John Denver with The Mitchell Trio - The John Birch Society (Live 1968)
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- Folk group Chad Mitchell Trio, after Chad was replaced by John Denver, sang their hit song "John Birch Society" in 1968. This is one of the rare occasions where the Denver-led trio sang a song released by the original Chad Mitchell Trio. Another example is "The Draft Dodger Rag": • John Denver with The M...
It's a topical satire which was first released in 1962 on the live album "At the Bitter End". The song was written by Michael Brown, a Broadway composer. Michael also composed another Chad Mitchell Trio hit, "Lizzie Borden".
There were a lot of songwriters mocking the John Birch Society in the early 60's, including Tom Paxton, who published his own Birch song on the 5th Issue of the Broadside Magazine. You can hear Tom's song here: • Tom Paxton - The John ... - Hudba
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There were a lot of songwriters mocking the John Birch Society in the early 60's, including Tom Paxton, who published his own Birch song on the 5th Issue of the Broadside Magazine. You can hear Tom's song here: czcams.com/video/CRDumFXqOV0/video.html
This is one of the rare occasions where the Denver-led trio sang a song released by the original Chad Mitchell Trio. Another example is "The Draft Dodger Rag": czcams.com/video/leLnFiLc4mA/video.html
Love these guys. They're as hood now as they ever were.
"We don't know what he did, but he's our hero just the same."
Kinda like the Fulbright scholarship which still exists to this day. Look up J. William Fulbright's politics. Ditto for Woodrow Wilson, probably the biggest racist President the country has ever had. Yet, many schools today still have his name slapped on the building. "Nothing to see here, move on!"
@@demef758 he was racist for the time it was well, ok, except for the popularisation of the kkk, who became a big problem later, but his biggest problems were hid approval of the federal reserve, who became a perfect mean for the capitalists to further control the american economy, and much more importantly, his foreign policy, which became the most important legacy of his, and also the repsonsible of millions of death during the cold war and also nowadays in the middle east
QAnon
John Birch was a U.S. Army Chaplin stationed in China who ended up being killed by Chinese Communist soldiers during the final days of World War II. The founder of the John Birch Society turned Birch into a martyr, considering him the first casualty of the Cold War, and so naming the society with the permission of Birch's parents. However, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle (of Doolittle Raid fame), had met Birch, and said in his autobiography that he felt sure that Birch would not have approved of the organization being named after him.
PBS got me here. My estimation of John has gone up a notch! John was the real deal! He tipped the balance towards my selecting an Environmental science major!
+PacificCircle1 John gets a kick out of that, wherever the fuck he is.
Who? John Denver or John Birch?
@@MrAlistar99 The fact that they were inspired to become an environmental science major makes it very clear they mean John Denver. There is *nothing* about John Birch that would inspire a career in science (or logic, for that matter).
@@ChristopherOdegard don't bother trying to answer a troll
@@ChristopherOdegard LOL
What a great song! Never heard it before; somehow this one didn't get airtime on the rock FM stations ;-)
This shows that John Denver was opportunistic and knew how to ingratiate himself with the people who run US show business and the record industry. I have lost my respect for the man.
They performed in Richmond, VA. In the 60’s. Fun!
"We think that Ronald Reagan doth protest a bit too much" LOL
I have another recording where they sang Spiro Agnew 😹😹
The Verona Papers !
Venona.
And the Venona Papers didn't prove any of Mccarthy's targets were Communists...
@@sirius212ify as for who is a communist or not, most very rich leftists think they're communists. but they're not going to give up their money and stuff until they destroy the economy and exterminate hundreds of millions. that's one reason they are involved in event 201, crimson contagion and operation lockstep.
Love this!
There is no end to how entertaining hippies are. A riot!
Denver was good, but he could not hold a candle to Chad Mitchell. Compare Denver's singing of the JBS song with Mitchell's, then tell me which one is better: czcams.com/video/pG6taS9R1KM/video.html . A better example of Mitchell's powerful voice can be heard from this same album: czcams.com/video/7QZTNbyA4zk/video.html .BTW: the banjo player on this album was none other than Jim (later Roger) McGuinn, who later formed the Byrds!
now mcguin is republican
@@palestiniansojourner3231 I don't know about that, but isn't it ironic that the very sort of thing this song mocked in the 60s - a commie under every bed - is the very same thing the ultra-left is doing today, finding a white supremacist under every bed? I.e., today's left espouses the very same irrationality it found contemptible 60 years ago, does it not?
@@demef758 Thank you Quack-Anon. Your claim holds no water.
Love them both; there is no need to compare. Music is not a battlefield - you don't have to choose a winner.
Listened to Chad through 1965ish then John D in 67/68. Both are immortalized by a remarkable voice, wide range, and genuine talent.😊😊
I met Chad & the trio together in 2009 in Oregon & again in Miami. Legends!!!!!!
Cg
Very Moxy Früvous-y. ;)
Im confused how all of these pro-JBS people in the comments even got here.
Right wingers always seem to find their way into the comments section of music that's making fun of them.
Any song that mentions Peggy Lee is divine.
Pinky Lee
It's PINKY Lee, not PEGGY Lee.
Very contemporary lyrics!
This sounds like Denver Boise and Johnson. Mike Kobluc and Joe Frazier are not on this clip.
thomas Hoban That makes sense to me, since the year after this (1969) Denver released his 1st solo album which included "Leaving on a Jet Plane."
No, Mike and Joe weren't on this clip, but this was recorded before they changed the trio's name.
What's old is new, again.....😢
Koch Bros..!
UPDATE: Koch bro
the society for the preservation of wooden toilet seats!
Ahh yes. Bringing back the good old days. Moscow Mitch, Leningrad Lindsay, Petrograd Pence. Peace and Love folks.
