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Highwayman" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb about a soul with incarnations in four different places in time and history: as a highwayman, a sailor, a construction worker on the Hoover Dam, and finally as a captain of a starship. Webb first recorded the song on his album El Mirage, released in May 1977.
His sister, Sonny Ochs (Tanzman), runs a series of "Phil Ochs Song Nights" with a rotating group of performers who keep Ochs's music and legacy alive by singing his songs in cities across the U.S. [142] His brother Michael Ochs is a photographic archivist of 20th-century music and entertainment personalities. [143]
American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs (December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) wrote or recorded at least 238 songs during his brief career. [1] Most of the songs which he performed he composed himself: they ranged in style from protest songs and topical songs to ballads and folk rock .
The Highwayman" is a romantic ballad and narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in the August 1906 issue [1] of Blackwood's Magazine, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The following year it was included in Noyes' collection, Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems , becoming an immediate success.
Ochs presents some of his older material, such as "There But For Fortune," "Changes" and "The Highwayman," alongside then-new songs from the as-yet-unreleased Rehearsals for Retirement such as "The Doll House" and "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed." The album thus documents two eras of Ochs in one seventy-minute show.
This is a list of cover versions by notable music artists of songs written by American singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, who wrote or recorded at least 238 songs during his brief career. [1] In 1965, Joan Baez had a No. 8 hit in the UK with her cover of " There but for Fortune ", a song written by Ochs. [ 2 ]
All songs by Phil Ochs unless otherwise noted. "I Ain't Marching Any More" – 2:37 "In the Heat of the Summer" – 3:08 "Draft Dodger Rag" – 2:13 "That's What I Want to Hear" – 3:10 "That Was the President" – 3:26 "Iron Lady" – 3:37 "The Highwayman" (Alfred Noyes, with musical interpretation by Phil Ochs) – 5:42 "Links on the Chain ...
A Toast to Those Who Are Gone is a 1986 compilation album of recordings that Phil Ochs made in the early to mid-1960s, mostly between his contracts with Elektra Records and A&M Records. In line with recordings made on the former, Ochs espouses his left-leaning views on civil rights on songs like "Ballad of Oxford", "Going Down To Mississippi ...