P.O.W. & M.I.A.
Aki AKI-101 · Tonga
- Artist
- Meteliko
- Title
- P.O.W. & M.I.A.
- Release
- Going Home
- Label
- Aki # AKI-101
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Tonga
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Geoffrey Meteliko - a Polynesian musician born in Tonga, his last known address was Pacific Palisades, California.12 He attended school in Tonga and Hawaii, he later graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He moved to Los Angeles where he began his musical career.3 The song "P.O.W. & M.I.A." (Aki Records # AKI-101) did not have a date on, but was probably released early to mid-1970s. The narrator addressed the soldiers, expressing sympathy for their position and declaring that "somebody cares...we're gonna bring you home". Produced by Bumps Blackwell.Sources1Newspapers.com↩2Newspapers.com↩3meteliko 002↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs
Geoffrey Meteliko - a Polynesian musician born in Tonga, his last known address was Pacific Palisades, California.12 He attended school in Tonga and Hawaii, he later graduated from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He moved to Los Angeles where he began his musical career.3 The song "P.O.W. & M.I.A." (Aki Records # AKI-101) did not have a date on, but was probably released early to mid-1970s. The narrator addressed the soldiers, expressing sympathy for their position and declaring that "somebody cares...we're gonna bring you home". Produced by Bumps Blackwell. Sources1Newspapers.com↩2Newspapers.com↩3meteliko 002↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: P.O.W., M.I.A., we want you, and miss you, and love you / We gonna bring you home, we know your troubles so hard to bear / We want you to know somehow somebody cares / You know how we hang our heads and cry from the unjust pain and shame... / P.O.W., M.I.A., you're a long way from home / Don't you weep, and don't you cry, don't you moan, we're gonna bring you home / You know how we hang our heads... / P.O.W., M.I.A., we want you, and miss you, and love you... / We're gonna bring you home, we're gonna bring you home
About the artist
Geoffrey Meteliko was a Tongan-born singer and songwriter who came to the United States by way of Brigham Young University's Hawaii campus and worked the American supper-club and Polynesian-revue circuit, appearing at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, the Camelback Inn at Scottsdale and Don the Beachcomber at Marina del Rey. He recorded the single "Si'i 'Ofa (You Are Lovely)" / 'Got To Find A Way' for Happy Tiger Records in 1969 and 'That Lovin' Island Man' for Main Track Records (MT-5001) in 1976. "P.O.W. & M.I.A.", which ran to 4 minutes 59 seconds and which he wrote himself, closed side…