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title	The Rascals:People Got To Be Free
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subject	Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Atlantic Records singles 1968 singles 1970 singles 1968 songs The 5th Dimension songs Song recordings produced by Arif Mardin Songs written by Eddie Brigati Songs written by Felix Cavaliere The Rascals songs
abstract	%22People Got to Be Free%22 is a song released in 1968 by The Rascals. Written by group members Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati and featuring a lead vocal from Cavaliere, it is a musically upbeat but impassioned plea for tolerance and freedom:All the world over, so easy to see!People everywhere, just wanna be free.Listen, please listen! that's the way it should bePeace in the valley, people got to be free.In the song's coda, Felix says in a half-sung, half-spoken voice, that the %22Train of Freedom%22, is %22about to arrive any minute now%22, that %22it has been long, long overdue%22, and that it's %22coming right on through%22, before the song's fade with Felix saying %22Chug%22 repeatedly.It became a big hit in the turbulent summer of 1968, spending five weeks atop the Billboard Pop Singles chart, the group's longest such stay. It was also the group's second-most successful single on the Billboard Black Singles chart, reaching number 14 and trailing only the previous year's %22Groovin'%22. %22People Got to Be Free%22 was RIAA-certified as a gold record on August 23, 1968, and eventually sold over 4 million copies. It later was included on the group's March 1969 album Freedom Suite. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 5 song for 1968.The single's picture sleeve photo was previously featured in the inner album cover of the Rascals' Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits compilation. The B-side, %22My World%22, was a track from the group's Once Upon a Dream album.While %22People Got to Be Free%22 was perceived by some as related to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy earlier that year, it was recorded before the latter's death. In fact it was partly a reaction to an ugly encounter wherein the long-haired group was threatened by a group of strangers after their tour vehicle broke down in Fort Pierce, Florida.The song is clearly a product of its times; however, two decades later writer Dave Marsh included it as number 237 in his book Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles of All Time, saying in reference to, and paraphrase of, the song's lyric, %22Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be: Dated, but NEVER out of date.%22After this song came out, the Rascals would only perform at concerts that featured an African American act; if those conditions were not met, the Rascals canceled several shows in protest.Dionne Warwick recorded the song as part of her LP Soulful in 1969, and it was released as a single in the UK in the same year. The 5th Dimension recorded %22People Got to Be Free%22 in 1970 as part of a medley with another socially relevant song, Sam Cooke's %22A Change Is Gonna Come.%22 The pairing reached number 60 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. Johnny Maestro & the Brooklyn Bridge performed this song live in concert, and it has turned up on YouTube as part of The Bridge's %22lost tapes%22 series of songs.
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