Long Shaggy Hair
Wesco 45-2107 · Belen, New Mexico
- Artist
- Bobby Sisco
- Title
- Long Shaggy Hair
- Release
- Long Shaggy Hair / I Really Lived It Up
- Label
- Wesco # 45-2107
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Belen, New Mexico, USA
- Songwriter
- Bobby Sisco
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Long Shaggy Hair (Sisco, Bobby) Country. Released Belen, New Mexico, USA Treatment of a homeless veteran - Vietnam-era Long hair, messy cloths. He has been kicked out of town He sold his medal from the war to buy food
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Wesco 45-2107 (SoN 107792), marked "D. J. Copy"; "Long Shaggy Hair" (Bobby Sisco), 2:31, Welco Music BMI; produced by Lloyd Green. "Dist. by Sound of Music Records, Belen, New Mexico". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Bobby Sisco (Robert W. Sisco, 1932-2005), 'The Singing Farm Boy', born in Bolivar, Tennessee, was a country/rockabilly singer who recorded for Mar-Vel, Chess, Glenn and Vee Jay from the 1950s; 'Long Shaggy Hair' (produced by Lloyd Green in Nashville) backed 'I Really Lived It Up' on Wesco 45-2107 in 1972. He died in Munster, Indiana. [Source: Praguefrank's; 45cat]
Themes
Medals · Mistreatment of Vet · Counter-Culture & Hippies · Soldier's Perspective