Why Concern Yourself
1967 · Verve Forecast KF 5067 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Seth Connors
- Title
- Why Concern Yourself
- Release
- Why Concern Yourself / In the Naked City
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Verve Forecast # KF 5067
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Shorter
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Why Concern Yourself (Connors, Seth) "Speaking of New Comers, I've been hearing one ballad in particular lately done by Seth Connors which has really stuck in my mind. The song is entitled "Why Concern Yourself." I think a great many people will appreciate this, since it deals with people who know someone in Viet Nam.:It doesn't deal with the war itself, only with the people here at home that it concerns". (1) Billboard spotlight 28 October 1967 (2)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Why Concern Yourself" b/w "In The Naked City" (Verve Forecast KF 5067, 1967, US promo) was written, produced and arranged by Rick Shorter (Herbert Richard Shorter, 1934-2017), the prolific 1960s producer later musical director of the original Broadway run of Hair. Nothing identifies "Seth Connors" as a real person or as anyone's documented pseudonym - the name may be a manufactured one-off credit for a Verve Forecast production. [Source: Discogs; Wikipedia (Rick Shorter)]