Volunteers (song)

"Volunteers"
Single by Jefferson Airplane
from the album Volunteers
B-side"We Can Be Together"
ReleasedOctober 1969 (1969-10)
RecordedApril 1969
StudioWally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California
GenreHard rock[1]
Length2:03
LabelRCA Victor
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Al Schmitt
Jefferson Airplane singles chronology
"Plastic Fantastic Lover"
(1969)
"Volunteers"
(1969)
"Mexico"
(1970)

"Volunteers" is a Jefferson Airplane single from 1969 that was released to promote the album Volunteers two months before the album's release. It was written by Marty Balin and Paul Kantner. Balin was woken up by a truck one morning, which happened to be a truck with Volunteers of America painted on the side.[2] Marty started writing lyrics down and then asked Paul to help him with the music.

Record World called it "an instant smash."[3]

  1. ^ Greenwald, Matthew. "Volunteers by Jefferson Airplane - Track Info | AllMusic". allmusic. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  2. ^ Tamarakin, Jeff (2003). Got a Revolution: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-03403-0.
  3. ^ "Single Reviews" (PDF). Record World. October 25, 1969. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-05-04.