VD Is For Everybody

Album: not on an album (1969)
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  • A song with a title like this could have been written only for two reasons: to amuse or to educate. It is said to have been commissioned from Shel Silverstein, although it is probably not something he would have wanted on his CV.

    VD Is For Everybody is the title of a short public information film released by the American Public Health Association in 1969; the eponymous song runs throughout. >>
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    Alexander Baron - London, England

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