Mail Call
1969 · Decca 32623 · USA
- Artist
- The Warm
- Title
- Mail Call
- Release
- Mail Call / Some Kind-A Wonderful
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Decca # 32623
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Rock · Pop Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Mail Call (Warm, The) (Decca Records # 32623) Pop rock. Impact of the war on the soldier - soldier's perspective. Recalled the military practice of handing out letters to the soldiers. At the end, a man repeatedly read an injured man's letter to him from his sweetheart, the only one he had received. "Mail call, Brown, another letter from your mother... Frank, I guess that smile means the baby looks Just like you, Jones, here's a letter from Jane What's that Smith, no we haven't reached your name Mail call, Kent, you've really got a big one here Roberts, smell that perfume, Collins, see I told You not to worry, she'd write you soon Skip, sorry not one today, hold on there, this one Came, my mistake, it's for you Smith, sure I'll read it: 'My darling, just a line to tell you I'm thinking of you How much I love you, sorry it's been such a long time You know how I get behind but we're all praying for you So get better and come home soon, signed the one who Will always love you', okay Smith, I'll come back later And read all to you again, I can remember it all Poor guy, I know how it is, to never get any mail"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Some Kind-A Wonderful" / "Mail Call" (Decca 32623, 1969), credited to the Discogs-disambiguated "The Warm (2)". No membership or origin documentation exists beyond the single. [Source: Discogs]