Vietnamese Opera, Ballet and Music Theatre's Female Vocal Group
The Song of Jacket-Making (Bai ca may ao)
1966 · Dihavina 6605 · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Vietnamese Opera, Ballet and Music Theatre's Female Vocal Group
- Title
- The Song of Jacket-Making (Bai ca may ao)
- Release
- Liberation March (Hành khúc giai phóng)
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Dihavina # 6605
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Annotation — North Vietnamese Songs
Four songs on this 7" EP release, featuring on the Dihavina record label (# 6605), originally the state label of North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) before reunification in 1975, titled "Hành Khúc Giải Phóng" ("Liberation March") - also the name of the lead title. The other titles include the song "Bai Ca Nguoi San May Bay" ("The Song Of The Aircraft Hunter"), performed by Vietnamese Opera, Ballet and Music Theatre's Male Vocal Group, the song "Bai ca may ao" ("The Song of Jacket-Making"), performed by Vietnamese Opera, Ballet and Music Theatre's Female Vocal Group, and finally the track "Trên duong thiên ly" ("On the Thousand-Miles Road"), performed by Quoc Huong & Hoang Manh. The first song "Liberation March", performance credited to the "Chorus and Symphonic Orchestra, notes the devastation of war: "the village is in ruins, big streets are burning". So the "people rose like a tide", on the "path of liberation".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Unknown - the female counterpart of row 2812's ensemble: the female vocal group of the Vietnamese Opera, Ballet and Music Theatre, a North Vietnamese state institution, performing "The Song Of Jacket-Making" - a wartime production number credited to the ensemble billing rather than named individuals. [Source: master credit and context; cross-reference row 2812]