Short-Timing Sailor Boy
1971 · Goldust LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Artist
- Dick Jonas
- Title
- Short-Timing Sailor Boy
- Release
- FSH Volume II - YGBSM
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Goldust # LPS-157
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation — US Military & Veteran Songs
The second of three album released by Dick Jonas during the Vietnam War era - from Florida, USA, he served in the US Air Force during the war, taking part in 125 missions. (1) While in Vietnam, Jonas wrote songs and played guitar for the US troops there and as part of pacification programs. Some of these recordings were captured in the General Edwin Lansdale Collection of Vietnam War Songs - 6 ten inch tapes of one-hundred-sixty songs by American military personnel in Vietnam - stored at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center. (2) (3) This album FSH Volume II - "YGBSM" (Goldust Records # LPS157) was recorded in 1971, shortly after his first album FSH Volume I (Goldust Records # LPS156), recorded in 1969 - a collection of contemporary folk songs, influenced by the US folk revival of the 1960s, as well as including some country music influences. (4) He also recorded during the Vietnam War years the 1973 album Two Sides of Dick Jonas (Goldust Records # LPS-162). He featured on the 1991 compilation In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War (Flying Fish Records # # FF 70552), part of the Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project. (5) The song "Battle…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born Florida, USA. Currently Arizona, USA.