The All American Boy
"The All American Boy" is a 1958 talking blues song written and sung by Bobby Bare, but credited by Fraternity Records to Bill Parsons, with songwriting credit to Bill Parsons and Orville Lunsford. While Bare was in the army, Parsons lip synced the record on TV. The song reached #2 on the Billboard charts,. Overseas, "The All American Boy" went to #22 on British charts. It made the top 10 in Australia.
The song was inspired by the success and then conscription of Elvis Presley, thus the Pop Chronicles music documentary used it as the theme song for its episodes focused on Presley.
A cover version was recorded by Bob Dylan and The Band in 1967, officially released November 4, 2014 on .
