Oriental Girl
1967 · Kapp K-863 · Berea, Kentucky
- Artist
- Leroy Pullins
- Title
- Oriental Girl
- Release
- Gypsy Rose and I Don't Give a Curse / Oriental Girl
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Kapp # K-863
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Berea, Kentucky, USA
- Songwriter
- Leroy Pullins
- Genre
- Rock · Rockabilly
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Notes
Oriental Girl (Leroy Pullins) Rockabilly, soldier's perspective, Vietnamese girls, combat Sent me overseas to Asian war, met a local lady in Saigon - love from the start No Viet Cong could take our love away. Want to bring her back stateside Order came to go out, north of the DMZ, gone for a week I returned, she was gone - killed by a grenade in Saigon [From Justin A. Brummer notes from RYM]
About the artist
Born Carl Leroy Pullins, 12 November 1940, Berea, Kentucky, USA. Died 5 May 1984, Berea, Kentucky, USA. American country singer. [Source: Wikipedia]