Credited on the record as Norm Burns & The Five Stars.
Ballad of the Green Machine
Sterling S-558 · Boston, Massachusetts
- Artist
- Norm Burns
- Credited on the record as
- Norm Burns & The Five Stars
- Title
- Ballad of the Green Machine
- Release
- Ballad of the Green Machine / Just Drifting Along
- Label
- Sterling # S-558
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Songwriter
- Edward Custer, Lew Tobin
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Ballad of the Green Machine" - Label: Sterling Records, Inc. # S-558 - Songwriter: Edward Custer, Lew Tobin - Song poem, traditional pop. Draft - Got a letter a year or so ago from the Dept of Army (draft) - Don't protest, won't do any good, or go to jail. So signed up for the Green Berets - Sent me to basic, cut me hair - Reference to Mail Call - Get leave once a year - No mention of being sent to actual war - Answer to Barry Sadler family - New York, USA (1)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Norm Burns, American song-poem vocalist: lead house singer for the Sterling Records song-poem label in the 1960s-70s, here with the Satellites; personal biographical details not documented. [Source: songpoemmusic.com (AS/PMA)]
Themes
Draft · Green Beret · Answer to Green Beret · Mail Call · Military · Song Poem