![]() ![]() #UNIVERSAL PIPER TORRENT SERIES#First Aid Kit, 2011, for Jack White's Third Man Records tri-color vinyl series.Aimee Allen, performed at the Target Center in 2008 during Campaign for Liberty's "Rally for the Republic", hosted by Ron Paul.Mariusz Zadura, lyrics in Polish, called "Żołnierz tego świata" ("The soldier of this world").Toni Vescoli, lyrics in Swiss German, called "De-r-eewig Soldat".Bettina Wegner, lyrics in German, called "Soldaten".Ámmun Johnskareng a Northern Sami, lyrics in Sami, called "Máilmmálaš soalddát".Juliane Werding, lyrics in German, called "Der Ewige Soldat".Boudewijn de Groot, lyrics in Dutch, called "De eeuwige soldaat".Heikki Harma, 1965, lyrics in Finnish, called "Palkkasoturi" ("The Mercenary").Sainte-Marie was glad that Donovan's success with this song got more people to hear it. Cash Box described it as a "a plaintive, twangy, medium-paced message-song which takes a strong anti-war stand." This success led Hickory Records to include the song on the United States release of Donovan's second album, Fairytale, replacing a cover of Bert Jansch's "Oh Deed I Do". Donovan's US release of "Universal Soldier" also became a hit, charting higher than his previous single " Colours" and ultimately reaching #53 on the Billboard charts. Donovan's cover of "Universal Soldier" was backed with another track from the British EP: Bert Jansch's "Do You Hear Me Now?". The lack of interest in the EP format within the United States led Hickory Records to release the song as a single in September 1965. ![]() The tracks on the EP are "Universal Soldier" "The Ballad of a Crystal Man" b/w "Do You Hear Me Now?" ( Bert Jansch) "The War Drags On" (Mick Softley). The EP continued Donovan's run of high charting releases in the UK by reaching No. Donovan's recording was released on an EP titled The Universal Soldier in the United Kingdom (August 15, 1965). In Donovan's version, Dachau became Liebau (Lubawka, Poland), a training center for Hitler Youth. īy 1965, the song had caught the attention of budding folk singer Donovan, who recorded it using a similar arrangement to Buffy Sainte-Marie's original recording. Sainte-Marie has said she approached writing the song from the perspective of a student writing an essay for a professor who didn't see eye-to-eye with her perspective, hoping to present him with a different point of view. It's about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all." Sainte-Marie said of the song: "I wrote 'Universal Soldier' in the basement of The Purple Onion coffee house in Toronto in the early sixties. It became a hit a year later when Donovan covered it, as did Glen Campbell. "Universal Soldier" was not an immediate popular hit at the time of its release, but it did garner attention within the contemporary folk music community. The song was originally released on Sainte-Marie's debut album It's My Way! in 1964. " Universal Soldier" is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie. ![]()
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