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Artist Bobby Ross
Release Voice of America
Year 1988
Label Constellation # VOA-1
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 7 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Bobby Ross, Voice of America; cite each song by its SongID

Voice of America

1988 · Album · Constellation # VOA-1 · USA
7 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: Military, Vet, PTSD, Mistreatment of Vet.
Notes
All songs on the album - need to catalog.
Collections
Songs from this release appear in these 2 curated collections.
The songs
1.
1988 · Album · Constellation # VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee · Voice of America

Constellation, ℗ and © 1988 Constellation, 4741 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37220. The front cover shows Bobby Ross in a cowboy hat beside the bronze figures of a soldiers' memorial; the back shows the inscription of the Vietnam Veterans Park memorial ("From 1961 to 1975, more than 49,000 Tennesseans served in Southeast Asia…") and a "Seal / LRRP / Big Red One" triangle emblem. Credits: Don Hoffman, executive producer; Bobby Ross, producer and lead vocals; Mike Stidolph and Dick Bradley, associate producers; musicians include Eddie Bayers and Michael Young (drums), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin, mandola), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica), Reggie Young and Brent Rowan (guitars), Willie Rainsford (piano); background vocals include Stella Parton (courtesy of Airborne Records); photographer Mike Allen; engineer Jeff West. Ross dedicates his performance to "the men of the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, 1968, in I corps, South Vietnam", and the Nashville firms who helped make the album say to all Vietnam vets "At last, Welcome Home and God Bless". The lyric insert prints full lyrics with writer credits: Finally Welcomed Home (Don Hoffman, Judi Hoffman, Jeff Raymond), Back to Blue Jeans Again, Saigon State of Mind, Goodbye to West Virginia, The Reunion and The Voice of America (George Jeffrey), Too Close to the Line and The Home of Billy D. (George Jeffrey & Rick Cooper), Me and Oscar (Robert T. Alsterberg/Richard Helm), No Home for the Brave (In the Land of the Free) (George Jeffrey & Mel Besher); copyrights 1987, Too Close to the Line 1988. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Genre: ♪ Country
2.
1988 · Album · Constellation # VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee · Voice of America

Constellation, ℗ and © 1988 Constellation, 4741 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37220. The front cover shows Bobby Ross in a cowboy hat beside the bronze figures of a soldiers' memorial; the back shows the inscription of the Vietnam Veterans Park memorial ("From 1961 to 1975, more than 49,000 Tennesseans served in Southeast Asia…") and a "Seal / LRRP / Big Red One" triangle emblem. Credits: Don Hoffman, executive producer; Bobby Ross, producer and lead vocals; Mike Stidolph and Dick Bradley, associate producers; musicians include Eddie Bayers and Michael Young (drums), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin, mandola), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica), Reggie Young and Brent Rowan (guitars), Willie Rainsford (piano); background vocals include Stella Parton (courtesy of Airborne Records); photographer Mike Allen; engineer Jeff West. Ross dedicates his performance to "the men of the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, 1968, in I corps, South Vietnam", and the Nashville firms who helped make the album say to all Vietnam vets "At last, Welcome Home and God Bless". The lyric insert prints full lyrics with writer credits: Finally Welcomed Home (Don Hoffman, Judi Hoffman, Jeff Raymond), Back to Blue Jeans Again, Saigon State of Mind, Goodbye to West Virginia, The Reunion and The Voice of America (George Jeffrey), Too Close to the Line and The Home of Billy D. (George Jeffrey & Rick Cooper), Me and Oscar (Robert T. Alsterberg/Richard Helm), No Home for the Brave (In the Land of the Free) (George Jeffrey & Mel Besher); copyrights 1987, Too Close to the Line 1988. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Genre: ♪ Country
3.
1988 · Album · Constellation # VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee · Voice of America

