Telegram From Viet Nam
Jewel [Cincinnati] LPS 210 · Shreveport, Louisiana
- Artist
- Esco Hankins & Jackie
- Title
- Telegram From Viet Nam
- Release
- Working God's Fields
- Label
- Jewel [Cincinnati] # LPS 210
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
- Genre
- Country · Country Gospel · Bluegrass
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Telegram From Vietnam (Hankins, Esco & Jackie) Country gospel. Hankins from Maynardville, Tennessee. Recorded in Ohio.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Patriotic / Plight / Draft / Religion / K.I.A.
About the artist
Esco Hankins (born 1 January 1924 in Union County, Tennessee; died 18 November 1990) was a country singer in the Roy Acuff mould who settled in Lexington, Kentucky in the early 1950s, where he and his wife and duet partner Jackie (Jackie Tincher, married 1954) ran a record shop and appeared on the Kentucky Barn Dance and later the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree. 'Telegram From Viet Nam', a duet with Jackie, was recorded at Jewel in Cincinnati and issued on the LP Jewel LP-210 in 1972. [Source: AllMusic; Praguefrank's Country Discography]
Themes
Patriotic · Soldier's Perspective · Draft · Religion · K.I.A.
In collections
Draft Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]