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It's an embarrassment of riches! Meet the special guests of "Vote Him Away (The Liar Tweets Tonight) #3" in order of appearance .... LACY J. DALTON  Lacy J. Dalton is a country music hall-of-famer (“Country’s Bonnie Raitt”) with a career spanning five decades. Her voice makes us melt. Here’s her paean to Nashville, “16th Avenue.” Lacy is also a dedicated activist. She co-founded the Let ‘Em Run Foundation, committed to rescuing wild horses. Lacy's support for the Black Lives Matter Movement compelled her to write and record "I Can't Breathe," and to donate all proceeds from the song to the Equal Justice Initiative. SUSAN GUNDUNAS  Back in the early 80’s (that’s right, the NINETEEN-80’s), Roy began performing his original funny songs in a duo called The Original Cast with his singing partner from high school, Susan Gundunas. They brought their hyper-theatrical harmonies to San Francisco nightclubs like the Boarding House and the Chi Chi Club in the days leading up to the Comedy Boom. Imagine Roy’s dismay when Susan left the duo to become an international opera star. Audiences across the US and throughout Europe have thrilled to her “gorgeous range, perfect pitch and expressive stage presence.” We're so proud to feature Susan as our "avenging angel" descant in "Vote Him Away #3." REGGIE HARRIS  Reggie Harris is a giant of American folk music performing his trademark songs of Joy, Hope and Freedom. He’s also a teacher and a riveting storyteller. Check out this compilation video of Reggie’s - “American Troubadour.” “Reggie Harris is part of the solution. His marvelous music, his hard-earned wisdom, and his loving presence lift up any room he enters. Reggie reaches across all boundaries and makes strangers into friends." —Rabbi Jonathan Kligler BOB MIRANDA OF THE HAPPENINGS  Bob Miranda is the leader of the 1960s pop sensation The Happenings. Bob contacted us after the viral success of “Vote Him Away #2” wondering if we might do something with The Happenings' 1966 hit “See You In September." We suggested incorporating a "September" parody into "Vote Him Away #3." A flurry of emails later, and we’d cowritten parody lyrics (“Beat You in November”) and edited Bob’s soaring falsetto into “Vote Him Away #3." And to sing The Happening’s harmony parts, we brought in ... THE FOREMEN  People have been asking about a reunion of Roy’s satirical folk quartet The Foremen since their heyday in the mid-90’s. Roy has always joked that he’d have to get HIMSELF back together first. But the other three Foremen, Doug Whitney, Kenny Rhodes and Andy Corwin were generous enough to jump in and provide The Happenings harmony parts for this video. The Best of The Foremen is available on CD or as a download. EMMA'S REVOLUTION  We consider Emma’s Revolution to be our sisters in socially conscious music. They’ve been tireless musical advocates for peace, equality and economic justice for decades. You can hear that they're wonderful singers and players. They are also fabulous songwriters. Check out their current viral hit “Gonna Vote Your Asses Out.” “Beauty, power and ferocity all mixed together with love and hope.” — Deb Andersen, KZUM STEVIE COYLE  Another long-awaited reunion! Stevie Coyle was Roy’s other half in the comedy duo The Reagan Brothers, who trucked the boards at all the premiere comedy clubs during the San Francisco Comedy Boom years. Stevie went on to found the Americana band the Waybacks, and to establish Mighty Fine Guitars in California's East Bay where you can catch his playing live or virtually through his frequent live broadcasts. To have your mind fully blown, give a listen to in Stevie's original piece, “Mr. Oyster’s Theme.” VISUAL EFFECTS The stunning “Vote Him Away” flag you see at the beginning of our video was fashioned by Joseph and Barbara Lane. Joseph and Barbara are doing more than their fair share to get out the vote this election season -- they’ll be providing home-cooked food for voters waiting in line in Georgia’s 144th, 1145th and 146th precincts.. You can support the Lane's work and help flip Georgia blue by donating through their gofundme page, Feed the Voters, Feed the Vote." The beautiful “Vote Him Away” weathervane is the original handiwork of Terry Faust who offers hand-crafted custom wind art at his Wee Weathervanes site. -- Roy and Melanie We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