Constellation, ℗ and © 1988 Constellation, 4741 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37220. The front cover shows Bobby Ross in a cowboy hat beside the bronze figures of a soldiers' memorial; the back shows the inscription of the Vietnam Veterans Park memorial ("From 1961 to 1975, more than 49,000 Tennesseans served in Southeast Asia…") and a "Seal / LRRP / Big Red One" triangle emblem. Credits: Don Hoffman, executive producer; Bobby Ross, producer and lead vocals; Mike Stidolph and Dick Bradley, associate producers; musicians include Eddie Bayers and Michael Young (drums), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin, mandola), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica), Reggie Young and Brent Rowan (guitars), Willie Rainsford (piano); background vocals include Stella Parton (courtesy of Airborne Records); photographer Mike Allen; engineer Jeff West. Ross dedicates his performance to "the men of the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, 1968, in I corps, South Vietnam", and the Nashville firms who helped make the album say to all Vietnam vets "At last, Welcome Home and God Bless". The lyric insert prints full lyrics with writer credits: Finally Welcomed Home (Don Hoffman, Judi Hoffman, Jeff Raymond), Back to Blue Jeans Again, Saigon State of Mind, Goodbye to West Virginia, The Reunion and The Voice of America (George Jeffrey), Too Close to the Line and The Home of Billy D. (George Jeffrey & Rick Cooper), Me and Oscar (Robert T. Alsterberg/Richard Helm), No Home for the Brave (In the Land of the Free) (George Jeffrey & Mel Besher); copyrights 1987, Too Close to the Line 1988. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Genre: ♪ Country
4.
1988 · Album · Constellation # VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee · Voice of America

Constellation, ℗ and © 1988 Constellation, 4741 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37220. The front cover shows Bobby Ross in a cowboy hat beside the bronze figures of a soldiers' memorial; the back shows the inscription of the Vietnam Veterans Park memorial ("From 1961 to 1975, more than 49,000 Tennesseans served in Southeast Asia…") and a "Seal / LRRP / Big Red One" triangle emblem. Credits: Don Hoffman, executive producer; Bobby Ross, producer and lead vocals; Mike Stidolph and Dick Bradley, associate producers; musicians include Eddie Bayers and Michael Young (drums), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin, mandola), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica), Reggie Young and Brent Rowan (guitars), Willie Rainsford (piano); background vocals include Stella Parton (courtesy of Airborne Records); photographer Mike Allen; engineer Jeff West. Ross dedicates his performance to "the men of the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, 1968, in I corps, South Vietnam", and the Nashville firms who helped make the album say to all Vietnam vets "At last, Welcome Home and God Bless". The lyric insert prints full lyrics with writer credits: Finally Welcomed Home (Don Hoffman, Judi Hoffman, Jeff Raymond), Back to Blue Jeans Again, Saigon State of Mind, Goodbye to West Virginia, The Reunion and The Voice of America (George Jeffrey), Too Close to the Line and The Home of Billy D. (George Jeffrey & Rick Cooper), Me and Oscar (Robert T. Alsterberg/Richard Helm), No Home for the Brave (In the Land of the Free) (George Jeffrey & Mel Besher); copyrights 1987, Too Close to the Line 1988. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Genre: ♪ Country
5.
1988 · Album · Constellation # VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee · Voice of America

Constellation, ℗ and © 1988 Constellation, 4741 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37220. The front cover shows Bobby Ross in a cowboy hat beside the bronze figures of a soldiers' memorial; the back shows the inscription of the Vietnam Veterans Park memorial ("From 1961 to 1975, more than 49,000 Tennesseans served in Southeast Asia…") and a "Seal / LRRP / Big Red One" triangle emblem. Credits: Don Hoffman, executive producer; Bobby Ross, producer and lead vocals; Mike Stidolph and Dick Bradley, associate producers; musicians include Eddie Bayers and Michael Young (drums), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin, mandola), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica), Reggie Young and Brent Rowan (guitars), Willie Rainsford (piano); background vocals include Stella Parton (courtesy of Airborne Records); photographer Mike Allen; engineer Jeff West. Ross dedicates his performance to "the men of the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, 1968, in I corps, South Vietnam", and the Nashville firms who helped make the album say to all Vietnam vets "At last, Welcome Home and God Bless". The lyric insert prints full lyrics with writer credits: Finally Welcomed Home (Don Hoffman, Judi Hoffman, Jeff Raymond), Back to Blue Jeans Again, Saigon State of Mind, Goodbye to West Virginia, The Reunion and The Voice of America (George Jeffrey), Too Close to the Line and The Home of Billy D. (George Jeffrey & Rick Cooper), Me and Oscar (Robert T. Alsterberg/Richard Helm), No Home for the Brave (In the Land of the Free) (George Jeffrey & Mel Besher); copyrights 1987, Too Close to the Line 1988. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Genre: ♪ Country
6.
1988 · Album · Constellation # VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee · Voice of America

