The Last Letter From Heartbreak Viet Nam
Air S-2515 · Miami, Florida
- Artist
- Jan Snyder
- Title
- The Last Letter From Heartbreak Viet Nam
- Release
- Goodbye My Darling / The Last Letter From Heartbreak Viet Nam
- Label
- Air # S-2515
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Miami, Florida, USA
- Songwriter
- James H. Burns
- Genre
- Traditional Pop · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Last Letter From Heartbreak Viet Nam (Snyder, Jan) Song poem, traditional pop. Patriotic, soldier's perspective. Civil right Miami, Florida, USA Soldier writing letter to sweetheart, in North Vietnam for six months. Reading about draft card burners and colored people burning cities - they are wrong Over here they would be shot. Must stop them here (communists?) Need the US flag to wave across the world KIA while writing the letter A-side: Goodbye My Darling - is this about Vietnam??
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Draft Songs
Last Letter From Heartbreak Viet Nam (Snyder, Jan) Song poem, traditional pop. Patriotic, soldier's perspective. Civil right Miami, Florida, USA Soldier writing letter to sweetheart, in North Vietnam for six months. Reading about draft card burners and "colored" people burning cities - they are wrong Over here they would be shot. Must stop them here (communists?) Need the US flag to wave across the world KIA while writing the letter A-side: Goodbye My Darling - is this about Vietnam??
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Last Letter From Heartbreak Viet Nam" - Performed: Jan Snyder - Label: Air Records # S-2515 - Songwriter: James H. Burns - Song poem, traditional pop. Patriotic, soldier's perspective. Civil Rights - Miami, Florida, USA - Soldier writing letter to sweetheart, in North Vietnam for six months. - Reading about draft card burners and "colored people" burning cities - they are wrong - Over here they would be shot. - Must stop them here (anti-communists?) - Need the US flag to wave across the world - K.I.A. while writing the letter - A-side: Goodbye My Darling - is this about Vietnam?? Open ended.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Air Records S-2515-2 (SoN 83932), 45 RPM, red label with radio-tower and AM/FM logo, 3170 S.W. 8th St., Miami, Florida; "The Last Letter From Heartbreak Viet Nam" (James H. Burns), Active (ASCAP), time 1:56; "Vocal—Jan Snyder". [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
Song Poem · Soldier's Perspective · Draft Card Burning · Civil Rights · Demonstration · Patriotic · Domino Theory · Flag · Religion · K.I.A. · Draft
In collections
Civil Rights Songs · Draft Songs · Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]