Tricia Tell Your Daddy
1969 · Steed 45-715 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Andy Kim
- Title
- Tricia Tell Your Daddy
- Release
- Tricia Tell Your Daddy / Foundation of My Soul
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Steed # 45-715
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- J. Barry, M. Sanders
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock · Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "Tricia, Tell Your Daddy" (Steed Records # 715), performed on this single by Andy Kim in 1969, targeted President Nixon's daughter Tricia. The narrator pleaded with her to spread "love and peace", and stop the "people dying needlessly" because Nixon "is everybody's daddy now". Composed by Jeff Barry & Marty Joe Kupersmith (aka Marty Sanders) of the band Jay and The Americans, who released their own version of the song in 1970: Tricia Tell Your Daddy, arranged by Donald Fagen & Walter Becker, otherwise known as Steely Dan.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Tricia tell your daddy on a family Sunday morning / When he comes downstairs a-yawning from his bed / When there ain't no politicians and there ain't no competition for his head / Tell him he's the man Tricia / The world is in his hands Tricia / Tell him that you're not his only child / Cause he's everybody's daddy for awhile... / Use the little words like love and peace... / To end the people dying needlessly
Notes
Steed Records 45-715 (ST-1029), Jeff Barry Enterprises, white promotional copy ("Promotional Copy - Not for Sale") with rearing-horse logo; "Tricia Tell Your Daddy" (J. Barry - M. Sanders), Unart Music Corp./New Life Pub. Co., Inc. (BMI), time 3:07; produced by Jeff Barry, arranged by Ron Frangipane. Distributed by Dot Records, Inc., Hollywood, Calif. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born Montréal, QC, Canada. Currently Los Angeles, California, USA.