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Paz en la tierra

Juan Alfredo Perez
Paz en la tierra
"Porque estamos en Vietnam" ("Why We Are in Vietnam") - a various artist compilation of 10 Vietnam War songs, in the Tex-Mex / tejano genres, including several released as singles. Released on Bronco (# BRLP-043) - record label owned by Arnaldo Ramírez, who also founded the Mexican-American record labels ARV, Falcon, and Bego, also based in Texas. He featured in Billboard on 25 November 1972, in an article focusing on the explosion of Tex-Mex music. Born on 9 April 1918, in Mission, Texas, USA, he died there on 11 May 1993. 9 out of 10 of these songs took a patriotic perspective, with only one calling for peace in Vietnam.

Vietnam War Song Project
Señor, yo vengo a pedirte
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20/4/2024 - 15:46
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End the Vietnam War

End the Vietnam War
Non ho trovato l'anno in cui la canzone è stata incisa da Allen Ginsberg. Ne esiste una versione remixata da DJ Spooky pubblicata nel 2003.
Come along come along, end the Vietnam War,
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14/4/2024 - 19:28
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Vietnamese Baby

Vietnamese Baby
(1973)
Scritta da David Johansen per il fulminante album d'esordio eponimo della band americana

Aperta dal suono di un gong, Vietnamese Baby non è di immediata interpretazione, anche perché il testo di Johansen è una sorta di dialogo o monologo interiore e non è chiaro chi sia il personaggio che parla in prima persona.

In ogni caso, nell'ultima strofa, Johansen dice chiaramente che che ciò che ha portato al disastro del Vietnam è stato il machismo spavaldo in due forme: la crudeltà classica del soldato che stupra e saccheggia, le cui azioni erano avallate dall'impero; e la convinzione imperialista che il diritto di infliggere distruzione di massa a una popolazione straniera fosse un diritto divino americano.

Per approfondire leggere questa recensione dell'album.
When I'm getting home to you
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2/1/2024 - 21:20
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Mother Where Is My Father

Mother Where Is My Father
1968
Album: Have A Marijuana
Testo trovato su reddit
We don't want no more war!
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24/9/2023 - 17:38
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Carry Me Home

Carry Me Home
(1972)

The Beach Boys have shared a previously unreleased track from the early 1970s – listen to ‘Carry Me Home’ below.

The track was written during 1972’s ‘Holland’ sessions by Dennis Wilson about a soldier dying in the Vietnam War.

The Beach Boys share unreleased track 'Carry Me Home'
Carry me home to my daddy (continua)
31/1/2023 - 23:35
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Just My Soul Responding

Just My Soul Responding
1973

The song, which appeared on his first solo album Smokey in 1973 after his departure from the Miracles, has the bonus of a birthday greeting in the intro without being twee or frivolous. This is a rare protest song, with racism, black rights and the pain of native American history at its heart.
Songs Of The Week 2020: Take 1
Happy birthday to you
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21/1/2023 - 00:45

Protesta di un soldato

R. C. Peet
Inserisco questo brano in maniera del tutto incompleta, ce n'è una versione tradotta in italiano sull'LP Vietnam Ieri e oggi - canzoni e ballate a cura del comitato Vietnam di Milano. Traduzione e adattamento di Marco Tutino.
Anche sul sito della discoteca di stato non è indicato il titolo originale, e anche sull'autore non si trova nulla.
Come altri brani di questo disco del 1973 potrebbe essere stato pescato dai Broadside Magazine.
[Testo e titolo originale sconosciuti]
inviata da Dq82 28/11/2022 - 11:12
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Please Mr. President

Please Mr. President
(1966)

The track "Please Mr. President" (Kent Records # K 45x446) by the blues man King Soloman, apparently based on the West Coast, recording with the Los Angeles label Kent (this is a different artist than the well-known soul singer Solomon Burke, ending with a "mon" rather than "man", also sometimes referred to as "King Solomon"). Released in 1966 with Lyndon Baines Johnson in the White House, the narrator of the song bitterly complained to the president about being sent to Vietnam. He loved his country and "never did get the notion to burn up my draft card", yet he warned the women of American that "Uncle Sam...sure can take your man". At the end of the song the soldier takes to hugging his pack and rifle to comfort him.

