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There But For Fortune
There but for Fortune may refer to: * ''There but for Fortune'' (album), a 1989 Phil Ochs album * "There but for Fortune" (song), a 1964 song written by Phil Ochs * '' Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune'', a 2011 documentary film {{set index ...
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There But For Fortune (album)
''There but for Fortune'' was a 1989 compilation that summed up the three albums that Phil Ochs recorded for Elektra Records between 1964 and 1966. The album drew heavily from the third, presenting ten of its eleven tracks, and presenting six and five respectively from the first and second. The compact disc edition omits three tracks, two from the first album and one from the second. Both editions lop off a few introductions on the "In Concert" album. A cover version of "There But For Fortune" by Joan Baez became a top-ten hit in the UK in 1965. Somewhat irritated by her greater success with the song, Ochs sometimes introduced it as "by Joan Baez" in his live performances. Track listing All the songs are by Phil Ochs unless otherwise noted. #"What's That I Hear?" – 2:01 #"One More Parade" (Phil Ochs and Bob Gibson) – 3:18 #"Too Many Martyrs" – 2:48 #" The Bells" (Edgar Allan Poe with musical interpretation by Phil Ochs) – 3:00 + #"Bound for Glory" – 3:15 + #"The P ...
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There But For Fortune (song)
"There but for Fortune" is a song by American folk musician Phil Ochs. Ochs wrote the song in 1963 and recorded it twice, for ''New Folks Volume 2'' (Vanguard, 1964) and ''Phil Ochs in Concert'' ( Elektra, 1966). Joan Baez also recorded "There but for Fortune" in 1964, and her version of the song became a chart hit. The song "There but for Fortune" consists of four verses, each one of which ends with the line "there but for fortune may go you or I". The first verse is about a prisoner. The second verse describes a hobo. The third verse is about a drunk who stumbles out of a bar. The final verse describes a country that has been bombed. One of Ochs' biographers wrote that, "of all the songs that Phil would ever write, none would show his humanity as brilliantly as the four brief verses of 'There but for Fortune'". The song's title was used as the name of the 1989 compilation album '' There but for Fortune'', which featured material taken from three albums Ochs recorded for Elektra ...
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