Not Even Uncle Sam Can Take the Part
1967 · Sterling S-402 · Boston, Massachusetts
- Artist
- Shelley Stuart
- Title
- Not Even Uncle Sam Can Take the Part
- Release
- Jenny, Jenny / Not Even Uncle Sam Can Take the Part
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Sterling # S-402
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Songwriter
- Elton D. Baker, Lew Tobin
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Not Even Uncle Sam Can Take the Part (Stuart, Shelley) Traditional pop, song-poem. Boston, MA. Patriotic - narrated by sweetheart of a soldier. Drafted to war.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Not Even Uncle Sam Can Take the Part" - Performer / artist: Shelley Stuart - Label: Sterling Records # S-402 - Songwriter: Elton D. Baker, Lew Tobin - Traditional pop, song-poem. Boston, MA. - Patriotic - narrated by sweetheart of a soldier. - Drafted to war.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Sterling Records S-402, 45 RPM, blue and silver label, ASCAP 18896; "Not Even Uncle Sam Can Take the Part" (Elton D. Baker & Lew Tobin), 3:00, arranger Lew Tobin; vocal: Shelley Stuart; 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]
Themes
In collections
Draft Songs · Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]