Gene Dunlap

The Dove Never Sleeps

Stop ST 364 · Nashville, Tennessee

The Dove Never Sleeps – Gene Dunlap (A-side label)

Artist
Gene Dunlap
Title
The Dove Never Sleeps
Release
The Dove Never Sleeps / Will You Be There
Label
Stop # ST 364
Format
7" · Single
Language
English
Country
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Songwriter
Buzz Rabin
Genre
Country · Nashville Sound
Primary theme
Peace, Protest & Anti-War

Annotation

Dove Never Sleeps, The (Dunlap, Gene) Country, leans anti-war, religion. Nashville, Tennessee, USA Sons sent to war to kill and be killed Read the paper - the say that we are winning the war over there But then the KIA telegram arrives. Died in a war for peace. Flag

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Stop Records, Inc. ST 364, matrix ST 7064, 45 RPM, "Distributed by Stop Records Inc. 809-B 18th Ave., S. Nashville, Tenn."; "The Dove Never Sleeps" (Buzz Rabin), 3:06, Window Music Inc., BMI; Gene Dunlap (vocal); produced by Pete Drake. [From the record sleeve and labels]

About the artist

Born 26 January 1939, Vick, Louisiana, USA

Themes

Anti-War · Religion · K.I.A. · Home Front Perspective · Flag

In collections

Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

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