One Tall Marine
1987 · Ever Fresh EV-1003 · Dayton, Ohio
- Artist
- Billy Gee
- Title
- One Tall Marine
- Release
- One Tall Marine / People Just Got to Be Free
- Year
- 1987
- Label
- Ever Fresh # EV-1003
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Genre
- Pop · Pop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
One Tall Marine (Gee, Billy) Post-war 80s, patriotic, fanfare / pop Dayton, Ohio, USA Tribute to Oliver North - Vietnam veteran and marine. Regarding the 1985 Lebanon hostage crisis B-side: generic patriotic - people have given their lives in battlefields
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - Praguefrank's carries a Billy Gee page listing a 1967 Nashville session produced by Pete Drake (two Stop Records singles, 1967-69), 'One Tall Marine' (Ever Fresh EV 1003, 1987, possibly a Dayton OH session) and a 1988 Spinit single; no real name or biography documented. [Source: Praguefrank's]
Themes
Patriotic · Oliver North · Lebanon Hostages · Iran-Contra Affair