Japanese Songs

#4 自由ヴェトナム行進曲 [Free Vietnam March] #5 南ベトナムを解放しよう [Let's Liberate South Vietnam] #6 ベトナムの乙女たち [The Maidens of Vietnam] #10 我らの行く手に勝利あり [Victory Lies Ahead of Us]

1965

#2 三船和子 (Kazuko Mifune) ベトナムの赤い月 1965 · Single · ベトナムの赤い月 (The Red Moon of Vietnam) / 世界連邦・太平音頭 · Minoruphone # MA-1 · Japan

Annotation

The anti-war / peace song "トナムの赤い月" ( "The Red Moon of Vietnam" ) (Minoruphone Records # MA-1) by 三船和子 [Kazuko Mifune], which featured in the 1965 Japanese Vietnam War movie 動乱のベトナム [Vietnam in Turmoil]. Composed by 遠藤実 [Minoru Endo]. Lyrics by Masao Nakayama, which referenced Buddhist monks dying by self-immolation, the most well-known case being that of Thích Quảng Đức on 11 June 1963, one of the key images of the Vietnam War: "the monk earnest wish to save Vietnam and he prays that he should stop burning himself" .

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Featured in the 1965 Japanese Vietnam War movie 動乱のベトナム [Vietnam in Turmoil] Minoru Phone MA 001 (PS-0002), stereo, 33⅓ rpm, "聴いて楽しい・歌って楽しい・伴奏つきレコード" (a record with backing track, fun to hear and fun to sing), "Mfd. by Minoruphone Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan"; "ベトナムの赤い月" (The Red Moon of Vietnam), from the Shin Riken film 「動乱のベトナム」, words 中山正男 [Masao Nakayama], music 遠藤実 [Minoru Endo], sung by 三船和子 with the Minoruphone Chorus (ミノルフォン合唱団) and Minoruphone Orchestra.

The picture sleeve (¥330) shows a young woman in an áo dài with a flower in her hair, hands clasped, under the English title "The Red Moon of Vietnam".

The insert (太平グループミノルフォンレコード MA-001) prints four verses (the fourth not recorded), a melody line, playing times of 4:12 (vocal) and 4:10 (orchestra), a note that "ライツァライファ" is Vietnamese for "prayer", and a profile of the singer: born Ichinomiya, Aichi, 1 September 1947 (Showa 22), educated at Imaise Junior High School and a pupil of Minoru Endo. The lyrics are a prayer asking the world to watch Vietnam under a dark sun and red moon, recalling a monk's burning protest and hoping for peace for mothers and children. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

Look at me

Vietnam Terrace

The sun is black

Everyone's hearts are black

The sky of the southern sea is a golden yellow

Shining brightly against the greenery

When will it come back

Ah, look at me Vietnam

The monk earnest wish to save Vietnam

And he prays that he should stop burning himself

And the flowers are laid in praise

When will he be able to visit the temple of God?

Dark red and red, the flames of the war are blazing

The wind that scorches the sky is scorching

The southern cross is under the stars of the south

When will that girl sing?

When will she be able to hear it?" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

ライツァライファああみておくれベトナムのベトナムてらすお日ひさま黒くろいみんなの胸むねがまっくらだからきらきらと緑みどりに映はえる金色きんいろの南みなみの空そらはいつもどるいつもどるああみておくれベトナムのベトナム救すくう僧侶そうりょの悲願ひがんいくさやめよと身みを焼やく祈いのり花はなささげたたえる彌陀みだの信心しんじんのお寺てらまいりはいつできるいつできるライツァライファああみておくれベトナムのベトナムつつむ月つきかげ赤あかい戦火せんかの炎ほのお天てんまで焦こがす風かぜかおる南十字みなみじゅうじの星ほしのもとあの娘この歌うたはいつきけるいつきける

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Themes: Anti-War Self-Immolation Buddhism Peace

Genres: ♪ Japanese Music Enka

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#3 浦島みつ子 [Mitsuko Urashima] ベトナム哀歌 (Vietnamese Lament) 1965 · Single · ベトナム哀歌 / 悲恋街道 · Teichiku # SN-259 · Japan

Credited on the record as 浦島みつ子.

Annotation

Mitsuko Urashima, also known as Sugata Noriko, born 16 October 1946 in Tokyo, Japan, released her debut single "ベトナム哀歌" ( "Vietnamese Lament" ) (Teichiku Records # SN-259), an anti-war / peace song, which noted the tragedy of Vietnam's decent into war: "the nostalgic Mekong, now it's a quagmire, a muddy jungle... only the shadows of war in the North and South" .

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English

Like predicting tomorrow's fate

The moon shines through rows of palm trees

An endless, aimless night of war

A sad Vietnamese lament plays

When I carried away my dreams and flowed away

The nostalgic Mekong

Now it's a quagmire, a muddy jungle

Vietnam's wandering lament

Love is scattered, my hometown is still here

Only the shadows of war in the North and South

A mourning of peace

Praying and singing a Vietnamese lament" [auto-translation used]

Themes: Anti-War Mekong Delta

Genres: ♪ Japanese Music Enka

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#4–10 Central Choir 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１５ベトナム特集 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 15 – Vietnam Special] 1965 · EP · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 15 · Japan

All 4 songs from this ep in the archive are in this collection

Annotation

This is a different series to above, which translates as "Let's Spread the Song of Peace to 10 million People", with this one focused on Vietnam, with the subtitle "ベトナム特集" ("Special feature on Vietnam") (Center Record # ARI-337). .

Notes

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

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#4 Central Choir 自由ヴェトナム行進曲 [Free Vietnam March] 1965 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１５ベトナム特集 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 15 – Vietnam Special] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 15 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Annotation

Notes

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Center Sonopiece series No. 15, "ベトナム特集" (Vietnam Special), red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; side A: 自由ベトナム行進曲, 南ベトナムを解放しよう, われらの行手に勝利あり; side B: ベトナムの乙女たち, 作業場の休憩, おい仲間達; chorus 中央合唱団, conductors 関鑑子 and 井上頼豊.

The front is a colour photograph of a Vietnamese women's march with flags, raised fists and placards reading "Đế quốc Mỹ cút khỏi miền Nam Việt Nam"; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series Nos. 1–15 (¥200) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet, printed over a photograph of a mass rally, gives 南ベトナムを解放しよう as "南ベトナム解放歌" with Japanese words by 関鑑子 and accompaniment by the Center Ensemble, and ベトナムの乙女たち as a "ベトナム歌曲" translated by 関鑑子, accompaniment 松永勇次, conductor 関鑑子.

The notes say 南ベトナムを解放しよう is, with 自由ベトナム行進曲, among the most sung songs of North and South; われらの行手に勝利あり is one of some ten solidarity songs written in Japan in 1965, words by a Nagoya Dentsu worker and music by an Osaka newspaper worker, accompanied by 木下 and 松永 (accordion); ベトナムの乙女たち came on tape with messages from the South Vietnam National Liberation Front to the 1964 Japan Singing Voice Festival.

Score sheets print melodies with Japanese words for all six songs. The lyrics call on Vietnam's young people to fight to drive out the occupiers, win back freedom and answer Ho Chi Minh's call for liberation. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

Japanese

若いわれら人民のため

希望のみちひらく

自由のくにとり返すまで

強く斗うわれら

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Ho Chi Minh Freedom & Liberty Anti-Imperialism

#5 Central Choir 南ベトナムを解放しよう [Let's Liberate South Vietnam] 1965 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１５ベトナム特集 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 15 – Vietnam Special] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 15 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

Center Sonopiece series No. 15, "ベトナム特集" (Vietnam Special), red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; side A: 自由ベトナム行進曲, 南ベトナムを解放しよう, われらの行手に勝利あり; side B: ベトナムの乙女たち, 作業場の休憩, おい仲間達; chorus 中央合唱団, conductors 関鑑子 and 井上頼豊.

The front is a colour photograph of a Vietnamese women's march with flags, raised fists and placards reading "Đế quốc Mỹ cút khỏi miền Nam Việt Nam"; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series Nos. 1–15 (¥200) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet, printed over a photograph of a mass rally, gives 南ベトナムを解放しよう as "南ベトナム解放歌" with Japanese words by 関鑑子 and accompaniment by the Center Ensemble, and ベトナムの乙女たち as a "ベトナム歌曲" translated by 関鑑子, accompaniment 松永勇次, conductor 関鑑子.

The notes say 南ベトナムを解放しよう is, with 自由ベトナム行進曲, among the most sung songs of North and South; われらの行手に勝利あり is one of some ten solidarity songs written in Japan in 1965, words by a Nagoya Dentsu worker and music by an Osaka newspaper worker, accompanied by 木下 and 松永 (accordion); ベトナムの乙女たち came on tape with messages from the South Vietnam National Liberation Front to the 1964 Japan Singing Voice Festival.

Score sheets print melodies with Japanese words for all six songs. The lyrics call on South Vietnamese to rise up resolutely under the liberation flag, take up arms, defeat America and its collaborators, and defend the homeland from the Mekong to the Truong Son mountains. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

Japanese

たてベトナム決意固く

たたき出せ売国奴

うちくだけアメリカ

わが祖国守れ

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Mekong Delta Ho Chi Minh Trail NLF Anti-American

#6 Central Choir ベトナムの乙女たち [The Maidens of Vietnam] 1965 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１５ベトナム特集 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 15 – Vietnam Special] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 15 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

Center Sonopiece series No. 15, "ベトナム特集" (Vietnam Special), red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; side A: 自由ベトナム行進曲, 南ベトナムを解放しよう, われらの行手に勝利あり; side B: ベトナムの乙女たち, 作業場の休憩, おい仲間達; chorus 中央合唱団, conductors 関鑑子 and 井上頼豊.

The front is a colour photograph of a Vietnamese women's march with flags, raised fists and placards reading "Đế quốc Mỹ cút khỏi miền Nam Việt Nam"; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series Nos. 1–15 (¥200) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet, printed over a photograph of a mass rally, gives 南ベトナムを解放しよう as "南ベトナム解放歌" with Japanese words by 関鑑子 and accompaniment by the Center Ensemble, and ベトナムの乙女たち as a "ベトナム歌曲" translated by 関鑑子, accompaniment 松永勇次, conductor 関鑑子.

The notes say 南ベトナムを解放しよう is, with 自由ベトナム行進曲, among the most sung songs of North and South; われらの行手に勝利あり is one of some ten solidarity songs written in Japan in 1965, words by a Nagoya Dentsu worker and music by an Osaka newspaper worker, accompanied by 木下 and 松永 (accordion); ベトナムの乙女たち came on tape with messages from the South Vietnam National Liberation Front to the 1964 Japan Singing Voice Festival.

Score sheets print melodies with Japanese words for all six songs. The lyrics praise Vietnamese young women who support the liberation war from the rear, planting rice, working in factories and sewing uniforms for soldiers. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

Japanese

雨降る夜も晴の日も

斗い続く解放戦

後方を守る乙女たち

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Vietnamese Girls

#10 Central Choir 我らの行く手に勝利あり [Victory Lies Ahead of Us] 1965 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１５ベトナム特集 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 15 – Vietnam Special] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 15 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

A3. 1965 Japanese solidarity song with Vietnam (Nagoya Dentsu poet, Osaka newspaper-worker composer): rain on Vietnam, poison gas, bombing of the North; also Congo, Seoul Center Sonopiece series No. 15, "ベトナム特集" (Vietnam Special), red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; side A: 自由ベトナム行進曲, 南ベトナムを解放しよう, われらの行手に勝利あり; side B: ベトナムの乙女たち, 作業場の休憩, おい仲間達; chorus 中央合唱団, conductors 関鑑子 and 井上頼豊.

The front is a colour photograph of a Vietnamese women's march with flags, raised fists and placards reading "Đế quốc Mỹ cút khỏi miền Nam Việt Nam"; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series Nos. 1–15 (¥200) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet, printed over a photograph of a mass rally, gives 南ベトナムを解放しよう as "南ベトナム解放歌" with Japanese words by 関鑑子 and accompaniment by the Center Ensemble, and ベトナムの乙女たち as a "ベトナム歌曲" translated by 関鑑子, accompaniment 松永勇次, conductor 関鑑子.

The notes say 南ベトナムを解放しよう is, with 自由ベトナム行進曲, among the most sung songs of North and South; われらの行手に勝利あり is one of some ten solidarity songs written in Japan in 1965, words by a Nagoya Dentsu worker and music by an Osaka newspaper worker, accompanied by 木下 and 松永 (accordion); ベトナムの乙女たち came on tape with messages from the South Vietnam National Liberation Front to the 1964 Japan Singing Voice Festival.

Score sheets print melodies with Japanese words for all six songs. The lyrics link Vietnam's fight with struggles in the Congo, Seoul and Japanese factories, condemning poison gas and the bombing of the north, and calling Asia and Africa to drive out the Yankees. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

Japanese

雨しぶきわたるベトナムに

夜明けの火もえるコンゴの森に

にくいにくい弾丸がとぶ

毒ガス北爆許さず

Themes: Anti-War Anti-Imperialism Vietnamese Perspective Solidarity Demonstration Anti-American

#7 ベトナム共和国国歌 [National Anthem of the Republic of Vietnam] (Tiếng gọi công dân) #8 ベトナムの戦乱 (1A) [War in Vietnam] – サイゴン・クーデター実況 [Saigon coup, live] #9 ベトナムの戦乱 (1B) [War in Vietnam] – 韓国支援軍のサイゴン到着 [Korean support troops arrive in Saigon]

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#7–9 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班 [Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam Special Reporting Team] 月刊朝日ソノラマ 1965年5月号特集／ベトナムの戦乱 [Asahi Sonorama No. 65, May 1965 – Special: War in Vietnam] 1965 · Compilation · Asahi Sonorama # 65 · Japan

All 3 songs from this compilation in the archive are in this collection

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#7 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班 [Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam Special Reporting Team] ベトナム共和国国歌 [National Anthem of the Republic of Vietnam] (Tiếng gọi công dân) 1965 · Compilation · 月刊朝日ソノラマ 1965年5月号特集／ベトナムの戦乱 [Asahi Sonorama No. 65, May 1965 – Special: War in Vietnam] · Asahi Sonorama # 65 · Japan

Credited on the record as 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班.

Notes

月刊朝日ソノラマ (Asahi Sonorama) No. 65, May 1965, 280円, with blue flexi-sheet 1, 33⅓ rpm, labelled "毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班による実況音ベトナムの戦乱" (live sound recorded by the Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam special reporting team); side 1A: the Saigon coup live, press conferences of Col. ファン・ゴクタオ and 第1軍団司令官グエン・チャンチ, and an exclusive interview with South Vietnamese Prime Minister ファン・フィ・クワット; side 1B: the live handover ceremony of 3軍総司令官グエン・カーン and the arrival of the South Korean support force in Saigon, with the Korean national anthem and the anthem of the Republic of Vietnam.

The front cover shows a soldier and a peasant mother holding a child before burning houses ("家や作物を焼かれ、ボンヤリたたずむ農民の母子", WWP); the back cover shows Col. ファン・ゴク・タオ directing the 19 February coup from a tank, captioned that the coup failed within a day. The feature pages open with Saigon street scenes of tanks and barbed wire, and include the article "ベトナムの"20年戦争"" by 森恭三 (Asahi Shimbun chief editorial writer) with maps of Indochina, and photographs of the coup, a press conference of グエン・バン・チュ, グエン・チャンチ and グエン・カオキ, a strategic hamlet, Ambassador Taylor at Da Nang, and the first Korean troops in Saigon.

A note on p. 9 says the sheet was made from live recordings by the Mainichi Broadcasting team (news bureau head 真崎貞夫, a member of the social-education department, and cameraman 平敷安常), who were in Vietnam for about a month from 18 February. Sheet 2 carries Soviet and US space recordings and a children's music competition. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective South Vietnamese Saigon Korea

Genre: ♪ Fanfare

#8 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班 [Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam Special Reporting Team] ベトナムの戦乱 (1A) [War in Vietnam] – サイゴン・クーデター実況 [Saigon coup, live] 1965 · Compilation · 月刊朝日ソノラマ 1965年5月号特集／ベトナムの戦乱 [Asahi Sonorama No. 65, May 1965 – Special: War in Vietnam] · Asahi Sonorama # 65 · Japan

Credited on the record as 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班.

Notes

1A. 19 Feb 1965 Saigon coup live; press conferences of Col. Phạm Ngọc Thảo and Gen. Nguyễn Chánh Thi; exclusive interview with PM Phan Huy Quát 月刊朝日ソノラマ (Asahi Sonorama) No. 65, May 1965, 280円, with blue flexi-sheet 1, 33⅓ rpm, labelled "毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班による実況音ベトナムの戦乱" (live sound recorded by the Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam special reporting team); side 1A: the Saigon coup live, press conferences of Col. ファン・ゴクタオ and 第1軍団司令官グエン・チャンチ, and an exclusive interview with South Vietnamese Prime Minister ファン・フィ・クワット; side 1B: the live handover ceremony of 3軍総司令官グエン・カーン and the arrival of the South Korean support force in Saigon, with the Korean national anthem and the anthem of the Republic of Vietnam.

The front cover shows a soldier and a peasant mother holding a child before burning houses ("家や作物を焼かれ、ボンヤリたたずむ農民の母子", WWP); the back cover shows Col. ファン・ゴク・タオ directing the 19 February coup from a tank, captioned that the coup failed within a day. The feature pages open with Saigon street scenes of tanks and barbed wire, and include the article "ベトナムの"20年戦争"" by 森恭三 (Asahi Shimbun chief editorial writer) with maps of Indochina, and photographs of the coup, a press conference of グエン・バン・チュ, グエン・チャンチ and グエン・カオキ, a strategic hamlet, Ambassador Taylor at Da Nang, and the first Korean troops in Saigon.

A note on p. 9 says the sheet was made from live recordings by the Mainichi Broadcasting team (news bureau head 真崎貞夫, a member of the social-education department, and cameraman 平敷安常), who were in Vietnam for about a month from 18 February. Sheet 2 carries Soviet and US space recordings and a children's music competition. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Saigon

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#9 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班 [Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam Special Reporting Team] ベトナムの戦乱 (1B) [War in Vietnam] – 韓国支援軍のサイゴン到着 [Korean support troops arrive in Saigon] 1965 · Compilation · 月刊朝日ソノラマ 1965年5月号特集／ベトナムの戦乱 [Asahi Sonorama No. 65, May 1965 – Special: War in Vietnam] · Asahi Sonorama # 65 · Japan

Credited on the record as 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班.

Notes

1B. Gen. Nguyễn Khánh's handover ceremony as armed-forces commander (live); arrival of the South Korean support force in Saigon (live) with the Korean and RVN anthems 月刊朝日ソノラマ (Asahi Sonorama) No. 65, May 1965, 280円, with blue flexi-sheet 1, 33⅓ rpm, labelled "毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班による実況音ベトナムの戦乱" (live sound recorded by the Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam special reporting team); side 1A: the Saigon coup live, press conferences of Col. ファン・ゴクタオ and 第1軍団司令官グエン・チャンチ, and an exclusive interview with South Vietnamese Prime Minister ファン・フィ・クワット; side 1B: the live handover ceremony of 3軍総司令官グエン・カーン and the arrival of the South Korean support force in Saigon, with the Korean national anthem and the anthem of the Republic of Vietnam.

The front cover shows a soldier and a peasant mother holding a child before burning houses ("家や作物を焼かれ、ボンヤリたたずむ農民の母子", WWP); the back cover shows Col. ファン・ゴク・タオ directing the 19 February coup from a tank, captioned that the coup failed within a day. The feature pages open with Saigon street scenes of tanks and barbed wire, and include the article "ベトナムの"20年戦争"" by 森恭三 (Asahi Shimbun chief editorial writer) with maps of Indochina, and photographs of the coup, a press conference of グエン・バン・チュ, グエン・チャンチ and グエン・カオキ, a strategic hamlet, Ambassador Taylor at Da Nang, and the first Korean troops in Saigon.

