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 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]

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]

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]

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]