Note from 2009 - Edwin Starr's classic version of "War" (originally written and produced by Norman Whitfield for the Temptations) remains powerful nearly forty years after its release in the summer of 1970, when it climbed the charts and eventually spent three weeks as the #1 pop song in America. But this stunning follow-up track packs an even bigger punch because it was never as big of a hit and today is largely forgotten. Yet its message remains as timely as ever. U.S. troops out of Iraq, now!
Stop The War Now first charted on Cash Box's Top 100 Singles charts on December 12, 1970, reaching #58 with a bullet. It peaked five weeks later at #24, on January 16, 1971.
- Dyn-O-Mite
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