A note on p. 9 says the sheet was made from live recordings by the Mainichi Broadcasting team (news bureau head 真崎貞夫, a member of the social-education department, and cameraman 平敷安常), who were in Vietnam for about a month from 18 February. Sheet 2 carries Soviet and US space recordings and a children's music competition. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Saigon Korea

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#11 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班 [Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam Special Reporting Team] ベトナム戦線を行く (1A) [Going to the Vietnam Front] – サイゴン大学学生自治会と仏教徒の抗議集会／17度線（ベン・ハイ河）の実況 1965 · Compilation · 月刊朝日ソノラマ 1965年6月号特集／ベトナム戦線を行く [Asahi Sonorama No. 66, June 1965 – Special: Going to the Vietnam Front] · Asahi Sonorama # 66 · Japan

Credited on the record as 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班.

Notes

1A. Live sound: Saigon University student union and Buddhist protest rally; the 17th parallel at the Bến Hải river 月刊朝日ソノラマ 6月号 No. 66 ("Asahi Sonorama No. 66 June 1965"), price 280円, published 1 June 1965 (昭和40年6月1日発行); cover feature 特集／ベトナム戦線を行く, also 4月のニュースダイジェスト and 第8回大阪国際フェスティバル開幕. Blue flexi sheet, 33⅓, label "月刊朝日ソノラマ 1965 6月号": "ベトナム戦線を行く" 《続・MBSベトナム特別取材班による実況音》; side 1A: サイゴン大学学生自治会と仏教徒の抗議集会／17度線（ベン・ハイ河）の実況; side 1B: ベトコン掃討戦従軍の実況.

The front cover photo shows a kneeling prisoner before South Vietnamese soldiers in gas masks; the back cover shows weeping women in conical hats. The feature introduces the recordings as the continuation of the previous issue's Mainichi Broadcasting (MBS) special reporting team's live sound, made in the hope of an early end to the fighting; inside are "ベトナム取材班のメモ" by 真崎貞夫 (Sadao Masaki, MBS news bureau chief) on "ベトナム人の印象" and the strange "expulsion" of peace-movement figures to the North across the Hiền Lương bridge on the Bến Hải river, by 森田泰正 (Yasumasa Morita) on "ある作戦", a Viet Cong sweep from Camp Suối Đá near the Cambodian border on 9 March, recorded on tape as he marched, and "十七度線への旅", a drive from Da Nang to the 17th parallel (MBS social education department).

Photographs credited to WWP, an MBS cameraman and 秋元啓一 (Asahi Shimbun publishing photo department). [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Saigon Demonstration Buddhism DMZ

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#12 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班 [Mainichi Broadcasting Vietnam Special Reporting Team] ベトナム戦線を行く (1B) [Going to the Vietnam Front] – ベトコン掃討戦従軍の実況 1965 · Compilation · 月刊朝日ソノラマ 1965年6月号特集／ベトナム戦線を行く [Asahi Sonorama No. 66, June 1965 – Special: Going to the Vietnam Front] · Asahi Sonorama # 66 · Japan

Credited on the record as 毎日放送ベトナム特別取材班.

Notes

1B. Live sound embedded with ARVN and US advisers on a Viet Cong sweep (Tây Ninh, Mar 1965) 月刊朝日ソノラマ 6月号 No. 66 ("Asahi Sonorama No. 66 June 1965"), price 280円, published 1 June 1965 (昭和40年6月1日発行); cover feature 特集／ベトナム戦線を行く, also 4月のニュースダイジェスト and 第8回大阪国際フェスティバル開幕. Blue flexi sheet, 33⅓, label "月刊朝日ソノラマ 1965 6月号": "ベトナム戦線を行く" 《続・MBSベトナム特別取材班による実況音》; side 1A: サイゴン大学学生自治会と仏教徒の抗議集会／17度線（ベン・ハイ河）の実況; side 1B: ベトコン掃討戦従軍の実況.

The front cover photo shows a kneeling prisoner before South Vietnamese soldiers in gas masks; the back cover shows weeping women in conical hats. The feature introduces the recordings as the continuation of the previous issue's Mainichi Broadcasting (MBS) special reporting team's live sound, made in the hope of an early end to the fighting; inside are "ベトナム取材班のメモ" by 真崎貞夫 (Sadao Masaki, MBS news bureau chief) on "ベトナム人の印象" and the strange "expulsion" of peace-movement figures to the North across the Hiền Lương bridge on the Bến Hải river, by 森田泰正 (Yasumasa Morita) on "ある作戦", a Viet Cong sweep from Camp Suối Đá near the Cambodian border on 9 March, recorded on tape as he marched, and "十七度線への旅", a drive from Da Nang to the 17th parallel (MBS social education department).

Photographs credited to WWP, an MBS cameraman and 秋元啓一 (Asahi Shimbun publishing photo department). [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Helicopter Vietnamese Perspective

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

1966

#13 マイク眞木 [Mike Maki] ベトナムの空 (Vietnam Sky) 1966 · Single · 波と木彫りのクマ / ベトナムの空 · Philips # SFL-1051 · Japan

Credited on the record as マイク眞木.

Annotation

Anti-war song "ベトナムの空" ( "Vietnam Sky" ) (Philips # SFL-1051), composed by songwriter 日高義 (Yoshi Hidaka), and here performed by Mike Maki, born on 27 April 1944 in Tokyo, Japan. The song also featured on his 1966 album Folk Album No. 2. Also note the more well-known version of this song, released in 1969 by 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi] on the single ホー・チ・ミンのバラード / ベトナムの空 (discussed below). The song focused on capturing the sounds and images of combat, from helicopters to burning villages and water buffalos, all familiar perceptions associated with the Vietnam War: "helicopter flew away... water buffalo echoed in the Mekong River... burnt-out village... blood everywhere" .

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Philips SFL-1051, Hi-Fi Stereo 45, side 2 (JWM-5003), manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Yokohama; "ベトナムの空" (words and music 日高義 [Yoshi Hidaka]), 2:49, sung with guitar by マイク真木; A-side "波と木彫りのクマ" (words and music マイク真木).

The picture sleeve (¥370, released by 日本ビクター) bills it as "心を打つ感動の歌日本のモダン・フォーク!" and shows the young singer in a striped shirt looking upward.

The back sleeve prints both lyrics and notes: for "ベトナムの空" the singer writes that great sacrifice may be needed to win freedom and peace but he hates killing, and that he sings praying that the senseless war now going on in a corner of Asia will end soon; a profile gives his birth as 27 April 1944 (Showa 19), a student in the Nihon University art department, founder of the Modern Folk Quartet, invited by MRA to a folk festival on Mackinac Island, a month in Ceylon in January 1966, the Philips album "バラが咲いた / マイク真木フォーク・アルバム" (SFL-7290), and his instruments (guitar, banjo, 12-string guitar, autoharp, harmonica, jew's harp and Indian esraj).

Housed in a Philips company sleeve. The lyrics describe a wounded soldier dying alone, thinking of home, under a blood-red Vietnamese sky of helicopters, gunfire and burned villages, the same sky as Hanoi, Saigon and Tokyo. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

There was a wounded soldier just looking up at the Vietnamese sky

The sky was as red as blood

And the helicopter flew away, and the gunshots stopped

The voice of the water buffalo echoed in the Mekong River

The sky was as red as blood, and he was watching

A burnt-down village and forest where no one dies alone

The sky is hazy with smoke and is red like blood everywhere

Holding a gun in my weakening hand, I remember my hometown

Leaving behind the smile of my mother

Why did I go out into the wild

The sky is as red as blood

The helicopter flies away, and the sound of gunfire stops

It echoes in the Mekong River

The skies of Vietnam are getting dark again today

Hanoi and Saigon are all the same sky

The sky is blood red everywhere

The helicopter flies away, the sound of gunfire ceases

It echoes in the Mekong River" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

ベトナムの空をただ見上げている

傷ついた兵隊が一人いた

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

ヘリコプターが飛び去り

砲声が途絶えて

メコン川にこだまする

水牛の声

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

見守る誰もなく

一人死んでゆく

焼き払われた村や森

煙にかすむ

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

弱まる手に銃を抱き

思い出す故郷（こきょう）

母の微笑み残して

何故いくさに出た

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

ヘリコプターが飛び去り

砲声が途絶えて

メコン川にこだまする

ベトナムの空は

今日も暮れてゆく

ハノイやサイゴン深浦も

みんな同じ空

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

ヘリコプターが飛び去り

砲声が途絶えて

メコン川にこだまする

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Themes: Anti-War Mekong Delta Helicopter K.I.A. Saigon Hanoi

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#14 北山和子 [Kazuko Kitayama] 一本の針 [Needle] 1966 · Single · 一本の針 / メコン河も泣いている · Minoruphone # KA-58 · Japan

Credited on the record as 北山和子.

Annotation

Double-sided anti-war Vietnam single. The first song "本の針" ( "Needle" ) (Minoruphone Records # KA-58) was performed by 北山和子 [Kazuko Kitayama] in the Kayōkyoku genre - "a Western-influenced vocal Pop music which was popular in Japan during the latter period of the Shōwa era, approximately from the 1950s to the late 1980s". The record label ran an advert promoting the single, under the headline: "A dark-skinned mixed race female singer... appeals for peace in Vietnam". It went on to say "a black -skinned girl born to a Japanese woman affected by war, is one such child of mixed race, and will make her debut... with a social song... a prayer for peace in Vietnam... it is a heartfelt song expressing a wish for peace, saying that Vietnam is now a hell of a mountain of pins and needles".¹ The song noted "Vietnam is now feeling the hell of pain of needles" . It questioned the point of the war: "what are we fighting about? Ideology is nothing more than human beings" . It concluded that "everyone's wish is to stop the war" . It also contained a few specific references to Japan: "the pain that Japan felt at that time on that day" , presumably a reference to the atomic bomb during WW2, and "listen to the appeal of Japan" , arguing that the country was against the war.

Sources

1 本の針 & メコン河も泣いている (Needle & The Mekong Rive Is Crying (Kazuko Kitayama & Takayuki Akutagawa) (Newspaper Clip) (Japan) ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English

Do you know the pain of a needle?

The pain of a needle prickling you

Everyone knows that pain of a needle

Vietnam is now feeling the hell of pain of needles

Our Asian friends

Imagine the pain of needles for ourselves

The pain that Japan felt at that time on that day

The wheat grows towards the sky

The flowing river is lower

South and North are on the map

Human feelings never change

What are we fighting about?

Ideology is nothing more than human beings

Needles hurt, even in America

Staring intently at his wife and child's sleeping face

Living in peace under the lamp

Everyone's wish is to stop the war

And with prayers for the pain of the needle

Listen to the appeal of Japan

Ah, a bright morning in Vietnam

Let the bells rings, let them ring" [auto-translation used]

Show full lyrics (22 lines) ▾

Themes: Anti-War WW2 Vietnamese Perspective Peace Japan

#16 大行軍の歌 [Song of the Great March] #17 ベトナム叙事詩 [Vietnam Epic] #18 ディエン・ビエンの勝利 [Victory at Điện Biên] #19 統一ベトナム [Unified Vietnam] #20 ベトナム解放区の春 [Spring in the Liberated Zone of Vietnam] #21 日本―ベトナム [Japan–Vietnam] (日本・ベトナム友好大衆歌曲) #22 南ベトナムからの手紙 [Letter From South Vietnam]

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#15 芥川隆行 [Takayuki Akutagawa] メコン河も泣いている [The Mekong River Is Crying] 1966 · Single · 一本の針 / メコン河も泣いている · Minoruphone # KA-58 · Japan

Credited on the record as 芥川隆行.

Annotation

The B-side, "メコン河も泣いている" ( "The Mekong River Is Crying" ) was a narration with background music, from 芥川隆行 [Takayuki Akutagawa], a well-known radio announcer in Japan. It presented the Vietnamese perspective under war: "sky is constantly roaring... bombardment was so intense" . It argued "we are all human... we Vietnamese are the same ethnic group" .

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

a well-known radio announcer in Japan Minoru Phone KA-58, stereo, 45 rpm, red label, "Mfd. by Minoruphone Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan"; side PS-0145 ©'66 "一本の針" (words 中山正男 [Masao Nakayama], music 遠藤実 [Minoru Endo]), 4:00, sung by 北山和子 with the Minoruphone Orchestra; side PS-0146 ©'66 "メコン河も泣いている" (poem by 中山正男), 4:10, recited by 芥川隆行.

The picture sleeve (¥330), headed "民族の歌声", shows the young singer with her head tilted back.

The back sleeve (太平グループミノルフォンレコード) prints three verses of "一本の針" (the second not sung) with a melody line, and the full text of the recited poem with a photograph of the reciter; the poem speaks of Saigon, Hanoi, the Mekong and the bombing, ending "ガメロン鳴らして、躍る月夜が". A newspaper clipping shown with the record, headed "黒い皮膚の混血女性歌手 'ベトナムの平和'を訴える北山和子", describes her as a 19-year-old mixed-race singer making her debut with this social song praying for peace in Vietnam, quoting Nakayama and Endo.

The lyrics are a spoken monologue by a Vietnamese villager describing bombing, terror in Saigon, rising prices and a people split between North and South, and begging for the fighting to stop. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

We are not stone Buddhas or iron robots

We are alive, we are human beings with blood and souls

Even a thorn of a millimeter stuck in our finger hurts

Swells and causes suffering

I can't stand it anymore

The sky is constantly roaring

The roads, the bridges, the rice fields, the jungle, even the Mekong River

The bombardment was so intense that I was crying out in pain

Why do I have to cry so much?...

We are all human being living in one earthly home

Moreover, we Vietnamese are the same ethnic group

I saw a Chinese drama in Cho Long with my Uncle who lives in Hanoi

My cousin who is in Viet Cong guerilla army

It was a fun day when we caught shrimp of the coast of Saint-Jacques

Now the streets of Saigon are like bayonet forts

Terror attack, monk self-immolation...

Furthermore he was separated from his wife and children...

Enough already, enough already...

Know the pain of a needle

Pain in the flesh and the aching heart..." [auto-translation used]

Show full lyrics (21 lines) ▾

Themes: Anti-War Saigon Mekong Delta VC Ho Chi Minh Self-Immolation

Genres: ♪ Japanese Music Narration Traditional Pop

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#16–22 Central Choir 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１８ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2] 1966 · EP · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18 · Japan

All 7 songs from this ep in the archive are in this collection

Annotation

As above, this one is part of the series "Let's Spread the Song of Peace to 10 million People", with the subtitle "ベトナム特集 No.2" ("Vietnam Special Feature No. 2") (Center Record # ARI-3575). .

Notes

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

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#16 Central Choir 大行軍の歌 [Song of the Great March] 1966 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１８ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Annotation

Notes

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Center Sonopiece series No. 18, "ベトナム特集 NO.2", ¥300, dark red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; No. 18A: 日本・ベトナム, 大行軍の歌, ベトナム叙事詩, ディエンビエンの勝利; No. 18B: 統一ベトナム, ベトナム開放区 [sic], 南ベトナムからの手紙; chorus 中央合唱団, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永 and 木下, conductor 井上頼豊; the lyric sheet gives side timings A 8:14 and B 8:02.

The front is a colour photograph of a smiling young Vietnamese woman in a conical hat with workers building behind her; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series (Nos. 6, 10 and 11 marked as missing numbers) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet is printed over photographs of a fisherman with nets and a soldier in a conical hat with rifle. The notes say 日本―ベトナム won first place (from 107 lyrics and 93 tunes) in the Japan–Vietnam friendship song contest for the visit of the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble; 大行軍の歌 is by ドゥ・ニュアン, secretary-general of the DRV Composers' Union, premiered by 中央合唱団 in 1966; ベトナム叙事詩 was sent by the DRV Composers' Union to the 1st Concert Against the American Aggression in Vietnam and premiered at the 2nd in November 1965; ディエンビエンの勝利 (1965) was sent to the 4th concert; 統一ベトナム was premiered at the 1965 Kanto Singing Voice Festival; ベトナム解放区の春 at the 1966 Japan Singing Voice Festival. 南ベトナムからの手紙 was set by 寺原伸夫, composer of the suite "日本の夜明け", while studying in the Soviet Union, and completed after the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam in summer 1965.

Score sheets print all seven songs. The lyrics describe marching a long, hard road to defend the homeland, vowing to pursue the invaders day and night and advance until liberation. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Format: 8" flexi.

Lyrics

Japanese

道遠く苦難こえ

汗にまみれ進む

怒り火ともえ

ふるさとまもる

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#17 Central Choir ベトナム叙事詩 [Vietnam Epic] 1966 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１８ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

Center Sonopiece series No. 18, "ベトナム特集 NO.2", ¥300, dark red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; No. 18A: 日本・ベトナム, 大行軍の歌, ベトナム叙事詩, ディエンビエンの勝利; No. 18B: 統一ベトナム, ベトナム開放区 [sic], 南ベトナムからの手紙; chorus 中央合唱団, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永 and 木下, conductor 井上頼豊; the lyric sheet gives side timings A 8:14 and B 8:02.

The front is a colour photograph of a smiling young Vietnamese woman in a conical hat with workers building behind her; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series (Nos. 6, 10 and 11 marked as missing numbers) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet is printed over photographs of a fisherman with nets and a soldier in a conical hat with rifle. The notes say 日本―ベトナム won first place (from 107 lyrics and 93 tunes) in the Japan–Vietnam friendship song contest for the visit of the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble; 大行軍の歌 is by ドゥ・ニュアン, secretary-general of the DRV Composers' Union, premiered by 中央合唱団 in 1966; ベトナム叙事詩 was sent by the DRV Composers' Union to the 1st Concert Against the American Aggression in Vietnam and premiered at the 2nd in November 1965; ディエンビエンの勝利 (1965) was sent to the 4th concert; 統一ベトナム was premiered at the 1965 Kanto Singing Voice Festival; ベトナム解放区の春 at the 1966 Japan Singing Voice Festival. 南ベトナムからの手紙 was set by 寺原伸夫, composer of the suite "日本の夜明け", while studying in the Soviet Union, and completed after the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam in summer 1965.

Score sheets print all seven songs. The lyrics praise Vietnam as a heroic nation, with people in the south rising in arms and the north farming and working, all fighting to drive out the American aggressors and reunify the country. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Format: 8" flexi.

Lyrics

Japanese

ベトナム波わきたつ英雄の国

アジアの海のかたえにたち

生きゆくために闘いぬく

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Mekong Delta Ho Chi Minh Trail Reunification Anti-American

#18 Central Choir ディエン・ビエンの勝利 [Victory at Điện Biên] 1966 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１８ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

Center Sonopiece series No. 18, "ベトナム特集 NO.2", ¥300, dark red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; No. 18A: 日本・ベトナム, 大行軍の歌, ベトナム叙事詩, ディエンビエンの勝利; No. 18B: 統一ベトナム, ベトナム開放区 [sic], 南ベトナムからの手紙; chorus 中央合唱団, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永 and 木下, conductor 井上頼豊; the lyric sheet gives side timings A 8:14 and B 8:02.

The front is a colour photograph of a smiling young Vietnamese woman in a conical hat with workers building behind her; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series (Nos. 6, 10 and 11 marked as missing numbers) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet is printed over photographs of a fisherman with nets and a soldier in a conical hat with rifle. The notes say 日本―ベトナム won first place (from 107 lyrics and 93 tunes) in the Japan–Vietnam friendship song contest for the visit of the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble; 大行軍の歌 is by ドゥ・ニュアン, secretary-general of the DRV Composers' Union, premiered by 中央合唱団 in 1966; ベトナム叙事詩 was sent by the DRV Composers' Union to the 1st Concert Against the American Aggression in Vietnam and premiered at the 2nd in November 1965; ディエンビエンの勝利 (1965) was sent to the 4th concert; 統一ベトナム was premiered at the 1965 Kanto Singing Voice Festival; ベトナム解放区の春 at the 1966 Japan Singing Voice Festival. 南ベトナムからの手紙 was set by 寺原伸夫, composer of the suite "日本の夜明け", while studying in the Soviet Union, and completed after the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam in summer 1965.

