Goodbye Viet Nam
1965 · Gold Standard GS-283 · USA
- Artist
- Jimmy Hydrick
- Title
- Goodbye Viet Nam
- Release
- Goodbye Viet Nam / Just Let Me Know
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- Gold Standard # GS-283
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Country song "Goodbye Viet Nam" (Gold Standard Records # GS-283) by Jimmy Hydrick is about the plight of a soldier - returning home from Vietnam where he has "had all I can take", to California, where "we'll gonna be so happy...I gonna really spread my wings", and therefore a song reflecting on a soldier finishing his stint in Vietnam and looking forward to embracing life back home.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Jimmy Hydrick was an American country singer and songwriter active as a recording artist from at least 1968 to 1974, cutting a run of singles for the Nashville label Gold Standard and later for Universal Records HVH Inc.; several of his sides were written or co-written by Mary Lee, identified on Discogs as the songwriter Mary Hydrick and described there as his wife, and his 1974 single was mastered at Nashville Record Productions under the production of Kelso Herston. "Goodbye Viet Nam", which he wrote himself, was issued on Gold Standard GS-283 in 1968, backed with 'Just Let Me Know'; Gold…