Lefty Pritchett and Patricia Nix
What Price Freedom
1967 · Dee Lark 6791 · Oak Grove, Kentucky
- Artist
- Lefty Pritchett and Patricia Nix
- Title
- What Price Freedom
- Release
- What Price Freedom / Window of Your Heart
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Dee Lark # 6791
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Oak Grove, Kentucky, USA
- Songwriter
- Lefty Pritchett
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
What Price Freedom (Pritchett, Lefty & Patricia Nix) Country. Narrated by a soldier in the army - just returned home from Vietnam. Discovered that his best friend died out there - the price of freedom. Religious references.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Dee Lark 6791-A (ZAFX-6708191), "Sounds of the Times", D. J. Copy, Not for Sale; "What Price Freedom" (Lefty Pritchett), 2:24, Hillsboro Music Inc.—BMI; Lefty Pritchett and Patricia Nix, credited as "S.F.C. Lefty Pritchett The Singing Army Recruiter with Instrumental Accompaniment"; "Dist. by Sound of Nashville, Inc., 160 2nd Ave. S., Nashville, Tennessee"; pink, white, turquoise and yellow label with hourglass logo. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 18 May 1931, Alabama, USA. Currently Columbus, Georgia, USA Credited on the Dee Lark label as S.F.C. (Sergeant First Class) Lefty Pritchett, "The Singing Army Recruiter".
Themes
Vet · Military · Soldier's Perspective · Flag · Patriotic
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years] · US Military & Veteran Songs