They Got Me
1966 · Starday 749 · Beaumont, Texas
- Artist
- Johnny Bond
- Title
- They Got Me
- Release
- Silent Walls / They Got Me
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Starday # 749
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Beaumont, Texas, USA
- Songwriter
- Johnny Bond
- Genre
- Country · Country · Novelty
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
They Got Me (Bond, Johnny) Country, novelty, draft. Received letter from Uncle Sam - time to go to Vietnam: they got me! Met a local girl over there, ended up married with lots of children. Later imprisoned back in the US for tax evasion.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Starday 749 (7920), 45 RPM, white "Plug Side — Promotion Copy — Not for Sale" label; "They Got Me" (J. Bond), Johnny Bond (vocal), 2:46, Red River, BMI; "A Tommy Hill Starday Studio Production"; "From Nashville, Tennessee — The Musical Heart of America". Company sleeve with Starday, Federal, King, De Luxe and Bethlehem logos, "Distributed by Starday-King Records Inc., Box 8188, Nashville, Tennessee 37207". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 1 June 1915, Enville, Oklahoma, USA. Died 12 June 1978, Burbank, California, USA