Dear Daddy Uncle Sam
1968 · Chance 1320-C68 · Cincinnati, Ohio
- Artist
- Helen and Billy Scott
- Title
- Dear Daddy Uncle Sam
- Release
- Dear Daddy Uncle Sam / I've Got a Thing About You
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Chance # 1320-C68
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Songwriter
- Bob Newman
- Genre
- Country · Country Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Dear Daddy Uncle Sam (Scott, Helen and Billy) Home front perspective, anti-war Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Girl's letter to the president Daddy left on a trip. Mum is very sad K.I.A. letter arrived He was there to help Uncle Sam win the war Mum got sick and died Please stop war
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Chance 1320-C68 (80931b), "The Cincinnati Sound", D. J. Copy, 45 RPM; "Dear Daddy Uncle Sam" (Bob Newman) (Om-2), Hill and Range, BMI, time 2:30; Helen and Billy Scott, recitation by Billy Scott; produced by Scott and Richards; "Record Division of L. P. Production Inc., P. O. Box 1936, Cinn. Ohio 45201", with the L.P.P.I. horseshoe logo framing a real penny. [From the record sleeve and labels]