Kay
1968 · Columbia 4-44682 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- John Wesley Ryles
- Title
- Kay
- Release
- Kay / Come On Home
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Columbia # 4-44682
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Hank Mills
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Country artist born on 2 December 1950 in Bastrop, Louisiana, USA, he scored a few hits in the late 1960s and 70s, with his most famous song being "Kay" (Columbia Records # 4-44682), an example of anti-war sentiment spreading into the traditionally conservative country genre. It was about a taxi driver in Nashville, who lost his girlfriend, Kay, to music stardom. It contained a single line reference to Vietnam, in which "two young soldiers" told the taxi driver that "they hate that war in Vietnam". It reached # 9 Billboard Country charts, and # 83 Billboard Hot 100. (1) An alternative version was released in 1978 - Kay - which had slightly different lyrics: "two young soldiers....told me how they fought a war they never won".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
"two young soldiers" told the taxi driver that "they hate that war in Vietnam"
About the artist
born on 2 December 1950 in Bastrop, Louisiana, USA