It’s tempting to think of voting rights as one of those issues we can all agree on. But “issues we can all agree on” are like, you know, unicorns. They might exist, but no one’s ever seen one. In fact, as our song says, “always in the shadows there are those who want you not to vote.” That’s especially true this year. In early 2013, a re-consideration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was pending before the Supreme Court. Filmmaker Steven Armsey wanted a song for a documentary he was producing about voter suppression, and he commissioned Melanie and me to write that song. “My Vote, My Voice, My Right” tells the story of our struggle as Americans to secure, expand and freely exercise our right to vote. We finished the song in March of that year. By June, Steven’s film had premiered at the Scary Cow Film Festival in San Francisco, and the Supreme Court had struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act. Ruth Bader Ginsberg famously observed that the court’s decision was tantamount to “throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.” Melanie and I shot a video of the song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-X-uBIqeVM] at the 1898 Memorial in Wilmington, NC which commemorates the only successful coup in American history. On November 10, 1989, White Supremacists in Wilmington violently overthrew the bi-racial city government, burned down the black-owned newspaper and murdered over 100 black citizens. The US government did not step in, signaling the end of federal protections for black voting rights.  This year we’ve lost both Justice Ginsberg and civil rights giant John Lewis, and we wanted to honor their memory by reprising “My Vote, My Voice, My Song” by way of a populist Virtual Sing-In. 
CLICK HERE to get your FREE DOWNLOAD of the mp3 audio single of the new version of “My Voice, My Vote, My Right.” CLICK HERE to get “My Vote, My Voice, My Right” merchandise - shirts, hoodies, mugs and vinyl stickers. We are so moved when others perform our songs. “My Vote” has been covered by numerous choirs. Enjoy this soulful sampling ... Voices Rising Chorus (Boston, MA) - CLICK HERE Women in Harmony (Portland, ME) - CLICK HERE One City Chorus (St. Petersburg, FL) - CLICK HERE Womansong Chorus of Asheville - CLICK HERE Let us know if your choir would like to sing “My Vote, My Voice, My Right” and we’ll send you the sheet music. Looking forward, -- Roy and Melanie We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
Melanie and I were at home on Election Day, 2016. We had our clown horns ready, our hands poised on the big rubber bulbs, ready to honk Trump off the map when Hillary won Florida or Pennsylvania or maybe Michigan and her electoral total topped 270. And to this day, our jaws hurt from where they hit the floor. “WHAT NOW?” we asked, our dismay echoing all over progressive America. We’d been planning to spend more time at home, write more songs for kids, grow a garden, have a dog. Instead, we hit the road harder than ever. Over the next three and a half years, I played 530 shows and we drove over 150 thousand miles, writing songs that rose out of the conversations we had - grass roots, people-driven, struggle-inspired songs. We wrote funny songs because people needed to laugh, poignant songs because they needed to cry, and positive anthems to renew people’s resolve to resist. And we recorded an album of these songs. RiZe Up.  RiZe Up is a funny and forceful statement of resistance. Some of the songs are timely rebuttals to the hourly outrages of the Trump administration. Some are timeless statements of progressive persistence. RiZe Up is our soundtrack to the uprising we saw taking shape across the country. The album is full of Folk, Country, Rock, Cajun, Dixieland, even a bit of Broadway, all standing on the shoulders of Pete and Woody. Half of the tunes are Melanie’s and my originals, half are the song parodies that have garnered tens of millions of views on social media. For this record, we pulled out all the stops.  We recorded basic tracks at Mark Linnet’s studio where I had recorded The Foremen albums for Warner Bros Records and where Melanie and I produced Mickey’s Comedy for Kids for Disney Records. You’ve seen Mark on the big screen as The Beach Boys’ recording engineer in Love and Mercy. In real life, Mark has worked extensively with the actual Beach Boys and countless other music legends and has won 3 Grammys.
