Uncle Sam Needs You
1961 · Smash S-1716 · Chicago, Illinois
- Artist
- The Viceroys
- Title
- Uncle Sam Needs You
- Release
- Uncle Sam Needs You / I'm So Sorry
- Year
- 1961
- Label
- Smash # S-1716
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Songwriter
- H.B. Barnum, Frank Robinson
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Doo-Wop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Uncle Sam Needs You (The Viceroys) Doo-wop, soul. Draft, soldier's perspective. What does Uncle Sam want with me? Sure got to go (reluctance), back in the army I don't like it in Berlin, in foxhole, with M1 Pre-Vietnam War years.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Smash S-1716 (YW21901), red label, a division of Mercury Record Corp.; "Uncle Sam Needs You" (H.B. Barnum-Frank Robinson), Hidle Music (BMI), 2:30; an H. B. Production, vocal. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Featuring Jimmy Norman
Themes
Draft Reluctance · Draft Dodger · Berlin · M1 Rifle · Foxhole · Draft