On hearing Edwin's voice he told him he would be a star one day and said Edwin should use the name Star with an extra 'R'. The name 'Starr' was suggested by Don Briggs, the manager of the Bill Doggett Combo with whom Edwin used to sing. Songs like "Agent 00 Soul", S.O.S (Stop her On Sight)" and "Headline News" laid the foundations for Edwins' continuing world-wide fame. Together they released one immortal Northern Soul hymn after another. By the middle of the decade he was a member of the artistes on the up-and-coming RicTic label under Ed Wingate. In 1962, after completing two years of military service in the USA and Germany he moved to Detroit, the automobile city. He was on the road right to the end.īorn Charles Edwin Hatcher on January 21st, 1942 in Nashville, Tennessee, Edwin was raised and educated in Cleveland, Ohio. Listen to the B-side of “War,” titled “He Who Picks a Rose”ġ970 my last year in college, war in vietnam raging, personally hating the war, facing the draft, country was divided, my father a republican supported the war, and me going into army reserves, and I were divided…edwin’s song was major artistic/political statement during that time…soundtrack for that time…I felt if I was drafted, I would die in Vietnam…when I heard Springsteen’s story re his dad re Army on The River from LIVE 1975-85, it blew me away….La seguente biografia in lingua inglese di Edwin Starr è tratta dal sito ufficiale:Įdwin Starr was an integral part of the soul and dance floor scene since the mid-fifties and the formation of his first band The Future Tones in 1956. “War” lasted three weeks in the top spot, before being supplanted by another Motown hit, Diana Ross’ “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” 29, replacing the soft-rocker “Make It With You” by Bread. Released on June 10, 1970, with a B-side titled “He Who Picks a Rose,” the single entered the Billboard Hot 100 at #72 on July 11 and reached #1 on Aug. Starr’s decision to pick up the tune paid off big-time. Throughout, Starr bolsters the lyric with chanted exhortations, among them, “Say it, say it, say it, good God, y’all,” always returning to the main theme of war being good for “absolutely nothing.” (War), Friend only to the undertaker, awwww In each new verse, the singer spells out the reasons to back up his claim, such as this one: The recording begins with a military-style drum roll that leads to Starr’s horn-punctuated chant of the “What is it good for?” chorus. Listen to the Temptations’ version of “War” Instead, the label decided, another artist on the group’s roster would re-cut the song.
The album track had generated a fair amount of interest, especially among college students involved in the protest movement, but Motown was reluctant to associate the Temptations with a politically infused lyric. Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong (the latter of “Money” fame), “War” had already been recorded and released by the Temptations on their Psychedelic Shack album of 1970. There wasn’t much interest in a new version of that one, but with “War” in 1970, Starr hit gold. You not only keep rooting the walker on-even though you’ve known the happy ending forever-but you probably sing along with him as he makes his way there.įollowing the record’s chart run, Edwin Starr was next heard from via the minor chart single “Oh, How Happy,” his own version of a gospel-tinged tune he’d co-written and which had been a hit in 1966 by the Shades of Blue. “Twenty-Five Miles” is one of those likable numbers that never gets old. Talking Heads’ ‘Stop Making Sense’ Concert Film Restored For Theaters, Vinyl.Doc Severinsen Plays Final Concert… at 95.Dave Edmunds’ ‘Repeat When Necessary’: Where the New Wave Met the Old.American Graffiti Coming to Theaters For 50th Anniversary.‘Born in Chicago’: A New Documentary Spotlights the Impact of the Windy City’s Game-Changing Blues Scene.Clapton, Winwood, Santana at Hyde Park: 2018.Radio Hits July 1967: No Need to Change the Station.Elton John Farewell Tour Ends 5 Years After It Began.When Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks Shared the Stage For the Last Time.
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