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	Phil Ochs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ochs wrote many more songs than were recorded on his first three albums ( All The News That's Fit To Sing (1964), I Ain't Marching Anymore (1965), and Phil Ochs In Concert (1966)), but these records contained some of his best work.
		Two traditional genres that Ochs contributed to in his early performances are the talking blues and the musical reinterpretation of older poetry, for example Alfred Noyes 's The Highwayman and Edgar Allen Poe 's The Bells.
		Ochs was profoundly concerned with the escalation of the Vietnam War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phil_Ochs (777 words)

	CMT.com : Phil Ochs : Biography
		Ochs moved from Ohio to New York in the early '60s, and was soon a prolific writer of the topical, left-leaning protest songs then in vogue.
		Ochs ' social criticism was deepening in acuity, as heard on "Canons of Christianity," "Cops of the World," and the satirical "Love Me, I'm a Liberal." But he also began to move into non-political subjects with equal or greater effect, as on "There But for Fortune" and "Changes," his most famous love song.
		Ochs did record a couple of flop singles in the early '70s, but by the middle of the decade he was largely inactive, and afflicted with serious depression.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/ochs_phil/bio.jhtml (654 words)

	Phil Ochs: The Best of Phil Ochs: 20th Century Masters: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ochs churned out political lyrics, taking ideas from the news and from first-hand experience with the turmoil of the 1960s: a coal miners' strike in Kentucky, the fight for civil rights in Mississippi, and anti-war rallies, some of which he helped organize.
		Ochs' voice is limited-- with his narrow range and slight twang, he was no Tony Bennett-- but it's stark against the baroque arrangements, and the sincerity makes songs like "Flower Lady" honestly beautiful.
		Ochs wrote "The War Is Over" for a rally that he helped organize; its marching band backdrop is interesting, but the song isn't as strong without its context.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/o/ochs_phil/20th-century-masters.shtml (970 words)

	Phil Ochs: American Troubadour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phil began to flourish, and it was at this time that his political views and future career path began to form and take shape.
		Phil had become an expert on Castro and the Cuban revolution, and soon he was writing articles for the Ohio State student newspaper, The Lantern, as an outlet for his exploding political views.
		Phil could still deliver the goods musically, but for someone who used to be able to churn out new songs virtually at will, writing was becoming a laborious process.
	stocktonuu.inreach.com /phil_ochs.htm (2706 words)

	Greatest Hits (Phil Ochs album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greatest Hits was Phil Ochs ' seventh and final studio album.
		Focusing more on country music than any other album in Ochs' canon, it featured an impressive number of musicians, including members of The Byrds and Elvis Presley 's backing group alongside mainstays Lincoln Mayorga and Bob Rafkin.
		"Boy In Ohio" saw Ochs pining for his childhood and "Jim Dean of Indiana" was a tale of James Dean 's life, a tribute to him, written after Ochs had visited Dean's grave.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greatest_Hits_(Phil_Ochs) (268 words)

	OCHS, Phil : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phil Ochs' Greatest Hits '69 was ironically titled, mocking an Elvis Presley album with sleeve note '50 Phil Ochs fans can't be wrong!', incl.
		Live Gunfight At Carnegie Hall '71 was contentious, recorded complete with audience antipathy, cry of 'Phil Ochs is dead!' as he rocked out on hits of Presley, Buddy Holly, Merle Haggard's 'Okie From Muskogee'.
		Ochs quit the USA, wandered around Europe, wrote for London's Time Out magazine; he was mysteriously assaulted in Africa, narrowly escaping death, suffering severely damaged vocal cords.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/o/O6.HTM (472 words)

	THE LEGACY OF PHIL OCHS
		Although his vocal range was limited and his guitar playing rudimentary, Phil Ochs sang and wrote with such a passionate sense of conviction and integrity that he became one of the leading voices of the folk/protest boom of the early 1960s.
		Phil Ochs's parents had never shown any particular interest in politics, and at the time he entered Ohio State University, Ochs's primary enthusiasms were movies, country music, and rock and roll.
		Ochs once said, "A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit." Accordingly, he loaded his songs with history, ideas, questions, and news, while making it bluntly obvious which side he was on.
	www.zmag.org /zmag/articles/nov97carter.htm (2059 words)

