US Military & Veteran Songs

301 songs · chronological · Annotations and notes by Justin A. Brummer

A collection of Vietnam War songs by US military personnel and veterans This forms part of the larger Vietnam War Song Project, an interpretive examination of over 6,000 Vietnam War songs identified, revealing how the war's significance is represented through music. The project also collects spoken-word recordings about the conflict. This unique collection of voices advances scholarship by providing insights into people’s views about the war over time as represented in music, looking at diverse communities and vibrant music scenes. It is crucial in developing our knowledge of the war and the humanities, through the use of a digital research platform.YouTube playlist: US Military / Veteran…

1. Bull Durham – Songs of SAC (album) (1964)
2. Bull Durham – Hang Down Your Boom Ross Cooley (1964)
3. Bull Durham – Happy SAC Warrior (1964)
4. Bull Durham – Home on the Pad (1964)
5. Bull Durham – Introduction and Eighteen Hours (1964)
6. Bull Durham – No SAC Crew Members Down in Hell (1964)
7. Bull Durham – SAC Lament (1964)
8. Bull Durham – Sad SAC (1964)
9. Bull Durham – Wreck of the Old 97 (1964)
10. Barry Sadler – Ballad of the Green Berets (1966)
11. SSgt Barry Sadler, U.S. Army Special Forces – Saigon (1966)
12. SSgt Barry Sadler, U.S. Army Special Forces – Garet Trooper (1966)
13. SSgt Barry Sadler, U.S. Army Special Forces – Letter From Vietnam (1966)
14. SSgt Barry Sadler, U.S. Army Special Forces – Salute to the Nurses (1966)
15. Barry Sadler – "A" Team (1966)
16. Barry Sadler – Bamiba (1966)
17. Barry Sadler – I'm a Lucky One (1966)
18. Barry Sadler – I'm Watching the Raindrops Fall (1966)
19. Barry Sadler – The Soldier Has Come Home (1966)
20. Barry Sadler – Little Bird of Vietnam (1966)
21. Hershel Gober – Here I Am (1966)
22. Hershel Gober – Picture of a Man (1966)
23. Hershel Gober – Proud American (1966)
24. Hershel Gober – I Need You So (1966)
25. Johnny Mac – Let the Cannons Roar Loudly (1966)
26. Johnny Mac – Chosen to Wear the Green Berets (1966)
27. Johnny Mac – Letters Have No Arms (1966)
28. Don Morrow – The Men Who Wear the Green Berets (1966)
29. Barry Sadler – I Won't Be Home This Christmas (1966)
30. Gene Wyles – Follow Me (1966)
31. Gene Wyles – The Reporter of Wars (1966)
32. Barry Sadler – The "A" Team (1966)
33. Barry Sadler – An Empty Glass (1966)
34. Barry Sadler – One Day Nearer Home (1966)
35. U.S. Marine Corps Band – March of the Citizen Marines - Salute to the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve on It's 50th Anniversary 1916-1966 (1966)
36. S.F.C. Lefty Pritchett – Our Little Children (Dedicated to All Fathers in Viet Nam) (1966)
37. 2nd Lt. Larry Bleeker – I Found the Answer (album) (1967)
38. 2nd Lt. Larry Bleeker – Small Excerpt From the Life of 2nd Lt. Larry Bleeker (1967)
39. Bill Ellis – First Cav - Impressions of a Skytrooper (1967)
40. Elvis Carden With the Flint River Boys – Viet Nam Blues (1967)
41. Elvis Carden With the Flint River Boys – Loving a Soldier (1967)
42. Lefty Pritchett – What Price Freedom (1967)
43. Barry Sadler – Back Home (1967)
44. Kass Kanui – The Huey Song (1967)
45. Ty Herrington – When the Green Berets Come Home (1968)
46. Hershel Gober – Saigon Warrior (1968)
47. Hershel Gober – Proud American (1968)
48. Hershel Gober – American Dream (1968)
49. Hershel Gober – Birth of a Nation (1968)
50. Hershel Gober – Closing (1968)
51. Hershel Gober – Forgotten Man (1968)
52. Hershel Gober – Here I Am (1968)
53. Hershel Gober – Look Over My Shoulder (1968)
54. Hershel Gober – Picture of a Man (1968)
55. Hershel Gober – Six Klicks (1968)
56. Hershel Gober – Tropic Rain (1968)
57. Lefty Pritchett – Vietnam Rotation Blues (1968)
58. Staff Sgt. Bob Lay – Marine's Ballad (1968)
