Rusty Draper

Two Little Boys

1970 · Monument Mn 45-1188 · Nashville, Tennessee

Two Little Boys – Rusty Draper (A-side label)

Artist
Rusty Draper
Title
Two Little Boys
Release
It Don't Mean a Thing to Me / Two Little Boys
Year
1970
Label
Monument # Mn 45-1188
Format
7" · Single
Language
English
Country
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Songwriter
T. Morse, E. Madden, A. Brade
Genre
Fanfare · Fanfare
Primary theme
Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective

Annotation

Two Little Boys (Draper, Rusty) Fanfare, pop, soldier's perspective. Two boys play with war toys. Grow up and war comes One boy save the other in battle. Vietnam-era war song

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Monument Mn 45-1188 (11W-3119), white disc jockey copy; "Two Little Boys" (Morse-Madden-Arr. Baden), orig. pub. H. Darewski Music Pub. Co., USA - Francis Day & Hunter Inc. (ASCAP); producers Fred Foster & Ray Pennington; arranged by Jim Hall. Monument Record Corp., Nashville, Tenn., Hollywood, Calif. A promoter's sticker reads "Bedno-Wright Associates, 166 East Superior St., Chicago, Illinois 60611". [From the record sleeve and labels]

About the artist

American singer, born 25 January 1923 in Kirksville, Missouri; died 28 March 2003 in Bellevue, Washington. [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Soldier's Perspective · Toy Soldier · Civil War