Score sheets print all seven songs. The lyrics celebrate liberation troops returning victorious from Điện Biên to a joyful countryside, with the victory flag flying and the whole world hailing the win. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Format: 8" flexi.

Lyrics

Japanese

わがディエン・ビエン解放部隊

ふるさとさして帰りゆく

早苗はあおあおと

子供らよろこびむかえ

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Battle of Dien Bien Phu First Indo-China War

#19 Central Choir 統一ベトナム [Unified Vietnam] 1966 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１８ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

Center Sonopiece series No. 18, "ベトナム特集 NO.2", ¥300, dark red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; No. 18A: 日本・ベトナム, 大行軍の歌, ベトナム叙事詩, ディエンビエンの勝利; No. 18B: 統一ベトナム, ベトナム開放区 [sic], 南ベトナムからの手紙; chorus 中央合唱団, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永 and 木下, conductor 井上頼豊; the lyric sheet gives side timings A 8:14 and B 8:02.

The front is a colour photograph of a smiling young Vietnamese woman in a conical hat with workers building behind her; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series (Nos. 6, 10 and 11 marked as missing numbers) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet is printed over photographs of a fisherman with nets and a soldier in a conical hat with rifle. The notes say 日本―ベトナム won first place (from 107 lyrics and 93 tunes) in the Japan–Vietnam friendship song contest for the visit of the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble; 大行軍の歌 is by ドゥ・ニュアン, secretary-general of the DRV Composers' Union, premiered by 中央合唱団 in 1966; ベトナム叙事詩 was sent by the DRV Composers' Union to the 1st Concert Against the American Aggression in Vietnam and premiered at the 2nd in November 1965; ディエンビエンの勝利 (1965) was sent to the 4th concert; 統一ベトナム was premiered at the 1965 Kanto Singing Voice Festival; ベトナム解放区の春 at the 1966 Japan Singing Voice Festival. 南ベトナムからの手紙 was set by 寺原伸夫, composer of the suite "日本の夜明け", while studying in the Soviet Union, and completed after the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam in summer 1965.

Score sheets print all seven songs. The lyrics mourn a Vietnam torn in two and urge comrades, as Ho Chi Minh's sons, to fight day and night until the country is united in lasting peace. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Format: 8" flexi.

Lyrics

Japanese

いざ共に今こそ

同志の誓い固く今こそ

引き裂かれ

怒り悲しベトナム

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Reunification Ho Chi Minh Peace

#20 Central Choir ベトナム解放区の春 [Spring in the Liberated Zone of Vietnam] 1966 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１８ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

Center Sonopiece series No. 18, "ベトナム特集 NO.2", ¥300, dark red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; No. 18A: 日本・ベトナム, 大行軍の歌, ベトナム叙事詩, ディエンビエンの勝利; No. 18B: 統一ベトナム, ベトナム開放区 [sic], 南ベトナムからの手紙; chorus 中央合唱団, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永 and 木下, conductor 井上頼豊; the lyric sheet gives side timings A 8:14 and B 8:02.

The front is a colour photograph of a smiling young Vietnamese woman in a conical hat with workers building behind her; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series (Nos. 6, 10 and 11 marked as missing numbers) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet is printed over photographs of a fisherman with nets and a soldier in a conical hat with rifle. The notes say 日本―ベトナム won first place (from 107 lyrics and 93 tunes) in the Japan–Vietnam friendship song contest for the visit of the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble; 大行軍の歌 is by ドゥ・ニュアン, secretary-general of the DRV Composers' Union, premiered by 中央合唱団 in 1966; ベトナム叙事詩 was sent by the DRV Composers' Union to the 1st Concert Against the American Aggression in Vietnam and premiered at the 2nd in November 1965; ディエンビエンの勝利 (1965) was sent to the 4th concert; 統一ベトナム was premiered at the 1965 Kanto Singing Voice Festival; ベトナム解放区の春 at the 1966 Japan Singing Voice Festival. 南ベトナムからの手紙 was set by 寺原伸夫, composer of the suite "日本の夜明け", while studying in the Soviet Union, and completed after the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam in summer 1965.

Score sheets print all seven songs. The lyrics celebrate spring returning to Vietnam's liberated zone, with birds, flowers and joyful returning fighters, a heroic people driving out the enemy and a rich homeland at lasting peace. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Format: 8" flexi.

Lyrics

Japanese

勝利の解放区に

野の鳥春をつげ

木々はささやき花はひらく

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Peace

#21 Central Choir 日本―ベトナム [Japan–Vietnam] (日本・ベトナム友好大衆歌曲) 1966 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１８ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

A1. 1st prize (from 107 lyrics, 93 tunes) in the Japan–Vietnam friendship song contest held for the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble's visit; "drive out the aggressors… bind Japan and Vietnam" Center Sonopiece series No. 18, "ベトナム特集 NO.2", ¥300, dark red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; No. 18A: 日本・ベトナム, 大行軍の歌, ベトナム叙事詩, ディエンビエンの勝利; No. 18B: 統一ベトナム, ベトナム開放区 [sic], 南ベトナムからの手紙; chorus 中央合唱団, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永 and 木下, conductor 井上頼豊; the lyric sheet gives side timings A 8:14 and B 8:02.

The front is a colour photograph of a smiling young Vietnamese woman in a conical hat with workers building behind her; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series (Nos. 6, 10 and 11 marked as missing numbers) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet is printed over photographs of a fisherman with nets and a soldier in a conical hat with rifle. The notes say 日本―ベトナム won first place (from 107 lyrics and 93 tunes) in the Japan–Vietnam friendship song contest for the visit of the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble; 大行軍の歌 is by ドゥ・ニュアン, secretary-general of the DRV Composers' Union, premiered by 中央合唱団 in 1966; ベトナム叙事詩 was sent by the DRV Composers' Union to the 1st Concert Against the American Aggression in Vietnam and premiered at the 2nd in November 1965; ディエンビエンの勝利 (1965) was sent to the 4th concert; 統一ベトナム was premiered at the 1965 Kanto Singing Voice Festival; ベトナム解放区の春 at the 1966 Japan Singing Voice Festival. 南ベトナムからの手紙 was set by 寺原伸夫, composer of the suite "日本の夜明け", while studying in the Soviet Union, and completed after the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam in summer 1965.

Score sheets print all seven songs. The lyrics salute Vietnamese comrades fighting for freedom and liberation as Asian brothers, pledging that Japan and Vietnam will join firmly in lasting friendship against invaders. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Format: 8" flexi.

Lyrics

Japanese

自由と解放のため

たたかう友よ

未来をきりひらく

アジアの兄弟よ

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Japan Solidarity Freedom & Liberty

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#22 Central Choir 南ベトナムからの手紙 [Letter From South Vietnam] 1966 · EP · 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう１８ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2] · Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

B3. A young South Vietnamese fighter writes to his mother: "drive out the pack of wolves, beat back the American soldiers".

Written summer 1965 for the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam Center Sonopiece series No. 18, "ベトナム特集 NO.2", ¥300, dark red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; No. 18A: 日本・ベトナム, 大行軍の歌, ベトナム叙事詩, ディエンビエンの勝利; No. 18B: 統一ベトナム, ベトナム開放区 [sic], 南ベトナムからの手紙; chorus 中央合唱団, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永 and 木下, conductor 井上頼豊; the lyric sheet gives side timings A 8:14 and B 8:02.

The front is a colour photograph of a smiling young Vietnamese woman in a conical hat with workers building behind her; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series (Nos. 6, 10 and 11 marked as missing numbers) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet is printed over photographs of a fisherman with nets and a soldier in a conical hat with rifle. The notes say 日本―ベトナム won first place (from 107 lyrics and 93 tunes) in the Japan–Vietnam friendship song contest for the visit of the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble; 大行軍の歌 is by ドゥ・ニュアン, secretary-general of the DRV Composers' Union, premiered by 中央合唱団 in 1966; ベトナム叙事詩 was sent by the DRV Composers' Union to the 1st Concert Against the American Aggression in Vietnam and premiered at the 2nd in November 1965; ディエンビエンの勝利 (1965) was sent to the 4th concert; 統一ベトナム was premiered at the 1965 Kanto Singing Voice Festival; ベトナム解放区の春 at the 1966 Japan Singing Voice Festival. 南ベトナムからの手紙 was set by 寺原伸夫, composer of the suite "日本の夜明け", while studying in the Soviet Union, and completed after the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam in summer 1965.

Score sheets print all seven songs. The lyrics are a young southern fighter's letter to his mother and sweetheart, telling them he is leaving to fight American troops for the day of reunification. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Format: 8" flexi.

Lyrics

Japanese

母さん母さん元気ですか

銃声とだえた夜明け前

北を見つめて心に誓う

狼の群を追いはらう

Themes: Anti-War Vietnamese Perspective Reunification Anti-American

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1968

#23 Various Artists 空襲下の北ベトナム (Side A) 1968 · Album · 空襲下の北ベトナム [North Vietnam Under the Air-Raid] · Columbia # JX(M)-1004 · Japan

Credited on the record as No Artist.

Annotation

The LP "空襲下の北ベトナム" ("North Vietnam Under the Air-Raid") (Columbia Records # JX(M)-1004) - a spoken word, field recording release.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Air War Hanoi

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#24 Various Artists 空襲下の北ベトナム (Side B) 1968 · Album · 空襲下の北ベトナム [North Vietnam Under the Air-Raid] · Columbia # JX(M)-1004 · Japan

Credited on the record as No Artist.

Annotation: see “空襲下の北ベトナム (Side A)” above (same release).

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Air War Hanoi

#26 メコン河の子守唄 [Mekong River Lullaby] #27 ベトナム参戦国の母や妻たちへ [To the Mothers and Wives of the Nations Fighting in Vietnam] #28 行動の時 [Time for Action (Giờ Hành Động)]

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#25 マリオ清藤 [Mario Kiyofuji] ユエの流れに [The Moonlight in Hue] 1968 · Single · ユエの流れに / 別れたって別れたって [The Moonlight in Hue] · Express # EP-1115 · Japan

Credited on the record as マリオ清藤.

Annotation

The song "ユエの流れに (The Moonlight in Hue)" (Express # EP-1115), a Japanese pop song set during the Vietnam War based around the city of Hue - narrated from the domestic perspective, as a woman longs for her partner to return from the war: "I long for that person's heart... the sound of drums resonated in the distance". As can be seen on the front cover, a soldier stands in front of a bombed building.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

A. A Hue woman waits for her lover gone to war Express EP-1115 (EP-1115-A), stereo, 45 R.P.M., JASRAC, "Mfd. by Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd. in Japan"; "ユエの流れ / The Moonlight in Hue" (Yujiro Kiri, Yosaku Suma, Kenji Igarashi; arranged by Kenji Igarashi), 3'56"; B side "別れたって別れたって / Wakaretatte, Wakaretatte" (中村のりみつ words, 五十嵐謙二 music and arr.), 4'04".

The front shows Mario Kiyofuji in sunglasses beside a photograph of a damaged palace building in Hue; ¥400; the back prints both lyrics.

The insert carries a profile of the singer and an essay by 桐雄二郎 (stated to be a pen name of the writer 秩父重剛): he says the song was made in Saint-Jacques (サンジャック), south of Saigon, the year after the war ended, for a troupe entertaining Japanese soldiers, with music by bandmaster 須摩洋朔 built on a fragment of a local tune; he resolved to issue it after seeing magazine photographs of Hue's ruined citadel as the Vietnam War intensified.

Toshiba Records company sleeve. The lyrics describe a woman waiting by the moonlit river in Hue for a lover who never comes, then returning home alone in sorrow. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

The flow sparkles with the moon, memories sway on the waves

I long for that person's heart, a loving kiss swirling

My black hair is fragrant, my lips redder than a flower

I put on makeup and wait, but he won't come

The sound of drums resonates in the distance

The melody of parting brings tears to my eyes

Oh mother Hue's flow, please protect our love

On the night of the festival, when fires are lit, a bittersweet love burns

The moon tilts beneath the treetops, the ruins of the ruined castle are sad

The stars are erased by my tears and he won't come

Why, why won't my beloved come

I go home alone, lonely" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

流れは月にきらめき憶いは波にゆらめく

恋しやあの人の胸くるめく愛のくちづけ

黒髪匂いをこめて唇花より紅く

粧（よそお）いこらして待てどあの人は来ない

遥かにひびく太鼓の音は

涙をそそる別離の調べ

母なるユエの流れよ愛をば守らせ給え

火を焚く祭りの夜に燃え立つ切ない恋よ

梢に月はかたむき崩れた城跡悲し

涙で星影消えてあの人は来ない

愛しい人は何故何故来ない

わたしは独り淋しく帰る

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Themes: Hue Vietnamese Perspective Lost Love

Genres: ♪ Japanese Music Kayōkyoku

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#26–28 Various Artists '68日本のうたごえ祭典《抜粋》 [Record of the '68 Singing Voice Festival of Japan] 1968 · Live · Center [Tokyo] # TLS-3002 / TLS-3003 · Japan

All 3 songs from this live in the archive are in this collection

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#26 自治体東京のうたごえ [Jichitai Tokyo no Utagoe] メコン河の子守唄 [Mekong River Lullaby] 1968 · Live · '68日本のうたごえ祭典《抜粋》 [Record of the '68 Singing Voice Festival of Japan] · Center [Tokyo] # TLS-3002 / TLS-3003 · Japan

Credited on the record as 自治体東京のうたごえ.

Notes

創作発表会 (new compositions) section, recorded live at the '68 Japan Utagoe Festival, Tokyo, 21-24 November 1968 (TLS-3002 Side B). 2LP festival excerpts set, general director Seki Akiko (Music Center). Same festival programme includes a greeting by the Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble's leader and a 'Vietnamese children resident in Japan with full-assembly chorus' item on TLS-3003.

Themes: Anti-War Vietnamese Perspective Child Mekong Delta

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#27 宮城のうたごえ [Miyagi no Utagoe] ベトナム参戦国の母や妻たちへ [To the Mothers and Wives of the Nations Fighting in Vietnam] 1968 · Live · '68日本のうたごえ祭典《抜粋》 [Record of the '68 Singing Voice Festival of Japan] · Center [Tokyo] # TLS-3002 / TLS-3003 · Japan

Credited on the record as 宮城のうたごえ.

Notes

創作発表会 (new compositions) section, recorded live at the '68 Japan Utagoe Festival, Tokyo, 21-24 November 1968 (TLS-3002 Side B). Addressed to the mothers and wives of the countries fighting in Vietnam. Composer 高平続之.

Themes: Anti-War Peace

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#28 東京のうたごえ [Tokyo no Utagoe] 行動の時 [Time for Action (Giờ Hành Động)] 1968 · Live · '68日本のうたごえ祭典《抜粋》 [Record of the '68 Singing Voice Festival of Japan] · Center [Tokyo] # TLS-3002 / TLS-3003 · Japan

Credited on the record as 東京のうたごえ.

Notes

大音楽会 (Grand Concert) closing section, recorded live at the '68 Japan Utagoe Festival, Tokyo, 21-24 November 1968 (TLS-3003 Side B); credited as ベトナム歌曲 (Vietnamese song), sung in Vietnamese. The same side carries the ベトナム中央歌舞団長挨拶 greeting.

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#29 解放戦線の歌 [The Songs of the NLF] #34 戦車と農民 (With the APC Tank Company) #35 家宅捜査 (Search of Houses) #36 戦闘 (In the Fighting) #37 故郷への手紙 #38 廃墟の老婆 (An Old Woman in the Ruins) #39 緑の故郷 (Green Native Land) #40 解放軍中隊長との出会い #41 紹介状第一号 (Letter of Introduction No. 1) #42 佐藤首相への伝言 #43 ヘリコプターの恐怖 (Terror From Helicopters) #44 脱出 (Escape From the Area)

#29–44 Various Artists 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) 1968 · Album · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

All 12 songs from this album in the archive are in this collection

Annotation

Vietnam War-themed spoken-word LP, titled "戦場の村" ("Battlefield Village") (Victor World # SJET-8095). The A-side has the subtitle "A Voice From the Village", and the B-side "The National Liberation Front" - the track titles were provided in both Japanese and English. This is the recitation of reports and literature about Vietnam, although it's hard to track down the exact sources that make up this compilation. It involved prominent Japanese journalist Katsuichi Honda (born 28 January 1932), a war correspondent in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968 - he published the book Vietnam War: A Report through Asian Eyes in 1972, in addition to narration from Japanese actor 宇野重吉 [Jukichi Uno].¹ The booklet attached to this LP said "this is only a record of the Vietnam War in 1967... but this is not a historical document that ages with the passage of time... it is more than just a record of facts - it is personal... it is the courage of [those] who testified to humanity's deepest suffering".

Track listing

Sources

1 Wikipedia: Katsuichi Honda ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

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#29 Various Artists 解放戦線の歌 [The Songs of the NLF] 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Annotation

Track listing

Sources

1 Wikipedia: Katsuichi Honda ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles.

The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社".

The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist.

A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment.

The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định.

Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

Genres: ♪ Vietnamese Music Nhạc đỏ Field Recordings

#34 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 戦車と農民 (With the APC Tank Company) 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#35 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 家宅捜査 (Search of Houses) 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#36 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 戦闘 (In the Fighting) 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#37 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 故郷への手紙 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#38 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 廃墟の老婆 (An Old Woman in the Ruins) 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#39 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 緑の故郷 (Green Native Land) 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#40 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 解放軍中隊長との出会い 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Guerrilla Warfare

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#41 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 紹介状第一号 (Letter of Introduction No. 1) 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#42 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 佐藤首相への伝言 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

B3. NLF message to PM Satō Eisaku Victor World Group SJET-8095 (M), mono, 33⅓ RPM, made in Japan, manufactured by Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.; label matrix numbers SVIR-7010-A and SVIR-7010-B. The green labels credit Katsuichi Honda and "宇野重吉 (Jyukichi Uno, narrator)", titling side 1 "A Voice from the Village" and side 2 "The National Liberation Front" (both 本多勝一「戦場の村」), with Japanese and English track titles.

The front cover shows a grainy photograph of Vietnamese women and a child huddled together under the brush-lettered title 戦場の村, with "本多勝一 / 朗読宇野重吉"; the obi reads "謙虚な精神の記録、日本が生んだルポルタージュの傑作" (a record of a humble spirit, a masterpiece of Japanese reportage), lists highlights including 解放戦線の歌, and is priced ¥1,750; the back sleeve is a photograph of Uno reading at a microphone, "発売元・日本ビクター株式会社".

The six-page insert opens with Honda's "レコードをきく前に" (Before listening to the record), explaining that the reading is drawn from his book 戦場の村 (Asahi Shimbun), an expansion of his "戦争と民衆" series serialised in the Asahi from May to December 1967, using parts 5 (戦場の村, on side A, set in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces with a US Army APC unit) and 6 (解放戦線, on side B, in an NLF-held area of the Mekong Delta), and that the songs and voices on side B were recorded on location with a small tape recorder; he lists the passages chosen, including 連行, 最前線ゲリラ and メコン川のホタル, which do not appear on the label tracklist.

A second essay, "謙虚な精神の記録" by 日野啓三 [Keizō Hino], literary critic and former Yomiuri Shimbun Saigon correspondent, praises the book as a record that keeps its honesty without falling into detachment.

The insert carries fifteen numbered photographs with captions quoted from the book (APC tanks crossing rice fields, villagers, a wounded boy prisoner, NLF soldiers, the handwritten Vietnamese letter of introduction "Giấy giới thiệu số 1", a farewell photograph, a sampan), credited to 藤木高嶺 [Takane Fujiki] (jacket front and asterisked photos) and Honda (unmarked), plus maps of South Vietnam, Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định.

