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Release The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh: Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom
Year 1976
Label Paredon # P-1033
Format LP · Compilation
Country USA
Language English, Spanish
Songs here 24 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Various Artists, The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh: Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom; cite each song by its SongID

The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh: Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom

1976 · Compilation · Paredon # P-1033 · USA
24 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: Vietnamese Perspective, Vietnamese Patriotic, Ho Chi Minh, Communism.
Annotation
A mixture of songs, speeches, and poems about and by Hồ Chí Minh, the Vietnamese revolutionary leader. He died in 1969, a few years before the release of this record in 1976 - one year after the collapse of South Vietnam and the reunification of the country, a key objective of Ho Chi Minh. Paredon Records issued the LP (P-1033), aimed at the US music market.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collection
Songs from this release appear in this curated collection.
The songs
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1976 · Compilation · Paredon # P-1033 · New York City, New York · The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh: Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom

Paredon P-1033, © 1976 Paredon Records, Box 889, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202; the sleeve front carries a drawing of Ho Chi Minh's profile and describes the record as speeches, writings and poems of the leader of the Vietnamese Revolution read in English by Vu Thien Dinh, the actual voice of Ho Chi Minh addressing the American people in English, and music of the Vietnamese people and songs to the memory of Ho Chi Minh sung by Barbara Dane, Chris Iijima, Pablo Milanés and others. The 16-page booklet (printed by Faculty Press, Brooklyn) lists Side 1, Band 1 as "Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" (Sept. 2, 1945), 4:45, read over "Hymn to the Leader" played by the Orchestra of the Voice of Vietnam and "The March of Liberation" sung by Vietnamese students, and prints the text of the declaration. In "How Did This Record Come to Be?" executive producer Barbara Dane credits the editing of Ho's speeches and poetry to Matthew West, music selection to herself, Neal Conan, Matthew West and Vu Thien Dinh, production of the tape to Neal Conan and Barbara Dane, engineering to Jonathan Thayer and C. Pitts, the cover drawing to Cuban artist Pablo Labañino, layout to Ronald Clyne and booklet layout to Arbolito, and says the record was made for the Thirty-first Anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence of Vietnam, September 2, 1945 to September 2, 1976. The booklet also carries an essay by Irwin Silber (Executive Editor of the Guardian), "Was Ho Chi Minh a 'revolutionary nationalist' or was he a communist?", texts of the speeches and poems on the other bands, lyrics of "The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh" (Ewan MacColl, sung by Barbara Dane), "We Will Liberate the South" and Pablo Milanés' "Su Nombre, Ho Chi Minh", a cartoon drawn by Ho Chi Minh for "Le Paria", photographs, a reading list and addresses of the Association of Vietnamese Patriots in the U.S. [From the record sleeve and labels]