Joe South

American singer and composer best known for Games People PlayWhen people think of Joe South, they generally think first of Games People Play, one of the most successful protest songs of the late 1960s, with its distinctive electric sitar accompaniment, played by the singer and composer himself, and a bitingly prescient lyric directed at pseudo-hippy types who "while away the hours / In their ivory towers / Till they're covered up with flowers / In the back of a black limousine."South, who has di...

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