Vietnam
1968 · Philips 885 438 · Germany: West [FRG]
- Artist
- Dietrich Kittner
- Title
- Vietnam
- Release
- Bornierte Gesellschaft
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Philips # 885 438
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany: West [FRG]
- Songwriter
- Dietrich Kittner
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Spoken Word · Comedy
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — European Songs
Vietnam (Kittner, Dietrich) German satire. A song-writer for Floh de Cologne
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
A song-writer for Floh de Cologne Philips 885 438 PY, stereo, 33⅓, "auch Mono abspielbar" [also playable in mono], side matrix AA 885 438.2 Y, Made in Germany, credit "Kittner/GEMA/PM"; "Bornierte Gesellschaft von und mit Dietrich Kittner", "Live-Aufnahme im Auditorium Maximum, Hamburg". The front cover, subtitled "Proteste, Parodien und Pamphlete im Alleingang" [Protests, parodies and pamphlets, going it alone], shows a red-and-black striped head in profile wearing a helmet with a dove on top; "Vietnam" is the fifth track of side 2. Credits: Dietrich Kittner (texts, compositions, guitar, vocals), Reinhold Glembotzki (musical arrangements), Hermann Hoffmann (Hammond organ), Ludwig Sternberg (record production), Ludwig Bender (sound engineer); Reinhold Brandes wrote the text of "Hot mit uns"; cover design Holger Matthies; printed in Germany 3/68. The back carries Kittner's essay…
About the artist
Born 30 May 1935, Oleśnica, Poland - in what was then known as Oels, Lower Silesia, Germany.
Themes
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]