Little Buster & Henrietta Buchanan
He's Gone
1964 · Sequel NEM CD 76 · USA
- Artist
- Little Buster & Henrietta Buchanan
- Title
- He's Gone
- Release
- Looking for a Home
- Year
- 1964
- Label
- Sequel # NEM CD 76
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs
"He's Gone" (Little Buster and Henrietta Buchanan) Recorded 1964, unreleased. Appeared on this compilation: "The Complete "Little Buster" Jubilee And Josie Sessions". Vocals by Henrietta Buchanan. Soul. About draft letter from Uncle Sam. "He's gone, he's gone, Uncle Sam took my man... He wrote me a letter, sent me a picture too Inscribed in the corner was 'darling I love you I answered his letter with tears in my eyes And all I could do was cry The days are passing slowly by It seems as though I would die But I'll wait, I'll wait until he returns, I'll wait"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Little Buster & Henrietta Buchanan were a short-lived American soul duo of the mid-1960s, formed around the New York club and talent-show circuit and also billed as The 3 Heartbreakers, under which name they won an amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre in about 1964. Little Buster was Edward Forehand (born 28 September 1942 in Hertford, North Carolina; died 11 May 2006), a blind soul and blues guitarist and singer who attended the North Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind at Raleigh, settled on Long Island and began playing its clubs in 1959, later becoming a fixture of that scene for four…