I thought this one would be a good way to start Martin Luther King Day....it's a surprisingly elegant and mellow song from the Brothers Isley who were known for upbeat songs like "Shout!", "It's Your Thing" and "Fight The Power".

Writer Ernie Isley tells the story of Harvest For The World, "As a songwriter, inspiration can strike at any time. I’d just bought a new 12-string acoustic guitar and took it into our basement in New Jersey to try it out. Almost as soon as I started playing, I thought of the words: “All babies together, everyone a seed / Half of us are satisfied, half of us in need / Love is bountiful in us, tarnished by our greed / When will there be a harvest for the world?” I pretty much had the first two verses just like that."

"Pete Seeger’s Turn! Turn! Turn! – a 1965 hit for the Byrds – had used a biblical passage, from Ecclesiastes: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven … ” Harvest for the World was a reference to a line – “Send labourers into the Lord’s harvest” – from the gospel of Matthew. The rest of the song came pretty quickly. The last verse was: “Dress me up for battle, when all I want is peace / Those of us who pay the price, come home with the least / Nation after nation, turning into beast.” The Vietnam war had just ended, and a lot of people had paid a heavy price, but the song was more a message of hope and celebration than protest."

Read the rest of the story here https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/06/ernie-and-ron-isley-how-we-made-harvest-for-the-world-isley-brothers

Hey I'm still on a roll, this one makes seventeen uploads, one for each day of January up to January 20th and it looks like I am going to make it! Just so you know, I'm doing at least one remix a day to keep my promise. I still have to figure out which song will be on the 20th...
I have always loved this song, the sound, the words and its timely message.
I hope you do too!