Dear John
Par T 1007 · Crowley, Louisiana
- Artist
- Jeb and Cousin Easy
- Title
- Dear John
- Release
- Dear John / Spanish Opera
- Label
- Par T # 1007
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Crowley, Louisiana, USA
- Genre
- Novelty · Novelty
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Dear John (Jeb & Cousin Easy) Crowley, Louisiana, USA Novelty take on Dear John letter. Reference to Germany and Japan (WW2) - but released Vietnam-era
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Par T No. 1007 (JH-392), 45 RPM, "Not for Broadcast", P. O. Box 769, Crowley, La. 70526; "Dear John", BMI, 3:10, "Recorded live at El Toro Club, Crowley, La." Pale blue label decorated with harlequin diamonds, a party mask and a party hat. Housed in a Parrot company sleeve ("A Division of London Records, Inc.") with a cartoon parrot in a top hat. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Jeb And Cousin Easy were an American country-comedy duo made up of the husband and wife Cal Nelson and Virginia Nelson, billed as the King and Queen of Country comedy, who cut a long run of live novelty 45s and albums for the Par and Par T labels of Crowley, Louisiana from the late 1960s; they were a fixture at the El Toro Lounge in Crowley, where the Post-Signal advertised them in August 1968 as 'one of the top comedy teams in the country', and their photographs are preserved in the Cajun humorists series of the Edith Garland Dupré Library at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. "Dear…
Themes
Soldier's Perspective · Mail Call · Dear John Letter · Foxhole · WW2