1960年代中期走紅，著名的"Blue eyed
soul"「唱黑人靈魂歌曲的白人樂團」Rascals 的吉它手 Gene Cornish ，九月7日在美國Montana州Billings的演唱會演出時暈倒在舞台上，演唱會當場取消，歌迷們被勸離現場。
Rascals 合唱團成立於紐約，主唱是鍵琴手Felix Cavaliere，Gene Cornish也是主唱之一，他們於1972年宣告解散，主要團員於1988年曾經復出。
1968年春季，The Rascals團員們說服他們的唱片公司把團名從The Young Rascals改為The Rascals，改名後的第一張單曲唱片A Beautiful Morning獲得二週第3名，證明團名少一個Young，對唱片銷售量並沒有影響。
當時The Rascals的主唱Felix
Cavaliere，對馬丁路德金恩牧師以及羅伯甘迺迪參議員的遇刺身亡感到哀傷，他和另一位團員Eddie
Brigati合寫了People Got To Be Free這首歌來表達他們的感傷，唱片公司高層其實不願意出談政治的歌，他擔心這首歌會傷害Rascals和唱片公司的營運。
1968年七月20日，勉強推出的People Got To Be Free獲得第64名，當時距離羅伯甘迺迪參議員的遇刺身亡才六個禮拜，沒想到四週之後，這首歌爬升到排行榜冠軍，而且連續獲得5週冠軍，是The Rascals在排行榜上名次最好的歌。
Rascals
合唱團暢銷曲很多，在歷年暢銷歌星排行榜獲得第199名。
People
Got To Be Free
-Words
by Felix Cavaliere and Music by Edward Brigati, Jr.
All
the world over, so easy to see
People
everywhere just wanna be free
Listen,
please listen, that's the way it should be
Deep
in the valley, people got to be free
You
should see what a lovely, lovely world this'd be
Everyone
learned to live together, ah-hah-unh
Seems
to me such an itty bitty thing should be
Why
can't you and me learn to love one another?
All
the world over, so easy to see
People
everywhere just wanna be free
I
can't understand it, so simple to me
People
everywhere just got to be free
If
there's a man who is down and needs a helpin' hand
All it
takes is you to understand and to pull him through, ah-hah-unh
Seems
to me we got to solve it individually, ah-hah-unh
And
I'll do unto you what you do to me
Shout
it from the mountain on out to the sea (out to the sea)
No two
ways about it, people have to be free
Ask me
my opinion, my opinion will be
Nat'ral
situation for a man to be free
Git
right on board now
Oh,
what a feelin's just come over me
Love
can move a mountain, make a blind man see
Everybody
sing it now come on let's go see
Deep
in the valley now, we ought to be free
SPOKEN
See
that train over there?
That's
the train of freedom
It's
about to 'rrive any minute, now
You
know it's been'a long, long overdue
Look
out 'cause it's a'comin' right on through
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