Meaningful songs #1 - BLUE MINK

This is the first of an occasional series of songs from my collection, with the intent of introducing music to younger readers that they may gain appreciation of music from the classic years, 1957-1990. 

I have lived long enough to hear the "popular" music industry become ever-more formulaic, lazy, uninspiring and cynical; delivering "units" and "artistes" as interesting and memorable as polished mud.

Meaningful songs that eloquently convey a story, sentiment, or social comment and make it to national consciousness are rare these days, so let's get this series going and if you agree a song is meaningful, please introduce it to someone young; they might enjoy becoming "musical archaeologists".

Todays song, titled "Melting Pot", released in 1969, is by a group called BLUE MINK.

Blue Mink

Hear the song here

This song is an anthem to racial harmony, something truly lacking for years to come. Some WOKE and revisionists criticise it for its "ingrained racial language" of the day, but to change the lyrics would be akin altering the Mona Lisa to have a big grin.

MELTING POT

Take a pinch of white man

Wrap it up in black skin

Add a touch of blue blood

And a little bitty-bit of that Indian boy

  

Curly Latin kinkies

Mixed with yellow Chinkees

If you lump it all together

Well, you've got a recipe for a get-along scene

Oh what a beautiful dream

If it could only come true

You know, you know

    

CHORUS

What we need is a great big melting pot

Big enough to take the world and all it's got

Keep it stirring for a hundred years or more

And turn out coffee-coloured people by the score

    

Rabbis and the Friars

Bishops and the Gurus

You got the Beatles or the Sun God

Well it really doesn't matter what religion you choose

   

Mick and Lady Faithfull

Lord and Mrs Graceful

You know the living could be tasteful

We should all get together in a loving machine

I'd better call up the Queen

It's only fair that she knows

You know, you know

   

CHORUS x3

Read the next article in this series or hear the next song in this series.

For the index of all songs in this blog click here.