No Tears for Johnny
1966 · Tower 189 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Ian Whitcomb
- Title
- No Tears for Johnny
- Release
- No Tears for Johnny / Be My Baby
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Tower # 189
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Springfield
- Genre
- Rock · Pop Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Pop rock, anti-war. Fight for god and freedom, Johnny gone to war. If many die, we'll send in a hundred more. You're gonna die, no tears for Johnny
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Tower 189 (45-60258), "Mfd. in U.S.A."; "No Tears For Johnny" (Springfield), 2:34, Cheshire Music, Inc. (BMI); produced by Jerry Dennon for Jerden Music. Issued in a black-and-red Tower company sleeve with the large "t" logo. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 10 July 1941, Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. Died 19 April 2020, California, USA