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
Notes
Rodeo 762, "Dear Daddy Uncle Sam" (Bob Newman), time 2:19, Roper Publishers, BMI; Dakota Music Inc., P.O. Box 13433, Phoenix, Arizona. Pink label with a rope-script logo and a drawing of a mounted cowboy lassoing a steer. [From the record sleeve and labels]