	Phil Ochs — Rehearsals For Retirement (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phil saw the events of said convention as the death of the American dream.
		Ochs’ America was coming unglued, and the central question of the album revolves around whether or not the nation was beyond saving.
		It is difficult not to see Ochs’ suicide, just prior to the nation’s bicentennial, as his farewell gesture to a country that he felt betrayed him.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=4873 (684 words)

	Bob Dylan Who's Who
		Ochs' "Pleasures of the Harbor" was an all-too-grand attemot to create his own "Blonde on Blonde" and become a major songwriter/poet.
		Ochs was a huge Dylan fan and also was one of his staunchest defenders when he moved into rock.
		When Dylan moved into rock, Ochs eventually followed, but instead decided to combine his songs with "classical music." The result was his first album on A&M, (his fourth album chronologically) "Pleasure of the Harbor." By the time this album finally appeared, Ochs had been singing many of these songs for a couple of years.
	www.expectingrain.com /dok/who/o/ochsphil.html (1071 words)

	Phil Ochs - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ochs traveled with Chilean folksinger Victor Jara and sang with Chilean President Allende before Allende's election and the pair's subsequent assassination in 1973.
		Intensely disappointed by his lack of commercial success, however, and haunted by other personal demons — namely alcoholism, writer's block and depression — Phil Ochs hanged himself in 1976.
		Phil Ochs web pages -- includes lyrics, discography, images, andc.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Phil_Ochs (441 words)

	What's a modern woman doing messing around with Phil Ochs?
		I was introduced to Phil Ochs at the age of 13 during the Persian Gulf war, when the popular radio stations started doing specialty hours of "music of peace and social consciousness".
		I have to partially disagree with this statement, living after the fact, because this was the album of Phil's that lit the fire under me to find more of his music, and if the fire had truly gone out of him, I would never have felt its spark.
		Phil was no longer the firebrand he had been.
	www.geocities.com /EnchantedForest/Glade/6691/philochs.html (544 words)

	Phil Ochs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ochs' social criticism was deepening in acuity, as heard on "Canons of Christianity," "Cops of the World," and the satirical "Love Me, I'm a Liberal." But he also began to move into non-political subjects with equal or greater effect, as on "There But for Fortune" and "Changes," his most famous love song.
		Although it wasn't foreseen at the time, Greatest Hits was his last studio album.
		Ochs did remain active, recording a live LP (initially released only in Canada) that excited controversy with its strange mix of original songs and unexpected covers of old rock & roll tunes by Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly, performed in a gold lamé suit.
	www.djangomusic.com /artist_bio.asp?pid=P+++++2096&morebio=1 (620 words)

	Phil Ochs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phil Ochs ( December 19 1940 - April 9 1976) was a protest singer of the early 1960s perhaps best known for his songs and Glory" "There But for Fortune" "Changes" I'm Gone" and "I Ain't Marching Anymore".
		Ochs organized concerts to protest these developments and re-recorded his old song "Here's The State Of Mississippi " as "Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon ".
		If you're a fan of Phil Ochs, the quintessential singer-songwriter of the 1960's, you need this book!In an obvious labor of love, David Cohen has assembled a complete bibliography of writings by Phil Ochs, writings about Phil, a complete discography of Ph...
	www.freeglossary.com /Phil_Ochs (636 words)

	Phil Ochs remembered
		Phil had heard the story of Kitty Genovese, the New York woman who had screamed and pleaded for life while her neighbors watched in the shadows as she was brutally raped and murdered.
		Phil's performance--throughout which he was battling terror and nausea--included the aforementioned "The Power and the Glory," as well as "The Ballad of Medgar Evers" and "Talking Birmingham Jam." An album of the festival was released the following year and featured two of Phil's songs.
		As Phil Ochs put it, the Yippies "wanted to be able to set out fantasies in the street to communicate their feelings to the public." A number of memorable slogans were coined, mainly as a way of publicizing the upcoming event.
	www.furious.com /perfect/philochs.html (4290 words)

