Credited on the record as Chuck Corby & The Entrees.
Bring My Daddy Home
1966 · Sonic 118 · USA
- Artist
- Chuck Corby
- Credited on the record as
- Chuck Corby & The Entrees
- Title
- Bring My Daddy Home
- Release
- Bring My Daddy Home / City of Strangers
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Sonic # 118
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Corby / Phillips
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "Bring My Daddy Home" - released on Joe Averbach's Pittsburgh label Sonic (# 118) - looked at how the war affected the children of soldiers. Chuck Corby, a white Italian-American, born Charles Anthony Ciorra, he had a strong soul sounding voice. In this song a young girl's father had to leave to "fight in some war" - no mention of which war. The girl's "mama cries all through the day". So she said that she would "give you all my candy, all of my gum" - presumably to Uncle Sam or god - if whoever would "please bring my daddy home". At the end of the song the father returns from the war. The soldier recalled that his daughter "held me with a warm embrace" and that her "mama's happy now".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: As I walked up to my porch last night / Through my window I saw a sad, sad sight / A little girl knelt by her bed all alone / She cried, my daddy never, never comes home / She cried, my daddy might not come back no more / Cause he had to go fight in some war / She said my mama cries all through the day / Every since my daddy, he went away / I can hear her crying: please bring my daddy home / My mama's crying cause she's all alone / I'll give you all my candy, all of my gum / If you bring my daddy back home to my mum / And as I walked into the door that night / She ran up and held me oh so tight / Tears were rolling all down her face / And she held me with a warm embrace / She cried: chee, my daddy is home / My mama's happy now she's not alone / I don't need candy and I don't need my gum / Cause you brought my daddy home to my mum
Notes
Sonic No. 118 (18084), yellow label; "Bring My Daddy Home" (Corby – Phillips), Febe Music, BMI, 2:45; Chuck Corby & The Entrees. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Charles Anthony 'Chuck' Corby (born Charles Anthony Ciorra), American singer and bandleader from Hays, in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, who recorded from the late 1950s onward and remained active on the western Pennsylvania music scene. [Source: Discogs; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Themes
In collections
US Domestic Perspective Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs