Vietnam War Era Soul.. love can get you through war if you believe ~ Joe Tex, born Joseph Arrington Jr. (1933-1982), southern soul singer from Texas, recorded the track I Believe Im Gonna Make It ~ . A soldier received a letter from the home front, which gave him inspiration to fight and win: I got your letter baby...I raised up and got two more enemies. In the spoken-word extract, the narrator expressed disappointment that he did not marry his girl before I left for Vietnam, but then at the same time he did not want to leave her a widow. Note: furlough - a temporary leave of absence from military duty. The song referenced Jackie Robinson, the African-American baseball player. Written by Tex, and produced by Buddy Killen, founder of Dial. Billboard mentioned the song on 9 July 1966: Lonely soldier theme and soulful Tex reading combine for a chart-topping disk, predicting it to reach the Top 60. Well, it made it to # 67, and stayed in the charts for 5 weeks, as listed in Billboard on 20 August. It reached # 9 in the R&B chart.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 02:43:24 +0000
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