	Phil Ochs
		I grew up listening to Phil Ochs, and for years he was my only reminder that there were other leftists in the world outside of my immediate family.
		Ochs' greatest strengths were his wry, heartfelt lyrics and uncluttered melodies; his tenor was unassuming, and his guitar playing was never more than rudimentary.
		By far Ochs' high point, this was either recorded in Boston and New York, or in a studio with crowd noise overdubbed, depending on which liner notes you believe.
	www.warr.org /ochs.html (828 words)

	Phil Ochs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phil Ochs ( December 19, 1940 - April 9, 1976) was a protest singer of the early 1960s, perhaps best knownfor his songs "Power and Glory", "There But for Fortune", "Changes", "When I'm Gone", and "I Ain't Marching Anymore".
		Ochs organized concerts to protest these Nixon-era developments, and re-recorded his old song"Here's To The State Of Mississippi " as "Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon ".
		Phil Ochs webpages -- includes lyrics, discography, images,andc.
	www.therfcc.org /phil-ochs-81012.html (390 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Greatest Hits - Phil Ochs at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By 1970, Phil's career was basically over, as he was suffering from the setbacks of the antiwar movement and his own writer's block, depression, and various dependencies.
		Ochs was in awe of Elvis' power over people in general, and attempted to use this to his advantage in the infamous Gunfight at Carnegie Hall.
		Meanwhile, the back cover states "50 Phil Ochs fans can't be wrong!" The desperately self-deprecating humor inherent in that statement is a pretty good summation of the album.
	www.epinions.com /content_95614439044 (605 words)

	Poor Benjamin’s Almanac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phil Ochs was one of the many folk singers of the mid to late sixties.
		Ochs thought the title was a joke, considering he had never had a hit.
		Phil Ochs hit rock bottom when he lost his personality all together in New York City and became a wandering bum with the name John Train.
	www.astoundingentertainment.com /ben (3189 words)

	Phil Ochs - Memorable Music Hall of Fame
		Ochs' early work was inspired by Woody Guthrie, Bob Gibson and Tom Paxton, and its political nature led to his involvement with the Broadside magazine movement.
		Beset by a chronic songwriting block, Ochs sought solace in alcohol and although a rally/concert in aid of Chile, An Evening With Salvador Allende, succeeded through his considerable entreaties, he later succumbed to schizophrenia.
		Phil Ochs was found hanged at his sister's home on 9 April 1976.
	www.memorabletv.com /musicworld/halloffame/philochs.htm (472 words)

	Gunfight at Carnegie Hall by Phil Ochs
		On the cover of Greatest Hits, Phil Ochs had appeared in a gold lamé suit like the one Elvis Presley wore on the cover of the 1959 album 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong: Elvis' Gold Records, Vol.
		On the back cover was the legend, "50 Phil Ochs fans can't be wrong!" The suit and the Greatest Hits title were part of a concept Ochs, who had recently seen Presley perform in Las Vegas, was pursuing at the time.
		Ochs lobbied long for A&M to release an album drawn from the embattled show, which the label belatedly did, but only briefly and in Canada.
	www.mmguide.musicmatch.com /album/album.cgi?ALBUMID=446084&AMGLENGTH=full (294 words)

	Phil Ochs Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phil Ochs (December 19, 1940 - April 9, 1976) was a protest singer of the early 1960s, perhaps best known for his songs "Power and Glory", "There But for Fortune", "Changes", "When I'm Gone", and "I Ain't Marching Anymore".
		None actually became hits, although "Small Circle of Friends" received airplay before being banned from many radio stations for suggesting "smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer".
		Ochs organized concerts to protest these Nixon-era developments, and re-recorded his old song "Here's To The State Of Mississippi" as "Here's To The State Of Richard Nixon".
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Ochs_Phil.html (403 words)

