Credited on the record as Rod Rogers and the Film City Orchestra & Chorus.
Ballad of MacArthur
1965 · Film City FC-2013 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Rodd Keith
- Credited on the record as
- Rod Rogers and the Film City Orchestra & Chorus
- Title
- Ballad of MacArthur
- Release
- Join in the Fight for Freedom / Ballad of MacArthur
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Film City # FC-2013
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Clarence Boness
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Join in the Fight for Freedom (Rogers, Rod) (Film City Records # FC-2013) Song poem - general patriotic ballad, traditional pop. Draft. Domino theory. Hawkish. B-side - about WW2 and reference to Korean War.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- B-side, "Ballad of MacArthur" - about WW2 and reference to Korean War. - Label: Film City Records # FC-2013 - Hollywood, California
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Film City FC 2013-A / FC 2013-B, "(Sunset and Vine)", 1354 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood 28, Calif.; Souvenir Songs, ASCAP. A-side "Join in the Fight for Freedom" (Clarence Boness), 1:30; B-side "Ballad of MacArthur" (Clarence Boness), 4:10; both credited to Rod Rogers and the Film City Orchestra & Chorus. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Pseudonym of Rodd Keith (born Rodney Keith Eskelin, 30 January 1937). Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, the best-known figure of the song-poem genre, recording hundreds of compositions from amateur-submitted lyrics under names including Rod Rogers. Died 15 December 1974, falling from an overpass onto the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Source: Wikipedia; LA Times via Last.fm]
Themes
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]