Credited on the record as Don Gully & Buster Turner and The Big D & B Band From Tennessee.
I Won't Be Home for Xmas
1971 · Ebb-Tide II 102470 · Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Artist
- Don Gully & Buster Turner
- Credited on the record as
- Don Gully & Buster Turner and The Big D & B Band From Tennessee
- Title
- I Won't Be Home for Xmas
- Release
- I Won't Be Home for Xmas / Tragic Xmas
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Ebb-Tide II # 102470
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- Songwriter
- Clay Webb
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
I Won't Be Home for Xmas (Gully, Don & Buster Turner) Christmas Vietnam. Country. Label Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Musicians from Tazewell, Tennessee.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Ebb-Tide II Records, P.O. Box 2544, Baton Rouge, La., yellow label; "I Won't Be Home for Xmas" (Clay Webb), Jimmy Price Music, BMI, time 3:00, "Another Golden Production", N.R.P.S. No. 102470-B, E.T. No. 144; Don Gully & Buster Turner and the Big D & B Band from Tennessee, "Dedicated to our boy's in Viet-Nam", recorded at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tenn.; producers Ebb-Tide, Jimmy Angel and Clay Webb, arranged by Ebb-Tide and Clay Webb. The stereo picture sleeve (#145) reads "'Ebb-Tide II Record's' presents 'Clay Webb'", with the title and "Merry Christmas" framing a photograph of two soldiers in a sandbagged trench, one writing on a helmet across his knee, "Dedicated to: (Our Boys in Viet-Nam)" and "The Big D. & B. from Tennessee". A typed letter from Clay M. Webb, 1005 East Mariposa, Phoenix, Arizona, dated November 22, 1971, to the Billboard Record Review Department encloses the…
About the artist
From Tazewell, Tennessee, USA