Wake Up America
1971 · Plantation PLP-15 · USA
- Artist
- Terry Nelson
- Title
- Wake Up America
- Release
- Wake Up America
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Plantation # PLP-15
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Billboard, 8 May 1971. Patriotic songs. Included My Lai song: "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley". Other Vietnam War references: "Wake Up America" "War Baby" "Wars and War" "When the Great Men Signed Their Names" "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Terry Nelson Skinner (born 24 August 1943; died 14 November 2014), disc jockey from Russellville, Alabama. With studio pick-up group C Company he recorded The Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley (Quickit, reissued Plantation, 1971) at FAME Studios, Muscle Shoals - a gold record selling nearly two million copies. Death location not stated in verified sources. [Source: Wikipedia]