The Whole Damn World is Going Crazy

The Whole Damn World is Going Crazy (1973):

by John Gary Williams, who died on this date in 2019.

from Concord Recorded Music:

Williams formed the group [The Mad Lads] with fellow students from Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis during the early sixties and eventually recorded on Stax Record’s Volt label. With Williams’ high tenor voice and the soft soul harmonies of William Brown, Julius Green and Robert Phillips, The Mad Lads had several songs on the Billboard R&B chart during the sixties

from The Commercial Appeal:

Mr. Williams' Stax career was interrupted by military service in Vietnam, where he participated in dangerous deep-jungle combat missions. Returning home, he joined the Invaders, a so-called "militant" group inspired by the Black Panthers that was especially active during the sanitation strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis, where the civil rights leader was murdered in 1968. As the singer himself put it, in the title of a 1973 single he recorded for Stax: "The Whole Damn World Is Going Crazy."