Get Together ( the Youngbloods song ) - wikipedia Get Together ( the Youngbloods song ) `` Get Together '' Single by The Youngbloods from the album The Youngbloods B - side `` All My Dreams Blue '' ( original ) `` Beautiful '' ( re-issue ) Released July 1967 ( original ) June 1969 ( re-issue ) Format 7 '' Recorded 1966 Genre Folk rock, psychedelic rock Length 4 : 37 Label RCA Victor Songwriter ( s ) Chet Powers Producer ( s ) Felix Pappalardi The Youngbloods singles chronology `` Darkness, Darkness '' ( 1969 ) `` Get Together '' ( 1967 ) `` Sunlight '' ( 1969 ) `` Darkness, Darkness '' ( 1969 ) `` Get Together '' ( 1969 ) `` Sunlight '' ( 1969 ) `` Get Together '', also known as `` Let 's Get Together '', is a song written in the mid-1960s by American singer - songwriter Chet Powers, also known as Dino Valenti. The song is an appeal for peace and brotherhood, presenting the polarity of love versus fear, and the choice to be made between them. It is best remembered for the impassioned plea in the lines of its refrain, which is repeated several times in succession to bring the song to its conclusion. Contents 1 Recording history 2 Controversy 3 In popular culture 4 References 5 External links Recording history The song was originally recorded as `` Let 's Get Together '' by the Kingston Trio in a live performance in March 1964 that was released on June 1, 1964, on their album Back in Town. While it was not released as a single, this version was the first to bring the song to the attention of the general public. The Kingston Trio often performed it live. A pre-Byrds David Crosby recorded `` Get Together '' around the same time as the Trio, but possibly a few weeks later, since the band arrangement includes the riff from the Beatles ' version of `` Twist and Shout '', released earlier in Britain but not in the United States until April. Crosby 's version, possibly the first studio recording and pre-dating release of the Trio 's version, appeared many years later on the Preflyte album. A version of the song first broke into the top forty in 1965, when We Five, produced by Kingston Trio manager Frank Werber, released `` Let 's Get Together '' as the follow - up to their top ten hit `` You Were on My Mind ''. While it did not achieve the same level of success as the other, `` Let 's Get Together '' provided the group with a second top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when it peaked at number 31. It would be their last hit record. `` Let 's Get Together '' was the third song on side 2 of the Jefferson Airplane 's first album, Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, released in August 1966. As Tim Jurgens said in his review of the album in the January 1967 issue of Crawdaddy, `` Jefferson Airplane Takes Off is the most important album of American rock issued this year ( 1966 ) ; it is the first LP to come out of the new San Francisco music scene... ''. He called `` Let 's Get Together '' a `` most sensitive, hopeful and contemporary ballad '', and wondered why it is n't sung in church. However, the song was n't released as a single, although the album did make the top 100 of 1966, as number 97. In 1967, the Youngbloods released their version of the song under the title `` Get Together ''. It became a minor Hot 100 hit for them, peaking at number 62 and reaching 37 on the US adult contemporary chart. However, renewed interest in the Youngbloods ' version came when it was used in a radio public service announcement as a call for brotherhood by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. The Youngbloods ' version, the most - remembered today, was re-released in 1969, peaking at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Another version was released in 1967 by the Chicago psychedelic group H.P. Lovecraft on their debut album. In 1968, the Sunshine Company released a version of the song titled `` Let 's Get Together '' as a single that reached number 112 on the Billboard chart. Also in 1968, the Canadian group 3 's a Crowd released their version of the song as a single, titled `` Let 's Get Together ''. It peaked at number 70 on Canada 's national singles chart. Smith recorded a version on their 1969 debut album, sung by Gayle McCormick. In 1970, Gwen & Jerry Collins released a version of the song as a single that reached number 34 on the US country chart. In March 1970, the Dave Clark Five reached number 8 on the UK Singles Chart with their version retitled `` Everybody Get Together ''. In 1995, Big Mountain released a version of the song titled as a single that reached number 28 on the US adult contemporary chart and number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100. And on Inauguraton Day 2017, the group Bahari released their version of the