My Soldier Boy
Ronnie 2325 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- May Redding
- Title
- My Soldier Boy
- Release
- My Soldier Boy / My Heart
- Label
- Ronnie # 2325
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Virginia Dochterman
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
My Soldier Boy (Redding, May) Song-poem. New York, USA. Country music. Generic Vietnam-era soldier boy song.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "My Soldier Boy" - Label: Ronnie # 2325 - Songwriter: Virginia Dochterman - New York, USA. Country music - Generic Vietnam-era soldier boy song - Home front perspective - Waiting for my soldier boy to come marching home to me
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - no personal biographical information could be established for this artist, though her working context is now documented: May Redding was an American song-poem vocalist active from the early 1960s to the late 1970s, and was one of the two principal singers, alongside Ben Tate, on the Ronnie label, a vanity house that set amateur lyricists' verses to professional studio arrangements and was distributed by Paragon Productions of 1265 Broadway, New York. Her Ronnie output ran from 1962 to at least 1978 and encompassed romantic ballads, novelty numbers, topical material such as 'God…