Credited on the record as Buelah Palmer with 3rd Avenue.
My Man in Vietnam
Bem Sole 1005 · Los Angeles, California
- Artist
- Buelah Palmer
- Credited on the record as
- Buelah Palmer with 3rd Avenue
- Title
- My Man in Vietnam
- Release
- My Man in Vietnam / Cried Daddy Daddy
- Label
- Bem Sole # 1005
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Willie Harris
- Genre
- Soul, Gospel & Funk · Soul
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
The song "My Man in Vietnam" (A Bem Sole Record # 1005), by an obscure deep soul/funk singer Beulah Palmer, signed to a Los Angeles, California based record label, asked "Mr. President, Mr. Congressman" to "please stop the war from going on". Her man was in Vietnam, and she wanted him to return to the US safely. She also called for less "hatred and envy" and greater respect for the "races on this earth" - and so another Vietnam / Civil Rights / race relations track in the soul genre. She also warned against those with the "means to destroy the world".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Ooh, take of the boys in Vietnam / Please stop the war from going on / And when you're through, if you have time take care of this love of mine / Take care of the races on this earth / The nightmares they face from day of birth / I think of you all the time / Take care of this love mine / I've seen greed destroy life / And hatred and envy... / They have the means to destroy the world and take away the one I love... / Take care...the poor and the rich people too / And...all mankind... / My man in Vietnam, bring him home / Please, Mr. President, Mr. Congressman
Notes
"A Bem Sole Record", Bem Music Inc., 8900 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles; 1005, Side 2; "My Man in Vietnam" (Willie Harris), Bem Music, BMI, 2:03; Buelah Palmer with 3rd Avenue. Yellow label with drawing of a figure and a shoe sole. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Beulah Palmer was a West Coast-based deep soul singer of the early 1970s with two known singles on the Bem Sole label: 'Show Me Baby' and 'My Man in Vietnam' b/w 'Cried Daddy Daddy' (Bem Sole 1005), the A-side a cry of pain over what her man endures on the battlefield; no real name or dates documented. [Source: Sir Shambling's]
Themes
In collections
Civil Rights Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Soul, Gospel, & Funk Songs