Vietnam War Songs Project
Uncle Sam ain't no woman
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15/10/2022 - 19:15
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Cycling to the Sunset on the Streets of Saigon

Cycling to the Sunset on the Streets of Saigon
[2015]
Lyrics by Alan Jackson
Music & performed by Barry David Butler

"Vietnam War Disaster & Its Heroes:
So many died and were mutilated in the Vietnam War and was all for nothing.
Johnson and MacNamara both said it was a mistake and Nixon who was elected with a PLAN to end the stinking war did it but it took four years....(ugh;)

All that's left is some Old Vets and a LOT of Memories and Names on a Wall in Washington DC....For Shame.....THEY Lied and Boys Died".
I think of all the handsome boys
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inviata da giorgio 24/5/2022 - 08:56
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1967

1967
(1990)
dall'album Headroom

Tristissima e bellissima canzone su un amico morto in Vietnam nel fatidico anno 1967. Non ho idea come tra le più di 34000 canzoni presenti finora, questa ancora non fosse stata inserita!
In Nineteen Sixty Seven
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inviata da Lorenzo 14/4/2022 - 23:03

The Massacres of My Lai (Song My) and Truong An

The Massacres of My Lai (Song My) and Truong An
from Broadside Magazine #103 (Dec. 1969)

Sul massacro di My Lay vedi Everybody's Got A Right To Live
We went out on a mission, we were told search and destroy
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13/11/2021 - 23:06
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I Don't Wanna

I Don't Wanna
(1966)
Testo trovato su Vietnam War Song Project

Un blues un po' straniante ma estremamente chiaro. Non voglio andare nel Vietnam del sud, non voglio ammazzare i vietnamiti, datemi un lavoro qua a casa mia.
I don't wanna go to South of Vietnam
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12/11/2021 - 23:04
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What The... (Is a Going on in Washington)

What The... (Is a Going on in Washington)
1966

The country song "What the..." (Is a Going on in Washington)" (Nugget Records # NR 247), by Bob Withers, is narrated from the position of a soldier in the war zone, who feared for his life: "here I sit in Vietnam...sent half around this world to die". Is this song criticising US politicians over the Vietnam War, or is it an attack on the protest movement? It included the line: "All these people were our friends not long ago, they fought Hitler, Mussolini, and Tōjō" - this could be a reference to the Vietnamese - a former World War Two ally, who had helped the US against Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy), and Tōjō (Japan)? Or perhaps it is an attack on the draft card burners and protester in Washington (as it included the line: "some guys have burnt their draft cards up at home, don't send them here") - who may have backed or agreed with the cause of the Second World War,... (continua)
What the....Is a going on in Washington...
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12/11/2021 - 22:38
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Hanoi Hannah

Hanoi Hannah
(1973)
Scritta da Roger McGuinn insieme a Jacques Levy

Trịnh Thị Ngọ (1931-2016), soprannominata Hanoi Hannah, era una conduttrice radiofonica vietnamita che durante la guerra del Vietnam trasmetteva dal Nord Vietnam una trasmissione di propaganda per convincere i soldati yankee che la guerra che stavano combattendo era sbagliata. In perfetto inglese commentava le notizie dal fronte, fornendo anche informazioni precisissime sulla posizione delle truppe USA, cosa che colpiva particolarmente i soldati americani. La colonna sonora erano le canzoni contro la guerra americane. Tuttavia non si hanno notizie di diserzioni dovute alle trasmissioni di Hanoi Hannah.

How are you, GI Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.
Hanoi Hannah averaged 'bout a man a day
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30/10/2021 - 12:21
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[Ain't Gonna Let Nobody] Turn Me Around

[Ain't Gonna Let Nobody] Turn Me Around
La versione dei The Specials
Protest Songs 1924 – 2012 (2021)
27/9/2021 - 18:15

What’s Going On: cinquant’anni di un capolavoro

Antiwar Songs Blog
What’s Going On: cinquant’anni di un capolavoro
Le lettere che mio fratello mi mandava dal Vietnam mi colpirono profondamente, così come la situazione sociale che vedevo davanti ai miei occhi, nel mio paese. Ho capito che per scrivere canzoni capaci di raggiungere l’anima della gente era necessario che mi gettassi alle alle spalle ogni fantasia Troppe madri che piangono. Troppi fratelli che […]
Antiwar Songs Staff 2021-05-21 19:03:00
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What's Going On

What's Going On
What's Going On e la cura di Marvin Gaye contro la paura

Il disco-manifesto del cantante americano usciva 50 anni fa, il 21 maggio 1971. Per la rivista Rolling Stone è il miglior disco della storia del rock. Per tre generazioni di ascoltatori è ancora il modo migliore per comprendere, cantando e danzando, i pericoli del presente
di: Carmine Saviano
16 Maggio, 2021