Credits: producer A. Torio, director K. Ichikawa, engineer T. Sekiguchi; recording dates 1968 Sep. 24, 28 and Oct. 1; jacket design S. Yaguchi. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Japan

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#43 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] ヘリコプターの恐怖 (Terror From Helicopters) 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Helicopter

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#44 本多勝一 [Katsuichi Honda] & 宇野重吉 [Jūkichi Uno] 脱出 (Escape From the Area) 1968 · Album · 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (本多勝一 / 宇野重吉) · Victor World # SJET-8095 · Japan

Credited on the record as 本多勝一, 宇野重吉.

Notes

#30 佐藤首相へのメッセージ [Message to Prime Minister Satō] – 南ベトナム民族解放戦線 [South Vietnam NLF] #31 南方の解放 [Giải phóng miền Nam] – 解放戦線歌 [NLF song] #45 1968年の世界展望 —激動の1967年— [World Outlook for 1968 – The Turbulent Year 1967] #46 1968年の世界展望 – 北ベトナム報告 [Report From North Vietnam]

Genre: ♪ Spoken Word

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#30–46 Various Artists 朝日ソノラマ 1968年1月号 No. 97 [Asahi Sonorama, January 1968] 1968 · Compilation · Asahi Sonorama # 97 · Japan

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#30 グエン・バン・キイ [Nguyễn Văn Kỳ?] (NLF political committee member, 23) 佐藤首相へのメッセージ [Message to Prime Minister Satō] – 南ベトナム民族解放戦線 [South Vietnam NLF] 1968 · Compilation · 朝日ソノラマ 1968年1月号 No. 97 [Asahi Sonorama, January 1968] · Asahi Sonorama # 97 · Japan

Notes

Asahi Sonorama No. 97, '68 1月号 (INDEX no. 97), price 300円, "Printed in Japan"; red flexi sheet, 33⅓ R.P.M., silver label with "1968 1月号朝日ソノラマ" and a rim reading "Speeches Sciences Cultures Religions Internationals Sports Economics Arts Politics Socials".

Side 1A: "1968年の世界展望" — 激動の1967年 — 中東戦争／中ソ対立／ベトナム戦争／革命50周年のモスクワ他 [Middle East war / Sino-Soviet split / Vietnam War / Moscow at the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, etc.]; side 1B: "1968年の世界展望" — 北ベトナム報告・田英夫 [Report from North Vietnam, Hideo Den], and "佐藤首相へのメッセージ" — 南ベトナム民族解放戦線・本多勝一 [Message to Prime Minister Satō — South Vietnam NLF, Katsuichi Honda].

The front cover photo shows President Johnson and Prime Minister Satō (WWP) with the banner "ベトナム解放戦線より佐藤首相への手紙" [A letter to Prime Minister Satō from the Vietnam Liberation Front]; the back cover lists the contents over a photo of a soldier, and the index lists sheet 1A·B as 録音構成「一九六八年の世界展望」 including ルポ・ベトナム民族解放戦線より佐藤首相へ and the song 「南方の解放」. Katsuichi Honda's article "ベトナム民族解放戦線 — 解放戦線から佐藤首相へ" (pp. 5–6, Asahi Shimbun Tokyo head office, society desk) describes a month in a Mekong Delta liberated zone, where at S village a 23-year-old political committee member, グエン・バン・キイ, recorded on tape a message asking him to convey their feelings to Prime Minister Satō; the message printed in bold (recorded on sheet 1B) addresses the Japanese people as brothers, says Satō is deceived by the US imperialism Johnson represents, and calls for the return of Okinawa and the removal of US bases.

The article adds that the fighters then sang, ending with 「南方の解放」 (フィン・ミン・シェン作詞作曲 [words and music by Huỳnh Minh Siêng]), described as the NLF's national anthem and used as Liberation Radio's news theme, with its Japanese meaning printed. Photographs on pp. 4–6 by cameraman 藤木高嶺 (Takane Fujiki); sheet 1AB produced with the cooperation of Tokyo Broadcasting (TBS) news bureau, Radio Moscow and VOA. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

Genres: ♪ Spoken Word Speech

#31 NLF fighters of S village (sung in chorus) 南方の解放 [Giải phóng miền Nam] – 解放戦線歌 [NLF song] 1968 · Compilation · 朝日ソノラマ 1968年1月号 No. 97 [Asahi Sonorama, January 1968] · Asahi Sonorama # 97 · Japan

Notes

Lyrics

Japanese

南部解放のためわれらは団結して進む

米帝国主義をほろぼし売国奴の一味を打ち倒すために

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic NLF Anti-Imperialism Reunification

#45 Various Artists 1968年の世界展望 —激動の1967年— [World Outlook for 1968 – The Turbulent Year 1967] 1968 · Compilation · 朝日ソノラマ 1968年1月号 No. 97 [Asahi Sonorama, January 1968] · Asahi Sonorama # 97 · Japan

Notes

1A. Sound montage: Middle East war, Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam War, 50th anniversary of the Revolution in Moscow Asahi Sonorama No. 97, '68 1月号 (INDEX no. 97), price 300円, "Printed in Japan"; red flexi sheet, 33⅓ R.P.M., silver label with "1968 1月号朝日ソノラマ" and a rim reading "Speeches Sciences Cultures Religions Internationals Sports Economics Arts Politics Socials".

Side 1A: "1968年の世界展望" — 激動の1967年 — 中東戦争／中ソ対立／ベトナム戦争／革命50周年のモスクワ他 [Middle East war / Sino-Soviet split / Vietnam War / Moscow at the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, etc.]; side 1B: "1968年の世界展望" — 北ベトナム報告・田英夫 [Report from North Vietnam, Hideo Den], and "佐藤首相へのメッセージ" — 南ベトナム民族解放戦線・本多勝一 [Message to Prime Minister Satō — South Vietnam NLF, Katsuichi Honda].

The front cover photo shows President Johnson and Prime Minister Satō (WWP) with the banner "ベトナム解放戦線より佐藤首相への手紙" [A letter to Prime Minister Satō from the Vietnam Liberation Front]; the back cover lists the contents over a photo of a soldier, and the index lists sheet 1A·B as 録音構成「一九六八年の世界展望」 including ルポ・ベトナム民族解放戦線より佐藤首相へ and the song 「南方の解放」. Katsuichi Honda's article "ベトナム民族解放戦線 — 解放戦線から佐藤首相へ" (pp. 5–6, Asahi Shimbun Tokyo head office, society desk) describes a month in a Mekong Delta liberated zone, where at S village a 23-year-old political committee member, グエン・バン・キイ, recorded on tape a message asking him to convey their feelings to Prime Minister Satō; the message printed in bold (recorded on sheet 1B) addresses the Japanese people as brothers, says Satō is deceived by the US imperialism Johnson represents, and calls for the return of Okinawa and the removal of US bases.

The article adds that the fighters then sang, ending with 「南方の解放」 (フィン・ミン・シェン作詞作曲 [words and music by Huỳnh Minh Siêng]), described as the NLF's national anthem and used as Liberation Radio's news theme, with its Japanese meaning printed. Photographs on pp. 4–6 by cameraman 藤木高嶺 (Takane Fujiki); sheet 1AB produced with the cooperation of Tokyo Broadcasting (TBS) news bureau, Radio Moscow and VOA. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Anti-War Demonstration

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#46 田英夫 [Hideo Den] 1968年の世界展望 – 北ベトナム報告 [Report From North Vietnam] 1968 · Compilation · 朝日ソノラマ 1968年1月号 No. 97 [Asahi Sonorama, January 1968] · Asahi Sonorama # 97 · Japan

Credited on the record as 田英夫.

Notes

1B-a. TBS newscaster Den Hideo's report from North Vietnam (1967) Asahi Sonorama No. 97, '68 1月号 (INDEX no. 97), price 300円, "Printed in Japan"; red flexi sheet, 33⅓ R.P.M., silver label with "1968 1月号朝日ソノラマ" and a rim reading "Speeches Sciences Cultures Religions Internationals Sports Economics Arts Politics Socials".

Side 1A: "1968年の世界展望" — 激動の1967年 — 中東戦争／中ソ対立／ベトナム戦争／革命50周年のモスクワ他 [Middle East war / Sino-Soviet split / Vietnam War / Moscow at the 50th anniversary of the Revolution, etc.]; side 1B: "1968年の世界展望" — 北ベトナム報告・田英夫 [Report from North Vietnam, Hideo Den], and "佐藤首相へのメッセージ" — 南ベトナム民族解放戦線・本多勝一 [Message to Prime Minister Satō — South Vietnam NLF, Katsuichi Honda].

The front cover photo shows President Johnson and Prime Minister Satō (WWP) with the banner "ベトナム解放戦線より佐藤首相への手紙" [A letter to Prime Minister Satō from the Vietnam Liberation Front]; the back cover lists the contents over a photo of a soldier, and the index lists sheet 1A·B as 録音構成「一九六八年の世界展望」 including ルポ・ベトナム民族解放戦線より佐藤首相へ and the song 「南方の解放」. Katsuichi Honda's article "ベトナム民族解放戦線 — 解放戦線から佐藤首相へ" (pp. 5–6, Asahi Shimbun Tokyo head office, society desk) describes a month in a Mekong Delta liberated zone, where at S village a 23-year-old political committee member, グエン・バン・キイ, recorded on tape a message asking him to convey their feelings to Prime Minister Satō; the message printed in bold (recorded on sheet 1B) addresses the Japanese people as brothers, says Satō is deceived by the US imperialism Johnson represents, and calls for the return of Okinawa and the removal of US bases.

The article adds that the fighters then sang, ending with 「南方の解放」 (フィン・ミン・シェン作詞作曲 [words and music by Huỳnh Minh Siêng]), described as the NLF's national anthem and used as Liberation Radio's news theme, with its Japanese meaning printed. Photographs on pp. 4–6 by cameraman 藤木高嶺 (Takane Fujiki); sheet 1AB produced with the cooperation of Tokyo Broadcasting (TBS) news bureau, Radio Moscow and VOA. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Air War

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#32 Central Choir この手をつないで [Join These Hands] 1968 · EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード６ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-6 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

B1.

Written for the 9th Japan Mothers' Convention, Aug 1967; verse 3 "to the mothers and children of Vietnam, peace and happiness" Center Record CLS-6 (CLS-6-A / CLS-6-B), LP stereo, 33⅓ RPM, "Made by Ongaku Center", 制作＝音楽センター, 東京都新宿区西大久保3-67, ¥400; 合唱＝中央合唱団, 伴奏＝センターオーケストラ, 指揮＝井上頼豊, 編曲＝多泉和人, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永勇次・木下そんき.

Side A: "明日を呼ぼう" (池田ふじ子 words, 寺原伸夫 music), 3'10"; "ふりそそげ春の陽" (新宿合唱団 words, 関忠亮 music), 2'55".

Side B: "この手をつないで" (門倉訣 words, 清村杜夫 music), 2'56"; "あかつきの空に" (大西進 words and music), 3'05".

The front shows smiling schoolchildren and mothers in a street.

The back-sleeve notes say "この手をつないで" was written for the 9th Japan Mothers' Convention (第九回日本母親大会) in August 1967, and that "あかつきの空に" was written after the December 1967 victory of the Kin (喜屋武) land struggle against US base expansion in Okinawa linked to the war in Vietnam, and spread by the 5th Utagoe delegation to Okinawa from New Year 1968.

The insert prints scores and lyrics of all four songs, and a catalogue of Center Record releases that includes "ベトナムの母さんへ" (CLS-3) and "自由ベトナム行進曲" (MLS-1003). The lyrics call for people to join hands and walk together for children's future, for Okinawa's return and Japanese independence, and for peace and happiness for Vietnam's mothers and children. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

Japanese

この手をつないで歩いていこう

ベトナムの母と子供らに

誰もが平和としあわせを

Themes: Anti-War Okinawa Peace Solidarity Child

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#33 Central Choir あかつきの空に [In the Dawn Sky] 1968 · EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード６ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-6 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Notes

B2. Okinawa farmers resisting US base expansion for the Vietnam war (Kin land struggle, Dec 1967); "Vietnam and Sunagawa" — solidarity with Vietnam, bombers overhead Center Record CLS-6 (CLS-6-A / CLS-6-B), LP stereo, 33⅓ RPM, "Made by Ongaku Center", 制作＝音楽センター, 東京都新宿区西大久保3-67, ¥400; 合唱＝中央合唱団, 伴奏＝センターオーケストラ, 指揮＝井上頼豊, 編曲＝多泉和人, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永勇次・木下そんき.

Side A: "明日を呼ぼう" (池田ふじ子 words, 寺原伸夫 music), 3'10"; "ふりそそげ春の陽" (新宿合唱団 words, 関忠亮 music), 2'55".

Side B: "この手をつないで" (門倉訣 words, 清村杜夫 music), 2'56"; "あかつきの空に" (大西進 words and music), 3'05".

The front shows smiling schoolchildren and mothers in a street.

The back-sleeve notes say "この手をつないで" was written for the 9th Japan Mothers' Convention (第九回日本母親大会) in August 1967, and that "あかつきの空に" was written after the December 1967 victory of the Kin (喜屋武) land struggle against US base expansion in Okinawa linked to the war in Vietnam, and spread by the 5th Utagoe delegation to Okinawa from New Year 1968.

The insert prints scores and lyrics of all four songs, and a catalogue of Center Record releases that includes "ベトナムの母さんへ" (CLS-3) and "自由ベトナム行進曲" (MLS-1003). The lyrics use Okinawa's red deigo flower to link Okinawan and Sunagawa resistance to US bases with Vietnam's struggle, vowing to defend the land together. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

Japanese

あかつきの空に芽を育て

ベトナムに思いこめ

爆音にたじろがず命かけ土守る

Themes: Anti-War Okinawa Solidarity Japan

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1969

#47 マイケルズ [Michaels] 坊や大きくならないで (Sleep Softly, My Boy) 1969 · Single · 坊や大きくならないで / 君に歌を [Sleep Softly, My Boy / I'll Sing a Song for You] · Denon # CD-17 · Japan

Credited on the record as マイケルズ.

Annotation

The contemporary folk protest song "坊や大きくならないで" ( "Sleep Softly, My Boy" ) (Denon Records # CD-17) is a Japanese adaptation of the song "Ngủ Đi Con" ("Go to Sleep Baby") by prominent and influential Vietnamese songwriter Trịnh Công Sơn (born 28 February 1939 in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, he died on 1 April 2001, in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam).¹. It mournfully hopes a child will sleep peacefully: "don't grow up, sleep peacefully" , but ominously warns that when grown up, they might "be stained with blood" .

Sources

1 Wikipedia: Trịnh Công Sơn ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English

Sleep quietly, my boy

His life continues day after day

Boy, don't grow up

Sleep peacefully

When you grow up, he'll go somewhere

I'm sure it will be stained with blood someday

Boy, don't grow up

Sleep peacefully

Birds flying in the blue sky, you are free

One day, little boy, peace will come

Boy, don't grow up

Sleep peacefully

Boy, don't grow up

Sleep peacefully

Sleep, sleep" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

坊や静かにおやすみ私の坊や

来る日も来る日もいくさが続く

坊や大きくならないで

そっと眠りなさい

お前が大きくなるといくさに行くの

いつかはきっと血に染まるだろう

坊や大きくならないで

そっと眠りなさい

青空とびかう鳥よお前は自由

いつかは坊や

平和が来るわ

坊や大きくならないで

そっと眠りなさい

坊や大きくならないで

そっと眠りなさい

眠りなさい眠りなさい

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Themes: Anti-War Child Peace

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#48 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi] ホー・チ・ミンのバラード (Ballad of Ho Chi Minh) 1969 · Single · ホー・チ・ミンのバラード / ベトナムの空 · URC # URS-0014 · Japan

Credited on the record as 高石ともや.

Annotation

Double-sided Vietnam War single (URC # 0014) by Tomoya Takaishi, born on 9 December 1941 in Uryu, Hokkaido, Japan. The first song "ホー・チ・ミンのバラード" ( "Ballad of Ho Chi Minh" ) was a Japanese adapted version of the well-known and widely covered song by Ewan MacColl. Japanese lyrics by Hidaka Yoshi. It praised the development of the North Vietnamese army to resist occupation, with an emphasis on its farm worker composition: "The Liberation Army was born... trained, a hoe in the evening, a rifle in the morning... the soldiers are all peasants" .

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English

Far across the sea

Across the eastern sea

Called the father of Indo-China

That man's name is Ho Chi Minh

In the mountains, in the delta

Young and old alike

Fight for freedom

Together with Ho Chi Minh

Young Ho Chi Minh

Boarded a ship and crossed the sea

What he learned after leaving his country

Decided his future too

When he came back

What he saw there

Was hunger, poverty and foreign soldiers

The heavy tramp of boots echoing

Calling out to the people

He climbed into the mountains

The Liberation Army was born there

He was tempered

In the evening holding a hoe

In the morning a rifle

The soldiers are all peasants

Those are Ho Chi Minh's soldiers

On the plains, in the jungle

In the mountains and on the seashore

The soldiers of Indo-China advance

Men and women advance

Peace and freedom

And Ho Chi Minh

Waving the flag of Indo-China

The Viet Minh soldiers advance

Japanese

とおい海のむこう

東の海のむこう

インド・シナの父とよばれる

その人の名はホーチミン

山にデルタに

若者も年よりも

自由のためにたたかう

ホーチミンとともに

わかいホーチミン

船に乗り海をこえ

国をでてまなんだことが

彼も未来をきめた

彼が帰ってきて

そこに見たものは

うえと貧乏と他国の兵士

おもい靴音ひびく

ひとに呼びかけて

山にのぼった

解放軍がそこにうまれた

彼はきたえられた

夕べにくわをもち

朝にはライフル

兵士たちはみんな百姓

それがホーチミンの兵士

平野にジャングルに

山にも海辺にも

インド・シナの兵士はすすむ

男も女もすすむ

平和と自由と

そしてホーチミン

インド・シナの旗をなびかせ

ベトミンの兵士はすすむ

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Themes: Anti-War Ho Chi Minh China (Cold War) First Indo-China War Vietnamese Patriotic Vietnamese Perspective

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#49 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi] 坊や大きくならないで (Sleep Softly, My Boy) 1969 · Single · 坊や大きくならないで / もしも平和になったなら · Victor # SV-810 · Japan

Credited on the record as 高石友也.

Annotation

Another doubled-sided Vietnam War record (Victor # SV-810) from 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi], born on 9 December 1941 in Uryu, Hokkaido, Japan. Both songs were composed by prominent and influential Vietnamese songwriter Trịnh Công Sơn (born 28 February 1939 in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, he died on 1 April 2001, in Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam). They both featured on the 1969 album 高石友也フォーク・アルバム (第3集) [Tomoya Takaishi's Folk Songs Vol. 3] (Victor # SJV-405).

The first song, "坊や大きくならないで" ( "Sleep Softly, My Boy" ) mournfully hopes a child will sleep peacefully: "don't grow up, sleep peacefully" , but ominously warns that when grown up, they might "be stained with blood"

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

Japanese

坊やア…ア… お寝みなさい

草も木も緑も街も村も消えてゆく

坊や大きくならないで

そっとお寝みしずかに

Themes: Anti-War Child

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#50 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi] 死んだ男の残したものは [What the Dead Man Left Behind (Part 1) 1969 · Single · 死んだ男の残したものは · Victor # SV-1055 · Japan

Credited on the record as 高石友也.