The title track, “Rise Up” is inspired by the activism of the students of Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in the wake of the horrendous mass shooting there. “This is your world, and this is your time,” says the song, a direct message to young people but also a call to action for concerned people of all ages. I sing “Rise Up” as a duet with the wonderful Laura Love. Laura is a folk music luminary, author and activist who brings unquenchable positivity to the album.  The defiant spirit of RiZe Up is kicked into high gear throughout the album by the raucous NOLA jazz band sounds of the Soggy Po Boys horn section. The New England based Po Boys, led by vocalist Stuart Dias, came to our attention when we heard their arrangement of my song “Dick Cheney.”  At this writing, it’s been 1406 agonizing days since that Election Night, and we’re dusting off our clown horns for November 3 just 54 days from now. “Can one album bring down Donald Trump?” we ask. “No,” we answer, “but it can bring you up.” -- RZ We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
A Virtual Sing-In is America at its finest -- inclusive, innovative, optimistic. It’s a truly populist rebuttal to the faux-populism of Trump and Company and the violence they’ve done to reason, to compassion, to science, to democratic institutions, to the rule of law, to immigrant families, to peaceful protesters … "This will be our reply to violence,” said Leonard Bernstein, “to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." And more humorously, we might add. That’s our job as satirical songwriters - to use humor to do serious work, and to invoke the healing power of laughter.  Before COVID, we toured like crazy. It truly was a little insane how many miles we clocked as The Satire Delivery Service. While we were on the road, we never could have created Virtual Sing-ins because they are so time consuming - it takes weeks of solid work to gather all the separate submissions and edit them into one cohesive (and exuberant!) statement of resistance. But here’s the irony: Had we not been on the road for so many years, we never would have thought to make Virtual Sing-Ins.  We take our inspiration from the country’s Blue Dots - the most progressive people in some of the least progressive areas of the nation. We KNOW the Etowah County Democrats of Gadsden, Alabama who helped defeat Roy Moore. We KNOW the “Intoleristas” of Moscow, Idaho and their struggle to keep the Palouse out of the clutches of Imperial Oil. One of our favorite stops on the circuit is Hot Springs, Arkansas where the Democratic candidate for Congress was given a one-in-a-hundred chance of winning (and lost by 35 points) but whose supporters -- our friends -- went door to door for her anyway, articulating a progressive agenda that will eventually take hold. Yes, even in Arkansas.  Entertaining the troops in Hot Springs, AR When we were grounded by COVID, we realized we could go beyond entertaining the Blue Dots, and that we now had the opportunity to actually connect the Dots. We set out to get the country’s (and the world’s) progressives singing together. What a labor of love it has been creating these Virtual Sing-Ins and watching all these strangers sing and play and dance together, overcoming their quarantine-defined isolation. One of our favorite moments in “Vote Him Away #2” comes at the 1:13 mark when the band kicks in. It’s a flute, two clarinets, a fiddle, a trombone, a piano, and a helicon. None of these musicians knew each other or heard the others until they saw the finished product on screen. That moment is what happens in New Orleans where all genres of music go in the pot and AMERICAN music gets cooked up.  Y0u can get free mp3 audio downloads for “Vote Him Away” versions One and Two. You can make a contribution to help us get these songs out into the world. You can find a cornucopia of “Vote Him Away” merchandise available at the Roy Zimmerman Store. We grew up listening to Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” and our Virtual Sing-Ins follow in that tradition:  Sing along with us! Drop us an email and we'll tell you how to participate. Thank you for coming along on this journey. -- Roy and Melanie We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