	The War Is Over: The Best of Phil Ochs : beatles-discography.com shop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Phil Ochs was a very special person and an excellent singer.
		It certainly should not be called "The Best of Phil Ochs" because the songs are more of rock style that he experimented with later on in his life when he was severly depressed.
		Phil Ochs' voice was a pretty amazing instrument, maybe not everyone's c of t with its oft-employed distinctive vibrato, but I think the guy really had IT and this material shows it!
	www.beatles-discography.com /shop/product.aspx?asin=B000002GI3 (535 words)

	Phil Ochs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the 1960s, the late folk singer Phil Ochs said that the way to get out of Vietnam was to declare victory and leave.
		Forty years ago, late folk singer Phil Ochs, playing to a Michigan audience gathered at a benefit for striking workers, stilled a cheering crowd and told them...
		The tunes trace their roots to '60s protest songs; the record even includes a cover of Phil Ochs' Song of a Soldier.
	www.wikiverse.org /phil-ochs (502 words)

	PAST ARCHIVES Phil Ochs
		One of the great unsung outlaw heroes of American singer/songwriter history, the late Phil Ochs embraced protest, psychedelia, rock ‘n’ roll, country and world music before his suicide in 1976.
		What’s so astonishing about the music of Phil Ochs, to a first time listener like myself, is how much, consciously or unconsciously, he has instigated or influenced what has come later.
		Promoting the album on a tour which famously saw Ochs wearing a gold lamé suit and mixing his own songs with Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly numbers, the, er, confusing atmosphere of these shows was preserved on the aptly titled "Gunfight At Carnegie Hall".
	www.pastarchives.co.uk /ochs.html (485 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The War Is Over: Best Of Phil Ochs - Phil Ochs at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Athough certainly not a true greatest hits album since many of Ochs' most popular songs are not present, this is still a wonderful album well worth owning.
		Ochs did write and record a few protest songs in the style of his older Elektra work during this period, most notably "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" to protest the general apathy that seemed to have set into society.
		Ochs writes with an honesty and clarity that is both unusual and moving.
	www.epinions.com /content_41172897412 (1658 words)

	Phil Ochs \| Music For America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In college, it's said that Phil bet a friend Kennedy would win the '62 election and his prize was a guitar, which he then learned to play.
		Phil was not a drug addict, but I think it bears some weight here, showing how the 70's felt to someone who was deeply involved in the hope and optimism of the 1960's.
		Phil Ochs is a name I hear tossed around, and some of his lyrics thrown out, but I've never relly put time into finding out who he was.
	www.musicforamerica.org /node/view/70661 (2760 words)

	Phil Ochs Discography
		Three of Phil's labels are online: Elektra, A&M, Folkways (by way of the Smithsonian) and Rhino Records.
		These are the albums which Phil Ochs released while he was alive (two of them were live recordings, so the term ``studio'' here is used loosely).
		Sliced Bread Records has released an album of Phil's songs performed by a variety of performers.
	www.cs.pdx.edu /~trent/ochs/discog.html (384 words)

	Phil Ochs in Print
		Of course, Phil wrote a number of things while studying journalism at Ohio State.
		New are an afterword ("Ten years on" and "Phil Ochs and the FBI") and an appendix ("Statement of congresswoman Bella S. Abzug on the death of folk-singer Phil Ochs").
		Notes: Contents: intro; (1) the folk-protest mystique: the evolution of the American protest song; the new revivalism--protest music as a religious experience; converting the masses--popular music as a radical influence; (2) folk heroes--links on the chain: Woody Guthrie, father of the now generation, pp.
	www.cs.pdx.edu /~trent/ochs/books.html (912 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Phil Ochs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sporting his gold lame suit and boasting that "50 Phil Ochs fans can't be wrong!," the Singing Yippie bids for pop power once again on this prematurely entitled work of art.
		It's always been one of the prime paradoxes of folkiedom that our most astringent protester should come on like Richard Dyer-Bennett gone Nashville, and the sad truth is that the lone protest number is the weakest cut on the disappointing second side.
		But even the first side, as strong as any pop Ochs has written to date, works in spite of his voice.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist.php?id=3431&name=Phil+Ochs (206 words)

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