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For singles click song links below. Print notes below.Risin' Song (44 tracks)
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Risin’ Song (44 tracks) by Sandy Rapp
Feminist Histories (tracks 1-10)
1 Rise Up Ye Women ~ A tribute to some Second Wave feminists, this song featured in The New Yorker - 11/13/06 “Talk of the Town.”
2 The March (Marchin’ With Molly Yard) ~ about a women’s march on DC
3 Song for Ellie Smeal ~ about the National NOW President & Feminist Majority founder
4 Hardweather Friend ~ about the matrifocal times
5 Sing for the Revolution ~ about NOW-NYS President Marilyn Fitterman
6 Whistlin’ Girls ~ about National NOW President Patricia Ireland, Esq.
7 When Bella Sings Marlene ~ This tale of the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY) includes crowd sounds and a word or two from Bella.
8 Manhattan Cowgirl ~ about Eleanor Roosevelt Biographer Blanche Wiesen Cook
9 Hats Off To Bella ~ for the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY)
10 Do Not Forget Us ~ for Women Enabled International and its founder
Stephanie Ortolevo Esq.
GayTunes (tracks 11-17)
11 Flag & the Rainbow (Update) ~ for those fallen to the anti-gays
12 Legislator Postal ~ about Suffolk County, NY Legislator Maxine Postal (D)
13 Ten Percent ~ an upbeat look at the early days of the LGBT movement
14 Pride is Alive in Yellowstone ~ about a 1996 rally in Billings, Montana
15 EEGO Song ~ About a LGBT social/political organization on Long Island, New York’s East End, EEGO featured in Rapp’s 1991 book God’s Country.
16 Ballad of Sister Spirit ~ about an annual women’s music festival held in Ovett, Mississippi. Rapp played many Sister Spirit festivals
17 Everyone Was at Stonewall (final update) ~ a musical LGBT history composed for diversity education at Long Island, NY Police Departments
Campaigns! (tracks 18-22)
18 Walkin’ Shoes ~ Updated in 2015, this song was created for the 2008 Hillary Clinton campaign website “In Our Shoes.”
19 Francke, Francke ~ about award-winning writer Linda Bird Francke’s 1989 run for New York State Assembly
20 She Will Rise ~ featured on the "In Our Shoes Hillary" website and about the late poet Maya Angelou’s support for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign
21 Challenge to Change ~ Written for a 2009 National NOW leadership campaign, this jingle sometimes aired with candidate interviews.
22 Some Facts are Alternative ~ about Trump’s early presidential days
Songs for Choice (tracks 22-27)
23 Where Were the Flowers ~ about the 1988 backstreet-abortion-related death of Indiana teenager Becky Bell
24 Good Doctor Sue ~ about abortion provider Susan Wicklund, MD
25 White Men in Black Dresses ~ about the Roman Catholic Hierarchy
26 Ballad of Billy Baird ~ about the architect of the US Supreme Court’s 1972 Baird v. Eisenstadt decision legalizing birth control for singles
27 Remember Rose: Song for Choice ~ About the first fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion funding cutoff, this track features a guest vocal by the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY).
Songs of No Socially-Redeeming Value (tracks 28-35)
28 The Die is Cast (Les Jeux sont Fait) ~ a semi-silly love song
29 Leave a Message ~ a musical take on answering machines
30 Mary, Mary ~ about relationships in the boozy, ‘60s gaybar scene
31 Sixpence Song ~ Will Shakespeare’s advice to his son, from Rapp’s score for Sydney Michaels’ The Elizabethans, performed in 1972 at Manhattan’s New Dramatists Theater
32 Sweetwood Aire ~ instrumental from Rapp’s score for Sydney Michaels’ The Elizabethans
33 I Never Knew ~ about ambivalence in relationships 34
34 Signs of the Times ~ a humorous look at road signs
35 Ain't Nobody Home ~ a ‘40s style blues song Issues!
Issues (tracks 36-44)
36 Get a Voice ~ written for middle school divers
37 Song of the Camel ~ about a tired animal mystified by human ways
38 New York City Woman ~ about a woman, convicted of shooting her rapist and eventually released through the efforts of Eleanor Pam PhD.
39 If the Truth be Told ~ about the importance of First Amendment-guaranteed free speech to all progressive movements
40 Cagney’s Song ~ a tale of Rapp’s Animal Rescue Fund dog, Cagney Anne. Rapp has played at over sixty ARF events.
41 Transcendental Heroes ~ on problems the hippies eventually faced
42 Gold Whistle Kid ~ about two Mississippi prison-reform activists
43 Country of the Lamp ~ about US Republicans’ immigration policies
44 The Rally ~ about world transformation at a Washington, DC gathering
All songs: © ℗ 1972-2018 Sandy Rapp except “The Die Is Cast” © Florence Benet & Sandy Rapp 1986 & “Country of the Lamp” © Naomi Lazard & Sandy Rapp 2008 & 2019
Photo by Marcia Pappas: Marilyn Fitterman, Ellie Smeal, Sandy Rapp
Engineer: Chad Palmer: Blackwood Productions, Lake Worth, FL
