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Sandy Rapp

by Sandy Rapp

Sandy Rapp is a songwriter, activist, and author of God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy. Her best known songs are "Remember Rose: Song For Choice," about the first back-street abortion fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion cutoff (all editions feature a guest vocal by the late Bella Abzug) and "Everyone Was At Stonewall (final update", a gay history, written for police sensitivity training, which won Stonewall Society's Pride Song of 2004 and was featured on the 6/8/2015 "This Way Out" Int'l LGBT Radio Magazine. Rapp was instrumental in the passage of a number of gay civil rights laws on Long Island, NY. Her CDs include We The People, Flag & The Rainbow, Still Marchin' and Salute to the Veteran Feminists. Rapp's appearances include the million-plus 2004 March For Women's Lives, the National Women's Music Festival, National NOW Rallies in Seneca Falls, Manhattan, and Washington, DC, National Women's Political Caucus Conferences, Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival, Chicago's Autumnfest, Ne

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Episodes

  1. White Men In Black Dresses s

    about the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.

  2. Sixpence Song

    Will Shakespear's advice to his son, from Rapp's score for Sidney Michaels "The Elizabethans" performed in 1972 at Manhattan's New Dramatist Theater Sixpence Song © Sandy Rapp 1972 Son, I give thee sixpence, A penny for you thoughts. A penny if I’m in ‘em and a farthing if I’m not. Put it in your...

  3. Remember In November

    Song for Reproductive Choice

  4. Gold Whistle Kid ~

    about two activists for prison reform in Mississippi

  5. New York City Woman ~

    about a woman (eventually released through the efforts of Eleanor Pam PHD) convicted of shooting her rapist

  6. I Never Knew ~

    about ambivalence in relationships

  7. Transcendental Heroes ~

    on problems the hippies eventually faced

  8. The Die is Cast ~

    a semi-silly love song

  9. Ten Percent ~

    an upbeat look at the early days of the GLBT movement

  10. Ballad of Sister Spirit ~

    about an annual women's music festival hosted by Brenda & Wanda Henson.for many years in Ovett Mississippi. Rapp played many Sister Spirit festivals.

  11. BalladOfBillyBaird ~

    about the architect of the US Supreme Court's 1972 Baird v. Eisenstadt decision legalizing birth control for singles

  12. Where Were the Flowers ~

    about the 1988 backstreet-abortion-related death of Indiana teenager Becky Bell

  13. Some Facts are Alternative (2020)

    This is the 2020 update of Rapp's musical take on the Trump administration.

  14. The March ~

    AKA Marchin' with Molly Yard, this song is about a women's march on DC and salutes National NOW President Molly Yard.

  15. Flag & the Rainbow ~

    for those fallen to the anti-gays #SoundCloudRadio

  16. Song For Ellie Smeal.mp3

    This song is about the National NOW President & Feminist Majority founder Ellie Smeal.

  17. She Will Rise ~

    fort the "In Our Shoes" website and about the late poet Maya Angelou’s support for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.

  18. Remember Rose: Song For Choice ~

    About the first fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion funding cutoff, this track features a guest vocal by the late Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY). Rosie Jimenez finally turned up dead; So the paper said in Texas. Finally turned up dead, after Medicaid Restrictions took her choice away....

  19. Everyone Was At Stonewall (final update) ~

    Everyone Was At Stonewall (final update) is a GLBT history written for Sensitivity Training of the Long Island, NY police and premiered at a Long Island Pride Parade. The song won Stonewall Society’s Pride Song of 2004; and Rapp has sung it at hundreds of events around the US, including the...

  20. Cagney's Song s

    a tale of Animal Rescue Fund dog Cagney Anne. Rapp has played at over sixty ARF of the Hamptons events.

  21. Rise Up Ye Women s

    A tribute to some Second Wave feminists, this song was featured in The New Yorker – 11/13/06 "Talk of the Town". Rise Up Ye Women © Sandy Rapp 2006 & 2012 It was a time of dark and sad song, Seven years with Bella been and gone. Among the leaders from the days of long ago, A troubled time had…

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  22. The Rally s

    about world transformation at a Washington, DC gathering

  23. Sweetwood Aire s

    Sweetwood Aire © Sandy Rapp 1972 Oh a man came a singin’ o’ the High Countrie Wi’ a hey, ho, nonny, nonny, nonny, no; And a merry, merry man was he; All for a song was he, ho. An’ he went from town to town His sweetwood down upon his knee. There was none from all aroun’ could Match his balladry....

  24. Hats Off to Bella s

    for the late, Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-NY).

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Sandy Rapp is a songwriter, activist, and author of God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy. Her best known songs are "Remember Rose: Song For Choice," about the first back-street abortion fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion cutoff (all editions feature a guest vocal by the late Bella Abzug) and "Everyone Was At Stonewall (final update", a gay history, written for police sensitivity training, which won Stonewall Society's Pride Song of 2004 and was featured on the 6/8/2015 "This Way Out" Int'l LGBT Radio Magazine. Rapp was instrumental in the passage of a number of gay civil rights laws on Long Island, NY. Her CDs include We The People, Flag & The Rainbow, Still Marchin' and Salute to the Veteran Feminists. Rapp's appearances include the million-plus 2004 March For Women's Lives, the National Women's Music Festival, National NOW Rallies in Seneca Falls, Manhattan, and Washington, DC, National Women's Political Caucus Conferences, Gulf Coast Womyn's Festival, Chicago's Autumnfest, Ne

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