^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 30, 1972".^ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 30, 1972".^ "flavour of new zealand – search listener".^ "Item Display – RPM – Library and Archives Canada".The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits (6th ed.). ^ Trojan Records box set, The Trojan Story (1972, reissued 1980).
This has not been reissued and is now a rare collector's item. ^ "Second Hand Songs database, Decca records 45: Sammy Davis Jr., 'Songs for Americans to live by', rec."A Walk in the Sun and Other Songs and Ballads". ^ a b Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1972.The original lyrics of the song opened with this verse, in reference to the court: Board of Education (1954), which outlawed racial segregation of public schools. The song was inspired by the United States Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Inner Circle recorded a cover for their 1989 album Identified.
The album version featured a freely spoken recitation by Danny Hutton in the coda section of the song. Billboard ranked it as the number 63 song for 1972. Pop chart on September 16, 1972, and topped the Easy Listening chart on October 7. Their version, which featured a group of children, peaked at number one on the U.S. Having heard the Greyhound version, Three Dog Night covered the song and included it on their 1972 album Seven Separate Fools. Reggae groups the Maytones, from Jamaica, and Greyhound, from the UK, both recorded the song in 1971, the latter achieving a top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart at No. (The album title refers to a song written for the 1945 film A Walk in the Sun. Danny Hutton sang the lead vocals with a children's chorus adding their voices to the song.įollowing Seeger's version, the song's writer Earl Robinson released his own recording in 1957, on the Folkways album A Walk in the Sun and other Songs and Ballads. The most successful recording of the song was the pop version by Three Dog Night in 1972, when it reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Easy Listening charts. It was first recorded by Pete Seeger featuring an African-American child, in 1956 from the album Love Songs for Friends & Foes. " Black and White" is a song written in 1954 by David I. Song by Three Dog Night "Black and White"
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