Teddy Bear (Red Sovine song)

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"Teddy Bear"
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
Red Sovine singles chronology
"Phantom 309" (1975) "Teddy Bear" (1976) "Little Joe" (1976)

"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.