Barry McGuire

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Barry McGuire 1979
Barry McGuire 1979
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Eve of Destruction
  DE 31 January 15, 1966 (4 weeks)
  US 37 09/25/1965 (21 weeks)
Singles
Eve of Destruction
  DE 6th 11/01/1965 (16 weeks)
  UK 3 09/15/1965 (13 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 08/21/1965 (11 weeks)
Child of Our Times
  US 72 11/06/1965 (4 weeks)
Cloudy Summer Afternoon (Raindrops)
  US 62 May 21, 1966 (7 weeks)

Barry McGuire (born October 15, 1935 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma ) is a folk rock singer and guitarist who became known worldwide primarily for the hoarse voice of the protest song Eve of Destruction in 1965. Many radio stations initially boycotted the play; it has been sold more than five million times. The single reached number 1 in the US singles charts on September 25, 1965 and remained his only top 10 hit. In previous years, Barry McGuire was lead singer with the New Christy Minstrels . From 1971 he then produced exclusively Christian pop music . He moved to New Zealand in the mid-1980s and back to the United States in the mid-1990s, where he settled in California .

Discography

  • Barry and Barry (1961)
  • The Barry McGuire Album (1962)
  • The New Christy Minstrels (1962)
  • Live at Troubador (1962)
  • Tall Tales (1962)
  • Ramblin '(1963)
  • Cowboys and Indians (1963)
  • The New Christy Minstrels Christmas Album (1963)
  • Land of Giants (1964)
  • Advance to the Rear (1964)
  • Eve of Destruction (1965)
  • Star Folk with Barry McGuire (1965)
  • This Precious Time (1966)
  • World's Last Private Citizen (1967)
  • Barry McGuire and the Doctor (1969)
  • Seeds (1972)
  • Lighten Up (1973)
  • To the Bride (1974)
  • C'mon Along (1976)
  • Firewind (1976)
  • Have You Heard (1977)
  • Cosmic Cowboy (1978)
  • The Witness (1978)
  • Bullfrogs and Butterflies (1978)
  • Inside Out (1979)
  • Polka Dot Bear (1980)
  • Best of Barry McGuire (1980)
  • Finer Than Gold (1981)
  • Exaltation (1981)
  • Pilgrim (1989)
  • El Dorado (1990)
  • Let's Tend God's Earth (1991)
  • Adventures on Son Mountain (1992)
  • Journey to Bible Times (1993)
  • When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth (1995)

literature

  • Barry Graves, Siegfried Schmidt-Joos, Bernward Halbscheffel: Rock-Lexikon, Volume 1 + 2: ABBA - ZZ Top , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 3-499-61588-6 .

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK US
  2. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  3. ↑ For more information on the song, see: Bronson, Fred: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits . 3rd revised and expanded edition. New York City, New York: Billboard Publications, 1992, p. 183

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personal data
SURNAME McGuire, Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American folk rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Oklahoma City , Oklahoma , USA