The Shining Medal
Ohio 36812 · Hudson, Ohio
- Artist
- Ethel Delaney
- Title
- The Shining Medal
- Release
- The Shining Medal / Ridin' Down the Trail Together
- Label
- Ohio # 36812
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hudson, Ohio, USA
- Songwriter
- G. Feith, L. Howlett
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Shining Medal, The (Delaney, Ethel) Country. Home front perspective, K.I.A., medals, anti-war Hudson, Ohio, USA You sailed to Vietnam - you took our world with you. Letters spoke of coming home when there is peace. Me and baby girl miss you Today I'm filled with grief, my darling sleeps across the sea while I hold his medal and our daughter. May we have peace
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Ethel P. Delaney (born 15 October 1926; died 25 February 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American country singer and champion yodeler - the 'Swiss Miss Yodeler' - from Ohio, married to Russ Delaney. She began on West Virginia radio in 1934, recorded extensively for Ohio-based labels, and was inducted into America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004. [Source: Discogs artist profile; Las Vegas Review-Journal obituary]