59. Staff Sgt. Bob Lay – Make a Marine (1968)
60. Emily Strange & Barbara Hager – Incoming (1969)
61. Dick Jonas – Fighter Pilot's Christmas (1969)
62. Dick Jonas – Ballad of Robin Olds (1969)
63. Dick Jonas – Banana Valley (1969)
64. Dick Jonas – Little Town Up North (1969)
65. Dick Jonas – Mig-21 (1969)
66. Dick Jonas – Son of Satan's Angels (1969)
67. Dick Jonas – Tales That I Can Tell (1969)
68. Dick Jonas – Thud Pilot (1969)
69. Dick Jonas – Will There Be a Tomorrow (1969)
70. Dick Jonas – Yankee Air Pilot (1969)
71. Ed Raney – Songs of the Sky Soldier (album) (1969)
72. Ed Raney – Brother, Oh Dear Brother (1969)
73. Ed Raney – Bugles at Twilight (1969)
74. Ed Raney – Corporal Barnes (1969)
75. Ed Raney – Great Jumpmaster in the Sky (1969)
76. Ed Raney – Immortal Sgt. Hanks (1969)
77. Ed Raney – Johnson's Gone to Hell (1969)
78. Ed Raney – Jump (1969)
79. Ed Raney – Ol' Lead Bottom (1969)
80. Ed Raney – Prayer for Dust Off (1969)
81. Ed Raney – The Trooper's Green (1969)
82. The USAF Academy Concert Band and Cadet Chorale – Bring Me Men (1969)
83. Greg Welch – Driven by the Rain (1969)
84. John Canty – M.I.A. / P.O.W. (Prisoner of War Song) (1970)
85. Barbara Dane – Join the GI movement (1970)
86. Barbara Dane – Ballad of Richard Campos (1970)
87. Barbara Dane – Bring 'Em Home (1970)
88. Barbara Dane – Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1970)
89. Barbara Dane – Just Another Day (1970)
90. Barbara Dane – Last Drink with Don (1970)
91. Barbara Dane – Resistance Hymn (1970)
92. Barbara Dane – Go Tell it on the Mountain (1970)
93. Barbara Dane – Insubordination (1970)
94. Barbara Dane – We Shall Not Be Moved (1970)
95. Dick Jonas – Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats (1971)
96. Dick Jonas – Blue Four (1971)
97. Dick Jonas – Homeward Bound (1971)
98. Dick Jonas – I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock (1971)
99. Dick Jonas – Love Angel (1971)
100. Dick Jonas – Normandy's Sand (1971)
101. Dick Jonas – Old Weired Harold (1971)
102. Dick Jonas – Pine Cones and Oak leaves (1971)
103. Dick Jonas – Sea Island R & R (1971)
104. Dick Jonas – Short-Timing Sailor Boy (1971)
105. Dick Jonas – Uncle's Nephews (1971)
106. Dick Jonas – Wolf Pack's Houseboy (1971)
107. Bull Durham – Songs of S.E.A. (album) (1971)
108. Bull Durham – DaNang Lullaby (1971)
109. Bull Durham – Dear Ma'am (1971)
110. Bull Durham – Devil Clapped His Hands (1971)
111. Bull Durham – I Fly the Line (1971)
112. Bull Durham – Inventory (1971)
113. Bull Durham – Jolly Green (1971)
114. Bull Durham – Mighty Dustoff (1971)
115. Bull Durham – Puff (1971)
116. Bull Durham – Republics Ultra-Hog (1971)
117. Bull Durham – Saigon Girls (1971)
118. Bull Durham – Tchepone (1971)
119. Capt. Gene Powless – American Story (1971)
120. Don Daly – Matilda (1971)
121. Covered Wagon Musicians – Napalm Sticks to Kids (1972)
122. Covered Wagon Musicians – Bring Our Brothers Home (1972)
123. The Covered Wagon Musicians – We Say No to Your War (1972)
124. The Covered Wagon Musicians – The Rodeway Nine (1972)
125. Covered Wagon Musicians – Children of the Delta (1972)
126. Covered Wagon Musicians – Mathematics (spoken) (1972)
127. Covered Wagon Musicians – Mathematics (sung) (1972)
128. Covered Wagon Musicians – My Pledge, My Vow (1972)
129. Covered Wagon Musicians – Phantom Jets are Coming (1972)
130. Covered Wagon Musicians – Rattlesnake Station (1972)
131. Covered Wagon Musicians – Silver Bird (1972)
132. Covered Wagon Musicians – Spring Conscience (1972)
133. Covered Wagon Musicians – The People's Thank You (1972)
134. Merry Airbrakes – Draft Board Blues (1973)
135. Merry Airbrakes – Happy Song for Hanoi (1973)
136. Merry Airbrakes – Quang Tricity (1973)
137. Dick Jonas – Two Sides of Dick Jonas (album) (1973)
138. Dick Jonas – God Bless the Gun Plumber (1973)