Constellation, ℗ and © 1988 Constellation, 4741 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37220. The front cover shows Bobby Ross in a cowboy hat beside the bronze figures of a soldiers' memorial; the back shows the inscription of the Vietnam Veterans Park memorial ("From 1961 to 1975, more than 49,000 Tennesseans served in Southeast Asia…") and a "Seal / LRRP / Big Red One" triangle emblem. Credits: Don Hoffman, executive producer; Bobby Ross, producer and lead vocals; Mike Stidolph and Dick Bradley, associate producers; musicians include Eddie Bayers and Michael Young (drums), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin, mandola), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica), Reggie Young and Brent Rowan (guitars), Willie Rainsford (piano); background vocals include Stella Parton (courtesy of Airborne Records); photographer Mike Allen; engineer Jeff West. Ross dedicates his performance to "the men of the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, 1968, in I corps, South Vietnam", and the Nashville firms who helped make the album say to all Vietnam vets "At last, Welcome Home and God Bless". The lyric insert prints full lyrics with writer credits: Finally Welcomed Home (Don Hoffman, Judi Hoffman, Jeff Raymond), Back to Blue Jeans Again, Saigon State of Mind, Goodbye to West Virginia, The Reunion and The Voice of America (George Jeffrey), Too Close to the Line and The Home of Billy D. (George Jeffrey & Rick Cooper), Me and Oscar (Robert T. Alsterberg/Richard Helm), No Home for the Brave (In the Land of the Free) (George Jeffrey & Mel Besher); copyrights 1987, Too Close to the Line 1988. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Genre: ♪ Country
7.
1988 · Album · Constellation # VOA-1 · Nashville, Tennessee · Voice of America

Constellation, ℗ and © 1988 Constellation, 4741 Trousdale Drive, Nashville, TN 37220. The front cover shows Bobby Ross in a cowboy hat beside the bronze figures of a soldiers' memorial; the back shows the inscription of the Vietnam Veterans Park memorial ("From 1961 to 1975, more than 49,000 Tennesseans served in Southeast Asia…") and a "Seal / LRRP / Big Red One" triangle emblem. Credits: Don Hoffman, executive producer; Bobby Ross, producer and lead vocals; Mike Stidolph and Dick Bradley, associate producers; musicians include Eddie Bayers and Michael Young (drums), Mark O'Connor (fiddle, mandolin, mandola), Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro), Bela Fleck (banjo), Terry Lee McMillan (harmonica), Reggie Young and Brent Rowan (guitars), Willie Rainsford (piano); background vocals include Stella Parton (courtesy of Airborne Records); photographer Mike Allen; engineer Jeff West. Ross dedicates his performance to "the men of the Air-O-Rifle Platoon, 2/17 Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division, 1968, in I corps, South Vietnam", and the Nashville firms who helped make the album say to all Vietnam vets "At last, Welcome Home and God Bless". The lyric insert prints full lyrics with writer credits: Finally Welcomed Home (Don Hoffman, Judi Hoffman, Jeff Raymond), Back to Blue Jeans Again, Saigon State of Mind, Goodbye to West Virginia, The Reunion and The Voice of America (George Jeffrey), Too Close to the Line and The Home of Billy D. (George Jeffrey & Rick Cooper), Me and Oscar (Robert T. Alsterberg/Richard Helm), No Home for the Brave (In the Land of the Free) (George Jeffrey & Mel Besher); copyrights 1987, Too Close to the Line 1988. [From the record sleeve and labels]

Genre: ♪ Country