Vietnam är befriat
1975 · Befria BS-7 · Sweden
- Artist
- FNL-Grupperna
- Title
- Vietnam är befriat
- Release
- Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Befria # BS-7
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- Songwriter
- Stefan Yderfelt
- Genre
- Nordic Music · Progressive Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
"Vietnam är befriat" ("Vietnam Is Free") "Kambodja är befriat" ("Cambodia Is Free")
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Befria Södern BS 7 (DFFG 1975), 45 rpm stereo, red labels; picture sleeve "Vietnam Kambodja Befriade!" (yellow, with photographs of Vietnamese children) and a four-page lyric-and-chord insert ("Texter, ackord"). The sleeve states that "Vietnam är befriat" and "Kambodja är befriat" were made and recorded in May 1975 by students of the music-teacher college SÄMUS in Göteborg, and that "Balladen om Rune Henry Johansson" was recorded at the Vietnam victory celebration in Stockholm on 3 May 1975, where 4,000 friends of Vietnam cheered as Fria Proteatern sang the ballad, written the day after Vietnam's liberation. Issued 1975 by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Fack, 104 32 Stockholm 19. Back sleeve carries the poem "Leve segern!" by Sven Hedman (May 1975) on the fall of Phnom Penh and Saigon. [From the record sleeve and labels] Label credits the song to "Stefan Ydefelt"; the insert gives "Stefan…
About the artist
Song groups of De Förenade FNL-grupperna (DFFG / United NLF Groups), the Swedish solidarity movement with the Vietnamese NLF; active late 1960s to mid 1970s, releasing albums on the movement's own Befria Södern label. Based in Sweden (groups in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala). [Source: Wikipedia / Discogs]
Themes
From the release Vietnam / Kambodja Befriade!
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]