Avec Toi, Vietnam
Selection S 5062 · Schaerbeek, Belgium
- Artist
- Roger Danels
- Title
- Avec Toi, Vietnam
- Release
- Le longue marche / Avec toi, Vietnam
- Label
- Selection # S 5062
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- French
- Country
- Schaerbeek, Belgium
- Songwriter
- lyrics composed by Guy Decembre, and music by Remy Gillis
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Belgium released protest record, probably late 1960s. The label was based in Schaerbeek, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. The a-side "Le longue marche" is an anti-atomic, Cold War protest song, referencing the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. The b-side was a protest against the Vietnam War, "Avec Toi, Vietnam" ("With You, Vietnam") (Selection Records # S 5062) with lyrics composed by Guy Decembre, and music by Remy Gillis, focused on the horrors of war and its impact on people, "crying, a mother... dying, a child... horror, misery... these waves of blood". Unknown date - probably late 60s-early 70s.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - "Avec Toi Vietnam" (paired with "La Longue Marche") was released as a 7" on Selection Records, Belgium (S 5062). Discogs credits the artist consistently as "Roger Danels", matching the master's spelling - not a variant of "Daniels". No biography was located. [Source: Discogs]