11.05.2006

May 1971: The RAIDERS - "Indian Reservation"



This song accompanied my Native American Musings while riding bareback on my pony. It was also in mind while playing Cowboys & Indians with colorful plastic figurines from Kreseges. But know that I misconstrued this song as being from the cowboy’s perspective, for both my child mind – and society as a whole – had yet to become Politically Correct, even though Mark Lindsey had.
(Overlook the mustache but) see and hear the song.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just the mere presence of the word "society" in this entry begs the highlighting of the fairly shameless rip-off of the organ coda of "Society's Child" on the coda of "Indian Reservation", also played on organ. This is actually a cover of the original by Don Fardon, I believe, which was also a hit.
Happy Talk

Richard Gibson said...

Funny to see these guys in the early 70's with the slight name change and all...

I have this record, haven't played it in years. Seems like the American imports always had one of their corners cut off for some reason, mine is no exception.

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