''I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier - the first anti-war hit record''
From 'Stop The War Coalition'...........''Released in 1915, I Didn't Raise My Son to be a Soldier, sung here by
the Peerless Quartet, was the first commercially successful anti-war
record and featured prominently in the American anti-war movement
opposing US entry in the first world war. The warmongering ex-president
Theodore Roosevelt objected to the song's message of peace and its early
feminism: "Foolish people who applaud a song entitled 'I Didn't Raise
My Boy To Be A Soldier' are just the people who would also in their
hearts applaud a song entitled 'I Didn't Raise my Girl To Be A Mother."
The song was revived in the 1960s in opposition to the US war in Vietnam.
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