Sul fronte del Viet Nam

I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu. Anonymous; Orchestra and Chorus of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Radio Prague recording). The birds sing on the branches a greeting to spring, the flowers and the sun; the workers of national reconstruction are told to honour the fatherland. [From the record sleeve and labels]

I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu. Anonymous; folk group of the DRV (Radio Prague). The homeland of the Meo, the ethnic minority of the southern mountains, which has had its share of sun since Uncle Ho came. [From the record sleeve and labels]

I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu. Anonymous; song of the Rhade minority in a local dialect the editors could not translate precisely — it exalts the national spirit of the Rhade people, which will not stop them fighting with all their brothers for the complete independence of the fatherland. [From the record sleeve and labels]

I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu. Anonymous; Orchestra and Chorus of the DRV (Radio Prague): the government of the democratic republic is among us, the workers' party looks after us; follow Uncle Ho's advice of mutual aid between communes. [From the record sleeve and labels]

I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu. Anonymous; Orchestra and Chorus of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Radio Prague recording). The birds sing on the branches a greeting to spring, the flowers and the sun; the workers of national reconstruction are told to honour the fatherland. [From the record sleeve and labels]

I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu. Anonymous; Orchestra and Chorus of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (Radio Prague recording). The birds sing on the branches a greeting to spring, the flowers and the sun; the workers of national reconstruction are told to honour the fatherland. [From the record sleeve and labels] The sleeve note states that tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings, while the gunfire ("Spari") and track 7, the NLF hymn, are original recordings made by Emilio Sarzi Amadè during his journey in summer 1965. [From the record sleeve and labels]

I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu. Words and music Ivan Della Mea, written in 1965 as a polemic against a line of the Italian left that seemed to the young a retreat; the "front" is the post-war Fronte democratico popolare that united the two workers' parties. [From the record sleeve and labels]

I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu. Fifteen seconds of gunfire recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé in Vietnam, summer 1965, between tracks 1 and 2. [From the record sleeve and labels]