Credited on the record as Shelley Stuart & The Five Stars.
No News Is Good News
1969 · Sterling S-521 · Boston, Massachusetts
- Artist
- Shelley Stuart
- Credited on the record as
- Shelley Stuart & The Five Stars
- Title
- No News Is Good News
- Release
- No News Is Good News / What Are You Going to Do When I'm Gone
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Sterling # S-521
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Songwriter
- Dorothy Abernathy, Lew Tobin
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
No News Is Good News (Stuart, Shelley) Sterling Records # S-521 Song-poem. Plight. Tet offensive 1968. Religion Reference to Tan Son Nhut Air Base1 Country pop. Composed by Dorothy Abernathy & Lew Tobin (Tobin co-founder of the label with Shelley Stuart).Sources1Wikipedia: Tan Son Nhut Air Base↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "No News Is Good News" - Label: Sterling Records # S-521 - Songwriter: Dorothy Abernathy & Lew Tobin (Tobin co-founder of the label with Shelley Stuart) - Song-poem. Plight. Tet offensive 1968. Religion - Reference to Tan Son Nhut Air Base1 - Country pop. - Boston, MA,Sources1Wikipedia: Tan Son Nhut Air Base↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: It was their lunar day when they began to shoot / I though about my darling stationed at Tan Son Nhut / No news is good news, so the old folks say / No news is good news, my hope is true I pray / Oh its been so lonely, ? getting blue / If only this old war would end so I could be close to you... / Its been two weeks tomorrow since I heard a word from you / That old saying keeps ringing in my ears I sure hope those / Words are true, when I think of you darling so far away... / No news is good news, so the old folks say / No news is good news, my hope is true I pray / I know that god will keep you in his tender loving care / If only we back home will keep you in our prayer
Notes
Sterling Records S-521, 45 RPM, blue and silver label, ASCAP 27196; "No News Is Good News" (Dorothy Abernathy & Lew Tobin), 3:30, arranger Art Kempel; Shelley Stuart & The Five Stars; Ace Distrib., Box 64, Boston, Mass. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Pseudonym of Shirley Tobin, American song-poem vocalist of the 1960s-70s and the featured female voice of Sterling Records, the Boston-based song-poem label founded by her husband Lew Tobin (Five Star Music Masters); she recorded dozens of client-written topliners for the label, occasionally co-writing under her real name. [Source: Discogs / songpoemmusic.com (AS/PMA) / WFMU]