The Riccardis came to our attention back in 2008 -- the early days of Hope and Change -- with a hilarious Sarah Palin send-up on YouTube . We were delighted to discover they were our neighbors, and we’ve collaborated on projects ever since. Richard is a virtuosic pianist who has accompanied many Broadway greats. Sandy is not only a brilliant vocalist, but also a writer, actor and comedic genius (we could make an entire video just from the multiple Grim Reaper takes she sent us.) The Riccardis bring their formidable musical comedy skills to bear on wonderfully rendered song parodies like “The Boy From Mar-a-Lago” ...  “Tiki Torch Nazis” ...  and originals like “Kiss My Rump, Donald Trump” ...  -- Roy and Melanie We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
In order of appearance ... PEGGY SEEGER Shortly after the first “Vote Him Away” video made the rounds, we got this email from Peggy Seeger: "HEY, VOTE HIM AWAY JUST HIT THE SPOT. I’m one of Pete Seeger’s two surviving sisters and can tell you Pete would have also loved the song. Keep on keeping on."  Peggy is 85 now, still performing, still spreading a resolutely progressive message in song as she has since she released “Folksongs of Courting and Complaint” in 1955. Here she is in the 1970’s with “Gonna Be an Engineer,” perhaps her best known song.  Peggy’s is the first “Vote Him Away” chorus we see and hear in our new video -- singing with a wry smile, her head thrown back in unmistakable Seeger style. JAY SIEGEL After the first “Vote Him Away” went up we also got this email: "Just wanted to tell you I loved "The Liar Tweets Tonight." Just what we needed at this time. You made so many people laugh! Keep doing it."
We’re overjoyed to feature Jay’s exuberant falsetto in “Vote Him Away #2.” GEORGE KAHUMOKU, JR.
 VICKI RANDLE The activist-meets-artist quotient of our new video is given a huge boost by the appearance of Vicki Randle. Vicki is an amazing bass player, guitarist, drummer, singer and songwriter who spent almost twenty years playing in Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show Band. For the last eight years, Vicki has toured with Mavis Staples.  “I am a progressive political evangelist,” says Vicki, “and when I’m not arguing with people on Facebook, my political views wend themselves into my song lyrics, whether with my Alt Rock/Funk band Skip The Needle or my solo acoustic performances.” Check out Skip the Needle’s “Ain’t Never Going Back” for a jolt of progressive zeal:  PHILIPOS MELAKU-BELLO  Philipos Melaku-Bello is an advocate for nuclear disarmament who has been sustaining a peace vigil across from the White House for over thirty years. The organization’s motto: “Mr. President, meet your closest neighbor." If you have visited the White House in the past few decades, you have seen Philipos.” And About That Whirligig ... That ... VOTE ... HIM ... AWAY... whirligig was sent to us out of the blue by Terry Faust of the Twin City area. We instantly fell in love with it! Check out Terry’s online store, Wee Weather Vanes featuring his handcrafted wind art.  -- Roy and Melanie We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
The first time I performed “DWB” in public, there was a smattering of applause, an uncomfortable silence, and a guy in the audience who said, “That’s not funny.” I agreed with him. This was already the song’s fourth rewrite. I wrote it in 2014 after the death of Eric Garner. (Office Daniel Pantaleo had stopped Garner on suspicion of selling single cigarettes. Multiple officers pinned Garner to the Staten Island sidewalk while Pantaleo applied a chokehold and Garner repeated the phrase “I can’t breathe” 11 times before slipping into unconsciousness.) I had labored over how to approach the subject -- too “funny” and it’s flippant, too “serious” and it’s preachy. Another rewrite or two and I’d arrived at the “DWB” I’ve been performing since. Often the song brings tears, and time and again it’s mentioned after a show as a “thanks-for-doing-that-one.”  At a show in Silver Spring, MD, a guy in the third row who’d been having a great time, stopped having a great time at “DWB” and sat with his arms crossed for the rest of the show. Afterward, he rushed to where I was standing. He was bordering on rage: “You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about! You don’t know the first thing about it. You don’t have the faintest idea what cops are up against!” And he’s right: I don’t understand the cops’ side of the story. Nor can I comprehend what it would be like for Melanie and me to send our sons out into a world where they might be pulled over, hassled, arrested, murdered just for the color of their skin. But I do understand that while the vast majority of police officers are not racist, racism riddles our entire system of “justice”: the penal code, zoning, institutionalized poverty, policing, charging, sentencing, prison privatization, the denial of voting rights/citizenship to ex-felons. This moment demands not the mere weeding out of “bad cops.” This moment demands an entire overhauling of our system of justice to ensure everyone truly is equal under the law.  