The Ballad of the Green Berets
1966 · Cadet 5532 · Chicago, Illinois
- Artist
- Alan Moorhouse Orchestra
- Title
- The Ballad of the Green Berets
- Release
- The Ballad of the Green Berets / London Bridge
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Cadet # 5532
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Instrumental
- Country
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Songwriter
- Barry Sadler, Robin Moore
- Genre
- Fanfare · Fanfare
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Notes
Broadway musical Cadet 5532, D J copy, blue label, "Mfg. by Chess Producing Corp., Chicago, IL 60616"; "The Ballad of the Green Berets" (Barry Sadler & Robin Moore), Music, Music, Music, ASCAP, time 2:36, matrix 14555; "A Pye Production". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Studio orchestra of British composer-conductor Alan Moorhouse, a Joe Loss Orchestra alumnus, prolific KPM library-music composer and co-writer of Lulu's 1969 Eurovision winner 'Boom Bang-A-Bang'; their instrumental 'The Ballad of the Green Berets' was a KPM production issued on Pye and licensed internationally c. 1966. [Source: Discogs]
Themes
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]