What Was I Gonna Do Again
| "The S's Gonna Exercise It (Once more)" | ||||
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| Single by Charlie Daniels Band | ||||
| from the album Fire on the Mountain | ||||
| B-side | "New York City, King Size Rosewood Bed" | |||
| Released | November 1974 | |||
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| Length | 4:00 | |||
| Label | Sony | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Charlie Daniels | |||
| Producer(s) | Paul Hornsby | |||
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"The South'south Gonna Do It (Once again)", is a song written and performed by the Charlie Daniels Band and released on their 1974 album Fire on the Mountain.
Content [edit]
The lyrics refer to several Southern rock bands and musicians:
- Grinderswitch
- The Marshall Tucker Band
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Dickey Betts (guitarist with The Allman Brothers)
- Elvin Bishop
- ZZ Top
- Wet Willie
- Barefoot Jerry
- Charlie Daniels Ring
The outset line in the song is as well a play on Grinder's Switch, Tennessee, the fictional hometown of M Ole Opry star Minnie Pearl.
The song uses a clever play on words to promote Southern rock music. The notion that "the South shall rising once again" was a familiar sentiment and rallying weep for disaffected Southern whites subsequently the American Civil War. The vocal co-opts that sentiment, but uses the statement to gloat Southern rock acts contemporary to the song itself. The "it" that the South is going to exercise once more, it is unsaid, is that the South would produce further popular Southern rock bands.
Daniels factually bristled at more nefarious interpretations of what the "information technology" was. When the Ku Klux Klan used the song equally background music for radio commercials for a 1975 rally in Louisiana, Daniels told Billboard, "I'm damn proud of the South, only I certain equally hell am not proud of the Ku Klux Klan. I wrote the song well-nigh the land I beloved and my brothers. It was not written to promote hate groups."[3] [4]
Chart performance [edit]
| Chart (1975) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.Southward. Billboard Hot 100 | 29 |
| Canadian Singles Chart | 68 |
References [edit]
- ^ Stuessy, Joe; Lipscomb, Scott David (1999). Stone and scroll : its history and stylistic development . Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall. p. 355. ISBN978-0-13-676495-3.
- ^ Beck, Ken (July 22, 2020). "Charlie Daniels proved true bluish in every aspect of his life". The Wilson Post . Retrieved February 12, 2021.
- ^ Billboard (Dec 20, 1975). "KKK Lashed by Daniels on Song Employ" (PDF). WorldRadioHistory.com. p. 4. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (October 25, 2017). "The South'south Gonna Do It (Again): Charlie Daniels, the Confederacy and the Ascension of the New South in the '70s". Medium . Retrieved July 15, 2020.
External links [edit]
- Listen to "The South's Gonna Do It Again" on YouTube
Fire On The Mount track list
felicianosmandertne.blogspot.com
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_South%27s_Gonna_Do_It
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