Wish
1961 · Fargo 1020 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Phil Allen
- Title
- Wish
- Release
- A Wish / Chestnuts Mister
- Year
- 1961
- Label
- Fargo # 1020
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Allen, O'Regan, Towns
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Wish, A (Allen, Phil) Christmas. Cold War - pre-Vietnam Peace message, to JFK, Kruschev, MacMillan, Castro, De Gaulle
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "A Wish" b/w "Chestnuts Mister?" is a 1961 US single on Fargo Records (1020). The A-side was co-written by Phil Allen with Chris Towns and Rose O'Regan; Towns arranged both sides and co-wrote the flip with David Curtiss. The lacquer was cut at Bell Sound Studios, New York. Discogs carries no biography and no real name. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
Christmas · Anti-War · JFK · Khrushchev · Cold War · Macmillan · Fidel Castro · Cuba · De Gaulle