139. Dick Jonas – Pull the Boom From the Gashole (1973)
140. Dick Jonas – Thanh Hoa Bridge (1973)
141. Dick Jonas – Wrench Bender's Revolt (1973)
142. All of the Above – The War Is Over (1973)
143. El Gusano – Pleiku (1975)
144. Barry Sadler – Bless Them All (Mono) (1975)
145. Barry Sadler – Bless Them All (Stereo) (1975)
146. James Bruce Joseph Sievers – An American in Love With His Country (1981)
147. Michael J. Martin & Tim Holiday – Who Are the Names on the Wall (1982)
148. Michael J. Martin & Tim Holiday – I Ain't Here Alone (1982)
149. The Vettz – Wall (1982)
150. Festival – Wall (1982)
151. Festival – Still in Saigon (1982)
152. The Red Rippers – Over There...and Over Here (album) (1983)
153. The Red Rippers – Dark and Bloody Road (1983)
154. The Red Rippers – Over the Edge (1983)
155. The Red Rippers – Soldier of Fortune (1983)
156. The Red Rippers – Vietnam Blues (1983)
157. The Red Rippers – Who Remembers (1983)
158. The Red Rippers – Firefight (1983)
159. The Red Rippers – I Roll (1983)
160. The Red Rippers – She's Been Down (1983)
161. Vietnam Veteran Artists – 58000+ (1984)
162. Vietnam Veteran Artists – Saigon Children (1984)
163. Stev Mantiev – Brian (1985)
164. Stev Mantiev – Home to Stay (1985)
165. Stev Mantiev – Hot L.Z. (Thorazine Shuffle) (1985)
166. Stev Mantiev – Lonesome Road (1985)
167. Stev Mantiev – Ode to Roy Kenny (1985)
168. Stev Mantiev – P.O.W. (1985)
169. Stev Mantiev – Pretty Place (1985)
170. Stev Mantiev – Prisoner Blues (1985)
171. Stev Mantiev – Sunrise (Intro to Nam) (1985)
172. Stev Mantiev – Survival (1985)
173. Jim Walktendonk – Incoming (1985)
174. Mitch Gonzalez – This Song - Us for the Vets (1985)
175. John Steer – The Wall (1986)
176. John Steer – God Bless the USA (1986)
177. John Steer – Why Is Johnny Crazy (1986)
178. John Steer – Wounded Soldier (1986)
179. John Steer – You've Never Given Up (1986)
180. Bill McKenna – Vietnam: Still Part of Who I Am (1986)
181. Bill McKenna – Jake's Song (1986)
182. Bill McKenna – Billy's Friend (1986)
183. Bill McKenna – Flashback (1986)
184. Bill McKenna – Khong biet, America (1986)
185. Bill McKenna – R & R Woman (1986)
186. Bill McKenna – The Veteran (1986)
187. Bill McKenna – Vietnam Memories (1986)
188. Sam Jacobs – Requiem in Black Stone (1986)
189. Sam Jacobs – Behind the Bamboo Tears (1986)
190. 1st Lt. Bobby Ross – Finally Welcomed Home (1987)
191. 1st Lt. Bobby Ross – Goodbye to West Virginia (1987)
192. Rick Duvall – Tribute to Brian Willson (1987)
193. Bobby Ross – Voice of America (album) (1988)
194. Bobby Ross – Home of Billy D (1988)
195. Bobby Ross – Me and Oscar (1988)
196. Bobby Ross – No Home for the Brave (In the Land of the Free) (1988)
197. Bobby Ross – Saigon State of Mind (1988)
198. Bobby Ross – The Reunion (1988)
199. Bobby Ross – Too Close to the Line (1988)
200. Remember When – Long Black Wall (1989)
201. The Vettz – God Bless America Tonight (1989)
202. Jeffrey D's – Veteran's Song (Welcome Home) (1989)
203. Jim Walktendonk – Cold Knuckle Sandwich (1990)
204. The Vettz – American Heroes (1990)
205. Pat Murphy – Prisoner of War (1990)
206. Sarge Lintecum – Reunion at the Wall (1991)
207. Sarge Lintecum – The Vietnam Blues (1991)
208. Sarge Lintecum – Blue Monsoon (1991)
209. Sarge Lintecum – Combat Fatigue (1991)
210. Sarge Lintecum – Five Down (1991)
211. Sarge Lintecum – Into the Fire From the Fryin' Pan (1991)
212. Sarge Lintecum – It Don't Mean Nothing (1991)
213. Sarge Lintecum – Oh Shit (1991)
214. Sarge Lintecum – Saturday Morning Cartoons (1991)
215. Sarge Lintecum – Sister Soldier (1991)
216. Sarge Lintecum – This Shirt of Mine (1991)
217. Sarge Lintecum – Time Bomb in My Mind (1991)
218. Sarge Lintecum – Veteran's Wife (1991)
219. Sarge Lintecum – Welcome Home (1991)
220. John Black – The Women on the Wall (1991)
