Trying to Make It Home
1969 · Galico G-45-102 · USA
- Artist
- Rudy Ludaway
- Title
- Trying to Make It Home
- Release
- What's Wrong Baby / Trying to Make It Home
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Galico # G-45-102
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "Trying to Make It Home" (Galico # G-45-102) by Rudy Ludaway - originally released on two Georgian based labels - Galico and Awake Records (# 45-300). It later appeared on the national label United Artists (# UA 50590). Ludaway wrote and produced the track, although the record also said "Bobby Smith Productions". The song is narrated from a soldier in the war, missing his sweetheart back home: "I miss you baby...I can't come home now although I wanna". The soldier said that he will "fight a good fight" in order to make it home. The soldier did not know or care "whose wrong, right" - he was just doing his service.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Rudy Ludaway was a southern soul singer with, per Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven, a light tenor and real songwriting ability. His debut "Trying To Make It Home" b/w "What's Wrong Baby" appeared first on two small Georgia labels, Awake (300) and Galico (102), before being licensed to United Artists (50590) in 1969 - Sir Shambling calls it "a southern soul beauty in the grand manner". A later single, "Soulville U.S.A." b/w "Somebody Could Charge You", appeared on Goodie Train (018). The Macon, Georgia entrepreneur Bobby Smith is linked to the Galico release. [Source: Sir Shambling's Deep Soul…