Making this video in the wake of the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks and the worldwide movement their deaths have inspired, Melanie and I knew we wanted to present “DWB” as a dialog - to balance the voice of white authority with the pain of black suffering.  Our dear friend Clovice Lewis graciously supplied the second voice by way of his gorgeous cello playing. Click here to read our blog about Clovice. I may or may not have written the song right, but “DWB” is my way of testifying to my wrenching disbelief that our institutions are still riddled with racism. It is my way of declaring my dismay and anger that so many Black lives continue to be taken. When I perform the song now, it is to say, “Don’t you feel the same?” -- RZ We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
 Clovice Lewis is one of the gentlest people you will meet. An intellectual by nature and by profession. Clovice is a renowned cellist and composer (he wrote his first symphony at 17), a university professor, a software engineer, and entrepreneur. Currently he’s studying for the Unitarian Universalist ministry with an emphasis on breaking down racial, ethnic and class barriers. Clovice is also a friend of ours and he generously agreed to add a cello part to Roy’s song “DWB (Driving While Black).” Here are the beautiful and haunting results:  Clovice has not one but many “DWB” stories to tell. He’s been pulled over any number of times, detained by police, provoked, interrogated for no reason other than the color of his skin. He’s been discriminated against in the workplace, and he’s been denied housing. “If you don’t believe me,” Clovice says, “go find some other random Black man and ask him to verify what I’m saying. If he’s honest, he’ll tell you of his experiences that most likely surpass my own.” Clovice has a lot to say about what he calls “the illusion of race.” His is a stark, clear, and somehow optimistic message about the way forward which he detailed in a recent sermon for the UU Church of Lake County, CA. Watch his sermon, “The Arc of Justice - Up Close and Personal” here:  “We can’t get through this without some really, really radical changes,” Clovice says. “Here’s how we’re going to do this thing from now on. We are going to love the hell out of each other.” Amen, my friend. Amen. -- Roy and Melanie We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
 In early April, we were watching the mind-melting "Joe Exotic: Tiger King" Netlfix series with its obvious parallels to Trump World and thought it was ripe for treatment in song. Melanie came up with the riff "Don Exotic: Lyin' King" and started singing "Wimoweh" which was used in the remake of the movie The Lion King. When we came up with the "Vote Him Away" sub-hook, we were off and running. Then we remembered the song parody performed by the Raging Grannies of Mendocino - Roy had sung their "The Liar Tweets Tonight" with them a couple years ago - so we got in touch with Ede Morris, the Raging Granny who penned those parody lyrics, and asked if she'd mind if we took a pass at it. After it was written, we decided to use “Vote Him Away” as the maiden voyage for our idea to get lots of people singing together in one of our videos. We hoped this “Virtual Sing-In” would help bridge the divide we’re all feeling in this time of social distancing. We appealed through our mailing list for people to join in with us in the making of the “Vote Him Away” video. We were so touched by the positive responses -- both financial contributions and video clips.   Special shoutout to our friend Sandy Riccardi who sang the high soprano descant part. She and her husband Richard write and perform hilarious political satire songs. We highly recommend that you follow them on Facebook. A nostra culpa: We do recognize that the lack of diversity in the first iteration of “Vote Him Away” looks intentional and exclusionary, and just .... not good. We were so blown away by everyone's heartfelt individual contributions that we didn't consider the overall look. That was a failing on our part. The good news is that we've decided to make a new video of “Vote Him Away” with new lyrics and a new group of chorus members every month until the election -- getting more and more people singing together -- and these next videos will certainly reflect the beautiful diversity of our world. Would you like to sing along? If so, please sign up for the mailing list as we’ll be organizing these Virtual Sing-Ins through our newsletters.  