Teddy Bear (Red Sovine song)
| "Teddy Bear" | ||||
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| Single by Red Sovine | ||||
| from the album Teddy Bear | ||||
| Released | June 1976 (U.S.) | |||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Country, truck-driving country, spoken word | |||
| Length | 5:00 | |||
| Label | Starday Records 142 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Billy Joe Burnette, Tommy Hill, Dale Royal, Red Sovine | |||
| Producer(s) | Tommy Hill | |||
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"Teddy Bear" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Red Sovine. It was released in June 1976 as the title track to Sovine's album of the same name.
The song — actually, a recitation with an instrumental backing — was one of Sovine's many recordings that saluted the American truck driver. "Teddy Bear," released during the height of the citizens' band radio craze of the mid-1970s, is titled after the song's main character, a young paraplegic boy whose semi-trailer truck-driving father had been killed in a road accident, and is left with a CB radio to keep him company.