Bumper Crop of Victories (Vui Mùa Chiến Thắng)
1966 · Dihavina 6601 · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Quy Duong & Hoang Manh
- Title
- Bumper Crop of Victories (Vui Mùa Chiến Thắng)
- Release
- Quang Binh, Oh My Homeland (Quảng Bình Quê Ta Ơi)
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Dihavina # 6601
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Annotation — North Vietnamese Songs
As above, released on the Dihavina record label (# 6601), originally the state label of North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) before reunification in 1975, included the track "Quảng Bình quê ta oi ("Quang Binh, O My Homeland!") and the song "Sẵn sàng chiến đấu" ("Ready for Fighting"). The song "Vui mùa chiến thắng" ("A Bumper Crop for Victories") focussed on the importance of farming and maintaining a food supply for the population and soldiers - noting "rice fields filled with ripen grain... grow the rice, corns and potatoes", in which the soldier accepts "with gratitude", in order "to nourish us" and "to go and kill the enemy". It took a positive note on the outcome of the war: "hero's feet tread on the enemy... we are coming home in victory".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Quy Duong (Pham Quy Duong, 1937-2011), born in Hai Duong, was a leading Vietnamese classical baritone - chosen to sing the lead baritone role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the Hanoi Opera House in 1960, making him Vietnam's first opera singer; he later taught voice at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and was one of the celebrated "3C Trio" of Vietnamese vocalists; he died 28 June 2011. His partner on this record, credited Hoang Manh, is likely a Voice of Vietnam-era accompanist-pianist but could not be independently documented. The release is consistent with the North Vietnamese…