My Google is letting me down. I’m only finding a kids nursery song.
There’s a 60’s folk song by Joan Baez, CSN, or maybe Peter Paul & Mary? One of the folk singers.
Mathew Mark Luke and John, or Martin, Luke or John something like that.
I got the phrase stuck in my head.
It was a famous protest song.
What song am I remembering?
Abraham, Martin and John by Dion? Abraham * Martin and John *** Dion - YouTube
That’s it!
I couldn’t get the Apostles separated from the song.
Haven’t heard this one in decades
Thanks
That song popped up on an XM channel I was listening to a few days ago.
It’s odd that the guy known for The Wanderer and Run Around Sue has a folk song.
I thought it was Joan Baez.
That’s nothing. Listen to his take on Purple Haze.
Eh, the late 60s saw a lot of experimenting among established artists. Bobby Darin, who recorded “Dream Lover”, “Mack the Knife” and “Beyond the Sea” also recorded the most famous version of “If I Were a Carpenter.”
I’ve never listened to, or even heard of, the Dion version of this song.
On the eastern side of the Atlantic the only top 100 hit for Abraham, Martin & John (around that time) was sung by Marvin Gaye, reaching #9 in 1969. This was never released as a single in the US.
I’m now wondering whether the Dion song was even released in the UK. If it was then shame on the British for failing to propel this number into the top 100.
I loved his early works. I’m glad to learn he remains alive and apparently well at 82.
Dion is an interesting guy. Sometime in the 80s I saw him in a “rock and roll revue” featuring Dave Edmunds, Graham Parker, Kim Wilson and Steve Cropper. Dion and Parker did a lovely duet on Abraham… etc.
There was also a song called Gospel Plow that Dylan (and maybe PP&M) did that goes something like: “Matthew Mark Luke and John, all them prophets dead and gone.” Or something like that.
Oddly, the first time I ever saw it performed was by. . . Moms Mabley on the Merv Griffin Show.
Emmylou Harris does an incredible cover of Abraham, Martin, and John.
Interesting. Until you talked about it, I’d only ever heard the Dion version and never knew Marvin Gaye had also performed it. Of the two, I prefer Dion’s version.
Wow. That is a stunning performance.