Biography
Born in 1923 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Victor Lundberg issued a spoken-word single that served as a direct counter to the protest songs dominating the mid-1960s. The recording, titled ‘An Open Letter To My Teenage Son’, came from the former news reporter and radio announcer who operated a firm producing radio and television commercials. During 1967 he used the patriotic piece to confront the era’s ‘generation gap’, instructing America’s youth to ‘straighten up and fly right’. Issued by Liberty Records, the single moved enough copies to reach the US Top 10, irrespective of whether its counsel found favor with the young listeners or their parents.