Themes: Anti-War Film

#51 クワンビンわが故郷 [Quang Binh, My Homeland (Quảng Bình Quê Ta Ơi)] #52 南を想う [Thinking of the South] #53 タルーのひびき [Sound of the Ta Lư (Tiếng Đàn Ta Lư)] #55 原爆を許すまじ [Never Forgive the Atomic Bomb]

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#51–55 ベトナム中央歌舞団 [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble] 日本のベトナム中央歌舞団 —日本公演実況録音— [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble in Japan - Live Recording of the Japan Performance] 1969 · EP · Nippon Columbia # BSS-38 · Japan

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#51 ベトナム中央歌舞団 [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble] クワンビンわが故郷 [Quang Binh, My Homeland (Quảng Bình Quê Ta Ơi)] 1969 · EP · 日本のベトナム中央歌舞団 —日本公演実況録音— [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble in Japan - Live Recording of the Japan Performance] · Nippon Columbia # BSS-38 · Japan

Credited on the record as ベトナム中央歌舞団.

Notes

A1. Female chorus with 16-string zither (đàn tranh). Sleeve notes: Quang Binh is the province bordering the demarcation line, under daily US bombing; based on the region's folk music. Same song as Kim Oanh's 1966 recording and a 1966 Chinese release. Recorded live 25 December 1968, Bunkyo Kokaido, Tokyo.

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Women Fighters

#52 ベトナム中央歌舞団 [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble] 南を想う [Thinking of the South] 1969 · EP · 日本のベトナム中央歌舞団 —日本公演実況録音— [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble in Japan - Live Recording of the Japan Performance] · Nippon Columbia # BSS-38 · Japan

Credited on the record as ベトナム中央歌舞団.

Notes

A2. Flute solo by Đinh Thìn (デイン・テイン). Sleeve notes: composed from central-Vietnamese classical melodies, expressing the longing for North-South reunification ('Vietnam is one').

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#53 ベトナム中央歌舞団 [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble] タルーのひびき [Sound of the Ta Lư (Tiếng Đàn Ta Lư)] 1969 · EP · 日本のベトナム中央歌舞団 —日本公演実況録音— [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble in Japan - Live Recording of the Japan Performance] · Nippon Columbia # BSS-38 · Japan

Credited on the record as ベトナム中央歌舞団.

Notes

B1. Female choir with t'rưng (bamboo xylophone). Sleeve notes: the song of girls celebrating the victory at Khe Sanh.

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Khe Sanh Women Fighters

#55 ベトナム中央歌舞団 [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble] 原爆を許すまじ [Never Forgive the Atomic Bomb] 1969 · EP · 日本のベトナム中央歌舞団 —日本公演実況録音— [Vietnam Central Song and Dance Ensemble in Japan - Live Recording of the Japan Performance] · Nippon Columbia # BSS-38 · Japan

Credited on the record as ベトナム中央歌舞団.

Notes

B3. The Japanese anti-nuclear anthem (lyrics 浅田石二 / Ishiji Asada), sung in Japanese as a bass solo by ensemble member チャン・チュン・ヒイウ (Trần Trung Hiếu) at the 25 December 1968 Tokyo concert. Not a Vietnam War song in content; included as a North Vietnamese ensemble's performance at a Vietnam-solidarity concert.

Themes: Anti-War Atomic Hiroshima

Also in: ▤ North Vietnamese Songs ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#54 高橋俊行 [Toshiyuki Takahashi] なんにもしねえのによ [Though We Didn't Do Anything] 1969 · Single · なんにもしねえのによ / 廃虚のひかり · CBS/Sony # SONA 86071 · Japan

Credited on the record as 高橋俊行.

Notes

Sung in rough rural dialect from a Vietnamese child's perspective: village burned in the evening, parents killed before his eyes 'though we didn't do anything'; flees with his little sister along the Mekong, both starving; refuses to cry 'because I'm a man'; final verse (printed but not sung on the record, per sleeve) addresses his dead parents - 'if there'd been no war, the four of us could have lived together'.

Full lyrics and lead sheets on back cover. Arranged by 土田啓四郎 (Keishiro Tsuchida). (C)1969 Far East Music Publisher.

Themes: Anti-War Vietnamese Perspective Orphan Civilian Casualties Refugees Mekong Delta

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]▤ Vietnamese Refugees & Boat People

#56 高橋俊行 [Toshiyuki Takahashi] 廃虚のひかり [Light of the Ruins] 1969 · Single · なんにもしねえのによ / 廃虚のひかり · CBS/Sony # SONA 86071 · Japan

Credited on the record as 高橋俊行.

Notes

B-side of なんにもしねえのによ, same writers. The curtain falls on battle; the devastated land, wrapped in morning mist, comes back to life with buds of grass; a 'song of love' pours down on hearts that lost everything. Vietnam not named - companion piece to the A-side's Mekong narrative. Arranged by 土田啓四郎 (Keishiro Tsuchida).

Themes: Anti-War Peace

#57 ホー・チ・ミン大統領の演説「社会主義をめざして」(1A) [President Ho Chi Minh's speech "Toward Socialism"] #58 ホー・チ・ミン大統領の演説「社会主義をめざして」(1B) #63 10・21「新宿広場」—1969年国際反戦デーの記録— [10.21 "Shinjuku Plaza" – Record of the 1969 International Anti-War Day]

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#57–63 Various Artists 朝日ソノラマ 1969年12月号 No. 120 [Asahi Sonorama, December 1969] 1969 · Compilation · Asahi Sonorama # 120 · Japan

All 3 songs from this compilation in the archive are in this collection

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#57 Hồ Chí Minh ホー・チ・ミン大統領の演説「社会主義をめざして」(1A) [President Ho Chi Minh's speech "Toward Socialism"] 1969 · Compilation · 朝日ソノラマ 1969年12月号 No. 120 [Asahi Sonorama, December 1969] · Asahi Sonorama # 120 · Japan

Credited on the record as ホー・チ・ミン.

Notes

朝日ソノラマ (Asahi Sonorama) No. 120, December 1969, "音の雑誌", A44-12, 350円; red flexi-sheets, 33⅓ rpm, labels ringed "Asahi Sonorama – Speeches, Socials, Polics [sic], Arts, Economics, Sports, Internationals, Religions, Cultures, Sciences"; sheet 1A and 1B: "☆ベトナムの星ホー・チ・ミン大統領の演説「社会主義をめざして」"; sheet 2B: "10・21「新宿広場」—1969年国際反戦デーの記録—".

The front cover shows Hồ Chí Minh embracing a schoolgirl with the banner "ホー・チ・ミン大統領の演説"; the back cover is a night photograph of riot police with shields at the 10.21 Shinjuku clashes and lists the contents, including the record of Hiroshima Second Middle School "碑" read by 杉村春子 and articles by 坂本徳松, 斉藤吉史 and 井沢淳. The Japanese translation of the speech (pp. 8–9, translated by 中本信幸) states it was given by Hồ Chí Minh as chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in Moscow on 21 October 1961, opening in Russian before switching to Vietnamese, and closing again in Russian. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Ho Chi Minh Communism Anti-Imperialism

Genres: ♪ Spoken Word Speech

#58 Hồ Chí Minh ホー・チ・ミン大統領の演説「社会主義をめざして」(1B) 1969 · Compilation · 朝日ソノラマ 1969年12月号 No. 120 [Asahi Sonorama, December 1969] · Asahi Sonorama # 120 · Japan

Credited on the record as ホー・チ・ミン.

Notes

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Ho Chi Minh Communism Anti-Imperialism

Genres: ♪ Spoken Word Speech

#63 Various Artists 10・21「新宿広場」—1969年国際反戦デーの記録— [10.21 "Shinjuku Plaza" – Record of the 1969 International Anti-War Day] 1969 · Compilation · 朝日ソノラマ 1969年12月号 No. 120 [Asahi Sonorama, December 1969] · Asahi Sonorama # 120 · Japan

Notes

2B. Live sound of the 21 Oct 1969 International Anti-War Day clashes at Shinjuku (riot police on the back cover) 朝日ソノラマ (Asahi Sonorama) No. 120, December 1969, "音の雑誌", A44-12, 350円; red flexi-sheets, 33⅓ rpm, labels ringed "Asahi Sonorama – Speeches, Socials, Polics [sic], Arts, Economics, Sports, Internationals, Religions, Cultures, Sciences"; sheet 1A and 1B: "☆ベトナムの星ホー・チ・ミン大統領の演説「社会主義をめざして」"; sheet 2B: "10・21「新宿広場」—1969年国際反戦デーの記録—".

The front cover shows Hồ Chí Minh embracing a schoolgirl with the banner "ホー・チ・ミン大統領の演説"; the back cover is a night photograph of riot police with shields at the 10.21 Shinjuku clashes and lists the contents, including the record of Hiroshima Second Middle School "碑" read by 杉村春子 and articles by 坂本徳松, 斉藤吉史 and 井沢淳. The Japanese translation of the speech (pp. 8–9, translated by 中本信幸) states it was given by Hồ Chí Minh as chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the 22nd Congress of the CPSU in Moscow on 21 October 1961, opening in Russian before switching to Vietnamese, and closing again in Russian. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Demonstration Anti-War Protest

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#59 Trịnh Công Sơn 坊や大きくならないで [Sleep Softly, My Boy] (Ngủ đi con) 1969 · Single · 坊や大きくならないで / もしも平和になったなら · URC # URS-0002 · Japan

Credited on the record as トリン・コーン・ソン.

Notes

URC URS-0002, monaural, 45 rpm, "Made by Un-der-ground Records Club Japan"; side 1 "坊や大きくならないで", time 4'28"; side 2 "もしも平和になったなら", time 3'38"; both 作詩・曲 and 歌トリンコーンソン.

The front of the sleeve shows a man covering his face with his hands, overprinted with a large red brushed X, and is credited "詞・曲・歌／トリン・コーン・ソン"; front and back both state "MBS報道部の南ベトナムでの取材テープによる。" (from tapes recorded in South Vietnam by the MBS news department).

The back shows a torn-paper collage of a photograph of a boy amid ruins, with "写真提供べ平連" (photograph supplied by Beheiren); design by 広野勝. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective South Vietnamese Anti-War

Genres: ♪ Vietnamese Music Contemporary Folk

Also in: ▤ Other Vietnamese Songs ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#60 Trịnh Công Sơn もしも平和になったなら [If Peace Comes] 1969 · Single · 坊や大きくならないで / もしも平和になったなら · URC # URS-0002 · Japan

Credited on the record as トリン・コーン・ソン.

Notes

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective South Vietnamese Anti-War

Genres: ♪ Vietnamese Music Contemporary Folk

Also in: ▤ Other Vietnamese Songs ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#61 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi] 死んだ男の残したものは [What the Dead Man Left Behind (Part 2) 1969 · Single · 死んだ男の残したものは · Victor # SV-1055 · Japan

Credited on the record as 高石友也.

Themes: Anti-War Film

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#62 斎藤安弘 [Yasuhiro Saitō] '69 新宿広場の青春 [Youth of Shinjuku Plaza '69] 1969 · Single · Asahi Sonorama · Japan

Credited on the record as 斎藤安弘.

Notes

Asahi Sonorama (朝日ソノラマ) black flexi sheet, 33⅓回転, "特別付録／女友シート": "'69 新宿広場の青春", レポーター斎藤安弘; issued as a supplement to the girls' magazine 女学生の友 (Jogakusei no Tomo), October 1969 issue (vol. 20 no. 7), published 1 October 1969 (昭和44年10月1日発行).

The front of the sleeve has a colour drawing of a crowd of singing young people signed M. Okazaki, with "レポーター斎藤安弘新宿広場の青春"; the back has photographs captioned "'69 Shinjuku" of a guitar-playing crowd singing in the station concourse, police in white caps restraining a schoolgirl, and young people linking arms, with a portrait of the reporter captioned "Anko Saito" and "女学生の友 10月号付録". [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Demonstration Anti-War

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

1970

#64 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi] ベトナムの空 (Vietnam Sky) 1970 · Single · ホー・チ・ミンのバラード / ベトナムの空 · URC # URS-0014 · Japan

Credited on the record as 高石ともや.

Annotation

The song "ベトナムの空" ( "Vietnam Sky" ) composed by songwriter 日高義 (Yoshi Hidaka), the same as discussed above, released by マイク眞木 [Mike Maki] in 1966: 波と木彫りのクマ / ベトナムの空. As mentioned, it captured the sounds and images of combat, from helicopters to burning villages and water buffalos, all familiar perceptions associated with the Vietnam War: "helicopter flew away... water buffalo echoed in the Mekong River... burnt-out village... blood everywhere" .

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

composed by songwriter 日高義 (Yoshi Hidaka), the same as the song released by マイク眞木 [Mike Maki] in 1966: 波と木彫りのクマ / ベトナムの空. URC URS-0014, monaural, 45 rpm, black-and-silver URC label; side 1 (44-1200M-881S) "ホー・チ・ミンのバラード", 3:50, words and music イワン・マッコール [Ewan MacColl], Japanese translation and vocal 高石ともや; side 2 (44-1200M-882S) "ベトナムの空", 2:50, words and music 日高義 [Yoshi Hidaka], sung by 高石ともや.

The picture sleeve (¥370) is a collage of Ho Chi Minh in cap and glasses with two smiling men, clapping children and silhouetted figures carrying rifles and foliage. The notes insert says "ホー・チ・ミンのバラード" was recorded live on 6 September 1969 at Osaka Festival Hall (Osaka Rōon), with banjo by 岩井宏, and "ベトナムの空" live on 24 December 1968 at Osaka Sankei Hall at Takaishi's third recital; jacket design 河村要助, photographs courtesy of the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association, producer 秦政明.

It also pays tribute to Ho Chi Minh and notes that MacColl, Scottish-born and married to Peggy Seeger, sang the song at the August 1967 protest song festival in Cuba, that it spread among European students, and that it reached Japan via Sing Out. The lyric insert prints eight verses of the ballad (translation 高石友也) and "ベトナムの空" with chords (© 1966 Shinko Music Pub.), with URC's addresses in Osaka (兎我野町, 山安ビル) and Tokyo (神宮前); plain red URC company sleeve.

The lyrics describe a wounded soldier dying alone under a blood-red Vietnamese sky amid helicopters and burned villages, noting the same sky stretches over Hanoi, Saigon and Osaka. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

There was a wounded soldier just looking up at the Vietnamese sky

The sky was as red as blood

And the helicopter flew away, and the gunshots stopped

The voice of the water buffalo echoed in the Mekong River

The sky was as red as blood, and he was watching

A burnt-down village and forest where no one dies alone

The sky is hazy with smoke and is red like blood everywhere

Holding a gun in my weakening hand, I remember my hometown

Leaving behind the smile of my mother

Why did I go out into the wild

The sky is as red as blood

The helicopter flies away, and the sound of gunfire stops

It echoes in the Mekong River

The skies of Vietnam are getting dark again today

Hanoi and Saigon Deep are all the same sky

The sky is blood red everywhere

The helicopter flies away, the sound of gunfire ceases

It echoes in the Mekong River" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

ベトナムの空をただ見上げている

傷ついた兵隊が一人いた

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

ヘリコプターが飛び去り

砲声が途絶えて

メコン川にこだまする

水牛の声

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

見守る誰もなく

一人死んでゆく

焼き払われた村や森

煙にかすむ

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

弱まる手に銃を抱き

思い出す故郷（こきょう）

母の微笑み残して

何故いくさに出た

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

ヘリコプターが飛び去り

砲声が途絶えて

メコン川にこだまする

ベトナムの空は

今日も暮れてゆく

ハノイやサイゴン深浦も

みんな同じ空

空はどこまでも

血のように赤い

ヘリコプターが飛び去り

砲声が途絶えて

メコン川にこだまする

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Themes: Anti-War Combat Helicopter Mekong Delta K.I.A. Hanoi

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#65 高石ともや [Tomoya Takaishi] もしも平和になったなら (If Peace Comes) 1970 · Single · 坊や大きくならないで / もしも平和になったなら · Victor # SV-810 · Japan

Credited on the record as 高石友也.

Annotation

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

Japanese

もしも平和になったなら

旅に出よう山の向うへ

静かな森で小鳥がさえずる

Themes: Anti-War Saigon Hanoi Peace

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#66 Khánh Ly 雨に消えたあなた [Diễm xưa] 1970 · Single · 雨に消えたあなた / ユエの子守歌 [Diễm xưa / Ca dao mẹ] · Denon # CD-98 · Japan

Credited on the record as カーン・リー.

Annotation

This release (Denon Records # CD-98) is actually by a well-known Vietnamese artist, Khánh Ly (also known as カーン・リー in Japanese), born on 6 March 1945, Hà Nội, Vietnam, which included two classic songs, both composed by Trịnh Công Sơn, a prominent Vietnamese songwriter (born 28 February 1939 in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, died on 1 April 2001, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam). Although not Japanese Vietnam War song, it's interesting to note its release in the country. The track titles are "雨に消えたあなた" ("Diem xua") and "ユエの子守歌" ("Ca dao me").

"Diem xua" became especially popular in Japan as it was used for the TV drama "サイゴンから来た妻と娘" ("Wife and Daughter From Saigon") based on a book of the same title - in which a Japanese newspaper reporter is working in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He married a Vietnamese woman, and they move to Japan after the fall of Saigon.¹² Released in 1978.

Sources

1 nhk.or.jp ↩
2 Wikipedia: サイゴンから来た妻と娘 ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Also in: ▤ Other Vietnamese Songs ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#67 Khánh Ly ユエの子守歌 [Ca dao mẹ] 1970 · Single · 雨に消えたあなた / ユエの子守歌 [Diễm xưa / Ca dao mẹ] · Denon # CD-98 · Japan

Credited on the record as カーン・リー.

Also in: ▤ Other Vietnamese Songs ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#68 オッコ [Okko] 戦いに散ったいのち [Lives Lost in Battle] 1970 · Single · 戦いに散ったいのち / へんね [Lives Lost in Battle] · King [Tokyo] # BS-1209 · Japan

Credited on the record as オッコ.

Notes

A. A young life lost in war, "never to return to his mother's breast" — Vietnam is named in the writer's sleeve note

Themes: Anti-War Journalist

Genres: ♪ Japanese Music Folk Pop

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

1971

#69 ジローズ [Jiro's] 戦争を知らない子供たち (Peace, Peace) [Children Who Don't Know About War (Peace, Peace)] 1971 · Single · 戦争を知らない子供たち (Peace, Peace) · Express # EP-1275 · Japan

Credited on the record as ジローズ.

Annotation

The song "戦争を知らない子供たち (Peace, Peace)" ( "Children Who Don't Know About War (Peace, Peace)" ) (Express # EP-1275) became a popular anti-war song during the Vietnam-era in Japan, with this single peaking at # 11 in the Japanese charts, selling over 300,000 copies.¹ Lyrics by 北山修 [Osamu Kitayama], and music by 杉田二郎 [Jiro Sugita], which contained a generic peace message of the younger generation: "we grew up without knowing about war" , and as adults "we begin to walk while humming songs of peace" .

Sources

1 Wikipedia: 戦争を知らない子供たち ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

this single peaking at # 11 in the Japanese charts, selling over 300,000 copies Express EP-1275 (EP-1275-A), stereo, 45 rpm, JASRAC, "Mfd. by Toshiba Musical Industries Ltd. in Japan"; "戦争を知らない子供たち / Peace Peace" (Osamu Kitayama-Jiro Sugita), 3:01, arranged and conducted by Shunichi Makaino, sung by ジローズ (Jiro's); flip "愛とあなたのために / For the Love & You" (北山修, 杉田二郎, arr. 馬飼野俊一), 3:24.

The picture sleeve (東芝音楽工業, ¥400) is a black-and-white photograph of the duo.

