Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes
1963 · Capitol 5045 · Los Angeles, California
- Artist
- The Gateway Trio
- Title
- Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes
- Release
- Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes / Poor Man's Travelin' Blues
- Year
- 1963
- Label
- Capitol # 5045
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Rod McKuen
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes (Gateway Trio, The) Folk-rock, plight, Vietnam-era. Children and students sent to war, trained to kill. References WW2 and Korea. Composed by Rod McKuen, who released it as a single in 1971. Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes / My Mother's Eyes
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Capitol 5045 (45-50234), yellow-and-orange swirl label; "Soldiers Who Want to Be Heroes" (Rod McKuen), 2:25, In Music Company, ASCAP; produced by Kermit Walter; 9-233. Housed in a black-and-white Capitol company sleeve. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
The Gateway Trio was an American folk act established in 1962 in San Francisco - Jerry Walter (ex-Gateway Singers) and guitarist Betty Mann, later joined by bassist Milt Chapman (ex-Axidentals) - recording for Capitol before ceasing operations in 1965. "Soldiers Who Want To Be Heroes" b/w "Poor Man's Travelin' Blues" (1963) is a Rod McKuen composition, reissued on Ace's Rod McKuen songbook compilation in 2017. [Source: Discogs artist profile]