Woodrow Wilson “Red” Sovine
Here is a video of Red Sovine singing “Hold Everything”:
Almost all of Red Sovine’s songs contain one or more of the following elements: trucking, orphaned children, without one - or both - parents (usually big eyed boys), crippled children (maimed, blind, or just plain gimpy), dead or dying people
Sovine is also remembered for his Christmas tear-jerkers, which included “Here it is Christmas” (a divorcee’s holiday lament) and “What Does Christmas Look Like?” (a little blind girl asks daddy to describe the Christmas that she cannot see).
Here is a depressing Christmas song by Red called “Faith in Santa,” which is about a runaway, starving, half-naked, abused and keylatched boy dying on a street side santa’s lap. Before he dies he tells Santa that his daddy is in prison for killing his mamma’s boyfriend, mom is never around because she works in a bar and the guy they live with beats him.
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Oh, good lord, it’s enough to make you want to kill yourself. What’s with country singers and these maudlin Christmas songs?!?
Keep ‘em comin’!
Peter
My own words fail given the nearly pornographic exploitation served up by Mr. Sovine - That being the case, I defer to the grand gentleman of bad, Mr. Leonard Pinth-Garnell, who if forced to listen to this dreck, he would respond with, “Stunningly bad!” or “Really bit the big one!” or “Perfectly awful!” and “Couldn’t be worse!”
hey I’m his great grandson!
I actually like this song. It’s got a good message.
And how neat is it that you got a post from Red’s great grandson!