JFKFacts has created a comprehensive 14 hour JFK Assassination Songs Spotify playlist based on a list of music compiled by TurnMeOnDeadMan.com.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, has inspired artists in every decade and across a dizzying array of genres. The songs range from deeply solemn, such as 18 different versions of "Abraham, Martin, and John," featured, to morbid, inane and irreverent, such as "The Shah Sleeps in Lee Harvey's Grave" by the Butthole Surfers.
Some songs are very explicitly about the assassination, such as Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul," but others were only tangentially inspired by JFK's death, such as "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb, who wrote his song after both his brother Harold and Kennedy were murdered on the same day.
And then in many songs the murder of the president is simply a brief line in the larger composition, used as a shorthand for the disillusionment and unease at the core of American life. The JFK Assassination itself is a perennial earworm reminding us that "something is rotten in the state of Denmark," and it has compelled countless artists to transpose that feeling to song.
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