen Stills reprising his vocal performance from the original song.[37] Oui 3 adapted the vocal for their 1993 debut unmarried of the aforementioned name, which reached number 26 in the Great britain chart.[38] [39] In 2017, Haley Reinhart released a comprehend of the vocal as the third single from her third studio album, What's That Sound? [twoscore] In 2018, the Solitary Blare released a cover of the song as a single.[41]

See also [edit]

  • List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States
  • Protestation songs in the United States

References [edit]

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  28. ^ "Italian unmarried certifications – Buffalo Springfield – For What Information technology's Worth" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana. Retrieved August six, 2021. Select "2018" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "For What Information technology'south Worth" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Singoli" under "Sezione".
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  39. ^ "Oui 3". Official Charts . Retrieved Apr 6, 2016.
  40. ^ "Exclusive! Haley Reinhart Covering The '60s Classic For What It's Worth Is As Chilling Equally Our Electric current Political Climate! Mind!". PerezHilton. August 10, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  41. ^ For What It's Worth, October 2018, retrieved March x, 2020

External links [edit]

  • Reasontorock analysis of song

andreweattly.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_What_It%27s_Worth

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