Uncle Sam's Navy
1967 · Chart 59-1015 · USA
- Artist
- Johnny Martin
- Title
- Uncle Sam's Navy
- Release
- Uncle Sam's Navy / Right on the Edge of Loneliness
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Chart # 59-1015
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Sanders
- Genre
- Rock · Pop Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
"Uncle Sam's Navy" (Chart Records # 59-1015) by Johnny Martin
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Johnny Martin (John W. Martin, born 1 June 1949 in Missouri; died 1 March 2003) was an American country singer who began recording for Slim Williamson's Chart Records in 1967, cutting his sessions at the RCA Victor studio in Nashville, and who went on to make singles and albums for the Raven, Marlew and History labels through the 1970s and early 1980s, among them the albums 'Talk About Lonesome' (1979) and 'Johnny Martin's Lay-Back Easy-Feelin'' (1981). His later sessions were cut at Studio Eight in Boise, Idaho and at Audio Loft Studios in Macks Creek, Missouri. "Uncle Sam's Navy", written…