Dear Daddy Uncle Sam
1961 · Rodeo 762 · Phoenix, Arizona
- Artist
- Ray Odom
- Title
- Dear Daddy Uncle Sam
- Release
- Dear Daddy Uncle Sam / Cowboy's Christmas Prayer
- Year
- 1961
- Label
- Rodeo # 762
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- Songwriter
- Bob Newman
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Dear Daddy Uncle Sam (Odom, Ray) Country narration. Phoenix, Arizona. Girl's letter to the president - father a sailor who died in a war (Korea?). Mother also died. So left an orphan - heard on the news about the new war (Vietnam). Pleaded with the president to stop it - leans towards anti-war.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Dear Daddy Uncle Sam" b/w "Cowboy's Christmas Prayer" (Rodeo Records 762, 1961), published by Roper Publishers, pressed by Wakefield Manufacturing. A well-documented namesake exists: the pioneering Phoenix country-radio broadcaster and station owner Ray Odom (born near Abilene, Texas; died 16 February 2022 at 95), of the Arizona Broadcasters and Arizona Music & Entertainment Halls of Fame - but his documented career covers only radio ownership and concert promotion, with no recording credit anywhere found, so his biography is NOT assigned. [Source: Discogs; Arizona Music &…