I Want to Light a Candle (For Daddy)
1967 · Cuca J-1315 · Sauk City, Wisconsin
- Artist
- Redd Stewart & Pee Wee King
- Title
- I Want to Light a Candle (For Daddy)
- Release
- I Want to Light a Candle (For Daddy) / Too Many Years
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Cuca # J-1315
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA
- Songwriter
- Redd Stewart
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
I Want to Light a Candle (For Daddy) (Stewart, Redd & Pee Wee King) Sauk City, Wisconsin, USA. Country. Soldier and home front perspective Daddy away in Vietnam, due to return home. Sent a letter home requesting a cake for his birthday, and to meet at home. Day arrived, family received an army telegram - KIA. So the child and mother light a candle in the church instead of the cake.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Redd Stewart: Born 27 May 1923, Ashland City, Tennessee, USA. Died 2 August 2003, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Pee Wee King: Born 18 February 1914, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Died 7 March 2000, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.