221. John Black – Oh Mr. War Memorial (1991)
222. John Black – Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh (1991)
223. John Black – I Want to Be Free (1991)
224. John Black – I'm Home (1991)
225. John Black – Ricky I'm Right Behind You (1991)
226. John Black – Saigon Girl (1991)
227. John Black – Vietnam Farewell (1991)
228. John Black – Vietnam Farewell (Reprise) (1991)
229. John Black – Vietnam I'm Dreamin' Dreamin' On (1991)
230. John Black – We Don't Have to Worry Anymore (1991)
231. John Black – Who Did I Leave Behind (1991)
232. Various Artists – In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War (1991)
233. 1st Lt. Bobby Ross – G.I. Loan (1991)
234. 1st Lt. Bobby Ross – Daddy's Reds Ribbons (1991)
235. Michael McCann – The Wall (1996)
236. Jim Hatch – Touch a Name on the Wall (1996)
237. Jim Walktendonk – Edges (1997)
238. Larry Barkemeyer – 20 Years of Tears (1997)
239. Lonnie Chance – The Jungleman (2000)
240. Jimmy Logston – Reunion of Life (2000)
241. Billy Bang – Vietnam: The Aftermath (2001)
242. Various Artists – FAC Songs From SEA (2001)
243. Ole 1/27 Grunts – It's Just a Nam Thing (2001)
244. Jim Cook & Taylor McKinnon – The Victors (2002)
245. John Black – Meet Me in Vietnam (2003)
246. Billy Bang – Vietn★m: Reflections (2005)
247. Toby Hughes – Fast and Low (2005)
248. Phil Ferrazano – Vietnam Remembered: Songs From the Heart (2006)
249. The High Priced Help – Songs by Army Aviators (2007)
250. Marc Waszkiewicz & Lea Jones – Selector Switch On (Rock & Roll) (2007)
251. Sugar Blue – Stop the War (2010)
252. Various Artists – ...Next Stop Is Vietnam (The War on Record: 1961-2008) (2010)
253. Sid Orr – As Long as That Black Granite Stands (2013)
254. Sid Orr – Go Ugly Early (2013)
255. Sid Orr – He Can't Go Back Home (From Vietnam) (2013)
256. Sid Orr – It's A Good Place To Go (When You're Just Getting In) (2013)
257. Sid Orr – Leave The Light On A Little Longer (2013)
258. Sid Orr – MIA Song I'll Be Right Back (2013)
259. Sid Orr – Powder Blue (2013)
260. Sid Orr – Squeeze Me Like A Claymore (2013)
261. Sid Orr – The Sound Of Angel's Wings (2013)
262. Sid Orr – You Killed Our Rhododendrons (2013)
263. Sid Orr – You've Got Thirty Days (2013)
264. Ted Studebaker – Ted Studebaker in Vietnam - Life Is Good Yea! (album)
265. Ted Studebaker – Howard Royer and Ted [1]
266. Ted Studebaker – Howard Royer and Ted [2]
267. Ted Studebaker – Howard Royer and Ted [3]
268. Ted Studebaker – Howard Royer and Ted [4]
269. Ted Studebaker – I Love the Mountains
270. Ted Studebaker – Koho Congregational Singing
271. Ted Studebaker – Kum Ba Yah
272. Ted Studebaker – Silent Night (With A. Nam)
273. Ted Studebaker – Study War No More
274. Ted Studebaker – Ted [1]
275. Ted Studebaker – Ted [2]
276. Ted Studebaker – Ted [3]
277. Ted Studebaker – Vietnamese Song (With A. Nam)
278. Ted Studebaker – Vietnamese Song No. 2
279. Ted Studebaker – Vietnamese Song No. 3
280. Ted Studebaker – Vietnamese Song No. 4
281. Ted Studebaker – Wedding Music
282. Jerry Hayes – Seven Lonely Years
283. Jerry Hayes – Thanks to Them
284. Jerry Hayes – Wanted Man
285. Jerry Hayes – Ballad of Barney
286. Jerry Hayes – Diary of Private Jones
287. Jerry Hayes – I Can Still Remember
288. Jerry Hayes – I Praise the Vet
289. Jerry Hayes – Johnny's Going Home
290. Jerry Hayes – One Last Memory
291. Jerry Hayes – Thoughts of Home
292. Ron Comp – Kiss Those Shores Again for Me
293. Ron Comp – Battle Hymn of the Republic
294. Sgt. F. Murphy & The Squad – Legend of the 173rd
295. Pfc. Dale S. McWright – My Brother
296. Pfc. Dale S. McWright – The Marine Hymn
297. Lester Hakey – Today's Soldier
298. Sgt. Jim Euel – Purple Heart
299. Sgt. Jim Euel – Choy Hoy
300. Viet Nam Vets Band – No More Viet Nams
301. Viet Nam Vets Band – No Use Pretending No More