Day for Decision
1966 · Americana 1001 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Jerry Barnes
- Title
- Day for Decision
- Release
- Day for Decision / America the Beautiful
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Americana # 1001
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Allen N. Peltier
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
About the artist
Jerry Barnes was an American gospel singer and recording engineer whose own albums included 'Hymntime Sing-Along' (1962), 'Sacred Folk Stylings' (1965) and 'Jerry Barns Sings From Cadle Chapel' for Zondervan's Victory Recording imprint, and who worked on into the 1980s as a producer, engineer and remix engineer on sacred-music records. His recitation of "Day For Decision" - Allen N. Peltier's composition, taken into the American charts by Johnny Sea on Warner Bros. 5820 in 1966 - ran to six minutes and was issued on his own imprint, Americana Records 1001, a seven-inch disc that also carried…
Themes
Patriotic · Answer to Eve of Destruction · Anti-Protest · Draft Card Burning · Demonstration · VC · WW2 · Flag · Draft