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Release God Bless the Working Man
Year Unknown
Label Diplomat # DS-2489
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 10 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — The Lonesome Valley Singers, God Bless the Working Man; cite each song by its SongID

God Bless the Working Man

Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA
10 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, Soldier's Perspective, Korea, Silent Majority, Demonstration, Anti-Protest.
Annotation
Another country music, Vietnam related album by the Lonesome Valley Singers - in addition to Hello Vietnam: Country & Western War Songs (1965) and Men in the Green Berets (1966) - all released on the New Jersey based label Diplomat Records - part of the SPC (Synthetic Plastics Company), established in 1920s, a plastics company that produced budget music albums (usually sold for around 99¢).1 This album included the song "P.O.W." (Diplomatic # DS-2489). Narrated from the perspective a P.O.W., held for "three long and lonely years" , he wondered why the war continued. He then went on to call for the indiscriminate bombing of Vietnam, to cause a lot of harm, and thus force the North Vietnamese into surrendering: "why not let the bombs fall where they may and let the enemy know we mean it" .
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
The songs
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Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]

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Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]

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Credited as Glenn Walker and The Lonesome Valley Singers · Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA

Diplomat DS 2489, stereo, magenta labels: "DS 2489 A" Side 1 and "DS 2489 B" Side 2, "S.P.C. Newark, N.J. 07105, Made in U.S.A."; the labels credit "Glenn Walker And The Lonesome Valley Singers", the front cover "The Lonesome Valley Singers". Side A: God Bless the Working Man, The DJ's Reply, P.O.W., Oh Victory, Tell the Folks Back Home; Side B: God Bless the Boys in Uniform, Will We Ever See Peace Again, War-Time Taxes, The Silent Ones, The Politician and the War. The cover photograph shows a young woman in a gold hard hat bearing a U.S. flag decal and a U.S. flag T-shirt, posed in front of a steel-frame building under construction. The back carries a Diplomat Records statement ("fine recordings at a price everyone can afford"), a catalogue list of Diplomat LPs, and "A product of S.P.C., 88 St. Francis St., Newark, N.J."; no writers or times are printed. [From the record sleeve and labels]

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Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]

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Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]

6.
Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]

7.
Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]

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Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]

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Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]

10.
Unknown date · Album · Diplomat # DS-2489 · USA · God Bless the Working Man

Anonymous budget-label studio group that recorded for Diplomat Records; Discogs links the name to aliases including Tex Johnson & His Six Shooters, Billy Bond and The Badmen. [Source: Discogs]