Nba All Star Game, Forum di Inglewood, la vecchia casa dei Lakers a Los Angeles. E' il 13 febbraio 1983. Le quindicimila persone presenti e i milioni di americani che guardano la partita in tv, non assistono solo all'ennesima dimostrazione di sapienza tattica di Larry Bird che, assist dopo assist, conduce l'Eastern Conference alla vittoria: l'Ovest superato 132 a 123 nell'ultima partita prima dell'avvento di Michael Jordan. Indimenticabili, in quella serata, non saranno solo i 25 punti di Julius Erving, i 16 assist e le 5 palle... (continua)
Dq82 17/5/2021 - 13:58
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Requiem For The Masses

Requiem For The Masses
i love this song and i only hope and pray that the radio stations do not bow to the pressures of the censors it is fantastic and i never knew what it meant untill some one told me that it was a in protesr t to rhe viet nam war is that true? regardles, irs a great song and it s a LOT bbetter than all the crap they put out today Kudos to you Terry!!!
michael bohdan tymkiw 27/1/2021 - 08:22
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My Sweet Lord / Today Is a Killer

My Sweet Lord / Today Is a Killer
(1972)
Medley di My Sweet Lord, la preghiera cosmica di George Harrison con la poesia "Today is a Killer" di David Nelson del fondamentale gruppo The Last Poets messa in musica da Nina Simone.
dall'album dal vivo Emergency Ward! registrato dal vivo alla base militare di Fort Dix
Sul lato B l'altrettanto stupefacente versione di Isn't it A Pity sempre di George Harrison.

Nella sua versione (di 18 minuti!) della canzone di George Harrison (il grande successo dal primo album solista dell'ex Beatle) registrata dal vivo con un coro gospel davanti a un pubblico formato in gran parte da soldati neri, la preghiera spirituale della canzone originale si trasforma in una potentissima canzone di protesta contro la guerra del Vietnam. Alla fine della canzone Nina Simone accusa direttamente Dio di essere un assassino per permettere guerre e stragi insensate.
We want want Nina
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2/1/2021 - 23:02
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Vietnam

Vietnam
2016
Avuncular
my time had come to go
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inviata da Dq82 19/12/2020 - 16:09
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Talking Ben Tre

Talking Ben Tre
(1968)
dal disco "Now", con Bernice Reagon & The Reverend Fred Kirkpatrick
Parole di Jan Davidson

Un talkin' blues che racconta con sarcasmo la storia di un plotone di soldati USA che attacca un villaggio vietnamita.
Gonna tell you all a story from across the sea
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inviata da Lorenzo 18/12/2020 - 23:59
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Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh
1977
The Last Poets With Bernard Purdie ‎– Delights Of The Garden

Praticamente la storia della guerra del Vietnam nello spazio di una canzone.
He stood
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17/12/2020 - 21:16
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Why Them, Why Me

Why Them, Why Me
Very rare Motown Records (Soul)
Producer -- Frank Wilson, Henry Cosby
Written-By -- Abdullah
Soul ‎-- S-35051
7", 45 RPM
US - 1968

Lyrics from Genius

The song "Why Them, Why Me" was released by Abdullah on Soul (# S 35051), a subsidiary of Motown Records, for blues and R&B (1964-1978). The b-side "I Comma Zimba Zio" was a strong civil rights, African-American militant song, evoking Africa and the fight for freedom. Born Joseph McLean, he changed his name as a follower of Elijah Muhammad, a self-proclaimed black Muslim nationalist. He apparently fell out with Motown's Ralph Seltzer in a racial confrontation, hence only one single on Motown. It is fairly difficult to transcribe, but clearly it is narrated from the perspective of a soldier on "the shores of Vietnam", who was "fighting and dying". Vietnam War Song Project
The evening that she rising
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7/12/2020 - 23:23
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Ballad Of A Crystal Man

Ballad Of A Crystal Man
ascoltandola ho pianto, grazie
Andrea Donati 12/11/2020 - 18:07
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Frank, Dennis, And Me

Frank, Dennis, And Me
9/11/2020 - 13:54
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We Need to Be Governed by McGovern

We Need to Be Governed by McGovern
1972

Singolo promozionale per la campagna del candidato democratico George McGovern che aveva promesso di mettere fine alla guerra in Vietnam. McGovern fu platealmente sconfitto da Nixon. Nixon fu però costretto alle dimissioni due anni dopo dallo scandalo Watergate.
We need to be governed by McGovern!
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1/11/2020 - 18:52
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Southbound Train

Southbound Train
[1972]
Scritta da Graham Nash
Nell'album "Graham Nash / David Crosby"
(Alla steel guitar, Jerry Garcia dei Grateful Dead)
Testo da Genius

