^ Yes, The Goons were so clever and so ahead of their time. They showed everyone just how much can be conveyed by the creative use of sound.
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This pic shows the guitar that Donovan used to play in the early sixties:-
The message he stuck on it seems pretty cool until you realize that it´s a neutered, de-politicized copy of an original message that Woody Guthrie was brave enough to display in the 1930s:-
I´d like to post a song that isn´t by Guthrie, but it´s one that shares his contentious, outspoken attitude. According to Wikipedia, "
Strange Fruit was written in 1939 by Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx and a member of the Communist Party, as a protest against lynchings."
My favourite version is Nina Simone´s, from 1965:-