Very similar to Back Stabbers in concept, O'Jays were very well-known, but this group, not at all: "Undisputed Truth" did "Smilin' Faces".
@Beth Gallagher Recalling that as a kid, my Dad and his brother installed a coal stoker to feed our home's heating boiler. This would have been when I was very young, but I recall vividly by the time I understood more, the stoker had a hopper with a top door, into which a hopper-full of coal was manually-shoveled from the coal bin behind it. The hopper was green. On the top of the door was a decal proclaiming "Buffalo Springfield Company". Many years later the song you posted, done by "Buffalo Springfield", surprised the wits out of me! Rumor was they chose the name from a product built by Buffalo Springfield Co., a steam roller! The things a kid remembers, I just don't understand! Frank
A Change Is Gonna Come - Sam Cooke, 1964 "Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song is widely considered Cooke's best composition. "
I am not sure if this is actually what you would call a protest song or not, but I think that might be the closest category for it. Last night, @Bobby Cole wished me a goodnight and happy dreams, and then he started singing that song about “drinking that free Bubble-up and eatin’ that Rainbow Stew”. Naturally, we could not remember who actually sang that song, so after some debate back and forth, I trotted out to the iPad and google to get the answer. Neither one of us were even close……and the answer was Merle Haggard, who also wrote this song. After his songs like “Make it Through December”, and others like that, this is a really different kind of song for Merle, and I wanted to share it with everyone, so we can all remember to drink our Bubble-up (do they even make that anymore ?), and eat our rainbow stew.
Probably not usually thought of as a protest singer, but I've always thought of this particular song in that way,