Jonas returned from Vietnam in 1969 and recorded the album FSH Volume I (Goldust Records # LPS156), a collection of contemporary folk songs, influenced by US folksong revival of the 1960s.4 He also recorded during the Vietnam War years the 1971 album FSH Volume II - "YGBSM" (Goldust Records # LPS157) and the 1973 album Two Sides of Dick Jonas (Goldust Records # LPS-162). Included on this 1969 album was the song "Fighter Pilot's Christmas" in which the narrating soldier sent a Christmas message home to his family. A re-recorded version appeared on the 1991 compilation In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War (Flying Fish Records # # FF 70552), part of the Vietnam Veterans Oral History and Folklore Project.5 Also note that on his 1971 album FSH Volume II - "YGBSM", discussed below, he wrote the song "Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats" which referenced P.O.W.s.&
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Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Goldust LPS156 (labels: LPS-156, Side 1 / Side 2), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; Goldust Records, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The front cover shows an engraved eagle over a Stars-and-Stripes shield on a blue panel beside the title "FSH Volume I", with a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Co., BMI; musicians Jake Brooks (drums), Jim Bob Sedgwick (guitar) and Emmit Brooks (bass); recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks. The back carries a photograph of "Capt. Richard Jonas" in flight suit playing guitar beside an aircraft, with a note that he has flown the Phantom II over three continents and flew one hundred combat missions over North Vietnam. A signed dedication by Dick Jonas "To the 433D Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing, United States Air Force" speaks of flying "one hundred times into the enemy's homeland", of being one of Satan's Angels and of the Wolf Pack, and ends "I salute you, brave comrades, and I bid you God Speed." Side 1: Tales That I Can Tell, The Ballad of Robin Olds, Little Town Up North, Son of Satan's Angels, Thud Pilot; Side 2: Yankee Air Pirate, Will There Be a Tomorrow, Banana Valley, The MiG-21, A Fighter Pilot's Christmas. [From the record sleeve and labels]