[2013]
Lyrics & music by Alun Parry
Album: When The Sunlight Shines

"I got involved with the Shrewsbury Pickets Justice Campaign during the Summer of 2009.
The campaign is the continued fight for an official pardon for the people targeted by the state during the National Building Strike in the 1970's.
Using the Conspiracy Act, never designed or used before to cover trade union activities, the bosses of the construction industry teamed up with the Tory Government to put our people in jail.
One was Ricky Tomlinson, now well known to all as a famous and talented actor.
Another was a working class hero by the name of Des Warren (1937-2004).

Des had a terrible time in prison. They wouldn't give him his own spectacles, or shoes that fit.
They also gave him the “liquid cosh”. This is where the prison service administers drugs to inmates it considers awkward.
Dessie and Ricky insisted,... (Continues)

1968

The song "There in Viet Nam" (Bubbie Records # 1003) - a country music track that took an anti-war position. It placed a strong emphasis on the contrast between the voting age (21) and the draft age (18).

The narrator also expressed moral and religious opposition to the war, quoting the bible: "thou shall not kill". Yet, she also defended the previous generation's conflict as a just war for freedom: "his daddy fought in World War Two so that we can live in peace".

Released in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Written by B. Willow. Produced by Frank Dell.

Vietnam War Songs Project

The country anti-war track "Viet Nam" (Green Mountain # GM-101), by the obscure artists Pat Bohlman and Edwin Maderia, expressed the view that the war was harming the US, but it also noted the ongoing peace negotiations in Paris, which the song described as "doing well". The negotiations started in Paris in 1968, and were mainly conducted by Henry Kissinger (National Security Adviser to President Richard Nixon, 1969-1974) and his North Vietnamese counterpart Lê Ðức Thọ.

Vietnam War Songs Project

(2018)
Words and music by Amanda Shires
Album: To the Sunset

The idea struck when she experienced “cat calling that’s become okay again,” then expanded to include her thoughts on climate change and capitalism, “but it’s bigger than that,” Shires clarifies. “The song deals with fear and all the ways it discourages the expression of our individual identities. It’s about the walls we put up to protect ourselves and the way those walls become prisons.”

Amanda Shires Archives - The Kessler Theater

[ 2000 ]
Paroles et musique /Dɔ̀nkili / Testo e musica / Lyrics and music / Sanat ja sävel :
Tiken Jah Fakoly

Album: Le Caméléon

1970
Single The War Is Over / You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

Anti Vietnam war song "The War Is Over" (RCA Victor # 74-0309) referenced Richard Nixon, criticizing him for ignoring the protesters and prolonging the war. It also noted a protester being killed, which in the case of Michael James Brody Jr. won't make any difference because he will be reborn.

[2000]
Lyrics & music by Jamie Fota
Album: Just Earth: One Planet, One Peole, One Future [2017]

“When I was commissioned to write a song for the annual Westheimer Peace Symposium in Wilmington, Ohio, I wanted to address the root causes of violence, both global and interpersonal. This song is my cry for a world based on justice and peaceful conflict resolution”. — Jamie.

(1996)
Title track dell'ultimo album di Curtis Mayfield
Scritta da Curtis Mayfield, Raimundo Thomas & Brian Fleming

Il 13 agosto 1990 Curtis Mayfield fu vittima di un gravissimo incidente. Durante un concerto a Brooklin l'impianto di illuminazione cadde sul palco colpendo il cantante e fratturandogli la colonna vertebrale. In seguito all'incidente Mayfield rimase paralizzato dal collo in giù. Nove anni dopo, a soli 57 anni, Mayfield se ne andava per le complicazioni dell'incidente e per il diabete di cui soffriva.

Ma nel 1996 era riuscito a incidere, pur con mille difficoltà, il suo ultimo album, che si apriva con questa canzone di speranza che rovesciava il significato del termine impiegato da Bush fin dal 1990 per indicare la Pax Americana, una pace che puzzava fin troppo di guerra. Nella canzone invece il nuovo ordine mondiale è un sinonimo di speranza dei milioni di persone... (Continues)

1964

Nathan McKinney recorded the doo-wop track "Weep No More", composed by the blues man Len Johnson. The song, released on the Los Angeles based label Rayco Records (R-526), founded by Floyd Ray, contained themes of the Vietnam War. It is narrated from the soldier's perspective, who tells us that "Uncle Sam is calling for me", and that he is resigned to leaving those he loves: "So I guess I'll have to go".