Which political party paid Russian agents $1.02M in 2016 for the Steele dosier which you use to slander these folks?
@@demef758 tell us
@@demef758 Seeing how you asked, The dossier was commissioned by the 16 republican candidates running.
The second copy was purchased by the Clinton campaign. The third copy went to the Washington Free Beacon. Steele was a good salesman with a hot product.
@@MrAlistar99You haven't listened up to now, AND apparently swallowed Hitlery's Alinsky-inspired fake narrative...why bother?
Except that NONE of the people you've listed have ANY TIES WHATSOEVER to Russia, that is...
Now a days it would be singing against Trump and in favor of BLM and Antifa.
Exactly right. Denver (Deutchendorf) was duped.
right - and Fogerty just wrote a song about BLM. Take a hike, fascists.
Antifa ha. Americans are all anti facism.
how do you know? alice cooper and john Lennon liked reagan and Johnny rotten liked trump and roger mcguin liked ben Carsen the republican
correct, its completely legal to sing satirical protest songs these days, even about donald. *rolls eyes to back of head*
This could now be called "The Don Trump Society".
Ya now who is laughing
OK
That was awesome
You really stuck it to those squares
Now do one about all the people Stalin killed.
And Mao, and PolPot and . . .
Don't worry about our standing in your panoply. We were killing millions of native Americans before any of those were born.
@@norsktoolmaker88 "We"? Not ME ... Race-blame much??
And Bush, and Obama, Wilson, Reagan etc...
@@PanhandleFrank We, as in our country in the past... I don't think he's directly blaming you.
@@fleebertreatise1063 Perhaps. Still, in a day when white, straight, cis-gendered Christian males are blamed for all the ills suffered by all other groups, one never knows.
The only problem is the JBS was correct the whole time and also John Denver died from running out of gas. Thats a pretty dumb way to go.
The John Birch Society is right 🎤
me when i'm insane.
The JBS is the main organization responsible for America's continued freedoms. Join us today.
Your a fucking wackjob. Fascism will always be crushed by the communist scrub.
Social democracies are the only fair economies. Far right, and left, are out of whack, and destructive.
@@Chiefshadow4 "Fascism"? That word doesn't mean what you think it does ...
If you define a nahtzi state as "free", that is!
I joined the John Birch Society as a young man in 1983. A few months after that someone gave me material written by William Pierce. I saw immediately that the JBS was a dead end for white Americans. I soon left it.
This outfit is living proof that the JBS had it right to begin with.
Remarkable, the number of twits actually posting the same trash and twaddle proponed by the Birchers..only substituting the Qmorons and the Magas' warped and skewed "philosophy", instead! Stupidity must be congenital and they're here to prove it!
The problem with the JBS is they would not allow any discussion of fundamental problems, such as racial issues or the Jewish question. I can only surmise that the ADL infiltrated the JBS and took control and neutralized it. It became a total waste of time.
@@gordonipock9385 they actually had a ton of Nazi sympathizers in their ranks, and I’m sure the Jewish question got discussed plenty.
Now go crawl back under a rock, you cockroach.
JBS were right.
Mgmn- your blog is white text on black background. Why the fuck do you idiots do that?
Yep, because being anti civil rights is the correct way to go.
So much talent backed up by so much ignorance.
It's gotta suck to get owned by John Denver 50+ years ago and have to still be mad about it now
@@TrueGrandImperial "Mad"? Hardly. I'm a JBS member, and know the truth. Denver et al. obviously didn't.
@@PanhandleFrank Yes, as a JBS member I'm sure you're not bugfuck batshit crazy and won't call me and Richard Nixon a communist in the same sentence if I continue to disagree with you.
@@TrueGrandImperial Straw man much?
How about you build an argument against *actual JBS positions,* rather than against *you and John Denver’s caricatures* of them?
Well said. He was a smug dumbass when I knew him in junior high and high school.
Poor John Denver. Another idealistic young American who despite experiencing all the benefits of American freedom couldn’t resist the temptation to sell his soul for money and fame. And though he got it all, it wasn’t enough and led to drink, drugs, and despair. A sad waste of God-given talent.
Get a grip Charlotte, TJBS was an extremist , reactionary bunch of superimposed assholes, that have become todays Republican Party.
@@KMK7355 nailed it
So you sell your soul to fascism?
true.
1960s JBS- a communist under every bed
2010s SJW- a racist under every bed
Anti-SJWs are not much better, finding "SJW pandering" on every single detail in the media. But yeah, in today's age, you can't do anything without angering one side or the other.
Antifa is today's KKK, except they wear black hoods rather than white ones.
@@lisaharris452 uhhh... reality doesn't match your description of ANTIFA. ANTIFAs tactics match every communist revolution to date. I'll give you credit, you're a very Useful Idiot.
@@lisaharris452 antifa aren’t like the old antifasistiche aktion of the 30’s, old antifa really fought nazis and tried to protect the german people from destruction, now antifa are more of a nuisance to the left, and especially socialists, they just destroy, conduct witch hunts, and just don’t care about the class warfare and pander to the elite cultural project of positive discrimination, the republican are still retards, but antifa are just retarded people hurting the class fight
And, guess who's behind the SJWs, who often fly communist flags and wear shirts with Che Guevara's picture on them?
after all these years im pretty much a john Bircher and many fools ignore the suffering of chinese Muslims and christians--i voted for trump
Well I guess you do have the right to fight for the right to fight the right fight for the right.. 😹
JBS = racist, scare tactic jerks. Extremists.
@@ffpr1 we've got the right to fight the left, too.
took a few years, but it turned out the Birchers had it pretty much NAILED; especially the part about the CIA being involved in the subversion!
I like John Denver music. I hated his protest music like I hated all hippie protest songs.