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 · Nashville Sound
- 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.12Sources1Billboard, 9 March 1968↩2nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com: Curly putman (archived copy)↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
ABC Records 45-11050 (AMP 45-14676), black label, "A Product of ABC Records Inc., New York, N.Y. 10019"; "Little Bitty Soldier Boys" (Curly Putman), 2:27, Green Grass Pub. - BMI; produced by Buddy Killen. [From the record sleeve and labels]
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]