The Vietnam Story
Preview 1550 · Hollywood, California
- Artist
- Rodd Keith
- Title
- The Vietnam Story
- Release
- Thirteen Marines / The Vietnam Story
- Label
- Preview # 1550
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Thomas Sears
- Genre
- Garage Rock · Garage Rock
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation — Song Poems
- Traditional pop, both sides, patriotic - Label: Preview Records # 1550 - Songwriter: Thomas Sears (both sides) - "The Vietnam Story" - In South Vietnam, many young have gone to fight and die (K.I.A.) - Entered in 1964, the French gave in to the Viet Minh - By 1961 we had begun to fight - Ho Chi Minh a dictator, he's kept the war going on - We want peace talks - How long will we fight the Viet Cong (VC) - Some say we should not be there, but they do not understand, they are extending the war (anti-protest view) - Patriotic - we won't give an inch, we will defeat Ho Chi Minh
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Vietnam Story, The (Keith, Rodd) Thirteen Marine (Keith, Rodd) Song poem
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Song poem
About the artist
Born Rodney Keith Eskelin, 30 January 1937. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, the best-known figure of the song-poem genre, recording hundreds of compositions from amateur-submitted lyrics under names including Rod Rogers. Died 15 December 1974, falling from an overpass onto the Hollywood Freeway, Los Angeles, California, USA. [Source: Wikipedia; LA Times via Last.fm]
Themes
Song Poem · Viet Minh · France · Ho Chi Minh · VC · Anti-Protest · Patriotic
In collections
Song Poems · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs