- Harry Truman (song)
Infobox Single
Name = Harry Truman
Artist = Chicago
from Album =Chicago VIII
B-side = "Till We Meet Again"
Released = February 1975
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre =Pop rock
Length = 3:01
Label =Columbia Records
Writer =Robert Lamm
Producer =James William Guercio
Certification =
Chart position =
* #13 (USA Hot 100)
Last single =Wishing You Were Here (1974)
This single = Harry Truman (1975)
Next single =Old Days (1975)"Harry Truman" is a song written byRobert Lamm for the group Chicago and recorded for their album "Chicago VIII " (1975), with lead vocals by Lamm. The first single released from that album, it reached #13 on the U.S.Billboard Hot 100 .Written after the resignation of U.S. President
Richard Nixon , the lyrics are a tribute to a former President that Lamm felt the American people could trust -- straight-talkingHarry S. Truman . "America needs you, Harry Truman."Despite its popularity at the time, the Beatlesque "Harry Truman" only appears on two of Chicago's compilation albums "Group Portrait (now out of print) and The Box". It is rarely performed in the band's live shows.
This song was "performed" by Chicago in late 1974 as part of the 1975 "
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve " special, in which Chicago guitaristTerry Kath can be seen mocking the band's obvious lip-synching by holding cue cards depicting the song's lyrics.Fact|date=February 2008
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