The back prints both lyrics, the melody of the A-side (© 1970 by Myrica Music Publishing Co., Ltd.) and a note that after the Schuberts broke up Jiro Sugita revived the name Jiro's from his amateur days for a new duo, with backing harmony by 森下次郎, a Kyoto folk musician who wrote Jun & Jun's debut "朝やけの空から". Housed in a Toshiba Records company sleeve. The lyrics speak for a postwar generation born after the war and raised without knowing it, who sing of peace and ask to be remembered despite being dismissed as young and long-haired. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

The war ended, and we were born

Not knowing war, we grew up

Becoming adults, we start to walk

Humming songs of peace

We want you to remember our name

We're the children who don't know war

If we're not forgiven for being too young

If we're not forgiven for having long hair

All that's left for me now

Is to hold back my tears and sing

We want you to remember our name

We're the children who don't know war

If you love the blue sky, if you love flower petals

If you're a lovely person who always has a smile

Whoever you are, let's walk together

Down the little path where the beautiful sunset shines

We want you to remember our name

We're the children who don't know war

Japanese

戦争が終わって僕らは生まれた

戦争を知らずに僕らは育った

おとなになって歩きはじめる

平和の歌をくちずさみながら

僕らの名前を覚えてほしい

戦争を知らない子供たちさ

若すぎるからと許されないなら

髪の毛が長いと許されないなら

今の私に残っているの

涙をこらえて歌うことだけさ

僕らの名前を覚えてほしい

戦争を知らない子供たちさ

青空が好きで花びらが好きで

いつでも笑顔のすてきな人なら

誰でも一緒に歩いてゆこうよ

きれいな夕陽がかがやく小道を

僕らの名前を覚えてほしい

戦争を知らない子供たちさ

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Themes: Anti-War Peace Generation Gap

#71 ピアノによるベトナム狂詩曲 [Vietnam Rhapsody for Piano] #72 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (ベトナム叙事詩曲・混声合唱曲) #73 東京―ハノイ [Tokyo–Hanoi] #74 獄中日記より８篇の歌 [Eight Songs from the Prison Diary] (ホーチミンの詩による歌曲集) #75 やがて雨のあがる朝にむかって [Toward the Morning When the Rain Stops] (混声合唱曲《ベトナムへの手紙》)

Also in: ▤ European Songs ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

1972

#70 三文おぺら [Sanmon Opera] ハノイの恋人 [Lover of Hanoi] 1972 · Single · ハノイの恋人 / 思い出にさよなら [Lover of Hanoi] · Toshiba-EMI # 4Rs-518 · Japan

Credited on the record as 三文おぺら.

Annotation

The song "ハノイの恋人" ("Lover of Hanoi") (Toshiba-EMI # 4Rs-518), written and composed by Yuichi Tsuboi Osamu and Nakamura. This is the same song as released by 斎藤佳代 [Kayo Saito], unknown date, below: ハノイの恋人 / 紙飛行機. Here, this was a Nagauta folk group consisting of Osamu Nakamura, Yutaka Kato, and Yuichi Tsuboi. Guests include Nobuko Tanabe (piano), Kaoru Sugiura (cello), and Akira Wakasugi (5-string banjo). Nagauta is a type of Japanese Classical Music, in the form of dance theatre / drama. The song was a love story involving a disabled veteran of the war: "I can't stand in front of you, with both my legs ripped off by a bomb".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

A. A woman whose legs were torn off by a bomb writes to her lover Toshiba-EMI 4Rs-518 (4Rs-518-A), stereo, 45 r.p.m., side 1, "Mfd. by Toshiba-EMI Ltd. in Japan"; "ハノイの恋人" (坪井雄一作詩, 中村治作曲, 松本三紀夫編曲), 4:00; B side "思い出にさようなら" (坪井雄一, 中村治), 2:06; 制作三文ユニット, 発売元音楽の店.

The back sleeve prints both lyrics with chords and the players: guitar 中村治 and 加藤豊, wood bass 坪井雄一, piano 田辺のぶこ, cello 杉浦薫, 5-string banjo 若杉章, recorded at スタジオ90, engineer 川原正雄.

The front shows a woodcut-style picture of a figure among tall grasses; ¥600; Toshiba-EMI company sleeve. The lyrics are sung by a woman who lost both legs in a bombing and, even if peace comes to Hanoi, writes to release her lover by saying she will marry someone else. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

Even if the war ends and he comes back

I can't marry him anymore

Even though we made a promise together

I can't stand in front of you

With both my legs ripped off by a bomb

Even if true peace were to come to the sky over Hanoi

I'm sure I'd never see him again

Even if he sees me like this, he's a kind person

So he'll hold me close to his heart and never let me go

So I'm writing a letter to him now

When I'm with someone who's much nicer than you

I can't stand being in front of you with my legs ripped off by a bomb

So I just wrote a letter to that person

I'm much nicer than you

When you're with someone" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

戦いが終わりあの人が

帰ってきたとしても

私はもう彼とは

結婚できません

胸を合わせて誓い合った

約束でしたのに

爆弾で両足を

もぎ取られた姿で

あなたの前に行くなんて

とてもできません

ハノイの空に本当の

平和が来たとしても

私はもう彼とは

きっと会わ

ないでしょう/ 私のこんな姿を見ても

優しい人だから

私を胸にいだき

離さないでしょう

だから今あの人に

手紙を書きました

あなたよりずっと素敵な

人と一緒になると

爆弾で両足を

もぎ取られた姿で

あなたの前に行くなんて

とてもできません

だから今あの人に

手紙を書きました

あなたよりずっと素敵な

人と一緒になると

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Themes: Hanoi Disabled Civilian Lost Love Civilian Casualties

Genres: ♪ Japanese Music Folk Pop

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#71–75 Various Artists 平和のための音楽会《３人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》[Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers] 1972 · Live · U.S.B. # OG-565 · Japan

All 5 songs from this live in the archive are in this collection

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#71 北川暁子 [Akiko Kitagawa] ピアノによるベトナム狂詩曲 [Vietnam Rhapsody for Piano] 1972 · Live · 平和のための音楽会《３人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》[Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers] · U.S.B. # OG-565 · Japan

Credited on the record as 北川暁子.

Notes

A1. Solo piano U.S.B. (Union Sound Business Recording Disc Co.) "Recording Disc" OG-565, stereo, 33⅓ rpm, black label.

Recorded at the concert "平和のための音楽会《3人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》" (Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers), 東京文化会館小ホール (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall), 1972.3.7.

Side 1: "ピアノによるベトナム狂詩曲" (music 黒髪芳光; piano 北川暁子); "戦場の村", a Vietnam epic for mixed chorus (words 佐山和子, music 熊沢勉), commissioned by 東部混声合唱団, with piano 安芸彊子, soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子; "東京―ハノイ" for mixed chorus (words 土田明子, music 黒髪芳光; chorus 東部混声合唱団, piano 安芸彊子).

Side 2: "獄中日記より8篇の歌", songs on poems by Ho Chi Minh (music 黒髪芳光; baritone 栗林義信, piano 安芸彊子); "やがて雨のあがる朝にむかって" from the mixed-chorus work 《ベトナムへの手紙》 (words 三浦錦, music 熊谷賢一; 東部混声合唱団 with soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子, baritone 庄司光郎). The plain grey sleeve credits the works to composers 熊沢勉, 熊谷賢一 and 黒髪芳光, conductor 熊沢勉, and production (製作) to USB. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War

Genres: ♪ Western Classical Music Classical

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#72 東部混声合唱団 [Tōbu Mixed Chorus] 戦場の村 [Battlefield Village] (ベトナム叙事詩曲・混声合唱曲) 1972 · Live · 平和のための音楽会《３人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》[Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers] · U.S.B. # OG-565 · Japan

Credited on the record as 東部混声合唱団.

Notes

A2. Vietnam epic for mixed chorus; soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子, piano 安芸彊子; commissioned by the chorus. Title as Honda Katsuichi's reportage U.S.B. (Union Sound Business Recording Disc Co.) "Recording Disc" OG-565, stereo, 33⅓ rpm, black label.

Recorded at the concert "平和のための音楽会《3人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》" (Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers), 東京文化会館小ホール (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall), 1972.3.7.

Side 1: "ピアノによるベトナム狂詩曲" (music 黒髪芳光; piano 北川暁子); "戦場の村", a Vietnam epic for mixed chorus (words 佐山和子, music 熊沢勉), commissioned by 東部混声合唱団, with piano 安芸彊子, soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子; "東京―ハノイ" for mixed chorus (words 土田明子, music 黒髪芳光; chorus 東部混声合唱団, piano 安芸彊子).

Side 2: "獄中日記より8篇の歌", songs on poems by Ho Chi Minh (music 黒髪芳光; baritone 栗林義信, piano 安芸彊子); "やがて雨のあがる朝にむかって" from the mixed-chorus work 《ベトナムへの手紙》 (words 三浦錦, music 熊谷賢一; 東部混声合唱団 with soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子, baritone 庄司光郎). The plain grey sleeve credits the works to composers 熊沢勉, 熊谷賢一 and 黒髪芳光, conductor 熊沢勉, and production (製作) to USB. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Anti-War Vietnamese Perspective

Genres: ♪ Western Classical Music Choral

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#73 東部混声合唱団 [Tōbu Mixed Chorus] 東京―ハノイ [Tokyo–Hanoi] 1972 · Live · 平和のための音楽会《３人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》[Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers] · U.S.B. # OG-565 · Japan

Credited on the record as 東部混声合唱団.

Notes

A3. Mixed chorus, piano 安芸彊子 U.S.B. (Union Sound Business Recording Disc Co.) "Recording Disc" OG-565, stereo, 33⅓ rpm, black label.

Recorded at the concert "平和のための音楽会《3人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》" (Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers), 東京文化会館小ホール (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall), 1972.3.7.

Side 1: "ピアノによるベトナム狂詩曲" (music 黒髪芳光; piano 北川暁子); "戦場の村", a Vietnam epic for mixed chorus (words 佐山和子, music 熊沢勉), commissioned by 東部混声合唱団, with piano 安芸彊子, soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子; "東京―ハノイ" for mixed chorus (words 土田明子, music 黒髪芳光; chorus 東部混声合唱団, piano 安芸彊子).

Side 2: "獄中日記より8篇の歌", songs on poems by Ho Chi Minh (music 黒髪芳光; baritone 栗林義信, piano 安芸彊子); "やがて雨のあがる朝にむかって" from the mixed-chorus work 《ベトナムへの手紙》 (words 三浦錦, music 熊谷賢一; 東部混声合唱団 with soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子, baritone 庄司光郎). The plain grey sleeve credits the works to composers 熊沢勉, 熊谷賢一 and 黒髪芳光, conductor 熊沢勉, and production (製作) to USB. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Anti-War Hanoi

Genres: ♪ Western Classical Music Choral

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#74 栗林義信 [Yoshinobu Kuribayashi] 獄中日記より８篇の歌 [Eight Songs from the Prison Diary] (ホーチミンの詩による歌曲集) 1972 · Live · 平和のための音楽会《３人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》[Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers] · U.S.B. # OG-565 · Japan

Credited on the record as 栗林義信.

Notes

U.S.B. (Union Sound Business Recording Disc Co.) "Recording Disc" OG-565, stereo, 33⅓ rpm, black label.

Recorded at the concert "平和のための音楽会《3人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》" (Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers), 東京文化会館小ホール (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall), 1972.3.7.

Side 1: "ピアノによるベトナム狂詩曲" (music 黒髪芳光; piano 北川暁子); "戦場の村", a Vietnam epic for mixed chorus (words 佐山和子, music 熊沢勉), commissioned by 東部混声合唱団, with piano 安芸彊子, soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子; "東京―ハノイ" for mixed chorus (words 土田明子, music 黒髪芳光; chorus 東部混声合唱団, piano 安芸彊子).

Side 2: "獄中日記より8篇の歌", songs on poems by Ho Chi Minh (music 黒髪芳光; baritone 栗林義信, piano 安芸彊子); "やがて雨のあがる朝にむかって" from the mixed-chorus work 《ベトナムへの手紙》 (words 三浦錦, music 熊谷賢一; 東部混声合唱団 with soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子, baritone 庄司光郎). The plain grey sleeve credits the works to composers 熊沢勉, 熊谷賢一 and 黒髪芳光, conductor 熊沢勉, and production (製作) to USB. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Ho Chi Minh

Genres: ♪ Western Classical Music Classical

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#75 東部混声合唱団 [Tōbu Mixed Chorus] やがて雨のあがる朝にむかって [Toward the Morning When the Rain Stops] (混声合唱曲《ベトナムへの手紙》) 1972 · Live · 平和のための音楽会《３人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》[Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers] · U.S.B. # OG-565 · Japan

Credited on the record as 東部混声合唱団.

Notes

B2. "Letter to Vietnam" for mixed chorus; soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子, baritone 庄司光郎 U.S.B. (Union Sound Business Recording Disc Co.) "Recording Disc" OG-565, stereo, 33⅓ rpm, black label.

Recorded at the concert "平和のための音楽会《3人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》" (Concert for Peace – Letters to Vietnam by Three Composers), 東京文化会館小ホール (Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Small Hall), 1972.3.7.

Side 1: "ピアノによるベトナム狂詩曲" (music 黒髪芳光; piano 北川暁子); "戦場の村", a Vietnam epic for mixed chorus (words 佐山和子, music 熊沢勉), commissioned by 東部混声合唱団, with piano 安芸彊子, soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子; "東京―ハノイ" for mixed chorus (words 土田明子, music 黒髪芳光; chorus 東部混声合唱団, piano 安芸彊子).

Side 2: "獄中日記より8篇の歌", songs on poems by Ho Chi Minh (music 黒髪芳光; baritone 栗林義信, piano 安芸彊子); "やがて雨のあがる朝にむかって" from the mixed-chorus work 《ベトナムへの手紙》 (words 三浦錦, music 熊谷賢一; 東部混声合唱団 with soprano 細田幸江, alto 蛎崎陽子, baritone 庄司光郎). The plain grey sleeve credits the works to composers 熊沢勉, 熊谷賢一 and 黒髪芳光, conductor 熊沢勉, and production (製作) to USB. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War

Genres: ♪ Western Classical Music Choral

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1973

#76 新谷のり子 [Noriko Shintani] 戦争は終ったけれど [Although the War Is Over] 1973 · Single · 戦争は終ったけれど / 私に勇気をくれるもの [Although the War Is Over] · Philips # FS-1751 · Japan

Credited on the record as 新谷のり子.

Annotation

Noriko Shintani, born on 3 October 1946 in Hokuto, Japan, released the peace / protest song "戦争は終わったけれど" ("Although the War Is Over") (Philips # FS-1751), largely considered to be part of the anti-Vietnam War movement in Japan, which looked at the aftermath of the conflict: "it's desolate... people still don't laugh... children are still hungry".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

A. Charity campaign song for Vietnam's children after the Paris Peace Accords: "the war is over but my lover hasn't come home… the children are still hungry… when will peace come" Philips FS-1751 (JWM-5723), stereo, 45, side 1, manufactured by Nippon Phonogram Co. Ltd., Tokyo, ℗1973, © 1973 by All Staff Music Co., Ltd.; "戦争は終ったけれど" (いずみたく words, music and arrangement), 3:01; B side "私に勇気をくれるもの" (山川啓介 words, いずみたく music and arr.), 2:52; 唄新谷のり子 (Noriko Shintani).

The sleeve marks it as an entry in the radio campaign of the 日本民間放送連盟 (National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan), "ベトナムの子らに愛の手を!" (a helping hand of love for Vietnam's children), with the campaign emblem; the red-tinted front shows the singer in a denim outfit standing in a field. ¥500.

The back prints both lyrics and a melody score; Philips/Nippon Phonogram company sleeve. The lyrics say that though the war is over, loved ones have not returned, towns lie in ruins, children go hungry and peace has still not come. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

The war is over

My lover hasn't come home yet

The war is over

My sons haven't come home yet

Only the sunset in my hometown

I'm waiting for you to come home

The war is over

But the towns and villages are still here

It's desolate

The war is over

People still don't laugh

The cold rain

Only wets your grave

The war is over

The children are still hungry

The war is over

The white dove is still there It won't fly

The beautiful sky

I wonder when peace will come" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

戦争は終わったけれど

恋人はまだ帰らない

戦争は終わったけれど

息子達はまだ帰らな

故郷の夕焼けだけが

お前の帰りを待つのに

戦争は終わったけれど

町や村はまだ荒れ果てて

戦争は終わったけれど

人々はまだ笑わない

冷たい雨が

お前の墓を濡らすだけ

戦争は終わったけれど

子ども達はまだ飢えている

戦争は終わったけれど

白い鳩はまだ飛んで来ない

美しい空が

平和はいつ来るのだろう

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Themes: Vietnamese Children Peace Coming Home K.I.A. Dove Anti-War

#77 ザイマリー（南ベトナム）[Zai Mari (South Vietnam)] #78 東チョンソン・西チョンソン（北ベトナム）[Trường Sơn Đông, Trường Sơn Tây] #79 コロンビア大学バリケード内コンサート [Concert Inside the Columbia University Barricades] #80 新宿駅西口の模様（日本）[Scene at Shinjuku Station West Exit]

Also in: ▤ Amerasians, Orphans & Vietnamese Children ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#77–80 Unknown Artist 闘争の詩 "Who Is a Leader?" 1973 · Compilation · Elec # LP-1004 · Japan

All 4 songs from this compilation in the archive are in this collection

Annotation

Spoken-word LP, with clips from around the world, including North and South Vietnam (Elec Records # LP-1004).

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

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#77 Unknown Artist ザイマリー（南ベトナム）[Zai Mari (South Vietnam)] 1973 · Compilation · 闘争の詩 "Who Is a Leader?" · Elec # LP-1004 · Japan

Annotation

Spoken-word LP, with clips from around the world, including North and South Vietnam (Elec Records # LP-1004).

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

Genres: ♪ Vietnamese Music Nhạc đỏ Field Recordings

#78 Unknown Artist 東チョンソン・西チョンソン（北ベトナム）[Trường Sơn Đông, Trường Sơn Tây] 1973 · Compilation · 闘争の詩 "Who Is a Leader?" · Elec # LP-1004 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Ho Chi Minh Trail

Genres: ♪ Vietnamese Music Nhạc đỏ Field Recordings

#79 Unknown Artist コロンビア大学バリケード内コンサート [Concert Inside the Columbia University Barricades] 1973 · Compilation · 闘争の詩 "Who Is a Leader?" · Elec # LP-1004 · Japan

Notes

A3. 1968 Columbia occupation — partly against the university's war research

Themes: Demonstration Anti-War

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#80 Unknown Artist 新宿駅西口の模様（日本）[Scene at Shinjuku Station West Exit] 1973 · Compilation · 闘争の詩 "Who Is a Leader?" · Elec # LP-1004 · Japan

Notes

1969 West Exit anti-war folk gatherings

Themes: Demonstration Anti-War

#81 戦車は動けない [Tanks Can't Move] #83 竹のように美しい [Beautiful Like Bamboo] #84 誰があいつを [Who Did It to Him] #85 ブーゲンビリア花咲くハノイよ [Hanoi Where the Bougainvillea Blooms] #86 母の願い [A Mother's Wish]

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1974

#81–86 横井久美子 [Kumiko Yokoi] ハノイにうたう [Singing to Hanoi] 1974 · Album · むぎぶえレコード [Mugibue Records] # LRS-371 · Japan

All 5 songs from this album in the archive are in this collection

Annotation

LP titled "Singing to Hanoi" (EMI Music Japan # LRS-371), performed and recorded live in North Vietnam by Kumiko Yokoi (born 1944, in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, and died on 14 January 2021 in Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan), as seen on the front cover of the record. Contained a mixture of songs, including a couple specific peace songs about the Vietnam War. The first song "戦車は動けない" ("Tank Can't Move") noted the US presence: "point their muzzles into Vietnam, shoot at children", and then optimistically repeated "war won't pass, tanks can't move".

