The song is featured in the soundtrack of Mafia III. Army Transportation Museum and is believed to be the only surviving example of a Vietnam era gun truck. The song, like many other popular songs of the day, gave its name to a gun truck used by United States Army Transportation Corps forces during the Vietnam War. The song is played during the fourth-season finale of The A-Team, "The Sound of Thunder," when the team returns to Vietnam and flashbacks recall their tours of duty. The song is prominently featured in the second season episode of The Greatest American Hero, entitled "Operation Spoilsport." The aliens who gave Ralph the supersuit play it on the radio to motivate Ralph to shut down the missile launch. The Temptations' song " Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" mentions the song title. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, providing citations to reliable, secondary sources, rather than simply listing appearances. This section appears to contain trivial, minor, or unrelated references to popular culture. In addition the British musician Alan Klein wrote and performed a parody and attack on folk-singers such as Donovan and Bob Dylan entitled "Age of Corruption" on his album Well at Least It's British. Johnny Sea's spoken word recording, "Day For Decision", was also a response to the song. Barry Sadler released the patriotic " Ballad of the Green Berets". A few months later, Green Beret medic SSgt. It was however featured on Top of the Pops on television one week while in the Top 10.Ī group called The Spokesmen released a partial parody and answer record entitled "The Dawn of Correction". It was placed on a "restricted list" by the BBC, and could not be played on "general entertainment programmes". In addition to its being banned in some parts of the U.S., it was also banned by Radio Scotland. Chart history Ĭontroversy, parodies, and response songs McGuire would never again break into the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. That same day the single went to #1 on the chart, and repeated the feat on the Cashbox chart, where it had debuted at No. It reached its peak of #37 on the Billboard album chart during the week ending September 25. By August 12 Dunhill released the LP, Eve of Destruction. In the first week of its release, the single was at No. McGuire's single hit #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #3 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1965. The following Monday morning he got a phone call from the record company at 7:00 am, telling him to turn on the radio - his song was playing. McGuire recalled in later years that "Eve of Destruction" had been recorded in one take on a Tuesday morning, reading lyrics scrawled on a crumpled piece of paper. The song was an instant hit, and as a result, the more polished vocal track that was at first envisioned was never recorded. The vocal track was thrown on as a rough mix and was not intended to be the final version, but a copy of the recording "leaked" out to a disc jockey, who began playing it. Sloan on guitar, Hal Blaine (of the Wrecking Crew) on drums, and Larry Knechtel on bass guitar. The accompanying musicians were top-tier Los Angeles session players: P. McGuire's recording was made between July 12 and July 15, 1965, and released by Dunhill Records.
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Their version was issued as a track on their 1965 debut album It Ain't Me Babe, shortly before McGuire's version was cut it was eventually released as a single and hit #100 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. group which often recorded the Byrds' discarded or rejected material, recorded a version instead. The song was offered to the Byrds as a Dylanesque potential single, but they rejected it. 3.3 Controversy, parodies, and response songs.