For most of Roy’s career, we’ve written solely original songs. In the last few years, we’ve loved adding song parodies to the mix. They’re a great way to reach people immediately and are an enormously effective tool for political organizing. Because they are instantly accessible, they are also often floating around in the political satire zeitgeist in multiple guises. A couple weeks after we posted “Vote Him Away,” for instance, Jimmy Kimmel did his own riff on Trump as the Lyin’ King a la Joe Exotic’s Tiger King ...  Since posting our video, we’ve learned of at least 7 other takes on the idea “The Liar Tweets Tonight,” and we applaud all our fellow satirists. Check out this glorious gem from our friend, the folk phenom Christine Lavin ...  And, of course, the song belongs to Solomon Linda, the Zulu tribesman who wrote “Mbube” (Zulu for lion) in the 1920s. Here he is performing his song in 1939 with his band The Evening Birds ...  -- Roy and Melanie We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
We are so proud to introduce you to our collaborator on the parody lyrics for “Vote Him Away (The Liar Tweets Tonight).” Her name is Ede Morris, and she is a Raging Granny of Mendocino.  Ede says, “The Mendocino Raging Grannies are part of an International Movement standing up for future generations and challenging corporate power. We are homegrown Grannies who use humor and harmony to sound off on Social Justice and Environmental issues.” Roy has done a number of shows with “gaggles” of Raging Grannies all over the country. The activist message in their song parodies is undeniable, not to mention super-charming. Here is Ede's story in her own words: “I started singing in church at the age of 6. There was always a piano in the house, but I picked up the guitar in high school to sing with an all girl folk group called "The Mad Hatters." My mother dragged me to the County Fair the summer of 1965 to see The New Christy Minstrels. “As we were leaving the fair, we met the group hanging out in their tent and an exchange of songs took place. A year and a half later, I got the call to audition for the group and I was on the road singing with them 2 days later. I stuck with them long enough to record two albums, do a number of major TV shows and tour Japan, New Zealand and much of the US. Then I quit to hang out in N Y and sing with my sister Lynn Kellogg. “Three years living in Manhattan was enough for me to realize I needed to get back to the country. In 1968 "Hair" opened on Broadway with my sister Lynn in one of the lead roles. “I became an ‘instant’ hippie and was soon heading for California with the Flower Children. San Luis Obispo was where I landed, 6 miles from a nuclear power plant in its construction and licensing phase. I had a husband and child and I knew this plant named Diablo needed to be stopped. We became part of a greater effort to stop Diablo from going online and I wound up writing my first song "Must Never Be." It actually was KPFA's most requested song of 1978.  “In 1979 my family (which now consisted of 2 small children and a husband) moved to Mendocino County to be far from nuclear power plants. I continued my musical anti-nuclear crusade and became a non-violence trainer as well. “The Mendocino Raging Grannies came into my life at the perfect time. Each time a crisis arrived, we had a song for it and we became regulars at the B of Supes and Planning Commission meetings. We formed around a performance at the Anderson Valley Grange Variety Show singing a song about Dr Bronner's Soap and it's physical effects on “hoo hoos." We sang the heck out of that song.” Here’s video proof:  Check out the gaggle of Raging Grannies near you. We are pleased to offer you FREE DOWNLOADS of the mp3 audio files for some our recent videos. Just click on the record player. If you're able and so moved, you can also make a contribution of $5 or $10 to help us produce our next Virtual Sing-In. To add a contribution, just click on either the “Kick In a Lincoln” or “Kick In a Hamilton” box below.
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