Don't Draft My Daughter
1980 · Gold Sound GS-8002 · Las Vegas, Nevada
- Artist
- Boyd Coulter
- Title
- Don't Draft My Daughter
- Release
- Don't Draft My Daughter / Love Was There
- Year
- 1980
- Label
- Gold Sound # GS-8002
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Songwriter
- Joyce & Bat Henderson
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Don't Draft My Daughter (Coulter, Boyd) Jimmy Carter era - narrator referred to son, who served with honor in the US army but died in combat - presumably Vietnam. He thus asked the president not to draft his daughter as well.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - country singer-songwriter whose 'Don't Draft My Daughter' b/w his own 'Love Was There' (Gold Sound GS-8002, 1980, produced by Tommy DeVito) addresses the 1980 draft-registration debate; no biography found. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
Soldier's Perspective · K.I.A. · Draft · Carter · Patriotic