Teenage Son's Open Letter to His Father
1968 · Date 2-1610 · USA
- Artist
- Robert Tamkin
- Title
- Teenage Son's Open Letter to His Father
- Release
- A Teenage Son's Open Letter to His Father / Hey God
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Date # 2-1610
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Spoken Word
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "A Teenage Son's Open Letter to His Father" (Date # 2-1610) by Robert Tamkin, another response to Lundberg. This one started with the interesting scenario of the teenage boy being locked in prison, as a result of burning his drat card. However, it soon slipped into a father-son relationship story, about how both sides lacked understanding of each other
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Draft Songs
The song "A Teenage Son's Open Letter to His Father" (Date # 2-1610) by Robert Tamkin, another response to Lundberg. This one started with the interesting scenario of the teenage boy being locked in prison, as a result of burning his drat card. However, it soon slipped into a father-son relationship story, about how both sides lacked understanding of each other:
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "A Teenage Son's Open Letter To His Father" (Date Records 2-1610, 1968), a spoken-word single on the Vietnam-era generational divide, shared with Rev. Bill Alberts PhD, whose "Hey God" is the flip; Alberts also produced and wrote. A Los Angeles Times obituary for a Robert Marc Tamkin (USC graduate, Korean War-era Army veteran, West Hollywood travel-agency co-owner, died 6 February 2009) may be the same man given the surname's rarity, but it mentions no music and gives no birth or death place, so the identification is not confirmed. [Source: Discogs; Legacy.com/LA Times obituary]