Credited on the record as The Family.
Saigon Girls
1968 · Vanguard VRS-35081 · USA
- Artist
- The Family of Apostolic
- Credited on the record as
- The Family
- Title
- Saigon Girls
- Release
- Saigon Girls / Water Music
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Vanguard # VRS-35081
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Instrumental
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Bonner, Gordon
- Genre
- Folk · Psychedelic Folk
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Saigon Girls (Family of Apostolic, The)
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Vanguard Apostolic VRS-35081 (ztsp 144101), 45 rpm, "DJ Copy" and "Promotion Copy – Not for Sale"; "Saigon Girls" (Bonner—Gordon), 2:21, chardon music, BMI; credited to The Family; produced by John Townley for 10th Street Productions. Label drawn with nude figures among leaves. The picture sleeve shows an airliner wing above clouds, captioned "The Spirit of Khe Sahn – 'Saigon Girls' b/w Water Music". [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
The Family Of Apostolic was the Greenwich Village studio collective assembled by producer-engineer John Townley around his Apostolic Studios (53 East 10th Street, opened 1967) - a roughly nineteen-member "family" of musicians, ex-spouses and friends, including Gilma Townley and the violinist Jay Ungar - which cut the double LP "The Family Of Apostolic" (Vanguard Apostolic SDVL 1, 1968). "Saigon Girls" is confirmed as the LP's final track. The collective dispersed around 1968-69. [Source: Discogs; It's Psychedelic Baby interview with Townley; Light In The Attic]