Johnny Carlton With The Escorts
Bamboo Baby
1965 · Beaumont 3343 · Dalton, Georgia
- Artist
- Johnny Carlton With The Escorts
- Title
- Bamboo Baby
- Release
- Bamboo Baby / Dark Side of Town
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Beaumont # 3343
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Dalton, Georgia, USA
- Songwriter
- J. Carlton
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
- garage rock novelty, soldier's perspective - Atlanta, Georgia, USA - Bamboo "oriental" girl (presumably Vietnam) - Come back home to the US with me - You'll love mom's apple pie - We'll get married and have "bamboo children"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Beaumont 3343-A (ZTSB 95940), 45 RPM, "D J Copy", Atlanta, Georgia; "Bamboo Baby" (J. Carlton), 2:09, LeFevre-Sing, BMI; produced by Hugh Jarrett; Johnny Carlton with "The Escorts"; "Manufactured by Columbia Record Productions". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Garage rock novelty by Johnny Carlton, born 13 May 1945 in Dalton, Georgia, backed by The Escorts on the Atlanta-based Beaumont label.