<P> The song's power was reasserted when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band took their rendition into the U.S. Top 10 in 1986 . It was also covered by Frankie Goes to Hollywood in 1984, and more recently by the Rock band Black Stone Cherry on its 2016 album Kentucky . </P> <P> The Temptations' version of "War", featuring Paul Williams and Dennis Edwards on lead vocals, was much less intense than the Edwin Starr version . Williams and Edwards deliver the song's anti-war, pro-peace message over a stripped - down instrumental track, with bass singer Melvin Franklin chanting a repeated recruit training - like "hup, two, three, four" in the background during the verses . </P> <P> The song was included as a track on the March 1970 Psychedelic Shack album, which featured the title track as its only single . The track's direct message, summarized by its chorus ("War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothin'!"), struck a chord with the American public and resonated with growing public opposition to the war in Vietnam . Fans from across the nation, many of them college students and other young people, sent letters to Motown requesting the release of "War" as a single . The label did not want to risk the image of its most popular male group, and the Temptations themselves were also apprehensive about releasing such a potentially controversial song as a single . The label decided to withhold "War" 's release as a single, a decision that Whitfield fought until the label came up with a compromise: "War" would be released, but it would have to be re-recorded with a different act . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> "War" </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Single by Edwin Starr </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> from the album War & Peace </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> B - side </Th> <Td> "He Who Picks a Rose" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Released </Th> <Td> June 10, 1970 (1970 - 06 - 10) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Format </Th> <Td> 7 - inch single </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Recorded </Th> <Td> May 15, 1970 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Studio </Th> <Td> Hitsville USA (Studio A), Detroit, Michigan </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> Psychedelic soul, funk </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Length </Th> <Td> 3: 48 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Label </Th> <Td> Gordy (Gordy 7101) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Producer (s) </Th> <Td> Norman Whitfield </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Edwin Starr singles chronology </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "Time" (1970) </Td> <Td> "War" (1970) </Td> <Td> "Stop the War Now" (1970) </Td> </Tr> </Table> </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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