Vietnam War Songs

[1968]
Lyrics & Music by Gary Brooker and Keith Reid
Album: Salty Dog [1999 reissue bonus track]

Produced by Denny Cordell and recorded 10/07/68, this is an unreleased performance mixed down from the original four-track tape, that was originally intended to be included on the Shine On Brightly album. Brooker's vocal on this track is merely there to guide the group as they work out the song in the studio, and is obviously not representative of how any finished version of this track would have sounded. It is, however, the only surviving take of McGreggor to feature any kind of vocal performance, and as such the historical importance of the whole outweighs the technical imperfections of any of its parts!
 

(1969)
Musica un po' copiata da You Ain't Go Nowhere (da The Basement Tapes di Bob Dylan & The Band interpretata anche da The Byrds)



Double-sided Vietnam War single by Chicano soul group Six Pak, released on the Californian label Gordo (# 704), founded by Eddie Davis (a sub-label of his Rampart Records). Both tracks had a Latin Soul feel to it - of course, the label focused on Mexican Americans.

This formed part of the West Coast 'Eastside Sound' music scene. According to the president of Rampart Steven Chavez: "almost 50% of the artists from the East Side Sound era served in combat roles in Viet Nam, losing their innocence to a war in the prime of their youth, and returned to a changed American music scene that pretty much turned their back on them with the advent of new genres like hard rock, heavy metal, punk, disco and the like".

Firstly, the group covered the song "Weep... (Continues)

La Terreur blanche

Chanson française – La Terreur blanche – Marco Valdo M.I. – 2020

Quelques histoires albanaises, tirées de nouvelles d’Ismaïl Kadaré, traduites par Christian GUT et publiées en langue française en 1985 sous le titre La Ville du Sud.(6)


Dialogue Maïeutique

« La Terreur blanche », Lucien l’âne mon ami, voilà qui me rappelle quelque chose. La terreur est un mal qui se répand par toute la Terre : on en a vu des noires, des brunes, des rouges, des bleues, des vertes, des safrans et bien sûr, des blanches. De façon générale, il s’agit de massacrer ceux avec qui on n’est pas d’accord et de préférence, des civils désarmés et sans défense. Au fait, les Vaudois ont connu ça.

Oui, Lucien l’âne mon ami, dit Marco Valdo M.I. ; mais avant d’aller plus avant, je voudrais faire une petite précision : quand il s’agit de se massacrer entre militaires, on appelle ça la guerre. Pour en... (Continues)

[2017]
Lyrics by Gary Brooker
Music by Gary Brooker and Josh Phillips
Album: Novum

“Soldier” starts pensive and it’s a solid Procol Harum old fashion melody. Everything is as it was during “Shine on Brightly”, – powerful, melodic, haunting, and Whitehorn once again slips into a perfect lead guitar role with that signature Hammond-organ riding the finale with beautiful horns. Pete Brown takes a respectable lyrical page from Keith Reid with political-sturdy verses. No pomposity. This one has an emotional melody that is relevant and time and care to this music: applied. No one in rock music since 1967 has ever approached the literate rock of this band and how it marries their intense music and arrangement to the presentation. Some come close, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, PFM (but what they lack is a solid foundation in the blues - that which Procol Harum possesses and understands). Potency…that’s the word that best describes Procol Harum yesterday…and today as well !

1971
Super Bad



Come al solito ho cercato di integrare all'ascolto il testo parziale pubblicato su Vietnam War Songs, in questo caso con scarso successo...

(1972)
dall'album Back Stabbers

(1971?)

Double-sided anti-Vietnam War single, with the tracks "Why Is It?" and "When I Come Home"

(1971?)

Double-sided anti-Vietnam War single, with the tracks "Why Is It?" and "When I Come Home" (A & G Records # AG 2041) - this label was almost certainly based in New York, with A & G standing for Al Grannum, a radio DJ for WLIB. His program in the late 1960s and early 1970s focused on R&B groups. This record was released under the name "Al Grannum & the Granulated Souls". There is a picture of Grannum in a 1971 article from the The Daily Register, based in Red Bank, New Jersey, in which Grannum was helping out at a community party. Is there a connection to Hugh Grannum, the Detroit based photographer? The record was also released in Jamaica - Why Is It? / When I Come Home (Dynamic Sounds # AG 2041).

So in the first track, "Why Is It?", the narrator, in spoken-word, said that he was "sick and tired" of hearing about children starving and "soldiers dying". He wanted to... (Continues)

(1989)
Album: Il bambino che baciava... e marameo alla morte

[2017]
Album: Human Rights

[2003]
Álbum: Inerte (Demo)

Una canción de crítica social. Es difícil ver la verdad bajo el fuego, pero la verdad es la verdad.. Guerra de uno es una canción contundente, con una realidad negra y una atmósfera negra.

