But given the current events involving the teachers in Chicago this week, it seemed appropriate again.
So...from 1973, please enjoy Brit folk-rockers The Strawbs and their actual militantly pro-labor hit single "Part of the Union."
A song, I should add, that is pretty much unthinkable on the American pop charts, both then and now, but which remains a perennial in the UK along the lines of "Mull of Kintyre," fer crissakes.
And a song which I am sure deeply upset, both at the time and over the years, the odious Margaret Thatcher, then an obscure in America Tory rising star, rather than the single most batshit insane legitimately elected head of state of any advanced industrial democracy in the second half of the 20th century she ultimately became.
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Go teachers!!!!
ROTP(lumber)
I still have a mix tape with that song on it. I had the album, but I don't remember a thing about it.
I was in England when this was released as a single. The Strawbs and Slade and T-Rex shared the airwaves.
One of the best drinking sing-a-long songs ever! :) I always loved the Strawbs from when free-form FM started playing some of their more accesible tunes. POTU really was atypical Strawbs - I believe that it was written (and sung?) by Hudson-Ford, who later went on to release that one great solo track, "Take A Little Word."
The Strawb's "Lay Down" hits the power pop vibe pretty well...
Hudson & Ford released some catchy stuff after they left the Strawbs, including an interesting single called "Nice Legs (Shame About the Face)" as "The Monks."
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