The other song specifically addressing the Vietnam conflict was "ブーゲンビリア花咲くハノイよ" ("Hanoi Where Bougainvillea Flowers Bloom"), a pro-North patriotic track, which quoted the North Vietnamese leader: "love the motherland... more precious than life, Uncle Ho taught me".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

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#81 横井久美子 [Kumiko Yokoi] 戦車は動けない [Tanks Can't Move] 1974 · Album · ハノイにうたう [Singing to Hanoi] · むぎぶえレコード [Mugibue Records] # LRS-371 · Japan

Credited on the record as 横井久美子.

Annotation

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

A1. "Point their muzzles into Vietnam, shoot at children" — 1972 Sagamihara tank blockade むぎぶえレコード (Mugibue Records) LRS-371 (labels also LRS-370-A / LRS-370-B), stereo, 33⅓ rpm, ℗ 1974, "All rights reserved. Made by Mugibue no Kai"; manufactured (製作) by 東芝EMI株式会社, Made in Japan, price ¥2,200.

The front cover shows Kumiko Yokoi playing acoustic guitar among applauding Vietnamese soldiers in pith helmets, with her signature added in marker. Recording venues printed: ハノイ市ホン・ハー劇場 (Hồng Hà Theatre, Hanoi), 1973/12/14; 立川社会教育会館, 1974/1/24; 足立文化会館, 1974/3/25. Musicians include 北市数幸, ダニー石尾 and 横井久美子 (folk guitar), 小林潔 (steel guitar), 江草進/有馬啓介 (piano), 宗台春男 (drums) and 川畑利文 (wood bass) with brass and strings; photographs by 宇崎真 (Quảng Bình anti-aircraft position) and 足立義峰, jacket design 浜田桂子; planned and produced by 麦笛の会, 東京都国立市東4-3-16.

Liner notes by poet 滝いく子 describe arriving at Hanoi's Gia Lâm airport on 28 November 1973 as one of a three-woman Japanese cultural delegation (with Yokoi and dancer 松山梨絵) invited by the North Vietnamese Ministry of Culture for three weeks, meeting South Vietnamese liberation artists, and Yokoi's guitar songs drawing crowds to sing along; the final performance at the Hanoi municipal theatre was filmed, one year after the 18 December 1972 bombing.

A second note by author 松本清張 recalls meeting Yokoi in Vietnam in November 1973 while leading an ancient-culture delegation that met Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

Tanks can't move

Cross this town's bridge

Point their muzzles into Vietnam

Shoot at children

War won't pass

Tanks can't move

Shaking the night of this town

The smell of blood into caterpillars

Shooting at Vietnam

War won't pass

Tanks can't move

Young people in this country

Separate their lovers

Shooting for peace

War won't pass

Tanks can't move I can't move

War won't pass

Tanks can't move." [auto-translation used]

Japanese

戦車は動けない

この町の橋を渡って

銃口をベトナムに

子供らを狙い撃つ

戦争は通さない

戦車は動けない

この町の夜を揺さぶり

血の臭いをキャタピラに

ベトナムを狙い撃つ

戦争は通さない

戦車は動けない/

戦車は動けない

この国の若者たちは

恋人をひきさいて

平和を狙い撃つ

戦争は通さない

戦車は動けない

戦争は通さない

戦車は動けない

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Themes: Anti-War Protest

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#83 横井久美子 [Kumiko Yokoi] 竹のように美しい [Beautiful Like Bamboo] 1974 · Album · ハノイにうたう [Singing to Hanoi] · むぎぶえレコード [Mugibue Records] # LRS-371 · Japan

Credited on the record as 横井久美子.

Notes

むぎぶえレコード (Mugibue Records) LRS-371 (labels also LRS-370-A / LRS-370-B), stereo, 33⅓ rpm, ℗ 1974, "All rights reserved. Made by Mugibue no Kai"; manufactured (製作) by 東芝EMI株式会社, Made in Japan, price ¥2,200.

The front cover shows Kumiko Yokoi playing acoustic guitar among applauding Vietnamese soldiers in pith helmets, with her signature added in marker. Recording venues printed: ハノイ市ホン・ハー劇場 (Hồng Hà Theatre, Hanoi), 1973/12/14; 立川社会教育会館, 1974/1/24; 足立文化会館, 1974/3/25. Musicians include 北市数幸, ダニー石尾 and 横井久美子 (folk guitar), 小林潔 (steel guitar), 江草進/有馬啓介 (piano), 宗台春男 (drums) and 川畑利文 (wood bass) with brass and strings; photographs by 宇崎真 (Quảng Bình anti-aircraft position) and 足立義峰, jacket design 浜田桂子; planned and produced by 麦笛の会, 東京都国立市東4-3-16.

Liner notes by poet 滝いく子 describe arriving at Hanoi's Gia Lâm airport on 28 November 1973 as one of a three-woman Japanese cultural delegation (with Yokoi and dancer 松山梨絵) invited by the North Vietnamese Ministry of Culture for three weeks, meeting South Vietnamese liberation artists, and Yokoi's guitar songs drawing crowds to sing along; the final performance at the Hanoi municipal theatre was filmed, one year after the 18 December 1972 bombing.

A second note by author 松本清張 recalls meeting Yokoi in Vietnam in November 1973 while leading an ancient-culture delegation that met Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Theme: Anti-War

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#84 横井久美子 [Kumiko Yokoi] 誰があいつを [Who Did It to Him] 1974 · Album · ハノイにうたう [Singing to Hanoi] · むぎぶえレコード [Mugibue Records] # LRS-371 · Japan

Credited on the record as 横井久美子.

Notes

Theme: Anti-War

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#85 横井久美子 [Kumiko Yokoi] ブーゲンビリア花咲くハノイよ [Hanoi Where the Bougainvillea Blooms] 1974 · Album · ハノイにうたう [Singing to Hanoi] · むぎぶえレコード [Mugibue Records] # LRS-371 · Japan

Credited on the record as 横井久美子.

Notes

Themes: Hanoi Vietnamese Perspective

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#86 横井久美子 [Kumiko Yokoi] 母の願い [A Mother's Wish] 1974 · Album · ハノイにうたう [Singing to Hanoi] · むぎぶえレコード [Mugibue Records] # LRS-371 · Japan

Credited on the record as 横井久美子.

Notes

Theme: Anti-War

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#82 朝倉理恵 [Rie Asakura] ダーちゃんどこへ行く [Da-chan, Where Are You Going?] 1974 · Single · ダーちゃんどこへ行く / 鐘を鳴らすのはだれ · CBS/Sony # SOLB-167 · Japan

Credited on the record as 朝倉理恵.

Notes

Released 1 August 1974. Based on Katsumoto Saotome's children's book ベトナムのダーちゃん (Da-chan of Vietnam). Addressed to a Vietnamese war-orphan girl: barefoot and alone, dreaming of her homeland's blue sky; her mother 'became a star'; urged to endure poverty and walk on until she can return home, where the girls will one day make flowers bloom on the ravaged land. Lyrics 岩谷時子 (Tokiko Iwatani), arr. 青木望 (Nozomu Aoki). B-side 鐘を鳴らすのはだれ (same writers).

Themes: Anti-War Vietnamese Children Orphan Refugees Poverty

Also in: ▤ Amerasians, Orphans & Vietnamese Children ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]▤ Vietnamese Refugees & Boat People

1976

#87 斉藤佳代 [Kayo Saito] ハノイの恋人 [Lover of Hanoi] 1976 · Single · ハノイの恋人 / 紙飛行機 [Lover of Hanoi / Paper Airplane] · Toshiba-EMI # OCP-7603 · Japan

Credited on the record as 斉藤佳代.

Annotation

Another version of the song "ハノイの恋人" ("Lover of Hanoi") (EMI Music Japan # OCP-7603) written and composed by Yuichi Tsuboi Osamu and Nakamura, as immediately above. The song was a love story involving a disabled veteran of the war: "I can't stand in front of you, with both my legs ripped off by a bomb".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

A. A Hanoi woman whose legs were blown off by a bomb writes to release her lover: "even if true peace comes to the sky over Hanoi…" Toshiba-EMI OCP-7603 (OCP-7603-A), stereo, side A, 45 r.p.m., "Mfd. by Toshiba-EMI Ltd. in Japan"; "ハノイの恋人" (坪井雄一 words, 中村治 music), 3'08"; 演奏ログメイツ; 制作＝大阪センタープロダクション, 大阪市北区木幡町45 アドビル402号; the label rim reads "生きることの美しさを歌う／斉藤佳代". B side "紙飛行機" (大西一志 words and music), 3'12".

The front is a portrait of the singer with her signature "さいとう佳代" printed on it; ¥600.

The back prints both lyrics, a melody score of "ハノイの恋人", a profile of the singer and a photograph of the ログメイツ; Toshiba-EMI company sleeve. The lyrics are sung by a woman who lost both legs in a bombing and, even if peace comes to Hanoi, writes to release her lover by saying she will marry someone else. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

Even if the war ends and he comes back

I can't marry him anymore

Even though we made a promise together

I can't stand in front of you

With both my legs ripped off by a bomb

Even if true peace were to come to the sky over Hanoi

I'm sure I'd never see him again

Even if he sees me like this, he's a kind person

So he'll hold me close to his heart and never let me go

So I'm writing a letter to him now

When I'm with someone who's much nicer than you

I can't stand being in front of you with my legs ripped off by a bomb

So I just wrote a letter to that person

I'm much nicer than you

When you're with someone" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

戦いが終わりあの人が

帰ってきたとしても

私はもう彼とは

結婚できません

胸を合わせて誓い合った

約束でしたのに

爆弾で両足を

もぎ取られた姿で

あなたの前に行くなんて

とてもできません

ハノイの空に本当の

平和が来たとしても

私はもう彼とは

きっと会わ

ないでしょう/ 私のこんな姿を見ても

優しい人だから

私を胸にいだき

離さないでしょう

だから今あの人に

手紙を書きました

あなたよりずっと素敵な

人と一緒になると

爆弾で両足を

もぎ取られた姿で

あなたの前に行くなんて

とてもできません

だから今あの人に

手紙を書きました

あなたよりずっと素敵な

人と一緒になると

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Themes: Hanoi Disabled Civilian Vietnamese Perspective Lost Love Civilian Casualties

Genres: ♪ Japanese Music Folk Pop

1979

#88 Khánh Ly 美しい昔 [Diễm xưa] 1979 · Single · 美しい昔 / ユエの子守唄 [Diễm xưa / Ca dao mẹ] · Columbia # LK-126 · Japan

Credited on the record as カーン・リー.

Annotation

As discussed above, this featured well-known Vietnamese artist, Khánh Ly (also known as カーン・リー in Japanese), born on 6 March 1945, Hà Nội, Vietnam, which included two classic songs, both composed by Trịnh Công Sơn, a prominent Vietnamese songwriter (born 28 February 1939 in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, died on 1 April 2001, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam). The track titles are "雨に消えたあなた" ("Diem xua") and "ユエの子守歌" ("Ca dao me").

This version was released in Japan for the TV drama "サイゴンから来た妻と娘" ("Wife and Daughter From Saigon") based on a book of the same title - in which a Japanese newspaper reporter is working in Saigon during the Vietnam War. He married a Vietnamese woman, and they move to Japan after the fall of Saigon.¹² Released in 1978.

Sources

1 nhk.or.jp ↩
2 Wikipedia: サイゴンから来た妻と娘 ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Columbia LK-126 (LK-126-A / LK-126-B), stereo, 45, ℗ '79·12, JASRAC, "Made in Japan by Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd."; both songs are "トリン・コン・ソン作詩・作曲" with guitar by 福本憲 and the コロムビア・オーケストラ: side 1 "美しい昔" (DIEM XUA), Japanese words 高階真, 2:47; side 2 "ユエの子守唄" (CA DAO ME), Japanese words 浅川しげる, 3:01.

Sleeve and side-1 label carry the line "NHKドラマ人間模様「サイゴンから来た妻と娘」から" (from the NHK drama series "The Wife and Daughter Who Came from Saigon"); the front shows a smiling man in a white suit with a woman and a girl, and the back a photograph of カーン・リー holding a flower, a melody score of "美しい昔", and the Japanese lyrics of both songs, with Vietnamese lines of "Diễm xưa" printed in handwriting. ¥600; Nippon Columbia company sleeve.

The lyrics recall a lost love who has disappeared into the rain at the edge of the world, leaving the singer longing for her. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

This afternoon it is still raining – why don't you come?

If tomorrow we are lost in pain, how will we have each other?

Vietnamese

Chiều nay còn mưa sao em không lại

Nhỡ mai trong cơn đau vùi, làm sao có nhau

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective South Vietnamese Lost Love

#89 Khánh Ly ユエの子守唄 [Ca dao mẹ] 1979 · Single · 美しい昔 / ユエの子守唄 [Diễm xưa / Ca dao mẹ] · Columbia # LK-126 · Japan

Credited on the record as カーン・リー.

Notes

Columbia LK-126 (LK-126-A / LK-126-B), stereo, 45, ℗ '79·12, JASRAC, "Made in Japan by Nippon Columbia Co., Ltd."; both songs are "トリン・コン・ソン作詩・作曲" with guitar by 福本憲 and the コロムビア・オーケストラ: side 1 "美しい昔" (DIEM XUA), Japanese words 高階真, 2:47; side 2 "ユエの子守唄" (CA DAO ME), Japanese words 浅川しげる, 3:01.

Sleeve and side-1 label carry the line "NHKドラマ人間模様「サイゴンから来た妻と娘」から" (from the NHK drama series "The Wife and Daughter Who Came from Saigon"); the front shows a smiling man in a white suit with a woman and a girl, and the back a photograph of カーン・リー holding a flower, a melody score of "美しい昔", and the Japanese lyrics of both songs, with Vietnamese lines of "Diễm xưa" printed in handwriting. ¥600; Nippon Columbia company sleeve.

The lyrics are a mother's lullaby soothing her baby to sleep, praying to a star to protect them on their wandering journey and hoping for peace someday. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective South Vietnamese Peace Child

1980

#90 津和のり子 [Noriko Tsuwa] 美しい昔 [Diễm xưa] 1980 · Single · 美しい昔 / 春子 [Diễm xưa / Haruko] · Philips # FS-2170 · Japan

Credited on the record as 津和のり子.

Notes

Philips FS-2170 (FS-2170 A), stereo, 45, side 1, ℗1980, manufactured by Nippon Phonogram Co. Ltd., Tokyo; "美しい昔 DIEM XUA" (トリン・コン・ソン作詞・作曲／高階真訳詞／津和のり子補作詞／青木望編曲), 4:09; the B side is "春子" (津和のり子作詞・作曲), 4:52.

The back sleeve carries the line "NHKドラマ人間模様「サイゴンから来た妻と娘」から", the Japanese lyrics of both songs with Vietnamese lines of "Diễm xưa" in handwriting, and advertisements for 津和のり子's albums 曼珠沙華 (S-7013) and 降りつむ (S-7055); the front is a black-and-white portrait of the singer (photo by Saichi Katoh). ¥600; Philips/Nippon Phonogram company sleeve. The lyrics mourn a lost love who faded away in the rain in a far-off red land, as endless rain falls on temple roofs and roads and flowers wilt. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

This afternoon it is still raining – why don't you come?

If tomorrow we are lost in pain, how will we have each other?

Vietnamese

Chiều nay còn mưa sao em không lại

Nhỡ mai trong cơn đau vùi, làm sao có nhau

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Saigon TV War Lost Love

1981

#91 Khánh Ly 美しい昔 [Diễm xưa] 1981 · Album · 美しい昔 · Columbia # AF-7071 · Japan

Credited on the record as カーン・リー.

Annotation

Featuring songs both in Japanese and Vietnamese - this was another Japanese release featuring well-known Vietnamese artist, Khánh Ly (also known as カーン・リー in Japanese), born on 6 March 1945, Hà Nội, Vietnam, and including songs composed by Trịnh Công Sơn, a prominent Vietnamese songwriter (born 28 February 1939 in Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam, died on 1 April 2001, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam). As discussed above, although largely Vietnamese, interesting to note its circulation in Japan.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

#92 Khánh Ly ユエの子守唄 [Ca dao mẹ] 1981 · Album · 美しい昔 · Columbia # AF-7071 · Japan

Credited on the record as カーン・リー.

1984

#93 Wednesday Vietnam 1984 · Present

Notes

The song "Vietnam" (PS 4052)

Lyrics

English

When I was born, they say a silver jet plane was flying from this country to far away Indochina.

From its wings, the jet plane was heading

For the deep forests of South Vietnam.

It brought down a lot of rain many times.

The eyes of Vietnamese children were deep and beautiful, and they said that in that southern country, children were living with lives too big to bear

On their small shoulders.

Even now, there are no birds singing in the damaged jungle.

But still, life continues to be born

Japanese

私が生まれた頃この国からはるかインドシナへ

銀色のジェット機が飛びたっていたという

ジェット機は翼から

南ベトナムの深い森に向け

何度もたくさんの雨を降らせたという

ベトナムの子供らの瞳は深い色をたたえ

語りつくせぬ思いひめた美しさだという

南のあの国では背負いきれないほどの人生を

小さな肩にのせた子らが生きているという

傷ついた密林に鳥のさえずりは今もないけれど

それでもまた命が生まれつづけてるという

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1987

#94 Khánh Ly 望郷 (Lullaby of Đà Nẵng) 1987 · Single · 望郷 [Lullaby of Đà Nẵng] · Nippon Columbia # AH-434 · Japan

Credited on the record as カーン・リー.

Annotation

Notes

The song "望郷 (Lullaby of Đà Nẵng)" (Nippon Columbia # AH-434). Soundtrack to the film 投奔怒海 [Boat People], based on the aftermath of the fall of South Vietnam, with a Japanese journalist covering the story from Da Nang. The name of the film is a reference to the Vietnamese refugee crisis.¹²³

Sources

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English

Now, my love, please listen

I am sad, in my night

The old town is the first one to cover the sun

And right now is not my child

The life of the child is depressed

Where is tomorrow, we still have

This happy meeting has blown away

I have lost my heart

I am sorry

I am familiar with the planet

I am familiar with my father

The wine is flying now so good

She is busy. throng buy most

Vietnamese

Nay em yeu xin hay lang nghe

Tieng buon roi, trong dem toi

Pho xa tang thuong dau don che mat troi

Va ngay yen vui khong con throng toi

Giong song xua con nuoc van xuoi

Mai ve dau, rong reu co

Hoi canh chm vui nay da bay lac loai

Tim bay noi dau keu loi bi ai

Nhung buoc chan quen da quen con duong tinh

Chieu vang ve nghe ba hat hiu

chiec la ua bay von nay thiet tha

co dang em throng mua nhat nhoa

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Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Boat People Refugees Da Nang

#100 ベトナムの乙女たち [Vietnamese Maidens] #101 自由ベトナム行進曲 [Free Vietnam March] #102 南ベトナムを解放しよう [Let's Liberate South Vietnam] #103 行動のとき [When Taking Action] #104 ベトナムへ送るまい [Do Not Send to Vietnam]

Also in: ▤ Other Vietnamese Songs ▤ Vietnamese Refugees & Boat People

1993

#95 横道坊主 [Odd-Bowz] Interlude: Vietnam 1993 · Album · 横道坊主 · Eastworld # TOCT-6993 · Japan

Credited on the record as 横道坊主.

Annotation

Punk band, formed on 1 April 1984 in Nagasaki, Japan. Featuring the songs "Interlude: Vietnam" and "Vietnam (Reprise)" (# TOCT-6993).

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Genres: ♪ Punk Punk Rock

Also in: ▤ Punk Songs

#96 横道坊主 [Odd-Bowz] Vietnam (Reprise) 1993 · Album · 横道坊主 · Eastworld # TOCT-6993 · Japan

Credited on the record as 横道坊主.

