The Rice Bowl
1971 · Mercury 73259 · Chicago, Illinois
- Artist
- Rich Little
- Title
- The Rice Bowl
- Release
- The Draft / The Rice Bowl
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Mercury # 73259
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Songwriter
- Sascha Burland
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Comedy · Novelty
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Draft, The (Little, Rich) Rice Bowl (Little, Rich) Comedy. A-side: Nixon impression - he received a draft letter, from himself. He went down to the draft board to clear up the mistake. But ended up getting processed. B-side: Vietnam War commentated on like a football match.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Mercury 73259, white "Promotional Copy — Not for Sale" pressing, "Manufactured and distributed by Mercury Record Productions, Inc."; "The Draft", 3:18, matrix 1-48711, backed with "The Rice Bowl", 2:30, matrix 1-48713, both "Written & Directed by Sascha Burland"; background music by T.J. Valentino, Inc. (ASCAP); produced by Arch Lustberg, "A C/Hear Production", Copyright © 1971 C/Hear Productions; "From Mercury's album 'Politics and Popcorn Starring Rich Little' SRM-1-617". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 26 November 1938, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Currently Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Themes
Combat · Nixon · Agnew · Hanoi · Counter-Culture & Hippies