My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Christmas
1963 · Colpix CP 715 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Toni Wine
- Title
- My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Christmas
- Release
- My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Christmas / What a Pity
- Year
- 1963
- Label
- Colpix # CP 715
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Wine
- Genre
- Teen Pop · Teen Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Christmas" (Colpix Records # CP 715) does not actually mention the Vietnam conflict, but the narrator referred to her boyfriend being in the army. It reflected the situation of wives and girlfriends left on the home front. Toni Wine, born in New York in 1947, wrote and recorded this single in 1963 at the age of sixteen.1 By then, President Kennedy and Johnson had already begun to send small numbers of US troops and advisers to Vietnam, although the US also had a significant number of troops stationed in Germany. The single reached # 22 in the Billboard Christmas singles chart, on 28 December 1963.2 Jonie Taps and Harry Cohn founded the label Coldpix in 1958, a division of Columbia Pictures, which largely concentrated on music for TV and movies.Sources1Billboard, 7 December 1963↩2Billboard, 28 December 1963↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Christmas Songs
The song "My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Christmas" (Colpix Records # CP 715) does not actually mention the Vietnam conflict, but the narrator referred to her boyfriend being in the army. It reflected the situation of wives and girlfriends left on the home front. Toni Wine, born in New York in 1947, wrote and recorded this single in 1963 at the age of sixteen.1 By then, President Kennedy and Johnson had already begun to send small numbers of US troops and advisers to Vietnam, although the US also had a significant number of troops stationed in Germany. The single reached # 22 in the Billboard Christmas singles chart, on 28 December 1963.2 Jonie Taps and Harry Cohn founded the label Coldpix in 1958, a division of Columbia Pictures, which largely concentrated on music for TV and movies. Sources1Billboard, 7 December 1963↩2Billboard, 28 December 1963↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I've written everyday since he's been away / And I've waited patiently... / I haven't seen my boyfriend in such a long time / You see, he is in the service... / I'm not really mad at Uncle Sam / He should understand we girls don't want to share our man with anyone else
Notes
Colpix Records CP-715 (ZTSP-89942), gold label, "Colpix Records, a division of Columbia Pictures Corporation, New York, N.Y.", made in U.S.A.; "My Boyfriend's Coming Home for Christmas" (T. Wine), Screen Gems-Columbia Music - BMI, 2:44. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 4 June 1947, Manhattan, New York, USA. Currently Memphis, Tennessee, USA