First Cav
1991 · Flying Fish FF 70552 · USA
- Artist
- Bill Ellis
- Title
- First Cav
- Release
- In Country: Folk Songs Of Americans In The Vietnam War
- Year
- 1991
- Label
- Flying Fish # FF 70552
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Folk · Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
About the artist
American singer-guitarist and Vietnam veteran. Drafted out of a rock band in San Francisco in 1968; became known as the 'singing rifleman' of the First Cavalry Division (A Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry). Reassigned to Special Services in March 1969, he toured fire support bases performing for the troops; the division's Public Information Office pressed 30,000 records of his songs, including 'First Cav'. Performer on 'In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War' (Flying Fish, 1991). [Source: In Country liner notes]