2000
Mas Duros Que Nunca

Gatillo fácil - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

Y’en a marre
[ 2000 ]

Paroles et musique / Testo e musica / Lyrics and music / Sanat ja sävel :
Tiken Jah Fakoly

CD: Y'en A Marre

1972

1968

In the blues / gospel track "Viet Nam" (Gospel Corner Records # GC-127) Madame Nellie Robinson pleaded for the conclusion of the Vietnam War - "settle this war in Vietnam" - in order to stop people from dying: "lord have mercy, a child is dying". It considered the pain felt by those fighting: "soldiers laying in mud". It also looked at the family and friends of soldiers in the US: "mothers and fathers at home crying". Robinson signed to the label Gospel Corner, based in Los Angeles, California, by Brother Hudson in 1968, a subsidiary of Proverb Records.

Composed by Madame Nellie Robinson. Produced by Bro. Henderson.

Vietnam War Songs Project

[1990]
Parole di Fabrizio De André e Massimo Bubola
Musica di Fabrizio De André e Mauro Pagani
Nell'album "Le nuvole"
Lyrics / Paroles / Sanat: Fabrizio De André - Massimo Bubola
Music / Musique / Sävel: Fabrizio De André - Mauro Pagani
Interpretata da / Also performed by / Interprétée aussi par / Laulivatkin:
a) Fabrizio De André / Roberto Murolo ("Ottantavoglia di cantare", Roberto Murolo 1992)
b) Peppe Barra ("Guerra", 2001)
c) Pupo ("L'equilibrista", 2004)
d) Massimo Ranieri ("Omaggio a Fabrizio De André", 2006)
e) Lucio Dalla (2009)
f) Clementino ("Miracolo ultimo round", 2016)

Una canzone che ho promesso in dedica a Pasquale Cafiero, omonimo del protagonista di questa famosa canzone, ma (dice di sè) operante presso il carcere dell'Ucciardone a Palermo e non presso quello di Poggioreale a Napoli.
Pasquale Cafiero – pseudonimo di ignoto contributore – è comparso pochi... (Continues)

(1971)

The 1971 track "See What You Done, Done (Hymn No. 9)" about a Vietnam veteran who became a drug addict, was composed by Atlanta, Georgian soul singer Delia Gartrell and her husband James T. Shaw, otherwise known as The Mighty Hannibal (he also released a Vietnam War song in 1966 with a similar name, but different theme - Hymn No. 5). This Delia Gartrell single, originally released on the obscure Atlanta label Demin-Kalo (# JS-2/JS-3), was soon after picked up by the larger New York label Right-On Records (RR0-109).

Hannibal explained in an interview the inspiration for writing "See What You Done, Done": "Me and my wife were watching the news and Walter Cronkite was talking about how all the soldiers were coming back from Vietnam addicted to opium". Thus, the song provides a representation of veteran drug addiction associated with the Vietnam War:

Vietnam War Song Project

Der Himmel über Berlin
[1987]

Film / Movie / Elokuva:
Wim Wenders
Der Himmel über Berlin / Il cielo sopra Berlino / Wings of Desire / Les Ailes du désir / Berliinin taivaan alla

Musik / Musica / Music / Musique / Sävel:
Jürgen Knieper

Album: Der Himmel Über Berlin

“Auf jeden Fall kann man sich nicht verlaufen, man kommt immer wieder an der Mauer an /In ogni caso non ci si può perdere, alla fine si arriva sempre al muro è la frase che pronuncia Marion, la donna di cui Damiel si innamora, entrambi protagonisti del film. Die Mauer / il Muro non è l’argomento principale del film ma se non fosse stato in servizio, a mio avviso, Wenders non avrebbe concepito il film come poi lo ha realizzato.
Il film è un tessuto tra passato e presente, tra una città che cinquant’anni prima era il centro dell’Europa, una cultura secolare da cui non era possibile prescindere ed una città ridotta... (Continues)

(2015)

The massacre at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina, in June is just the latest in a string of racially charged events that have broken my heart. There are a lot of things to fix in this world, but history says if we don't address this canker, centuries in the making, these things will continue to happen. No matter what level privilege you have, when the system is broken everybody loses. We all have to speak up when injustice happens. No matter what. And music is one of the best way I know to do so. — Rhiannon Giddens

Il massacro nella chiesa di Charleston non è che l’ultimo di una serie di atti razzisti che mi hanno spezzato il cuore. Ci sono molte cose da sistemare in questo Paese e la storia dice che continuerà a succedere se non ci occupiamo di questo flagello che è in corso da secoli. Quando il sistema non funziona perdono tutti, anche i privilegiati. Dobbiamo... (Continues)