Credited on the record as Rod Rogers with the Film City Orchestra.
Six Ninety First
Film City FC 1071 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Rodd Keith
- Credited on the record as
- Rod Rogers with the Film City Orchestra
- Title
- Six Ninety First
- Release
- The A.D.C. / The Six Ninety First
- Label
- Film City # FC 1071
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Clarence M. Boness
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation — Song Poems
- Traditional pop, patriotic, both sides - Label: Film City Records # FC 1071 - Artist: Rod Rogers aka Rodd Keith - Songwriter: Clarence M. Boness (both songs) - Released Hollywood, CA - "The Six Ninety First" - Not far from the Gulf of Mexico, if the Six Ninety First unit - Home defense again, Vietnam-era Cold War military focus - Part of the early warning - Sleep good tonight
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
Military · Cold War · Pro-Soldier · Song Poem
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs