Country And Eastern - Ed Henry

 

Bomb The Moon

Country And Eastern

Ed Henry

Produced by Ed Labunsky

Cover Photo: Frank Lerner

Cover Design: Michael Mendel

Epic Records LN 24249

1967

From the back cover: Take one young man, 29 years of age, brought up in Cincinnati. His father is a well-known serious composer. His mother is a painter.

Give the young man a background of various jobs while growing up such as: pin boy, disc jacket (glad to see he went straight); singing wrangler in Bandera, Texas; elevator operator (in common with Roger Miller); newspaper boy; on a construction crew; advertising copywriter (glad to see he went straight); credit investigator; nightclub comic. Furthermore, his credits include writing a musical at 18, and while in college writing serious poetry for the literary magazine, while at the same time managing a few singers. Recently on a television quiz program called "I Guess" he walked away with over $4,200. He has written industrial shows for such major companies as General Electric, B.F. Goodrich, Lipton Tea and Quaker Oats, plus music and lyrics for many well-known singing commercials. – Chris Lane, WJJD, Chicago.

From Billboard - June 17, 1967: Ed Henry is a country boy but he's no rube. He know what the score is and he tells it in his own songs with a wry approach that blends laughter and truth. There's a lot of Roger Miller in Henry but enough of his own identity comes through to give this newcomer a chance for a big score.

That's When I Guessed

Was Your Wife With Another Man Last Night

Mr. Sincere

Cigarette Ashes

Happy Misery

It It's For Me, I'm Not Here

Mother Of Pearl

The Ties That Bind

Bomb The Moon

Memories Don't Mean That Much To Me