Por Vietnam

Annotation

The song "Por Vietnam" (Discoteca del Cantar Popular # JJL-01) by Quilapayún, formed in 1965 in Santiago, Chile. Members included Eduardo Carrasco (wind instruments, vocals), Carlos Quezada (percussion, guitar, vocals), Guillermo Oddó (guitar, percussion, vocals), Hernán Gomez (guitar, charango, vocals), Rodolfo Parada (guitar, tiple, tres, cuatro, zampoña, vocals), Hugo Lagos (strings, quena, zampoña, vocals), and Guillermo García (guitar, percussion, vocals). This album denounced the war in Vietnam and then moved onto other political topics, such as the Spanish revolution and the death of Che Guevara. The narrator warned the US to be careful, saying that "the black eagles break their claws against the heroic people in Vietnam" and that "the guerrilla will defeat you". The album was very popular in Chile, and throughout South America, released in many countries, including Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, as well as in Spain and France in Europe. It is considered to be one of the first albums in the Chilean Nueva canción movement.1Sources1Wikipedia: X Vietnam (album)↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation

Various artist compilation released in Italy, with mainly European artists. But it also included Carlos Puebla's "Los Vietnamitas" (written in Italian - "I vietnamiti"), which was a live version of the song "David y Goliath" (also known as "David and Goliath (The Vietnamese Are Small)" which featured on the album Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America and Vietnam canta a Cuba - Cuba canta a Vietnam, discussed on this list. This album also had a version of Quilapayún's "Por Vietnam" (written in Italian as "Per il Vietnam"), originally featured on the 1968 album X Viet-Nam. Released on the record label I Dischi dello Zodiaco (# VPA 8251) from Rozzano, Lombardia, Italy.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music

The song "Por Vietnam" (Discoteca del Cantar Popular # JJL-01) by Quilapayún, formed in 1965 in Santiago, Chile. Members included Eduardo Carrasco (wind instruments, vocals), Carlos Quezada (percussion, guitar, vocals), Guillermo Oddó (guitar, percussion, vocals), Hernán Gomez (guitar, charango, vocals), Rodolfo Parada (guitar, tiple, tres, cuatro, zampoña, vocals), Hugo Lagos (strings, quena, zampoña, vocals), and Guillermo García (guitar, percussion, vocals). This album denounced the war in Vietnam and then moved onto other political topics, such as the Spanish revolution and the death of Che Guevara. The narrator warned the US to be careful, saying that "the black eagles break their claws against the heroic people in Vietnam" and that "the guerrilla will defeat you". The album was very popular in Chile, and throughout South America, released in many countries, including Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, as well as in Spain and France in Europe. It is considered to be one of the first albums in the Chilean Nueva canción movement.1 Sources1Wikipedia: X Vietnam (album)↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

English: Yankee, yankee, yankee, careful, careful / Black eagles feed from the spoils of battles / Black eagle you will already fall / Black eagle you will fall / The black eagles come flying with its cannons over the sea / Black eagle you will already fall / Black eagle you will fall / Yankee, Yankee, yankee, careful, careful / The blood that you pour goes through the land / Blood that will never forget you / Black eagle you will already fall / Black Eagle you will fall / Black eagles break their claws against the heroic people in Vietnam / Black eagle you will already fall / Black eagle you will fall / Yankee, Yankee, yankee careful... / The guerrilla will defeat you

Notes

Jota Jota JJL-01 is the original Chilean mono LP (1968, Juventudes Comunistas); the album was later reissued in Europe (France: Dicap / Pathé Marconi EMI 2C 062-94.151, 1978; Spanish cassette and 2002 CD) and in Argentina and Peru, and "Por Vietnam" was anthologised on the Italian LP "Generazione Vietnam" (Zodiaco VPA 8251, 1975).

About the artist

Chilean nueva canción ensemble formed 1965 in Santiago, Chile. [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Anti-War · Guerrilla Warfare

In collections

Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]