Jimmy Gets a Gun (For Christmas)
1971 · Music City MC-45-107 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- L.E. White and the Bob Whites
- Title
- Jimmy Gets a Gun (For Christmas)
- Release
- Jimmy Gets a Gun (For Christmas) / Christmas Won't Be Christmas Anymore
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Music City # MC-45-107
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- L.E. White, Betty Jo White
- Genre
- Country · Traditional Country
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Jimmy Get a Gun (For Christmas) (White, L.E & the Bob Whites) Christmas Won't Be Christmas Anymore
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Christmas / Home Front Perspective / Anti-War / Religion
Notes
Music City Records MC-45-107-A, yellow and black label, 1215 17th Ave. So., Nashville, Tenn.; "Jimmy Gets a Gun (For Christmas)" (L. E. White–Betty Jo White), published by Music City Tunes, BMI, 2:45. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Luther Elmer White Jr. (born 27 May 1930 in Blaine, Tennessee; died 7 September 2004 at his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, aged 74) was an American country and bluegrass fiddler, singer and songwriter who turned professional in 1949 and played in turn with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper and the Osborne Brothers. He wrote or co-wrote more than two hundred recorded songs, most of them for Conway Twitty, for whom he also founded and managed the publishing companies, and he took a Grammy as co-writer of 'After the Fire Is Gone', the Twitty and Loretta Lynn duet; he…
Themes
In collections
Christmas Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]