Letter to the President
MRC MRC-1142 · Waynesboro, Virginia
- Artist
- Tom Scott
- Title
- Letter to the President
- Release
- Letter to the President / New World Tomorrow
- Label
- MRC # MRC-1142
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Waynesboro, Virginia, USA
- Songwriter
- M. Bransford
- Genre
- Pop · Spoken Word · Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Letter to the President (Scott, Tom) Child narration, 'America the Beautiful'. Waynesboro, Virginia, USA. Letter to president: father away to war. Need to look after mum. KIA letter arrived: can you help other boys from losing their dads?
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - no release of "Letter To The President" credited to a Tom Scott could be located on Discogs or in the Bear Family "...Next Stop Is Vietnam" tracklist. Neither documented namesake anchors: the Los Angeles jazz saxophonist, nor the composer-folk singer Tom Scott (1912-1961), who died before the era. [Source: Discogs; Bear Family tracklist check]
Themes
Child · Home Front Perspective · Anti-War · K.I.A. · Fighting For