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On this day in 1966, Buffalo Springfield recorded the single "For What It's Worth” (December 5)
It was also added to the March 1967 second pressing of their first album, “Buffalo Springfield”.
The title was added after the song was written, and it’s one of those songs where the title doesn’t appear anywhere in the lyrics.
Stephen Stills said in an interview that the name of the song came about when he presented it to the record company executive Ahmet Ertegun (who signed Buffalo Springfield to the Atlantic Records-owned ATCO label).
Stills said "I have this song here, for what it's worth, if you want it."
Although "For What It's Worth" is often considered an anti-war song, Stills was actually inspired to write the song because of the Sunset Strip curfew riots in Los Angeles, a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, beginning in mid-1966, the same year Buffalo Springfield had become the house band at the Whisky a Go Go on the Strip.
In the book Neil Young: Long May You Run: The Illustrated History, Stills elaborates:
“I had had something kicking around in my head. I wanted to write something about the kids that were on the line over in Southeast Asia that didn't have anything to do with the device of this mission, which was unraveling before our eyes.
Then we came down to Sunset from my place on Topanga with a guy - I can't remember his name - and there's a funeral for a bar, one of the favorite spots for high school and UCLA kids to go and dance and listen to music.
[Officials] decided to call out the official riot police because there's three thousand kids sort of standing out in the street; there's no looting, there's no nothing.
It's everybody having a hang to close this bar.
A whole company of black and white LAPD in full Macedonian battle array in shields and helmets and all that, and they're lined up across the street, and I just went 'Whoa! Why are they doing this?'
There was no reason for it.
I went back to Topanga, and that other song turned into 'For What It's Worth,' and it took as long to write as it took me to settle on the changes and write the lyrics down.
It all came as a piece, and it took about fifteen minutes."
The song has become a staple of period piece films about 1960s America, such as “Forrest Gump”, and is often used in reference to the 1960s counterculture movement and protests.
An all-star version of "For What It's Worth", with Tom Petty and others, was played at Buffalo Springfield's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.
It went to #5 in Canada, #7 in the US and #19 in New Zealand.
In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song at #63 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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