U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 Charts Peak Position No. 120
Backstory: Hardly anything is even known about Wade at all, besides the fact that he released this one and only single of his off of Philips Records in 1967 and that it flopped. It was an answer record to Victor Lundberg's unexpected Top 10 spoken word hit, "An Open Letter To My Teenage Son". Besides that, we know that he is was a Caucasian young man with short, black hair at the time. Who knows what ever became of him?
The review: This is barely even a "song" at all, it's just a spoken word letter with music playing in the background. However, the music sets the serious and even slightly scary at times mood of the letter. Wade explains to parents on how he finds many of the things that they believe in to be rather hypocritical and even very unkind and unfair at certain times. I love it. Yes, seriously. LOL. Definitely an unique oddball track. (Also, the "song" is the exact same "song" on the flip side, the only difference is mono and stereo versions.)
Final rating: 9/10
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