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Release Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!
Year 1975
Label Befria # BS-7
Format 7" · EP
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Songs here 3 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Various Artists, Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!; cite each song by its SongID

Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!

1975 · EP · Befria # BS-7 · Sweden
3 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: Anti-War, NLF, Saigon.
Annotation
Notes
Swedish. Anti-war. Post-war.1
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 2 curated collections.
The songs
1.
1975 · EP · Befria # BS-7 · Stockholm, Sweden · Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!

Track A2 of Befria Södern BS 7 "Vietnam Kambodja Befriade!", recorded live at the Vietnam victory celebration in Stockholm on 3 May 1975 and sung by Fria Proteatern; label credit "(S. Ringbom – C. Palmaer)". The ballad follows Rune Henry Johansson, a Rågsved worker who in 1965 cursed an FNL demonstrator ("what the hell is FNL?"), was slowly won over — the Saigon police chief shooting a prisoner on television, the bombing of the dykes and mining of Haiphong — put a coin in the collection box every Saturday, and on 1 May 1975 bought a quarter-bottle and marched with the others: "Han var med och tog Saigon". [From the record sleeve and labels]

2.
1975 · EP · Befria # BS-7 · Sweden · Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!

Befria Södern BS 7 (DFFG 1975), 45 rpm stereo, red labels; picture sleeve "Vietnam Kambodja Befriade!" (yellow, with photographs of Vietnamese children) and a four-page lyric-and-chord insert ("Texter, ackord"). The sleeve states that "Vietnam är befriat" and "Kambodja är befriat" were made and recorded in May 1975 by students of the music-teacher college SÄMUS in Göteborg, and that "Balladen om Rune Henry Johansson" was recorded at the Vietnam victory celebration in Stockholm on 3 May 1975, where 4,000 friends of Vietnam cheered as Fria Proteatern sang the ballad, written the day after Vietnam's liberation. Issued 1975 by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Fack, 104 32 Stockholm 19. Back sleeve carries the poem "Leve segern!" by Sven Hedman (May 1975) on the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon. [From the record sleeve and labels] Insert: "Sven Hedman, maj -75", song in three parts (A/B/C) with chords.

3.
1975 · EP · Befria # BS-7 · Sweden · Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!

Befria Södern BS 7 (DFFG 1975), 45 rpm stereo, red labels; picture sleeve "Vietnam Kambodja Befriade!" (yellow, with photographs of Vietnamese children) and a four-page lyric-and-chord insert ("Texter, ackord"). The sleeve states that "Vietnam är befriat" and "Kambodja är befriat" were made and recorded in May 1975 by students of the music-teacher college SÄMUS in Göteborg, and that "Balladen om Rune Henry Johansson" was recorded at the Vietnam victory celebration in Stockholm on 3 May 1975, where 4,000 friends of Vietnam cheered as Fria Proteatern sang the ballad, written the day after Vietnam's liberation. Issued 1975 by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Fack, 104 32 Stockholm 19. Back sleeve carries the poem "Leve segern!" by Sven Hedman (May 1975) on the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon. [From the record sleeve and labels] Label credits the song to "Stefan Ydefelt"; the insert gives "Stefan Yderfelt, maj -75".