Watergate Blues
1973 · Mercury 73394 · USA
- Artist
- Tom T. Hall
- Title
- Watergate Blues
- Release
- Watergate Blues / Spokane Motel Blues
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Mercury # 73394
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Tom T. Hall
- Genre
- Country · Nashville Sound
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Watergate Blue (Hall, Tom T.) About Nixon, reference to Vietnam. Country pop.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Mercury 73394 (2-50206), red label; "Watergate Blues" (Tom T. Hall), 3:00, Hallnote Music, BMI; produced by Jerry Kennedy; ℗ 1973 Phonogram Inc.; manufactured and distributed by Phonogram Inc., with Philips, Mercury and Vertigo logos. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
American country singer-songwriter, born 25 May 1936 in Olive Hill, Kentucky; wrote 'Hello Vietnam'; died 20 August 2021 in Franklin, Tennessee. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
Nixon · Watergate · JFK · Wallace · McGovern · John Dean · John Mitchell · Haldeman · Hubert Humphrey · Muskie · Eisenhower · Truman · Roosevelt