Credited on the record as John Dough.
Vietnam Sweetheart
1970 · Pami 70597 · USA
- Artist
- Rodd Keith
- Credited on the record as
- John Dough
- Title
- Vietnam Sweetheart
- Release
- Vietnam Sweetheart / When They Ring Those Golden Bells
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Pami # 70597
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Irene Dollar Heffner
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Vietnam Sweetheart (Dough, John) song-poem
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Vietnam Sweetheart" - Label: Pami # 70597 - Songwriter: Irene Dollar Heffner - Song-poem, - Traditional pop - Killed in action, soldier's perspective, patriotic - John Dough aka Rodd Keith - same song as appeared Vietnam Sweetheart / Living High (Preview) under the artist name Rodd Keith.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I'm a thousand miles from home dear, int he land of Vietnam / Where the days are mighty dangerous, and the nights are sad and long / Where the captain gives the orders, and we do as we are told / It's mighty lonesome darling...I miss your letters darling... / How I wished this war was over, for I'd come home right away / Every night I pray to heaven for god to give us ease / There is not much room in a foxhole to pray on bended knees / Shrapnel just now hit me, I can't finish this letter to you / Maybe somewhere there's a buddy left who will send this on to you / Take my dog tag I'm sending, I've worn it a year today / Wear it proudly for me darling, and be proud of the USA
Notes
PAMI Records 70597A, 45 RPM; "Vietnam Sweetheart" (Irene Dollar Heffner), Arthur Music, A.S.C.A.P.; artist credited as John Dough. Yellow label. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Rodd Keith (born Rodney Keith Eskelin, 30 January 1937; died 15 December 1974 on the Hollywood Freeway in Los Angeles, aged 37) was the most celebrated of the American song-poem singers, a prolific multi-instrumentalist, arranger, songwriter and vocalist who cut hundreds of sides for Sandy Stanton's Film City label, for Clarence Freed's Preview Records of Hollywood during his most productive late-1960s period, and latterly for Maury S. Rosen's MSR Records; he was the father of the avant-garde saxophonist Ellery Eskelin. "Vietnam Sweetheart", a setting of a lyric by the song-poet Irene Dollar…
Themes
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]