Letters Have No Arms
1966 · Champion · USA
- Artist
- Johnny Mac
- Title
- Letters Have No Arms
- Release
- Chosen to Wear the Green Beret / Letters Have No Arms
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Champion
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Johnny Mac
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation — US Military & Veteran Songs
Taken from the LP above, Johnny Mac released this single, including a slight variation on the "Ballad of the Green Beret" theme, with the track "Chosen to Wear the Green Beret", narrated from the perspective of a veteran, who had "grown old" but had "fought many battles". Thus he understood "the price that you pay". The lyrics described the green berets as "the best fighting man in our country".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Champion, black-and-silver label, 5810 So. Normandie Ave., Los Angeles, California, Side Two, 45 RPM; "Letters Have No Arms" (Johnny Mac), time 2:10, Modern Music Pub. Co. BMI; produced by Bill Lazerus. No catalogue number printed on this side. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Vocalist on the budget cash-in LP 'Ballad Of The Green Beret' (Crown Records CLP 5510, Los Angeles, 1966), which includes 'Chosen To Wear The Green Beret'; Crown was the Bihari brothers' Los Angeles budget label. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]