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Keith Everett

Keith Everett (real name Keith Gravenhorst) released this 45 in April, 1966. “Don’t You Know” is a fine ballad, while the flip is an outrageous indictment of conscientious objectors, with the lyrics:

They call themselves the conscientious objectors
But all they’re tryin’ to do is tryin’ to infect us
With their fear and their shame
They hide under the name of conscientious objectors
They might as well be defectors
The way they act

Well keep it up boy the way you’ve been goin’
And who can tell son, you’ve got no way of knowin’
That tomorrow we might be the way
That Vietam is today
And you’ll be sorry you fools
For the things that you do

You’re conscientious objectors
You might as well be defectors
The way you act

“Don’t You Know” did well in Chicago, entering WCFL charts in March, and reaching as high as #10 two months later.

After “Conscientious Objector”, he released another on TMT-Ting, “She’s The One Who Loved You” / “Lookin’ So Fine”, then one more on Mercury with a Dunwich Productions credit, “The Chant” / “Light Bulb”. Everett wrote all six songs.