VARIOUS – SOLDIER BOY – KOKO MOJO CD

This album celebrates African Americans who served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. African Americans have fought for the United States throughout its history, defending and serving a country that in turn denied them their basic rights as citizens. Despite policies of racial segregation and discrimination, African American soldiers played a significant role from the colonial period to the Korean War. It wasn’t until the middle of the 20th century that African American soldiers began to receive the recognition and equality they deserved.

01. Guitar Slim And His Band – A Letter To My Girlfriend (Jones) Speciality SP-490-45 1954

02. Teddy Reynolds and The Twisters – I Thought The War Was Over (Unknown) Crown CLP 5245 1962 03. Ernest Tucker – Have Mercy, Uncle Sam (Tucker) Jubilee 45-5340 1958

04. Little Bernie and the Cavaliers – Lonely Soldier (Milton) Jove 100 1962

05. Lloyd Price – Mailman Blues (Price) ABC Paramount ABC 277 1959

06. J.B. Lenoir – I’m In Korea (Lenoir) Parrot 802 1954

07. Jerry Butler – A Lonely Soldier (Carter) Abner 1035 1960

08. The Shirelles – Soldier Boy (Dixon, Greenberg) Scepter 1228 1962

09. Luke “Long Gone” Miles – War Time Blues (Redd) Smash S-1755 1962

10. Prince Love & His Royal Knights – Don’t Want No War (Stewart) Allah Al-1000 1962

11. The Five Breezes – My Buddy Blues (Gilmore) Bluebird B-8614 1941

12. The Four Fellows – Soldier Boy (Jones, Williams) Glory 45-234 1955

13. Brownie McGhee – Swing, Soldier, Swing (Unknown) Okeh 06472 1941

14. Wee Bea Booze – Uncle Sam Come And Get Him (Grainger) Decca 8619 1942

15. Lightnin Slim – “G I” Slim (West) Excello 45-2169 1959

16. Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers – End O’ War Blues (McNeil) Exclusive 205 1945

17. The Montells – Soldier Boy (Dell) Golden Crest 582 1963

18. Muddy Waters – She’s All Right (Waters) Chess 1537 1953

19. The Illusions – Lonely Soldier (Carman) Mali 104 1962

20. Yank Rachell – Army Man Blues (Unknown) Bluebird B8840 1941

21. Big Bill Broonzy – In the Army Now (Unknown) Okeh 06601 1942

22. Cousin Joe – Desperate G. I. Blues (Reig, Joseph) Savoy 5526 1946

23. “Hot Lips” Page’s Hot Seven – Uncle Sams Blues (Unknown) Savoy 605

24. Bobby John – Lonely Soldier (Mayfield) Sony 111 1963

25. Jimmy Witherspoon – Back Home (Witherspoon) Federal 12128 1953

26. The Shondells – Don’t Cry My Soldier Boy (Phillips, Simms) King 45-5597 1962

27. Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup – The War Is Over (Crudup) RCA Victor 47-5563 1953

28. Ella Fitzgerald – Soldier Boy (Jones, Williams Jnr.) Brunswick 45-05477 1955

Release Date:

Format: CD Album