Credited on the record as Jimmy Curtis.
Johnny Get Your Gun
1969 · Perception PLP 1 · Queens, New York
- Artist
- Jimmy Curtiss
- Credited on the record as
- Jimmy Curtis
- Title
- Johnny Get Your Gun
- Release
- Life
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Perception # PLP 1
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Queens, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Curtiss, Pollock
- Genre
- Singer Songwriter · Singer Songwriter
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Johnny Get Your Gun (J.C.) Folk rock aka Jimmy Curtiss. Anti-war. Draft. Religion. K.I.A. From Queens, New York1 On album Life Latter arrives - off to war, don't know what your fighting for Played with plastic toys as a boy. At 17, played with the girls But now get your gun, there's a bullet made for you. They find you lying in ditch, sent home and buried.Sources1AllMusic↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Perception Records P-2 (P-2 A), green and yellow marbled label (promotional legend inked over); "Johnny Get Your Gun" (Curtiss-Pollock), 3:28, Popdraw Music Corp. (ASCAP); credited to J. C.; strings arranged by Ken Ascher, produced by Perception Prods. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Jimmy Curtiss (born James Martin Stulberger in 1940; died 2 February 2022) was a New York singer, songwriter, producer and label owner, active from the late 1950s, who fronted the Hobbits and the New Hobbits and founded Perception Records in 1969. "Johnny Get Your Gun", which he co-wrote with the rock writer Bruce Pollock, was issued under the initials 'J.C.' on Perception P-2, backed with 'For What I Am', and also appeared on the label's first LP, 'J.C. - Life'. [Source: Discogs; Wikipedia]