The Schaumburg, IL High School Choir web site has a page, http://www.shs.d211.org/music/choir/terrykirkman.htm, about a concert they did in 2003, in which RftM was one of the songs. Terry Kirkman, the composer, wrote them about the song's inspiration and history.
The immediate inspiration was a harrowing flight to Milwaukee during a snowstorm the group took.
he antiwar overtones of the song led radio stations to start to put it in serious rotation (it was the "B" side of "Never My Love"), but, Kirkman says, the Nixon White House called Warner Brothers Records asking that they not promote the song, and they complied... and this fine song faded from sight.
The Schaumburg, IL High School Choir web site has a page, http://www.shs.d211.org/music/choir/terrykirkman.htm, about a concert they did in 2003, in which RftM was one of the songs. Terry Kirkman, the composer, wrote them about the song's inspiration and history.
The immediate inspiration was a harrowing flight to Milwaukee during a snowstorm the group took.
he antiwar overtones of the song led radio stations to start to put it in serious rotation (it was the "B" side of "Never My Love"), but, Kirkman says, the Nixon White House called Warner Brothers Records asking that they not promote the song, and they complied... and this fine song faded from sight.