Vietnam Love Song
1971 · Elektra EKS-75014 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Judy Collins
- Title
- Vietnam Love Song
- Release
- Living
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Elektra # EKS-75014
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Judy Collins, an American singer-songwriter, born in Seattle, Washington, US (1 May 1939). For most of her career, she lived in New York City, NY, US. In the 1960s she gained a reputation as a social activist. In 1969 she testified in the trial of the Chicago Seven - the seven people arrested outside the Democratic Convention in Chicago in August 1968 for inciting riots. The haunting track "Vietnam Love Song" (Elektra Records # EKS-75014) took a poetic approach, about people dying in Vietnam. Written by Eric Bentley and Arnold Black. Collins performed it live during her 1970 tour, and released it on this album in 1971. It peaked in the Billboard LP charts at # 64 on 29 January 1972. (1) Produced by Mark Abramson.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Born 1 May 1939, Seattle, Washington, USA. Currently Manhattan, New York, USA