Little Bitty Soldier Boys
1968 · ABC 45-11050 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Curly Putman
- Title
- Little Bitty Soldier Boys
- Release
- Little Bitty Soldier Boys / Untouchable You
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- ABC # 45-11050
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Curly Putman
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Little Bitty Soldier Boys (Putman, Curly) Country singer, born Princeton, Alabama. Based in Nashville, Tennessee. Children playing with toy guns, the narrator hoped they could continue to play and not grow up to go to a real war, such as Vietnam. (1) (2)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Claude 'Curly' Putman Jr. (20 November 1930, Princeton, Alabama - 30 October 2016, Lebanon, Tennessee), American country songwriter elected to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame, best known for writing 'Green, Green Grass of Home' and co-writing 'He Stopped Loving Her Today'; he also recorded in his own right for ABC in the late 1960s. [Source: Wikipedia; Discogs; obituaries]