Credited on the record as Rodd Keith and the Raindrops.
Confusion
1966 · Preview 1012 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Rodd Keith
- Credited on the record as
- Rodd Keith and the Raindrops
- Title
- Confusion
- Release
- Big Wave / Confusion
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Preview # 1012
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Robert Belair
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Confusion" - Label: Preview Records #1012 - Songwriter: Robert Belair - Song Poem - Draft, 18 years classed 1A - should I go or resist - "fighting in a place far away" - I want to do what I can, to feel like a man - I remember war for the world to stay free (WW2 presumably, war lineage) - Traditional pop - Hollywood, California
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born Rodney Keith Eskelin, 30 January 1937. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, the best-known figure of the song-poem genre, recording hundreds of compositions from amateur-submitted lyrics under names including Rod Rogers. Died 15 December 1974, falling from an overpass onto the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Source: Wikipedia; LA Times via Last.fm]
Themes
Draft · Draft Reluctance · War Lineage · WW2 · Song Poem