Rodd Keith

Credited on the record as Ken Roberts.

I Wonder What the World Is Coming To

Preview 1733 · Hollywood, California

Artist
Rodd Keith
Credited on the record as
Ken Roberts
Title
I Wonder What the World Is Coming To
Release
I Wonder What the World Is Coming To / Love Baby
Label
Preview # 1733
Format
7" · Single
Language
English
Country
Hollywood, California, USA
Songwriter
Marcario C. Lauzon
Genre
Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
Primary theme
Peace, Protest & Anti-War

Annotation — Song Poems

- "I Wonder What the World Is Coming To" - Label: Preview Records # 1733 - Performer: Ken Roberts aka Rodd Keith. - Songwriter: Marcario C. Lauzon - Note: only partial MP3 - Traditional pop, anti-war leaning, K.I.A. "Sending out men to Vietnam, to die for a land / Great sorrow is known, everyone loses a brother or son / Nothing we can do, since the war is never through"

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

Anti-War · K.I.A. · Song Poem

In collections

Song Poems