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Upon its release as a single, David Quantick of NME picked "Uncle Sam" as the magazine's "single of the week". He described it as "the most cheerful track, with its great nursery-school tune of a chorus and winsome bluebeat skip", and added that the lyric is "at once oblique and sharp" and "a little more sophisticated than the average ban the bomb ditty". [2]
Pete Tosiello of LA Weekly regarded the song to be the "greatest triumph" from Uncle Sam's Curse, "perhaps Above the Law's finest moment on wax and an essential piece of the West Coast rap canon." [ 3 ] Complex [ 4 ] and The Ringer [ 5 ] included the song in their respective lists of the 100 and 101 best L.A. rap songs.
The Monitors were an American vocal group who recorded for Motown Records in the 1960s. The group, which consisted of lead singer Richard Street, Sandra Fagin, John "Maurice" Fagin, and Warren Harris, had two minor hits, "Say You" (#36 R&B), and then a cover of the Valadiers' "Greetings (This is Uncle Sam)", which reached #21 on the Billboard R&B chart, and #100 on the Billboard Pop singles chart.
Uncle Sam's Farm is a song based on a poem by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr., written in 1848 [1] to encourage immigration to the American West. [2] It was popularized by the Hutchinson Family Singers. [1] It is part of the Roud Folk Song Index and is number 4556 on the list.
Uncle Sam (born Sam Turner; [1] May 31, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan, United States) [2] is an American R&B and Pop singer. He is best known for being signed to Boyz II Men 's Stonecreek Records imprint (distributed by Epic Records ) in the late 1990s.
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"Greetings (This Is Uncle Sam)" is a 1961 song recorded by three American R&B music groups, The Valadiers, The Monitors, and The Isley Brothers for the Motown label. [1] It was written by Robert Bateman, Brian Holland, Stuart Avig, Martin Coleman, Art Glasser, Jerry Light, P Bennet, Lawrence Horn and Ronald Dunbar. (Avig, Coleman, Glasser and ...
Earl Robinson and Paul Robeson at rehearsal for the song's performance. "Ballad for Americans" (1939), originally titled "The Ballad for Uncle Sam", is an American patriotic cantata with lyrics by John La Touche and music by Earl Robinson. It was written for the Federal Theatre Project production, Sing for Your Supper that opened on April 24 ...