When Johnny Comes Marching Home
1967 · Spring SK701 · USA
- Artist
- Richard Barbary
- Title
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- Release
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home / Get Right
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Spring # SK701
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Adapted by Harold Thomas
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Richard Barbary recorded the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Spring Records # SK-701) - "adapted by Harold Thomas", according to the label - this is the famous title of a well-known song from the American Civil War, narrated from the perspective of the family and friends of those fighting in war. In this case, the narrator is a veteran, who served with "Johnny", and he reassures "all you mothers" and "young ladies too" that Johnny would be "coming home soon...wearing a medal for bravery".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Richard Barbary was a soul singer whose documented output centres on A&M: the session discography at jazzdisco.org places "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1967) in his output alongside "Get Right" (1967) and the 1968 sessions for his sole album "Soul Machine" (A&M SP-3010), produced by Artie Butler with arrangers Horace Ott and Harold Thomas, recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Beyond the records he is unusually undocumented - no Wikipedia entry, no AllMusic biography, and no birth, death or residence statement anywhere found. [Source: jazzdisco.org; Discogs]
Themes
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs