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Artist Dick Jonas
Release FSH Volume II - YGBSM
Year 1971
Label Goldust # LPS-157
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 12 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Dick Jonas, FSH Volume II - YGBSM; cite each song by its SongID

FSH Volume II - YGBSM

1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · USA
12 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Patriotic, Military, Ho Chi Minh, WW2, Korea.
Annotation
The second of three album released by Dick Jonas during the Vietnam War era - from Florida, USA, he served in the US Air Force during the war, taking part in 125 missions.1 While in Vietnam, Jonas wrote songs and played guitar for the US troops there and as part of pacification programs. Some of these recordings were captured in the General Edwin Lansdale Collection of Vietnam War Songs - 6 ten inch tapes of one-hundred-sixty songs by American military personnel in Vietnam - stored at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center.23

This album FSH Volume II - "YGBSM" (Goldust Records # LPS157) was recorded in 1971, shortly after his first album FSH Volume I (Goldust Records # LPS156), recorded in 1969 - a collection of contemporary folk songs, influenced by the US folk revival of the 1960s, as well as including some country music influences.4 He also recorded during the Vietnam War years the 1973 album Two Sides of Dick Jonas (Goldust Records # LPS-162). He featured 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 The song "Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats" , featured on the 1971 album, paid tribute to the US pilots in Vietnam. This included a line about the prisoners of war (P.O.W.s): "look around, there are a few empty chairs...some fight on from a cell" .
Sources
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
The songs
1.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

2.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

3.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

4.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

5.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

6.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

7.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

8.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

9.
Credited as Dick Jonas and Charlotte · 1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

10.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

11.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]

12.
1971 · Album · Goldust # LPS-157 · Las Cruces, New Mexico · FSH Volume II - YGBSM

Goldust LPS-157 (LPS157 on the sleeve), stereo, 33⅓ RPM; front cover titled "FSH Volume II 'YGBSM'" with an engraved eagle clutching a stars-and-stripes shield against a blue panel and a Liberty Bell device. All selections written by Richard E. Jonas and published by Enchantment Music Company, BMI; each song is credited (Jonas) BMI on the labels. Musicians: Dick Jonas, guitar; Calvin Turbeville, steel guitar and banjo; Vic Gomez, drums; Emmit Brooks, bass; recorded at Emmit Brooks Recording Studio, Mesilla Park, New Mexico, engineer Emmit Brooks; Goldust Records Company, P.O. Box 998, Mesilla Park, New Mexico 88047. The back carries a photograph captioned "Dick Jonas, Fighter Pilot", showing him in flight suit in front of an F-4 Phantom nose, and a sleeve essay that opens "A fighter pilot is a lot like a little boy" and explains the pilot's motivation through his faith in America, his oath to defend the Constitution, his presidential commission and the code of the American fighting man ("I am prepared to give my life in their defense"). "Sea Island R & R" is marked as a duet by Dick Jonas and his wife, Charlotte. Side 1: Battle Hymn of the Red River Rats 2:47, Wolf Pack's Houseboy 3:02, Blue Four 2:33, Pine Cones and Oak Leaves 2:00, Normandy's Sand 2:28, Homeward Bound 2:01; Side 2: Sea Island R & R 1:56, Old Weird Harold 3:10, Uncle's Nephews 2:04, I 'Druther Be an F-4 Jock 1:24, Short-Timing Sailor Boy 2:07, Love Angel 3:33. [From the record sleeve and labels]