Mustan sotamiehen laulu
1972 · Love LRLP 63 · Helsinki, Finland
- Artist
- Meripioneerit
- Title
- Mustan sotamiehen laulu
- Release
- Vietnamin linnut
- Year
- 1972
- Label
- Love # LRLP 63
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Finnish
- Country
- Helsinki, Finland
- Genre
- Nordic Music · Folk Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — European Songs
Finnish Folk Pop group Meripioneerit, influenced by the Nueva canción latinoamericana movement which developed in Latin America in the 1960s, usually with leftist political and social messages. This group formed and disbanded in 1972, and this was there only record (Love Records # LRLP 63). The title translates as "Vietnamese Birds", with the front cover displaying images of doves. Album arranged and produced by Kaj Chydenius. Songs included "Nukkuvat Vietnamin linnut" ("Sleeping Vietnamese Birds") and "Lähtekää jo, amerikkalaiset" ("Leave Already, Americans"). All songs on the album are Vietnam-related. Track list: A1 Lenin-setä asuu Venäjällä (Uncle Lenin Lives in Russia) A2 Oath (Vala) A3 Sleeping Vietnamese Birds (Nukkuvat Vietnamin linnut) A4 Once Upon a Time a Little Boy (Oli kerran pikkuinen poika) A5 Song of a Black Soldier (Mustan sotamiehen laulu) A6 We Want to Live in This Country (Me haluamme elää tässä maassa) A7 You Ask, Friend, Why (Sinä kysyt, ystävä, miksi) B1 Who Killed Vietnamese Birds? (Kuka murhasi Vietnamin linnut?) B2 The Story of the Little Hero (Tarina pikku sankarista) B3 The Achievements of Western Military Science (Länsimaisen sotatieteen saavutukset)…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Finnish Folk Pop group Meripioneerit, influenced by the Nueva canción latinoamericana movement which developed in Latin America in the 1960s, usually with leftist political and social messages
About the artist
group formed and disbanded in 1976