Credited on the record as Sonny Marcell.
A Soldier's Dream Heaven
Center [Royersford] 1002 · Royersford, Pennsylvania
- Artist
- Sonny Marshall
- Credited on the record as
- Sonny Marcell
- Title
- A Soldier's Dream Heaven
- Release
- A Soldier's Dream Heaven / The Mighty Mo
- Label
- Center [Royersford] # 1002
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Royersford, Pennsylvania, USA
- Songwriter
- Ralph Williams, Frank Hartman
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop · Novelty
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Soldier's Dream Heaven, A (Marcell, Sonny) Royersford, Pennsylvania, USA Traditional pop, song-poem, Vietnam-era? Soldier's dream that all the officers and generals did the work. The privates gave out the orders. Novelty.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "A Soldier's Dream Heaven" - Label: Center Records # 1002 - Songwriter: Ralph Williams, Frank Hartman - Note: label said "WANTED: Military Songs" - Royersford, Pennsylvania, USA - Traditional pop, song-poem, Vietnam-era? Sounds 50s, but included as context song - Soldier's dream that all the officers and generals did the work - The privates gave out the orders - Soldier's perspective - Novelty device - Royersford, PA
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Center Records 1002-B (6302143), red label, "614 West Ridge Pike, Royersford, Pa." with the printed call "WANTED: Military Songs"; "A Soldier's Dream Heaven" (Ralph Williams–Frank Hartman), 2:25, American Music House (ASCAP). [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
"Sonny Marcell" is one of several stage names of the song-poem vocalist Marcell Stewart Simpson - also credited as Sammy Marshall, Sonny Marshall, Mark Taylor, Marc Stewart and Chuck Jones - a hired studio singer across 1950s-70s song-poem labels. His release under this name is "The Mighty Mo" / "A Soldier's Dream Heaven" (Center Records, 1963). [Source: Discogs]