Brevet från Lyndon
1968 · Befria BS-1 · Sweden
- Artist
- Freedom Singers
- Title
- Brevet från Lyndon
- Release
- 68
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Befria # BS-1
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- Genre
- Nordic Music · Progressive Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Swedish. Progressive folk. Anti-war. All 8 songs referenced or focused on Vietnam and American 'imperialism'. (1) Befria Södern (# BS-1) Vi Visste Ingenting (We Did Nothing) Leve Det Vietnamesiska Folkets Befrielsekamp (Long live The Vietnamese People's Liberation Struggle) Brevet Från Lyndon (Letter From Lyndon) McNamara-visan (McNamara-Song) Sången Om Reaktionen (Song About the Reaction) Balladen Om LBJ (Ballad of LBJ) Lilla Fröken An (Little Miss Ancestry) Befria Södern! (Liberate the South)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Collective name for the song choirs of the Swedish FNL movement (FNL-grupperna) in Stockholm and Gothenburg, late 1960s to early 1970s; released albums on the Befria Södern label. Participants included Mia Gerdin, Maria Hörnelius, Marie Selander, Curt-Eric Holmquist and Slim Lidén. Based in Sweden. [Source: Swedish Wikipedia]