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
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
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