My Country
Jud Strunk
In 1973 Jud Strunk wrote and recorded the song "Daisy A Day" and it made it into Billboard's top twenty in both the Country and Pop music charts. On the Apollo 17 Lunar Mission, a tape copy of "Daisy A Day" was brought along by the astronauts, making it the first recorded song ever played on the moon. Then in 1974, he had a hit with this spoken-word song called "My Country." Sadly on October 15, 1981, he suffered a heart attack while taking off in one of his restored airplanes in Carrabassett Valley, ME and was killed instantly along with his passenger. He was 45 years old.
Bopper Bob Hennessey