Daddy's Red Ribbons
1991 · ESR ESR 002 · Nashville, Tennessee
- Artist
- 1st Lt. Bobby Ross
- Title
- Daddy's Red Ribbons
- Release
- Daddy's Red Ribbons
- Year
- 1991
- Label
- ESR # ESR 002
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Songwriter
- John R. Holland, Bobby Ross
- Genre
- Country · Country Pop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
- Country, military, Vietnam veteran - "dedicated to all P.O.W./M.I.A. abandoned by the government of the United States of America in WWII, Korea and Vietnam" - Narrators father captured during the war - Could still be alive in one of the camps
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
ESR 002 (U-30396M), A side, gold label with POW★MIA "You Are Not Forgotten" emblem and ESR mountain logo; "Daddy's Red Ribbons" (CSM John R. Holland-US Army Ret./Bobby Ross), 3:32, © Echo Summit Music, BMI; 1st Lt. Bobby Ross (Ret. 101st Airborne, USA); produced by Bobby Ross, engineer Ed Simonton. The label states: "This material was written, produced, & performed by Vietnam Veterans and dedicated to all POW/MIA's abandoned by the government of the United States of America in WW II, Korea & Vietnam." Rim text: "(615) 244-8725 • Echo Summit Records • 11 Music Sq. E. • Nashville, TN 37203." [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Born 4 September 1947, California, USA. Currently Iselton, California, USA Served with the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, I Corps, South Vietnam, in 1968, commissioned through OCS (sleeve dedication).