I Am an American
1966 · K-Ark 696 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Gil Rogers
- Title
- I Am an American
- Release
- One Owner, Low Milage, Use, Broken Heart / I Am an American
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- K-Ark # 696
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- R. Blake
- Genre
- Fanfare · Fanfare · Spoken Word
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
I Am an American (Rogers, Gil) Fanfare, patriotic, silent majority reference (Nixon). Anti-protest. Nashville, Tennessee. Hate to see the flag trampled on the street. Sick of these who do not fight. Sick of the minority.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "I Am an American" - Label: Film City Records # FC-2067 - Songwriter: Clarence M. Boness, Art Cain - Traditional pop, patriotic - Proud to be an American, every man is free - Under god, a great society (LBJ) - The elected leaders have stood for the rights of man
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown for this record. A country singer named Gil Rogers, active from the 1960s to the 1980s and also credited as a member of the Windupwatchband, has a documented catalogue including 'One Owner, Low Mileage, Used, Broken Heart' (1966), "Daddy's Back From The Store" (1967), 'Oklahoma Hills' (1969) and 'The Best of Gil Rogers' (1971), but no release of 'I Am an American' has been located and no biographical record exists for him. [Source: Discogs (artist catalogue; negative search for the title)]
Themes
Patriotic · Flag · Anti-Protest · Religion
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs