How Long (Prisoner's Lament)
1961 · Cenco 117 · Los Angeles, California
- Artist
- Jimmy Thomason
- Title
- How Long (Prisoner's Lament)
- Release
- How Long (Prisoner's Lament) / Dear Son
- Year
- 1961
- Label
- Cenco # 117
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Songwriter
- E.C. & Lois Mills
- Genre
- Country · Western Swing
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
How Long (Prisoner's Lament) (Thomason, Jimmy) Country. P.O.W., prisoner of war song. 1961 - Vietnam-era - but may be in reference to other war (Korea?) Narrated by the P.O.W.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Cenco Records 117 (117-A), "A Division of Spry Record Corp.", red label with silver print; "How Long (Prisoner's Lament)" (E. C. and Lois Mills), 3:00, Class Publishing (BMI); produced by Johnny Woodson. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Jimmy Thomason (born in Waco, Texas) was an American country fiddler, singer and bandleader who worked in Texas western-swing outfits from the late 1930s - including sessions with Doug Bine and His Dixie Ramblers and with Slim Harbert and His OKeh Boys - before moving to California, where he recorded for King between September 1952 and January 1953 and for Vita in November 1956, and became a regular on the television programme 'Homefolks' on KERO-TV in Bakersfield. "How Long (Prisoner's Lament)" appeared on Cenco, a 1960s Hollywood imprint of the Spry Record Corp. owned by Mike Gradney…
Themes
In collections
P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]