Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
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Johnny Carver is an American country singer, born November 24, 1940 in Jackson, Mississippi. This album contains his hit cover of "Yellow Ribbon".
A yellow ribbon has been used as a sign of remembrance for those away from home in the military or in prison. In John Ford's 1949 film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon starring John Wayne, a woman wearing a yellow ribbon showed her devotion to her husband, away with the US cavalry. The theme song of the film was based on a military cadence: "around her neck she wore a yellow ribbon...and when I asked her why...she said it's for my lover who is in the cavalry". The theme developed into a sign of remembrance in the early 1970s for the US P.O.W.s in Vietnam, hostages held in Iran (1979), and later during the Gulf War in the 1990s. In January 1973 Tony Orlando & Dawn, a New York pop group, featuring Tony Orlando, Telma Hopkins, and Joyce Vincent Wilson, released the song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" (Bell Records # 45,318) about a man released from prison after a three year sentence, just as the US P.O.W.s returned to the US under "Operation Homecoming".
This single reached # 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 on 21 April 1973 and stayed there for 4 weeks. It sold over 900,000 copies by December 1973.
Johnny Carver, a country pop singer from Jackson, Mississippi, released a cover song, titled "Yellow Ribbon" (ABC Records # ABC-11357), which reached # 8 in the Billboard Hot Country singles on 2 June 1973. These two singles are the most successful of the records released associated with Vietnam P.O.W.s.