{"id":6852,"date":"2025-01-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=6852"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T13:06:58","slug":"single-review-id-like-to-teach-the-world-to-sing-the-new-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/single-review-id-like-to-teach-the-world-to-sing-the-new-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;I&#8217;d Like To Teach The World To Sing&#8221; &#8211; The New Seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/0VYhyWRfiiJQ5WRm3EOczU?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"779\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6684.jpg 779w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6684-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6684-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6684-768x761.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_6684-61x60.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>This song came out in 1971, and I thought I\u2019d revisit it. It was a song that was written in a time of turmoil &#8211; Vietnam War, the Cold War,, economic crisis and while World War II was long over, the message still needed to be heard. Earth<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Songs were being written to illustrate that peace needed to be brought to the world and this one was definitely up there.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about this song is that it\u2019s known for being part of a Coca Cola ad campaign as that\u2019s what it was written as a jingle for their tv ad. The original song was called \u201cI\u2019d Like To Buy The World A Coke\u201d, and even evolved from a song called \u201cTrue Love And Apple Pie\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I like the happy tone of this:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to teach the world to sing<\/p>\n<p>In perfect harmony<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to hold it in my arms<\/p>\n<p>And keep it company<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to see the world for once<\/p>\n<p>All standing hand in hand<\/p>\n<p>And hear them echo through the hills<\/p>\n<p>For peace throughout the land<\/p>\n<p>It gave hope in a dark world, and nearly 53 years later it still holds true.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I remember hearing it growing up, such was the power of that advert, you\u2019d hear it every so often on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song came out in 1971, and I thought I\u2019d revisit it. It was a song that was written in a time of turmoil &#8211; Vietnam War, the Cold War,, economic crisis and while World War II was long over, the message still needed to be heard. Earth\u00a0 Songs were being written to illustrate that &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,42,118,129,218,52,31,132,30,180,149,140,73,150,287,243,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustic","category-band","category-bass","category-drums","category-folk","category-guitar","category-keyboards","category-lyricist","category-music","category-pop","category-pop-music","category-review","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-track-of-the-day","category-u-s","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}