Questo treno che scivola verso il sud ha un carico speciale: soldati morti in una qualsiasi guerra (ma era il 1972, quella in Vietnam volgeva alla fine ma infuriava ancora) che tornano a riposare per sempre nella terra dei padri... Con loro sono state sepolte anche la Libertà, l'Eguaglianza e la Fraternità con cui tutti i leader sono soliti sciacquarsi la bocca...
Liberty, laughing and shaking your head
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inviata da Bernart Bartleby 19/10/2020 - 21:06
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Pittsburgh)
È DIFFICILE TROVARE UN UOMO BUONO (PITTSBURGH)
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inviata da Massimo 24/9/2020 - 20:22
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The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh

The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh
Ad Latinum sermonem adaptavit Richardus Venturi a.d. MMXX
CARMEN DE HO CHI MINH
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8/9/2020 - 11:38
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Hey, Hey, LBJ

Hey, Hey, LBJ
(1967)

La title track dell'album del 1967 di Bill Frederick riprendeva il famoso slogan delle manifestazioni contro la guerra del Vietnam "Hey, hey LBJ! / How many kids did you kill today?" trasformandole in una vera e propria canzone. LBJ è ovviamente il presidente Lyndon Johnson.


Incredibile che ancora non l'avessimo inserita. La trascrizione è di lilyjamey da YouTube.
Johnson had a button nose,
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7/9/2020 - 23:07
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The Victors

The Victors
1971

Una lunga serie di nomi di morti in guerra, non solo nel Vietnam e non solo soldati americani.
Private Alex Woodruff, U.S. Army
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7/9/2020 - 22:28
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Freedom

Freedom
Ineguagliabile nella semplicità. Intramontabile nel grido. Freedom!
3/9/2020 - 20:50
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A la guerra ya me llevan

A la guerra ya me llevan
1968

The tejano song "A la guerra ya me llevan" ("They're Taking Me to the War") (Buena Suerte Records # 929), narrated from the soldier's perspective, expressed opposition to being drafted to go to the war, leaning towards the anti-war side: "they're taking me against my will". Little Joe performed the song, a Mexican-American, born in Temple, Texas (17 October 1940), as José María De León Hernández. This political song helped established him as a major artist in the 1960s Chicano movement. He founded the record label Buena Suerte Records in 1968, based in Temple, TX. (1) (2) (3) The narration saw the soldier expressing sympathy towards his mother, father, and girlfriend, telling them that "if in combat I find death, I wouldn't want you to cry". The narrator also said that as he headed off to war, taken away from his family, he regretted fighting with his father. Note that Little Joe also released the Vietnam-related corrido El prisionero de Vietnam, with the group Little Joe & The Starlites.

Vietnam War Song
A la guerra ya me llevan madrecita
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25/8/2020 - 22:44
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I Should Be Proud

I Should Be Proud
DOVREI ESSERE FIERA
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24/8/2020 - 21:48
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Hey, Mr. Draft Board

Hey, Mr. Draft Board
1970
Album: The American Revolution

Canzone contro la leva durante la guerra del Vietnam, con citazioni nel testo di Mr Custer e di Wild Thing (I think I love you / but I want to know for sure...).

Un brano protopunk potente e fieramente antimilitarista di un artista tutto da riscoprire. Purtroppo il testo completo non si trova da nessuna parte e ho dovuto trascriverlo parzialmente all'ascolto con alcune lacune (ogni correzione è benvenuta!)
Oh you magnificent physical specimen!
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inviata da Lorenzo 23/8/2020 - 00:01
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The Tallest Tree

The Tallest Tree
1966
Written by Richard Antonio

Canzone country sentimentale di una madre che vede nell'arco di vent'anni tre figli uccisi in tre diverse guerre: la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, la guerra in Corea e il Vietnam.
The growth of a man takes a lifetime,
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21/8/2020 - 23:47
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Army Man in Vietnam

Army Man in Vietnam
(1969)
Testo incompleto
dall'album Thinking Of What They Did To Me

Big Joe Williams (1903-1982), delta blues guitar player, born Joseph Lee Williams, in Crawford Mississippi, used a nine-string acoustic guitar, giving his delta style an interesting, unique sound. In the track "Army Man in Vietnam" (Arhoolie Records # 1053) he expressed a desire to "stop the war in Vietnam" because he feared that the government might "drop that atom bomb", a reflection of Cold War tensions. The song also showed concern for young men, at the age of eighteen, drafted into the army and given a gun. Note the minor reference to Christmas: "some will be home for Christmas, some will hurt real bad". Chris Strachwitz (founder of Arhoolie) recorded the song on 14 December 1969 at Arhoolie House in Berkeley, California. It featured Charlie Musselwhite on harmonica.
Vietnam War Songs Project
Well I heard a voice one morning
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11/7/2020 - 23:39
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A Very Nice Country

