Watchin' Man
Preview 1165 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Rodd Keith
- Title
- Watchin' Man
- Release
- The Watchin' Man / Love
- Label
- Preview # 1165
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Hathaway, Pitts
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Song Poems
- "The Watchin' Man" - Label: Preview Records # 1165 - Songwriter: Hathaway, Pitts - Traditional pop song poem - Vietnam-era war reference: he views the soldier's die (K.I.A.) - To prove that we are free - See men die, and women cry - The watching man is you and me, whoever lifts his eyes to see - Note: MP3 ownership
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]