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Release Vietnam Farewell
Year 1991
Label Silver Star # JRB-1240
Format CD · Album
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 12 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — John R. Black, Vietnam Farewell; cite each song by its SongID

Vietnam Farewell

1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA
12 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: Vet, Military, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, Saigon.
Annotation
John R. Black, a Vietnam veteran, currently based in Seattle, Washington, USA, born 26 December 1940. He left for Vietnam in January 1967, his first of two tours, having volunteered to join the service. His father was also in the military, stationed in China before World War Two.1 He released several pop rock Vietnam War-related albums. This one contains two songs about the memorial wall (which also feature on the compilation Meet Me in Vietnam). The first, "The Women on the Wall" , is unique in that it is the only song focused on the eight women inscribed on the wall, all nurses, who died in the Vietnam War - the song actually calls out their names: 1st Lt. Sharon Ann Lane, 2nd Lt. Pamela Dorothy Donovan, Lt. Col. Annie Ruth Graham, Capt. Mary Therese Klinker, 2nd Lt. Carol Ann Elizabeth Drazba, 2nd Lt. Elizabeth Ann Jones, Capt. Eleanor Grace Alexander, 1st Lt. Hedwig Diane Orlowski.The track "Oh Mr. War Memorial" is a fairly standard tribute to those that died in Vietnam and whose names are on the memorial.
Sources
  • 1 meetmeinvietnam.net (link no longer available) ↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 2 curated collections.
The songs
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1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

2.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

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1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

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1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

5.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

6.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

7.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

8.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

9.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

10.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

11.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]

12.
1991 · Album · Silver Star # JRB-1240 · USA · Vietnam Farewell

US Army Vietnam veteran (two tours) and singer-songwriter; his music ranges from 1950s-60s era rock & roll to ballads inspired by his Vietnam service, collected on Vietnam Farewell (1991) and Vietnam Farewell II: I Don't Know Where the Time Has Gone (1999). Born c. 1940 (per his 2020 single I Just Turned 80). [Source: artist website meetmeinvietnam.net; Apple Music discography]