Here Comes Uncle Sam
1965 · ABC-Paramount 10728 · USA
- Artist
- Richard Kaye
- Title
- Here Comes Uncle Sam
- Release
- Here Comes Uncle Sam / Where's My Little Sister
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- ABC-Paramount # 10728
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "Here Comes Uncle Sam" (ABC-Paramount # 10728), written, produced, and performed by Richie Kaye, and released in Hollywood, California, USA, was a garage rock song looking at the draft. It leaned towards the anti-war category. The song is narrated in the first person, from a man who has finished school, and is therefore eligible to fight in Vietnam: "I'm through with school, now I'm 1-A" - a reference to the military classification for selecting who is available for military service. The narrator expressed reluctance to fight: "don't want to fight...don't want to die". The song was also critical of Uncle Sam sending him to fight and putting his life at risk: "they are standing there and I'll come home dead". The narrator also did not want a hair cut!: "he want to...cut off my hair".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Here Comes Uncle Sam" b/w "Where'd My Little Sister Go?" (ABC-Paramount 10728, 1965), written by Richie Kaye and produced with Murray Wecht; the release notes describe the A-side as a war-protest song. No biographical documentation was located and the name may be a stage name. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
In collections
Draft Songs · Garage Rock Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs