Credited on the record as Joe West & the Fifth Wheels.
I Died in Vietnam
1975 · Rimrock RS-310 · USA
- Artist
- Joe West
- Credited on the record as
- Joe West & the Fifth Wheels
- Title
- I Died in Vietnam
- Release
- I Died in Vietnam / A Truck Bought It
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Rimrock # RS-310
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Joe West
- Genre
- Country · Bluegrass
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
I Died in Vietnam (West, Joe & the Fifth Wheels) (Rimrock Records # RS-310)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Rimrock RS 310-A, yellow label with a stag-and-mesa drawing, "Rimrock Records .... Concord, Arkansas" around the rim; "I Died in Vietnam" (Joe West), Oleta, BMI, 2:20; credited to Joe West & the Fifth Wheels. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Joe West was an American country singer and songwriter who led Joe West & the Fifth Wheels, a truck-driving country act that cut at least three singles for Rimrock Records of Concord, Arkansas in the late 1960s, among them 'Just Me, This Old Truck, And My Lord' and 'Long White Line'. "I Died in Vietnam", which West wrote himself and which was published by Oleta, was issued on Rimrock RS-310 in 1969 backed with 'A Truck Brought It'; the label credits the Fifth Wheels but the picture sleeve names West alone. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
Draft · Patriotic · Draft Card Burning · Demonstration · Religion · Counter-Culture & Hippies · WW2
In collections
Draft Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]