The track is Fighting For Pharaoh - an amazingly deep number off the original Broadway cast recording LP to the musical revue Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope, released 1972 on Polydor. It was the first of several musicals with lyrics and music written by composer Micki Grant, who in 1965 became the first black cast member on a daytime soap opera.
Fighting For Pharaoh is off the chain. Basically, famed gospel singer Alex Bradford - with backing from his wife, the gospel accompanist Alberta Bradford (RIP 2010), plus Bobby Hill, Charles Campbell, and the rest of the company - breaks things down as to how since time immemorial, people have been fighting and dying for every conceivable reason, including oil, gold, and flags on a pole. So "before we lose our humanity...let's put a stop to this insanity...and turn our children's history books around. Not dying, but living...for PEACE."
It's a message we should all take to heart every day, not just on Christmas. And a truly powerful gospel-soul anthem.
- Dyn-O-Mite
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