12 Days With Khrushchev
1963 · Verve 10281 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Addis & Crofut
- Title
- 12 Days With Khrushchev
- Release
- 12 Days With Khrushchev / Goin' Home
- Year
- 1963
- Label
- Verve # 10281
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Addis, Crofut
- Genre
- Novelty · Novelty · Christmas Music
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
12 Days With Khrushchev (Addiss and Crofut) Christmas novelty about Khrushchev. References Berlin, Castro, moon, Nasser, China. General Cold War. 8th day: "we'll have Vietnam soon". On the album Such Interesting People. Also released Vietnam single: A Ballad From Vietnam (The Rain on the Leaves) / Simple Gifts
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
American folk duo of Steve Addiss and Bill Crofut, who toured internationally (including South Vietnam) for the US State Department in the 1960s and recorded folk albums together. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
Christmas · Fidel Castro · Berlin · Khrushchev · Space Race · Nixon · EC · Nasser · China (Cold War)