Private First Class So and So
1967 · Wal Dee WDR-45-7 · USA
- Artist
- Barbara March
- Title
- Private First Class So and So
- Release
- Private First Class So and So / I'm Gonna Leave You
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Wal Dee # WDR-45-7
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- March, McGuire
- Genre
- Teen Pop · Teen Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Private First Class So and So (March, Barbara) Teen pop, country style. Child / teenager? Draft. Narrated by sweetheart of a man who received his draft card - classified 1A. He went to training camp, and then overseas. Papers reported a fire fight in the war. She then received a telegram which said that he had been killed in action (KIA).
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Wal-Dee WDR-45-7, Side A, yellow label with a shield-and-jet logo; "Private First Class So and So" (March-McGuire), 3:05, Waldee Publishing Co., BMI, and Thrush Music, BMI; arranged and produced by Robert Mersey. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
In collections
Children on Record · Draft Songs · US Combat Perspective Songs [War Years]