Ballad of the Green Berets
1968 · Design DLP-250 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Roger Dewey
- Title
- Ballad of the Green Berets
- Release
- Ballad of the Green Berets & Songs of America's Fighting Men
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Design # DLP-250
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Patriotic. Need to catalog songs
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Design Records DLP-250 (labels DLP-250-A Side 1, DLP-250-B Side 2), 33⅓ RPM, Pickwick International, Inc.; orange labels, "Featuring Roger Dewey". The front cover shows a green beret with Special Forces flash and crest, captioned "The green beret of the Special Forces U.S. Army now serving in Vietnam". Side 1: Ballad of the Green Berets, When This Cruel War Is Over, The U.S.A., When Johnny Comes Marching Home, L.B.J. and Liberty; Side 2: The Truth Is Marching On, Fight No More, Over in Vietnam, Ain't Gonna Study War No More, Our Boys Will Shine. No writers or times are printed. The back is a generic Design "Popular Favorites" sleeve, "A product of Pickwick International, Inc., Long Island City, 1, New York", manufactured by Keel Mfg. Corp., Hauppauge, L.I. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Featured vocalist on the budget-label LP Ballad of the Green Berets & Songs of America's Fighting Men (Design Records SDLP-250, 1966), a Pickwick International product (Long Island City, New York). [Source: Discogs; Internet Archive]
Themes
From the release Ballad of the Green Berets & Songs of America's Fighting Men
In collections
US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]