What Can I Wish You My Son
1969 · Intrepid 75004 · USA
- Artist
- Ron Marshall
- Title
- What Can I Wish You My Son
- Release
- What Can I Wish You My Son / Let Me Be Free
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Intrepid # 75004
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Ron Marshall
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation — Children on Record
Traditional pop, toy soldier, child narration at end of the song. Boy lying asleep in world of sorrow, give him a toy gun. Toy turned into hate, like the gun that killed me, I'll never see my son. Child: please god send my daddy home. B-side: generic call for freedom.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Intrepid 75004 (1-45616), white-label promotional copy, not for sale; (R. Marshall); Twill Music Co. / Young Proud, Inc. (ASCAP), 3:15; arranged by Dean Christopher - Art Wayne; produced by Art Wayne for Alouette Productions, Inc. & Young Proud, Inc. Discogs dates it August 1969; B-side "Let Me Be Free" (L. MacKenzie & R. Marshall). [From the record label]
About the artist
Ron Marshall was a singer who commonly appeared on children's story and budget recordings for Pickwick and similar labels, and led The Ron Marshall Singers / The Ron Marshall Voices. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
Child · Toy Soldier · K.I.A. · Anti-War