I'm In Korea / Eisenhower Blues

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Album Info

Release Date: 1954

Label: Parrot

Recorded in March 1954.

Released in April or May 1954; subsequently withdrawn and replaced by J.B. Lenoir - I'm In Korea / Tax Paying Blues.

Not long after "Eisenhower Blues" was released, Al Benson, the creator of Parrot Records, rushed Lenoir back to the studio to remake the piece as "Tax Paying Blues," with all references to president Eisenhower deleted. All this actually required was changing three occurrences of "I got the Eisenhower blues" to "I got the tax paying blues"; some suspicion lingers that the "remake" was actually just an alternate take made as the number evolved during the March 1954 session.