1. Pleasures of the Harbor (4:24)
2. That's What I Want to Hear (3:21)
3. I'm Gonna Say It Now (2:07)
4. Changes (4:22)
5. On Her Hand a Golden Ring (2:44)
6. Days of Decision (3:13)
7. Santo Domingo (4:37)
8. United Fruit (3:04)
9. Crucifixion (6:27)
10. Small Circle of Friends (3:15)
11. What Are You Fighting For? (3:07)
12. Ringing of Revolution (5:19)
Notes
Some time before Phil Ochs died April 9, 1976, in Far Rockaway, NY, he gave a benefit concert for Broadside. He brought us about $500. He also had the concert taped and he turned the tape over to us with the suggestion we make an LP Album out of it. "Let's give 'em one more broadside," he said. (It took us some time to realize that there was a certain tone of finality in this remark.) We played the tape and commented "there's not enough material on here to make a whole album and, besides, some of your best and strongest songs are missing." Phil laughed and pointed out "Look, you've got other tapes of mine. I don't think there's a single song I ever wrote that I didn't tape for you. Just splice on what you want. It's all yours. Have Moe Asch put it out."
This album is the result. In "Pleasures Of The Harbor" the sailors enjoy a few hours ashore -- with prostitutes and wine -- and then it's back to the ships to work for their masters. "That's What I Want To Hear" is especially significant in these times, when millions are being thrown out of their jobs, their dignity being destroyed as they face starvation and loss of homes and property. Phil says he doesn't want to hear their complaining; what he wants to hear is that they are ready to get together and fight back. In "I'm Gonna Say It Now" Phil declares nobody's going to make him shut up. "Changes" is one of his most lyrical songs in which he gently tells us change is inevitable. "Golden Ring" is about the four Black girls who were dynamited to death in a Birmingham church. The ring was on a hand found among the debris. The "Days Of Decision" are still with us. "Santo Domingo" and "United Fruit" are among Phil's strongest attacks on U.S. imperialism. "Crucifixion" is America being killed by its capitalist/criminals. In "A Small Circle Of Friends" tragedies which should shock the whole nation turn out to be of concern to only a small group who happen to know the victim. It is an intense appeal for unity. In "What Are You Fighting For?" Phil tells those super-patriots eager to fight overseas to ignore their lying leaders and wipe out injustice in America. "Win the wars at home," Phil says. Finally, in "Ringing of Revolution" Phil gives up entirely on reform and looks forward to the total annihilation of the Capitalist System and its liberal and middle class toadies.
When Phil started visiting Broadside in 1962 he always came up with a new song or two. Once he had in his pocket seven songs he had written in a few days. Phil was always hungry and he explained his song ideas as he ate. Then he taped them for us. We lost track of how many we published. Recently a friend of ours, Jim Capaldi, indexed the Ochs' songs in Broadside. He came up with a total of 69!
PHIL OCHS IN BROADSIDE
SONG TITLES ISSUE
A.M.A. Song (21)
Another Country (36)
Ballad of Alfred Packer (48)
Ballad of John Henry Faulk (26,27)
Ballad of Lou Marsh (21,27)
Ballad of Medgar Evers (29)
Ballad of Oxford, Mississippi (15)
Ballad of William Moore (26)
Ballad of William Worthy (22)
Billy Sol (13,27)
Bound For Glory (32)
Bracero (64)
Canons of Christianity (59)
Celia (35)
Changes (63)
Chaplain of the War (72)
Cops of the World (70)
Cross My Heart (85)
Crucifixion (74)
Davey Moore (25)
Days of Decision (57)
Fifty-Mile Hike (28,29)
Firehouse Thirty-Five (41)
Freedom Riders (18)
Goin' Down to Mississippi (48,49)
Hazard, Kentucky (20)
Here's to the State of Mississippi (55)
How Long (25)
I Ain't Marching Anymore (54)
I'll Be There (38)
I'm Gonna Say It Now (58)
Is There Anybody Here? (67)
It Must Have Been Another Country (36)
Jaramillo (14)
Joe Hill (76)
Kansas City Bomber (120)
Links on the Chain (46)
Love Me, I'm A Liberal (58)
Maintaining Law and Order (83)
Miranda (84)
Nobody's Buying Flowers From the Flower Lady (79)
No Christmas in Kentucky (37)
One More Parade (with Bob Gibson) (50)
On My Way (23)
Outside of a Small Circle of Friends (77)
The Party (78)
Pleasures of the Harbor (82)
Power and the Glory (27)
Remember Me (43)
Ringing of Revolution (60)
Santo Domingo (66)
Take It Out of My Youth (69)
Talking Birmingham Jam (30)
Talking Cuban Crisis (21)
Talking Plane Disaster (24)
Talking Vietnam (32)
That Was the President and That Was the Man (36)
This Old World is Changing Hands (52)
Time Was (19)
United Fruit Company (64)
Vietnam (14)
The War is Over (89)
We Seek No Wider War (63)
What's That I Hear (39)
What Are You Fighting For (40)
When First Unto This Country (24)
When I'm Gone (128)
Where There's a Will, There's a Way (17)
White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land (68)
ARTICLES
TITLE ISSUE
Introductory Article on Phil Ochs (13)
The Need for Topical Music (22)
Phil Ochs on Record. . .Josh Dunson (47)
Ballad of Gordon Lightfoot (60)
Interview. . .with Sis Cunningham & Gordon Friesen (63)
Interview. . .with Sis Cunningham & Gordon Friesen (89,90,91)