" Together, ", also known as "Let's Get Together", is a song written in the mid-1960's by American songwriters Chet Powers, known as Dino Valenti.
This song is a call for peace and brotherhood, presenting the polarity of love versus fear, and the choice to be made between them. It is best remembered for the fiery pleas on his line of refrein, repeated several times in a row to bring the song to its conclusion.
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Record history
The song was originally recorded as "Let's Get Together" by Kingston Trio in live performance in March 1964 which was released on June 1, 1964, on their album Back Back Town. Although not released as a single, this version is the first to bring this song into the public's attention. Kingston Trio often display it directly.
A pre-Byrds David Crosby recorded "Get Together" around the same time as the Trio, but maybe a few weeks later, because the band's arrangements including the riffs of the Beatles version of "Twist and Shout", were released earlier in the UK but not in the United States until April. The Crosby version, perhaps the first studio recording and pre-dating release of the Trio version, appeared many years later on the Preflyte album.
A version of the song first came into the top 40 in 1965, when We Five, produced by Kingston Trio manager Frank Werber, released "Let's Get Together" as a follow-up to their ten hit "You Were on My Mind". Despite not achieving the same level of success as the others, "Let's Get Together" provides the group with a top 40 second hit on Billboard Hot 100 when it reaches number 31. This will be their last hit record.
"Let's Get Together" is the third track on the 2nd side of Jefferson Airplane's first album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, released in August 1966. As Tim Jurgens said in his review of the album in January 1967 on the Crawdaddy issue, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off is the most important album of American rock released this year (1966), this is the first LP out of the new San Francisco music scene.. ". He calls "Let's Get Together" a "most sensitive, hopeful and contemporary ballad", and wonders why it's not sung in church. However, the song was not released as a single, although the album made it top 100 from 1966, as the number 97.
In 1967, Youngbloods released their version of the song entitled "Get Together". It became a small Hot 100 hit for them, peaking at number 62 and reaching 37 on the US adult contemporary chart. However, a renewed interest in Youngblood's version came when it was used in the public radio announcement service as a call for fraternity by the Christian and Jewish National Conference. The Youngbloods version, most remembered today, was re-released in 1969, peaking at number 5 on Billboard Hot 100.
Another version was released in 1967 by the Chicago psychedelic group H. P. Lovecraft on their debut album.
In 1968, Sunshine Company released a version of the song titled "Let's Get Together" as a single that reached number 112 on the Billboard chart.
Also in 1968, Canadian group 3's a Crowd released their version of the song as a single, titled "Let's Get Together". It peaked at number 70 on Canada's national singles chart.
Smith recorded a version of their 1969 debut album, sung by Gayle McCormick while, in the same year, it was recorded by Carpenters and is the fourth song on their debut album "Offering" (later re-released as "Ticket to Ride").
In 1970, Gwen & amp; Jerry Collins released the song version as a single that reached number 34 on the US country chart.
In March 1970, Dave Clark Five reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart with their version entitled "Everybody Get Together".
In 1995, Big Mountain released a version of the song titled as a single that reached number 28 on the US adult contemporary chart and number 44 on Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number 32 in the Cash Box .
And in Inauguraton Day 2017, Bahari group released their version of the song.
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Controversy
Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, media conglomerate Clear Channel Communications incorporated the Youngbloods version of the song on the list of "questionable lyrics" sent to 1,200 radio stations in the United States.
In popular culture
- The Youngbloods version of the song has been featured in several movies, including Purple Haze , Forrest Gump , The Dish , Stephen King's < i> Riding the Bullet , Fear and Hate in Las Vegas and most recently Cat & amp; Dog: Revenge of Kitty Galore .
- In the episode of Treehouse of Horror II's episode "The Simpsons", Lisa looks forward to world peace and her wish come true. Everyone on Earth starts singing "Unite" and dancing in a sign of great peace.
- The South Park episode "Smug Alert!" contains a parody of a song that repeats the "let's go now" line a few times.
- This song also appears on the soundtrack for The Wonder Years .
- In 2008, Youngbloods version of the song was used in ads for Luvs diapers.
- Trailers of the Youngbloods track version are used in the 2014 ad for KFC.
- The Youngbloods version of the song was played early in Bart's dream in "The Simpsons episode" Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou? "
- Krist Novoselic sang part of the choir of this song early in the recording of Nirvana from their song, "Territorial Pissings".
- The hard rock group Christian David and Giants released a cover song on their Giant Hits CD.
- Christian Slater echoes the chorus in the 1990 movie Pump Up the Volume .
- In 2017, the song is featured in a Walmart ad that shows people from many ethnic groups joining together to eat.
References
External links
- Get together at Songfacts.com
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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