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| "Society's Child" | ||||
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| Single by Janis Ian | ||||
| from the album Janis Ian | ||||
| B-side | "Letter to Jon" | |||
| Released | September 1966 | |||
| Genre | Baroque pop • protest song | |||
| Length | 3:13 | |||
| Label | Verve 5027 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Janis Ian | |||
| Producer(s) | Shadow Morton[1] | |||
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"Society's Child" (originally titled "Baby I've Been Thinking") is a song about an interracial relationship written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Janis Ian in 1965. According to Janis Ian, Atlantic Records refused to release it although the company had financed the recording; the artist took it to Verve Records who agreed to release it.[2]
- ^ Artie Butler. "Society's Child". ArtieButler.com. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ "Janis Ian: 'It was astonishing to realise that At Seventeen applied to boys too'". Irish Times. January 19, 2022. Retrieved November 12, 2023.