White Crosses
Preview 2911 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Barbara Foster
- Title
- White Crosses
- Release
- White Crosses / Gung Ho
- Label
- Preview # 2911
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Ed LeBlanc
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
- song poem, Hollywood, California, USA - patriotic both sides, traditional pop - A-side: liberty has a cost - sons bold and brave gave their lives for the land of the free - B-side: Fought in WW2, in Vietnam new heroes - Battle cry of the marines
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- Song poem, Hollywood, California, USA - Patriotic both sides, traditional pop - Label: Preview Records # 2911 - Songwriter: Ed LeBlanc (both songs) - A-side: "White Crosses" - Artist: Barbara Foster - Liberty has a cost - Sons bold and brave gave their lives for the land of the free
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Preview Records 2911, 6311 Yucca, Hollywood, blue and silver label; "Gung Ho" (Ed LeBlanc), 2911-2, 3:11, Arthur Music, A.S.C.A.P., Gene Marshall; flip side "White Crosses" (Ed LeBlanc), 2911-1, 3:14, Arthur Music, A.S.C.A.P., Barbara Foster. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Principal female house vocalist of Preview Records, the Hollywood, California song-poem label active from the mid-1960s, credited on dozens of Preview singles as the female counterpart to Gene Marshall; 'White Crosses' (Preview 2911, b/w Marshall's 'Gung Ho') was written by song-poem client Ed LeBlanc. [Source: Discogs; American Song-Poem Music Archives]
Themes
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]