Genres: ♪ Punk Punk Rock

Also in: ▤ Punk Songs

2001

#97 Sherbets Vietnam 1964 2001 · Sexy Stones # SSR-011 · Japan

Annotation

The song Vietnam 1964 (Sherberts)

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English

Tell me more about what I have to see on my father’s final day (last day)

Have to try to keep a grip on the wheel on my father’s final day

Head-o-lights are shining n passing away on my father’s final day

Weathervane and air’s not moving at all on my father’s final day

All the fish in the lake have fallen asleep on my father’s final day

Like a dream I saw a long time ago on my father’s final day

And I stood up, and I stood up, all the grass was soft and under my step...

And my feet were bare and walking away, on my father’s final day

And I stood up, and I stood up, strawberry dream had a story for me

In the middle of a field sitting in the dirt I put my ear up close

I could smell it too as for you, my dear

The high blue sky above has a love for you, even in the rain

Or a cold and windy day it’s enough for you

Growing in the earth you can feel the heat and your memories...

Even in the night if you see the stars it’s enough for you

Little strawberry, you were born in dirt but you’re so colorful

Even in the dirt you’re still so beautiful, strawberry oh

What I often think the most important thing is seeing your own dream

The place you want to go is a place where you should go

The most important thing is following your dream...

When all is wonderful I wish I could meet you

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Genres: ♪ Rock Alternative Rock

#98 Tranquilizer Vietnam 2001 · Bootleg / Unauthorized · Tranquilizar History Demos Flexis Live 1985-1987 · Hirokatsu Kinoshita Fanclub · Japan

Annotation

"Vietnam" . Japanese, hardcore punk

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Theme: Themes Pending

Genres: ♪ Punk Hardcore Punk

Also in: ▤ Punk Songs

2015

#99 Jasons Thåm Sát Mÿ Lai 2015 · Album · Inferno · Mob Rules # MR-2 · Japan

Notes

- Thåm Sát Mÿ Lai
- Japanese metal

Theme: My Lai

Genres: ♪ Metal Thrashcore Crossover Thrash

Also in: ▤ Metal Songs ▤ My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs

Unknown date

#100–104 Central Choir ＬＰステレオセンターレコード１１ EP · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-11 · Japan

All 5 songs from this ep in the archive are in this collection

Annotation

Japanese released record, split into two halves. The first side is North Vietnamese patriotic songs in the Nhạc đỏ ("Red Music") genre - which developed at the beginning of the 20th century, containing elements of Western Classical Music, while lyrically focusing on socialism and independence, as well as containing anti-imperialist / colonialist sentiment. It's also influenced by revolutionary music from China and the USSR. Some also contained elements of Vietnamese Folk Music. The 7" EP was part of series, with a few focused on Vietnam, including this (Center Record # CLS-11). The B-side featured Japanese songs about the Vietnam War.

Notes

The first of those track was "ベトナムの乙女たち" ("Vietnamese Maidens") - a Vietnamese songs translated into Japanese, by 関鑑子 [Akiko Seki] - born 8 September 1899 and died 2 May 1973, a well-known Japanese vocalist, educator, and music critic, and a member of the Japanese Communist Party.¹. The song focused on the role of woman and war production / economy: "maidens protecting the rear... holding the needle... complete our production goals... workers in factories... these clothes will go to the front line".

Sources

1 Wikipedia: 関鑑子 ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

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#100 Central Choir ベトナムの乙女たち [Vietnamese Maidens] EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード１１ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-11 · Japan

Annotation

Notes

Sources

1 Wikipedia: 関鑑子 ↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Center Record CLS-11, "LPステレオ", 7-inch, 33⅓ rpm, five songs, produced by 音楽センター (Ongaku Center), 東京都新宿区西大久保3-67, ¥500; conductor 井上頼豊 [Yoritoyo Inoue], chorus 中央合唱団 (Central Choir), accompaniment Center Orchestra, piano 田中園子 [Sonoko Tanaka], arrangements by 助川敏弥 [Toshiya Sukegawa], 伊藤辰雄 [Tatsuo Ito] and 安達元彦 [Motohiko Adachi].

Side A: "自由ベトナム行進曲" (Japanese words 関忠亮, music Doãn Quang Khải), 1:47; "南ベトナムを解放しよう", 3:14; "行動のとき" (words タン・ハイ [Thanh Hải], music ル・グエン・ロン・フン), 2:07.

Side B: "ベトナムの乙女たち" (Vietnamese song, Japanese words 関鑑子 [Akiko Seki]), 3:25; "ベトナムへ送るまい" (original words ベトナム話し合いの会, adapted by 窪田亨 [Akira Kubota], music 大西進 [Susumu Onishi]), 3:41.

The front sleeve photo shows a boy in a large straw hat playing a bamboo flute.

The back-sleeve notes say "自由ベトナム行進曲" became a song of all the Vietnamese people in the 1949 struggle against French imperialism and was introduced to Japan in 1955; "南ベトナムを解放しよう" is the song of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front, sent to Japan through the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association in 1964; "行動のとき" came from a 1967 songbook given to Seki by the Vietnamese composers' union and was first sung by the Central Choir in May 1968; "ベトナムの乙女たち" was among songs the NLF sent on tape to the 1964 Utagoe festival; and "ベトナムへ送るまい" sets a letter Japanese women wrote to women of countries fighting in Vietnam, and was presented by the Japanese delegation to Vietnamese and American delegates at the June 1968 Paris conference of women working to end the Vietnam War.

Four lyric sheets print words and melody for each song ("ベトナムへ送るまい" subtitled "ベトナム参戦国の母や妻たちへ ―日本の婦人より―", piano arrangement 松永勇次) and a list of Center Record releases. The lyrics describe young Vietnamese women working in the fields and factories behind the lines, supporting front-line soldiers and striving together for liberation. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

On rainy nights and sunny days

The battle of liberation continues

Maidens protecting the rear

Pray with the hands holding the needle

Don't give in to the brave soldiers

Let's complete our production goals

Let's join forces

Let's finish

Let's all plant the seedlings together

Let's plant

Let's plant the seedlings straight

Maidens protecting the rear

Workers in factories

Liberation Army uniforms

Let's join forces

Let's finish

The clothes are sewn, winter has come

Tomorrow these clothes will go to the front lines

From the maidens working in the rear

A heartfelt gift

It will reach the soldiers' hearts

Let's join forces

Let's finish it" [auto-translation used]

Japanese

雨降る夜も晴れの日も

闘い続く解放戦

後方守る乙女たち

針持つ手に祈りこめ

勇敢な兵士に負けず

生産目標仕上げよう /さあ力を合わせ

仕上げよう

みんな揃って苗を植えよう

苗は真っ直ぐさあ植えよう

後方守る乙女たち

工場に働く労働者

解放軍の服いそげ

さあ力を合わせ

仕上げよう

服縫い上げた冬が来た

明日はこの服前線へ

後方に働く乙女らの

心を込めた贈り物

兵士の胸に届くでしょう

さあ力を合わせ

仕上げよう

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Themes: Vietnamese Patriotic Vietnamese Girls

#101 Central Choir 自由ベトナム行進曲 [Free Vietnam March] EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード１１ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-11 · Japan

Annotation: see “ベトナムの乙女たち [Vietnamese Maidens]” above (same release).

Lyrics

Japanese

若いわれら人民のため

希望のみちひらく

自由のくにとり返すまで

強く斗うわれら

Themes: Vietnamese Patriotic Ho Chi Minh Freedom & Liberty

#102 Central Choir 南ベトナムを解放しよう [Let's Liberate South Vietnam] EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード１１ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-11 · Japan

Annotation: see “ベトナムの乙女たち [Vietnamese Maidens]” above (same release).

Lyrics

Japanese

たてベトナム決意固く

たたき出せ売国奴

うちくだけアメリカ

わが祖国守れ

Themes: Vietnamese Patriotic NLF Anti-American Mekong Delta Flag

#103 Central Choir 行動のとき [When Taking Action] EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード１１ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-11 · Japan

Annotation: see “ベトナムの乙女たち [Vietnamese Maidens]” above (same release).

Lyrics

Japanese

たたかいのときだいざ

勝利はわが手に

Themes: Vietnamese Patriotic Solidarity

#104 Central Choir ベトナムへ送るまい [Do Not Send to Vietnam] EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード１１ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-11 · Japan

Annotation

The second of those track was "ベトナムへ送るまい" ( "Do Not Send to Vietnam" ) by 作詞窪田亨 (Toru Kubota) and 大西進 (Susumu Onishi), written from the perspective of a Japanese woman to the mothers and wives of those fighting in the Vietnam War, taking an anti-war position: "mothers who wish for peace should join hands" . It noted the protesters in the US: "young Americans burn their draft cards" , while referencing North Vietnamese nationalism: "Vietnamese mothers and children protect their homeland" . It called on countries to not supply weapons to the war: "let's stop the military transport that sends weapons to Vietnam" .

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Center Record CLS-11, "LPステレオ", 7-inch, 33⅓ rpm, five songs, produced by 音楽センター (Ongaku Center), 東京都新宿区西大久保3-67, ¥500; conductor 井上頼豊 [Yoritoyo Inoue], chorus 中央合唱団 (Central Choir), accompaniment Center Orchestra, piano 田中園子 [Sonoko Tanaka], arrangements by 助川敏弥 [Toshiya Sukegawa], 伊藤辰雄 [Tatsuo Ito] and 安達元彦 [Motohiko Adachi].

Side A: "自由ベトナム行進曲" (Japanese words 関忠亮, music Doãn Quang Khải), 1:47; "南ベトナムを解放しよう", 3:14; "行動のとき" (words タン・ハイ [Thanh Hải], music ル・グエン・ロン・フン), 2:07.

Side B: "ベトナムの乙女たち" (Vietnamese song, Japanese words 関鑑子 [Akiko Seki]), 3:25; "ベトナムへ送るまい" (original words ベトナム話し合いの会, adapted by 窪田亨 [Akira Kubota], music 大西進 [Susumu Onishi]), 3:41.

The front sleeve photo shows a boy in a large straw hat playing a bamboo flute.

The back-sleeve notes say "自由ベトナム行進曲" became a song of all the Vietnamese people in the 1949 struggle against French imperialism and was introduced to Japan in 1955; "南ベトナムを解放しよう" is the song of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front, sent to Japan through the Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association in 1964; "行動のとき" came from a 1967 songbook given to Seki by the Vietnamese composers' union and was first sung by the Central Choir in May 1968; "ベトナムの乙女たち" was among songs the NLF sent on tape to the 1964 Utagoe festival; and "ベトナムへ送るまい" sets a letter Japanese women wrote to women of countries fighting in Vietnam, and was presented by the Japanese delegation to Vietnamese and American delegates at the June 1968 Paris conference of women working to end the Vietnam War.

Four lyric sheets print words and melody for each song ("ベトナムへ送るまい" subtitled "ベトナム参戦国の母や妻たちへ ―日本の婦人より―", piano arrangement 松永勇次) and a list of Center Record releases. The lyrics are a message from Japanese women to the mothers and wives of countries at war, urging them to join hands, stop the killing and stop sending sons and weapons to Vietnam. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Lyrics

English

You will wait for news from your loved ones

You will wait for news from Saigon and Okinawa

Let's stop killing each other on the battlefields of faraway countries

Mothers who wish for peace should join hands

Beloved until the day we meet again

You will hear the voice of a wounded and fallen soldier

A voice will call you from inside the hospital or the base

Stop sending your beloved son to the battlefield

A mother who wishes for peace, let's join hands

Until we meet our loved ones again

Young Americans burn their draft cards

Vietnamese mothers and children protect their homeland

Let's stop the military transport that makes weapons to Vietnam

Peace Let's hold hands together, all the mothers who wish for this

Until the day we can meet our loved ones again." [auto-translation used]

Japanese

愛する人の便りをあなたは待つでしょう

サイゴンや沖縄からの便りを待つでしょう

遠い異国の戦場で殺し合う事を止めさせましょう

平和を願う母親は手を取り合いましょう

愛する人と再び会える日が来るまで

傷つき倒れた兵士の呼ぶ声がするでしょう

病院や基地の中からあなたを呼ぶ声が

愛する息子を戦場へ送り出すことを止めさせましょう

平和を願う母親は手を取り合いましょう

愛する人と再び会える日が来るまで

アメリカの若者等が徴兵カード焼き

ベトナムの母と子が祖国を守る時

ベトナム行きの武器作り軍事輸送を止めさせましょう

平和を願う母親は手を取り合いましょう

愛する人と再び会える日が来るまで

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Themes: Vietnamese Patriotic Anti-War Peace Solidarity

#105 Various Artists ＬＰステレオセンターレコード３

Annotation

Part of the same series above, this one contained two B-Side songs about Vietnam War (Center Record # CLS-3). .

Notes

B1| わが人民はひとつ ("Our People Are One")
B2| ベトナムお母さんへ ("To the Vietnamese Mother")

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

#106 ボーイスカウト日本連盟所沢第一団 [Boy Scouts of Japan 1st Tokorozawa Group] 夜のこだま / 愛をもとう / 火のおどり

Annotation

Japanese boy scout choral group, date unknown - the songs are unrelated to the war, but it contained the following on the front picture sleeve: "募金南北ベトナム民族解放戦線" - "donations to the National Liberation Front of Vietnam".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

#107 Various Artists 斎藤安弘 - 新宿広場の青春

#108 Various Artists 平和のための音楽会《3人の作曲家によるベトナムへの手紙》

#109 Various Artists ＬＰステレオセンターレコード6

#111 南ベトナムを解放しよう [Let's Liberate South Vietnam] #112 自由ベトナム行進曲 [Free Vietnam March] #113 進め南ベトナム青年 [Forward, Youth of South Vietnam]

#110 ダーク・ダックス [Dark Ducks] ある報道カメラマンの死「彼はベトナムで死んだ」 [The Death of a News Cameraman: He Died in Vietnam] Album · 合唱組曲「山に祈る」 / ある報道カメラマンの死「彼はベトナムで死んだ」 · Polydor # MR 3045 · Japan

Credited on the record as ダーク・ダックス.

Notes

Side B of the LP: a narrated choral work on a Japanese press cameraman killed covering the Vietnam War. Side A is Osamu Shimizu's mountain-accident choral suite 山に祈る (narration: Shizue Natsukawa). Year not printed on label.

Themes: Anti-War Journalist

Genres: ♪ Japanese Music Choral

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#111–113 ベトナム中央合唱団 [Vietnam Central Chorus] & 音楽歌舞団カチューシャ [Katyusha Music Song and Dance Troupe] 南ベトナム解放民族戦線のうた [Songs of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front] 1 EP · 日本ベトナム友好協会 Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association · Japan

All 3 songs from this ep in the archive are in this collection

Annotation

A flexi-disc single, titled "南ベトナム解放民族戦線のうた" - "Song of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam" - produced by "日本ベトナム友好協会" ("Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association") (written on the back of the record).

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

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#111 ベトナム中央合唱団 [Vietnam Central Chorus] & 音楽歌舞団カチューシャ [Katyusha Music Song and Dance Troupe] 南ベトナムを解放しよう [Let's Liberate South Vietnam] EP · 南ベトナム解放民族戦線のうた [Songs of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front] 1 · 日本ベトナム友好協会 Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association · Japan

Credited on the record as ベトナム中央合唱団 / 音楽歌舞団カチューシャ.

Annotation

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#112 ベトナム中央合唱団 [Vietnam Central Chorus] & 音楽歌舞団カチューシャ [Katyusha Music Song and Dance Troupe] 自由ベトナム行進曲 [Free Vietnam March] EP · 南ベトナム解放民族戦線のうた [Songs of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front] 1 · 日本ベトナム友好協会 Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association · Japan

Credited on the record as ベトナム中央合唱団 / 音楽歌舞団カチューシャ.

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#113 ベトナム中央合唱団 [Vietnam Central Chorus] & 音楽歌舞団カチューシャ [Katyusha Music Song and Dance Troupe] 進め南ベトナム青年 [Forward, Youth of South Vietnam] EP · 南ベトナム解放民族戦線のうた [Songs of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front] 1 · 日本ベトナム友好協会 Japan-Vietnam Friendship Association · Japan

Credited on the record as ベトナム中央合唱団 / 音楽歌舞団カチューシャ.

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#114 ハノイに軍歌はどよめく [Tiến về Hà Nội] #115 軍旗のもとに [Tiến bước dưới quân kỳ] #116 自由ベトナム行進曲 [Free Vietnam March] [Vì nhân dân quên mình] #117 チュオソン（長山山脈）の東チュオソンの西 [Trường Sơn Đông, Trường Sơn Tây] #118 解放軍戦士に光栄あれ [Ta là chiến sĩ giải phóng quân] #119 ホーチミン讃歌 [Ca ngợi Hồ Chủ tịch] #120 山河慕情 [Longing for Mountains and Rivers] #121 森の歌声 [Song of the Forest] #122 チョイから降りておいでよ（エデ族の民謡）[Come Down From the Hut (Ê Đê folk song)] #123 なつかしの北部よ [Dear North] #124 月影は河の流氷に [Moonlight on the River] #125 解放の歓び [Joy of Liberation] #126 クワン・チの母 [Mother of Quảng Trị] #127 サイゴン女子挺身隊の歌 [Song of the Saigon Women's Volunteer Corps]

#114–127 Various Artists ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] Compilation · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

All 14 songs from this compilation in the archive are in this collection

Annotation

The album "ベトナム解放のうた" ("Vietnam Liberation Songs") (CBS / Sony Records # SOLL 187) appears to be North Vietnamese patriotic songs in the Nhạc đỏ ("Red Music") genre - which developed at the beginning of the 20th century, containing elements of Western Classical Music, while lyrically focusing on socialism and independence, as well as containing anti-imperialist / colonialist sentiment. It's also influenced by revolutionary music from China and the USSR. Some also contained elements of Vietnamese Folk Music. See:

Songs included paying tribute to the North Vietnamese leader: "ホーチミン讃歌" ("Ho Chi Minh Hymn"), as well as praising different elements fighting the war, including woman, often found in patriotic North Vietnamese music: "サイゴン女子挺身隊の歌" ("Saigon Women's Volunteer Corps Song" and "解放軍戦士に光栄あれ" ("Honor to the Liberation Army Fighters").

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

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#114 Various Artists ハノイに軍歌はどよめく [Tiến về Hà Nội] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Annotation

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Hanoi

#115 Various Artists 軍旗のもとに [Tiến bước dưới quân kỳ] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#116 Various Artists 自由ベトナム行進曲 [Free Vietnam March] [Vì nhân dân quên mình] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#117 Various Artists チュオソン（長山山脈）の東チュオソンの西 [Trường Sơn Đông, Trường Sơn Tây] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Ho Chi Minh Trail

#118 Various Artists 解放軍戦士に光栄あれ [Ta là chiến sĩ giải phóng quân] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#119 Various Artists ホーチミン讃歌 [Ca ngợi Hồ Chủ tịch] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Ho Chi Minh

#120 Various Artists 山河慕情 [Longing for Mountains and Rivers] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#121 Various Artists 森の歌声 [Song of the Forest] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#122 Various Artists チョイから降りておいでよ（エデ族の民謡）[Come Down From the Hut (Ê Đê folk song)] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#123 Various Artists なつかしの北部よ [Dear North] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#124 Various Artists 月影は河の流氷に [Moonlight on the River] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#125 Various Artists 解放の歓び [Joy of Liberation] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#126 Various Artists クワン・チの母 [Mother of Quảng Trị] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic

#127 Various Artists サイゴン女子挺身隊の歌 [Song of the Saigon Women's Volunteer Corps] Compilation · ベトナム解放のうた [Vietnam Liberation Songs] · CBS/Sony # SOLL 187 · Japan

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Vietnamese Patriotic Saigon Women Fighters

#128 Central Choir わが人民はひとつ [Our People Are One] EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード３ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-3 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Themes: Vietnamese Perspective Reunification

Also in: ▤ Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]

#129 Central Choir ベトナムの母さんへ [To the Mother of Vietnam] EP · ＬＰステレオセンターレコード３ · Center [Tokyo] # CLS-3 · Japan

Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.

Themes: Anti-War Vietnamese Perspective