The song only fits with my social worker rant as a generality. But this is just so far and away the best version out there that I didn't dare use another.
I wonder if this could be made today? Probably, because the hippies get Lafayette to - aw shucks - do some vague approximation of the right thing in his personal life. Which would have been unlikely. The fiancee had it right the first time.
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Caring about social justice. Not equal, indeed orders of magnitude less, to caring about actual people.
I watched several videos from that movie, and while there are a number of good songs, it looks utterly intolerable and completely unwatchable.
Because of top 40 radio, the version by Three Dog Night is the one most familiar, but I agree that this one is superior. Jan, you have to understand this movie in the context of the culture in which it was released. It is nothing but a period piece that took off because it was "countercultural". I think I was prohibited from seeing it by my parents and watched it after it became available on VHS. Even only 15 years later it was dated.
Hate the song. But Cheryl Barnes has got some pipes, though, doesn't she?
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