The Minor's Plea
Howdy H-1114 · Blythe, California
- Artist
- Lonnie McDonald
- Title
- The Minor's Plea
- Release
- The Minor's Plea / Victory Song
- Label
- Howdy # H-1114
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Blythe, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Lonnie McDonald
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Minor's Plea, The (McDonald, Lonnie) Victory Song (McDonald, Lonnie) Jazz pop & country novelty. Vietnam mentioned on the picture sleeve. Hollywood, California. A-side: old enough to fight but not to drink. B-side: patriotic. Thought WW2 was the last conflict. But wars carry on.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: If I'm not old enough to drink - why should I go to sea, But if I'm old enough to fight and for my country die, I'm old enough to quench my thirst whenever I am dry.
Notes
Howdy Records H-1114, yellow label, 6201 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, Calif.; "The Minor's Plea" (Lonnie McDonald), 2:05, Howdy Music (BMI) (12865); flip "Victory Song" (Lonnie McDonald), 2:35, Howdy Music (BMI) (4682). The picture sleeve front, a blue drawing signed D. Linde, shows three soldiers and a sailor walking past a bar marked "Cocktails" and "No Minors Allowed" beside a newspaper stand headed "Action in Vietnam", with "As written and recorded by Lonnie McDonald on Howdy Records" and "Lonnie McDonald Fan Club, Box 14316, San Diego, Calif.". The back shows a photo of McDonald with a facsimile signature, the caption "'Man of Many Songs' wrote & recorded The Minor's Plea for you" signed Hank Lowry, and a boxed verse beginning "Let's re-arrange and make the change — this is 'The Minor's Plea'". "Victory Song" also appears on a Howdy promotional pressing, H-1113, "Promotion Not…
About the artist
Other label address: Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Themes
Soldier's Perspective · WW2 · Navy · Voting Rights · Draft Inequality · Drugs · Alcohol · Draft
In collections
Draft Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]