The Square
1965 · Dot 45-16701 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- Dick Whittinghill
- Title
- The Square
- Release
- The Square / Apology at Bedtime
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Dot # 45-16701
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- Charles H. Brower, Billy Vaughn
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Square, The (Whittinghill, Dick) Pop, fanfare. Square - patriotic, volunteer, try to do his best Respect for the flag, believes in god. Vietnam-era conservative
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Dot 45-16701 (MB-19488), black "Ultra High Fidelity" label dated 1-65; "The Square" (Charles H. Brower-Billy Vaughn), 3:25, Vin-Sun Music Corp., ASCAP; produced by Randy Wood; Dot Records, Inc., Hollywood, California, a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation. The picture sleeve front, titled "The Square" in green, shows a smiling Whittinghill seated on the floor in a suit and two-tone shoes, holding a small US flag and a straw boater; the back is printed "KMPC Los Angeles – A Golden West Broadcasters Station", listing GWB stations KMPC Los Angeles, KTLA-TV Los Angeles, KSFO San Francisco, KEX Portland and KVI Seattle-Tacoma. Also in a Dot company sleeve, "The Nation's Best-Selling Records", Sunset & Vine, Hollywood 28, California. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Dick Whittinghill (born 1913 in Montana; died 2001) was an American singer and broadcaster. He sang with the Pied Pipers before becoming the long-running morning disc jockey at KMPC in Los Angeles, where he worked for some forty years. 'The Square' was issued on Dot 45-16701 in 1965. [Source: Discogs; Wikipedia; Los Angeles Times obituary]
Themes
Patriotic · Anti-Protest · Religion · Alcohol · Flag · Volunteer
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]