"5714dece25ac0d8aee40dbea" . "Country ballads" . "John Denver songs" . . "149000.0"^^ . "413" . . "Love Of The Common People" . "Waylon Jennings songs" . "Love Of The Common People" . "1983-11-07"^^ . "European Hot 100 Singles number-one singles" . "Political songs" . . . . "false"^^ . . "1967 songs" . "true"^^ . "9"^^ . "TRWTABX128F9338964" . "0"^^ . "Songs about poverty" . "310254"^^ . "1983 singles" . "Irish Singles Chart number-one singles" . "Dutch Top 40 number-one singles" . "Bruce Springsteen songs" . . . . "Laurie Latham" . "Columbia Records" . "2009-03-01"^^ . "-0.180523"^^ . "Gramophone record" . "Paul Young songs" . "1982 singles" . "Rhythm and blues ballads" . . "-0.317112"^^ . "ddec0fca-6f15-4862-a617-52e0758d0264" . "Pop ballads" . "%22Love of the Common People%22 is a folk ballad written and composed by John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins, eventually released in 1970 on Hurley's album John Hurley Sings about People, but first sung in January 1967 by The Four Preps. It had been covered by The Everly Brothers, country singers Waylon Jennings and Lynn Anderson, Pennsylvania Sixpence and also Wayne Newton, all in 1967, The Simple Image, Leonard Nimoy and the Gosdin Brothers in 1968, Elton John and also soul group The Winstons, both in 1969, John Denver on his 1969 album Rhymes & Reasons, and Sandy Posey in 1970, the same year that reggae singer Nicky Thomas had a big hit in Europe with the song. It was also a hit in Ireland for showband star Joe Dolan. Wanda Jackson covered the song in 1971, as did Stiff Little Fingers and English pop singer Paul Young, both in 1982. In 2007 Bruce Springsteen covered it as part of his Seeger Sessions tour, releasing a live version of it as a bonus track on his Live in Dublin album." . . "97.0"^^ . "4342077" . "USA560928703" . "12-inch single" . "english" . "Protest songs" . "false"^^ . "-13.0"^^ .