Santa, Bring My Daddy Home for Christmas
1969 · Metromedia MM-154 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Marc Copage
- Title
- Santa, Bring My Daddy Home for Christmas
- Release
- Santa, Bring My Daddy Home for Christmas / Santa, Please Repair My Toys for Christmas
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Metromedia # MM-154
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- R. Freed, G. Saxon
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
The song "Santa, Bring My Daddy Home for Christmas" (Metromedia Records # MM-154), sung by the African-American 7-year old child star Marc Copage, of NBC's television program Julia, contained elements of patriotism, mixed with concern for the plight of the soldier and the family left behind. In the TV program, Julia, played by Diahann Carroll, was a single mother, whose fighter pilot husband died in Vietnam.123 The magazine Ebony reported in December 1969 that Copage would feature as the poster boy of the Christmas Seal Campaign to fight lung disease.4 Copage narrated the song from the perspective of a child whose father was fighting in Vietnam "to keep our country free". The child told Santa that his "daddy is a very important man of the United States army".Sources1Ebony, November 1968↩2The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s (David R. Farber, 2001)↩3The A to Z of African-American Television (Kathleen Fearn-Banks, 2009)↩4Ebony, December 1969↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Santa, bring my daddy home for Christmas / He's been away from us for almost a year / Mum says he's across the sea, hoping to keep our country free / Gee I wish he could do it over here / I'd love to get a bicycle for Christmas... / But if you bring my daddy home for Christmas I wouldn't need those other things at all / The other night I saw my mummy crying / She wouldn't say why, but I sure knew / So Santa bring my daddy home for Christmas so mum can have a merry Christmas too... / Santa, you know something? My daddy is a very important man of the United States army / He's a soldier... / Mum says he can't come home yet / But Santa, she never thought of asking you
Notes
Metromedia Records MM-154 (ZTSP 222173), white label marked "Radio Station Copy Not For Sale" and "Plug Side"; stock copy on blue label as MMS-154 (ZTS 222217), stereo, in a blue Metromedia company sleeve with a ring of "M" logos. "Santa, Bring My Daddy Home for Christmas" (R. Freed, G. Saxon), Sunny Skies Music Co. (ASCAP), 2:12; produced by Ron Kramer, arranged and conducted by Jack Smalley; "A Metromedia Company". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 21 June 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
Themes
In collections
Children on Record · Christmas Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]