A Very Nice Country
1976
Testo da Mudcat

Dalla compilation What Now, People? Vol. 1
I was born in Philadelphia
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1/7/2020 - 12:08
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Thank You Daniel Ellsberg

Thank You Daniel Ellsberg
(1972)

Daniel Ellsberg era uno dei "geniacci del Pentagono" (i brillanti giovani reclutati da Robert McNamara, segretario della difesa dal 1961 al 1968). Divenuto oppositore della guerra del Vietnam, cominciò a fotocopiare un dossier di 7000 pagine coperto da segreto di Stato, che rivelava le strategie del governo americano in merito alla guerra in Vietnam.

Nel 1971 consegnò questo materiale al The New York Times sotto il nome di Pentagon Papers, dando vita a una controversia politica nazionale.
wanna thank you Daniel Ellsberg
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27/6/2020 - 17:38
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My Son

My Son
[1968]
Lyrics & music by Jan Howard
Album: Jan Howard [1969]

"My Son" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Jan Howard. It is among several songs recorded by country artists during this period that related to the Vietnam War. The song is based on a letter Howard wrote to her son, Jimmy, who was drafted into the war. After writing the letter, she was inspired by family and friends to put it to music. Recording the song in a single take, it was released as a single in 1968.
Jan sent the song to her son in 1968 after its release. Before he could write back, he was killed in battle. At the same time, "My Son" became a major hit on the country charts in the United States. The recording later appeared on Howard's 1969 self-titled studio album. Since its release, "My Son" has been considered among Howard's signature songs. In later years, the song also has also... (continua)
My son my son I pray
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inviata da giorgio 25/6/2020 - 09:05
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How Do You Tell a Small Boy?

How Do You Tell a Small Boy?
(1973)
Single: Wake Up America! / How Do You Tell A Small Boy

The second song "How Do You Tell a Small Boy", narrated from the perspective of a P.O.W. (Prisoner of War), looked at the impact of a missing father on a child.

The P.O.W. wondered how to explain to his son that he "had to go to war", and that he spent most of his "time on a prison floor". The P.O.W. missed many of his son's life events: receiving his first bike, going to school, meeting his friend, playing in the snow. The father concluded that while he could not make up the time, and that his son paid the cost, he intended to stay home.

Vietnam War Songs Project
His hair was long and it tumbled down
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24/6/2020 - 23:16
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Wake Up America!

Wake Up America!
(1973)
Single: Wake Up America! / How Do You Tell A Small Boy

A double-sided Vietnam single, written and sung by Lance Lindsay. Bruce Miller arranged both sides. Released by Voices in Vital America (VIVA) - a not-for-profit student organisation formed in 1967 in Los Angeles by Carol Oates, under the name Victory in Vietnam Association, this group sought to counter campus radicalism while promoting concern for US soldiers missing in action and prisoners of war.

They famously distributed metal bracelets, with details of those M.I.A. or P.O.W., selling over 5 million. The group disbanded in 1976. Many of its records are held at the Vietnam Center and Archive, at Texas Tech.

The back of the picture sleeve said that

"over 1800 men are prisoners of war or missing in action. A picture of Lt. Ron Dodge (front cover) being escorted by North Vietnamese soldiers appeared in 'Paris March' magazine... (continua)
In a cell a man waits for a pardon
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24/6/2020 - 22:59
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The Blind Soldier From Vietnam

The Blind Soldier From Vietnam
The country song "The Blind Soldier From Vietnam" (Arzee # RZ-106-X) took an anti-war and plight of the soldier interpretation.

Curly Herman (1918-1968), from West Virginia, a fiddler in the 1960s, sometimes headed a group called the West Virginia Boys. He died shortly after the recording and release of this single, in 1968.

Narrated from the perspective of a soldier, who had returned home "from Vietnam", blinded by the war. His brother had also died in a war, possibly Vietnam or Korea. Likewise his father, presumably a reference to the Second World War. It thus sought to show a family continuity in fighting wars for the US. The narrator then explained that the young boy helped him cross the street. The boy told him that his friend's father had died in the Vietnam War. The soldier then declared: "dear god...stop the fighting in Vietnam and send the boys home safely". Released in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Rex Zario's record label Arzee (he produced the single). Composed by Curly Herdman.

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I am a blind soldier,
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21/6/2020 - 22:28




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