Phil Ochs had too many to count, including "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", "Crucifixion" , "Joe Hill", "Ballad of Medgar Evers", " The Marines Have Landed on the Shores of Santo Domingo", etc. Lots of historic events, tributes to fallen comrades and just everyday victims of capitalism and empire.
Joe Hill is actually a ballad composed in 1936 by Alfred Hayes and Earl Robinson.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(song)
This is a little confusing, because there is also a ballad by Phil Ochs called Joe Hill. Both are worth listening to though.
https://youtu.be/n8Kxq9uFDes -Joe Hill by Alfred Hayes, performed by Paul Robeson
https://youtu.be/kozWk8Ff_Xg -Joe Hill by Phil Ochs
That is a bit. Im only familiar with the Joan Baez cover, which I guess is properly called "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", which is the version used for the theme song in the Joe Hill movie.
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Gil Scott Heron - We almost Lost Detroit - YouTube
We Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown.
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Spoken word and rap pioneer Gil Scott-Heron has a song titled "We Almost Lost Detroit", dealing with the same issue.
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John Mayer - Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967 Not a real story, but it might as well be.
There was a submarine used in the American Revolutionary War. There must be songs about that. They might not be any good - but there have to be some.
Turtle (also called American Turtle) was the world's first submersible vessel with a documented record of use in combat. It was built in 1775 by American David Bushnell as a means of attaching explosive charges to ships in a harbor, for use against the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War. Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull recommended the invention to George Washington, who provided funds and support for the development and testing of the machine.
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Sometimes Wikipedia is no fun at all! The damn page has no "pop culture" section. I learned about the sub from the tv series TURN: Washington's Spies.
I googled but google has turned to shit so I didn't find anything.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - YouTube
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a 1976 hit song written, composed and performed by the Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot to memorialize the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Lightfoot considered this song to be his finest work.
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Fire and Flame by the Longest Johns is the tale of the Halifax Explosion, one of the most devastating non-nuclear explosions in a civilian populace in history, when a French ammo ship was struck by another ship and caught fire, the resulting explosion effectively levelled the city and surrounding countryside
The song references Vince Coleman, a telegraph operator whom many a Canadian would probably be familiar with thanks to Heritage Moments
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Alabama 3 - Have you seen Bruce Richard Reynolds?
Story of the last of the Great Train Robberiesthe shanners - flex plexico
About the head of GitmoSea Power - Canvey Island
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Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon - Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire
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