song. Controversy Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the media conglomerate company Clear Channel Communications included the Youngbloods ' version of the song on a list of `` lyrically questionable '' songs that was sent to its 1,200 radio stations in the United States. In popular culture The Youngbloods version of the song has been featured in several films, including Purple Haze, Forrest Gump, The Dish, Stephen King 's Riding the Bullet, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and most recently Cats & Dogs : The Revenge of Kitty Galore. In The Simpsons episode `` Treehouse of Horror II '', Lisa wishes for world peace and her wish comes true. All people on Earth start singing `` Get Together '' and dance in a large peace sign. The South Park episode `` Smug Alert ! '' contains a parody of the song which repeats the line `` come on people now '' several times. The song also appears on the soundtrack for The Wonder Years. In 2008 the Youngbloods ' version of the song was used in a commercial for Luvs diapers. A snippet of the Youngbloods ' version of the song was used in a 2014 commercial for KFC. A snippet of the Youngbloods ' version of the song was played in the beginning of Bart 's dream in The Simpsons episode `` Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou ? '' Krist Novoselic sings part of the chorus of this song at the beginning of Nirvana 's recording of their song, `` Territorial Pissings ''. The Christian hard rock group David and the Giants released a cover of the song on their CD Giant Hits. Christian Slater echoes the chorus in the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume. In 2017, the Youngbloods ' version of the song was used in a Walmart commercial showing people of many ethnicities joining together for a meal. References Jump up ^ Fontenot, Robert ( October 29, 2015 ). `` What is Folk - Rock Music ? ''. ThoughtCo. About.com. Retrieved March 12, 2017. Jump up ^ The Kingston Trio, Back in Town Retrieved February 29, 2012. Jump up ^ We Five charting singles Retrieved February 29, 2012. Jump up ^ Tim, Jurgens. `` Crawdaddy archives ''. Crawdaddy Magazine 1966 - 1968. Vista Services. Retrieved 22 January 2017. Jump up ^ The Youngbloods, `` Get Together '' 1967 chart positions Retrieved May 18, 2015. Jump up ^ The Youngbloods, `` Get Together '' chart position Retrieved May 18, 2015 Jump up ^ The Sunshine Company, `` Let 's Get Together '' chart position Retrieved May 18, 2015 Jump up ^ Gwen & Jerry Collins, `` Get Together '' chart position Retrieved May 18, 2015 Jump up ^ The Dave Clark Five, `` Everybody Get Together '' chart position Retrieved May 18, 2015 Jump up ^ Big Mountain, `` Get Together '' chart positions Retrieved May 18, 2015 Jump up ^ ( 1 ) Retrieved January 22, 2017 Jump up ^ http://www.heavyharmonies.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=677&CDName=Giant+Hits. Missing or empty title = ( help ) ; External link in website = ( help ) ; Missing or empty url = ( help ) ; access - date = requires url = ( help ) External links Get Together at Songfacts.com The Youngbloods Jesse Colin Young Jerry Corbitt Lowell Levinger Joe Bauer Michael Kane David Perper Scott Lawrence Albums The Youngbloods Earth Music Elephant Mountain Rock Festival Singles `` Get Together '' `` Darkness, Darkness '' `` Running Bear '' B - sides `` Misty Roses '' `` Reason to Believe '' `` Will the Circle Be Unbroken '' `` Kind Hearted Woman '' Related articles Song for Juli `` Jambalaya '' Book : The Youngbloods We Five Beverly Bivens Michael Stewart Jerry Burgan Pete Fullerton Bob Jones Debbie Burgan ' Studio albums You Were on My Mind Make Someone Happy The Return of We Five Catch the Wind Take Each Day as It Comes Singles `` You Were on My Mind '' `` Let 's Get Together '' `` My Favorite Things '' `` Walk On By '' `` Catch the Wind '' B - Sides `` Cast Your Fate to the Wind '' `` Somewhere Beyond the Sea '' `` Somewhere '' `` The First Time '' `` Here Comes the Sun '' `` Oh Lonesome Me '' Cover Songs `` Ca n't Help Falling in Love '' `` The Inch Worm '' `` Our Day Will Come '' `` Softly As I Leave You '' `` Soon It 's Gonna Rain '' `` Tonight '' Wilson Phillips Chynna Phillips Carnie Wilson Wendy Wilson Studio albums Wilson Phillips ( 1990 ) Shadows and Light ( 1992 ) California ( 2004 ) Christmas in Harmony ( 2010 ) Dedicated ( 2012 ) Compilation albums Greatest Hits ( 2000 ) Singles `` Hold On '' `` Release Me '' `` Impulsive '' `` You 're in Love '' `` The Dream Is Still Alive '' `` Daniel '' `` You Wo n't See Me Cry '' `` Give It Up '' `` Flesh and Blood '' `` Go Your Own Way '' `` Already Gone '' `` Get Together '' Related topics Hey Santa ! 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Question: who sang everybody get together try to love one another right now
Answer: the Kingston Trio