Picture of Carylon Sue
1975 · Stupid BS 415 · USA
- Artist
- Dick Lee
- Title
- Picture of Carylon Sue
- Release
- Blame it On Nixon / Picture of Carylon Sue
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Stupid # BS 415
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Terry Thomas, Bobby D. Jackson
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Song Poems
- Song poem, traditional pop. Both sides relevant. - Label: Stupid # BS 415 - Songwriter (both sides): Terry Thomas, Bobby D. Jackson - Unknown location. Other Vietnam record by this artist released in Hollywood, CA. - B-side: "Picture of Carylon Sue": P.O.W. - war is over, men coming home from Vietnam. Soldier kept a picture of wife ion his pocket while a P.O.W. Came back to US, wife had left him. He returned a hero, but killed himself
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs
Song poem, traditional pop. A-side: Pro-Nixon, he's innocent of Watergate riots, people killed in Vietnam, drugs, death penalty. "If daughter is raped by neighbour, blame it on Nixon". B-side: P.O.W. - war is over, men coming home from Vietnam. Soldier kept a picture of wife ion his pocket while a P.O.W. Came back to US, wife had left him. He returned a hero, but killed himself
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Stupid Records BS 415 A/B, turquoise label printed in purple; "Blame It on Nixon", 2:30, and "Picture of Carylon Sue", 2:05, both with writers Terry Thomas and Bobby D. Jackson; publisher Oleta Music (BMI); © 1975 B.D.J.; vocal Dick Lee. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
P.O.W. · Coming Home · Vet · Dear John Letter · Suicide · Song Poem