Viet Nam Cantata Peace Lovin' Man

Annotation — Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs

Viet Nam Cantata: Peace Lovin' Man (2nd Movement) (Sherman, Garry) Viet Nam Cantata: Soldiers Recite (2nd Movement) (Sherman, Gary) A-side: country-ish - boy off to war - shot in the leg, left disabled. He's a peace loving man. B-side: psychedelic folk rock. Weird/bizarre recitation of a soldier, remembering combat in Vietnam - early PTSD song? Sounds trippy. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Spokane Daily Chronicle Cincinnati Inquirer Billboard - November 1970. Billboard - March 1971. Billboard - February 1973.

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Buddah Records BDA 198, multicoloured promotional label marked "Not for sale", both sides headed "Viet Nam Cantata" with "Music: Garry Sherman, Paintings: Frank Frezzo, Center voice: Milt Grayson". "Peace Lovin' Man (2nd Movement)" (Garry Sherman, Frank Frezzo, Gene Pistilli), 2:56, Eyesorevision Publishing (ASCAP) (BUD 5407); "Soldiers Recite (2nd Movement)" (Frank Frezzo, Garry Sherman), time 4:31, Free Verse, Inc. (ASCAP) (BUD 5408). Housed in a pink Buddah Records company sleeve with the many-armed Buddha figure. [From the record sleeve and labels]

About the artist

Garry Sherman (born December 28, 1933, in Brooklyn, New York) was an American arranger, composer and orchestrator active from the 1960s in hit records, Broadway shows, film scores and advertising. He began piano at age four, and while studying medicine and podiatry at Temple University (later interning at the Illinois College of Podiatry) moved into music in the Brill Building, arranging for The Drifters and Van Morrison among others. His film/theater work includes the arrangement for "Midnight Cowboy" (1969), composing for "The Heartbreak Kid" (1972) and the stage musical "Amen Corner"…

Themes

Anti-War · Draft

In collections

Draft Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]