Artist Various Artists

Release These Colors Won't Run: A Veteran Tribute

Year 1996

Label TCWR Records # 53787

Format CD · Compilation

Country USA

Language English

Songs here 2 in the archive

1996 · Compilation · TCWR Records # 53787 · USA

1990s patriotic compilation, with an impressive line-up of artists, including Bobby Bare and B. J. Thomas, in the country music genre, promoted as a tribute to veterans, and thus all the songs deal with war. Two are focused on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in DC. Released on TCWR Records (# 53787), from Dallas, Texas, USA. The song "Chiseled in the Wall" is by Moe Bandy, born 12 February 1944, Meridian, Mississippi, USA, and currently Branson, Missouri, USA. Narrator in the first person, he recalled that he was 18 in 1965, "sent away to the closest thing to hell". The narrator remembered the ones left behind, killed in action, and now on the memorial wall.

The song "Beyond the Wall" by well-known country artist Charley Pride, born 18 March 1934 in Sledge, Mississippi, USA, and currently based in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is one of the very few African-Americans to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. He had a hugely successful career, with 52 top-10 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 30 of which made it to number one, becoming the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley.¹ The song noted that there is "a story for every name written on that wall", and referred to the "special things" that visitors leave: such as a "ragged teddy bear" - a child's favourite toy, given to them by their father, killed in action?

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