Fourth Day Of July
1973 · Blue Thumb BTS-44 · USA
- Artist
- Tom Rapp
- Title
- Fourth Day Of July
- Release
- Stardancer
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Blue Thumb # BTS-44
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
The song "Fourth Day of July" (Blue Thumb Records # BTS-44), taken from Tom Rapp's 1972 album Stardancer, his second solo effort. He is well known as the leader of the 60s / 70s Psychedelic Folk group Pearls Before Swine. Taking an anti-war position, the narrator told the story of US troops returning home from Vietnam on American Independence Day, as the "broken children of Vietnam". Suggested by koeeoaddi_there
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
American singer-songwriter (Pearls Before Swine), born 8 March 1947 in Bottineau, North Dakota; died 11 February 2018 in Melbourne, Florida. [Source: Wikipedia]