Vietnam-Cuba
Not On Label LD-V-3 · Cuba
- Artist
- Hoàng Vân
- Title
- Vietnam-Cuba
- Release
- Vietnam canta a Cuba - Cuba canta a Vietnam
- Label
- Not On Label # LD-V-3
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Cuba
- Genre
- Hispanic Music · Nueva canción latinoamericana
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Annotation — Latin & Central American, & Caribbean Music
As suggested in the title - "Vietnam sings to Cuba - Cuba sings to Vietnam" - half the songs (the A-side) are by Cuban artists, the other half (the B-side) by North Vietnamese, with the two countries showing solidarity for their repective causes. Released in Cuba. Two of the songs on the Vietnamese side dealt with the relationship, called "Vietnam-Cuba", performed firstly by Trần Kiết Tường, and secondly by Hoàng Vân. The Cuban artists were associated with the Nueva canción latinoamericana movement, many discussed above. Pablo Milanés had two songs: "Ho Chi Minh: Su nombre puede ponerse en versos" ("Ho Chi Minh: His Name Can Be Put into Verses")" and "Por que" ("Why"). Other songs were: Omara Portuondo - "Cuento para un niño" ("Story for a Child"), Silvio Rodríguez - "3,000 pajaros negros" ("3,000 Black Birds"), Elena Burke - "La hora de todos" ("Everyone's Time"), Carlos Puebla - "David y Goliath" ("David and Goliath"), and Ramón Calzadilla y el Coro del ICR - "Himno de la victoria" ("Hymn of Victory").
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
LD-V-3, 33 r.p.m., blue labels with silver print, "Hecho en Cuba por EGREM - CNC"; side A is headed "Cuba Canta a Viet-Nam" and side B "Viet-nam Canta a Cuba". Cara A: "Ho Chi Minh: Su nombre puede ponerse en versos" and "Por que" (Pablo Milanés), "Cuento para un niño" (Omara Portuondo), "3,000 pajaros negros" (Silvio Rodríguez), "La hora de todos" (Elena Burke), "David y Goliath" (Carlos Puebla) and "Himno de la victoria" (Ramón Calzadilla y el Coro del ICR); Cara B: "Vietnam-Cuba" (Tran Kiet Tuong), "Marcha de las milicias Cubanas", "Canto a los combatientes de Girón", "Siboney", "Vietnam-Cuba" (Hoang Van) and "Marcha de América Latina", the side B items other than the two "Vietnam-Cuba" songs carrying no performer credit. The front cover shows two large yellow flowers on a red ground; the back carries the tracklist with two black-and-white photographs, a child playing a flute while…
About the artist
North Vietnamese composer, born 24 July 1930 in Hanoi, Vietnam; died 4 February 2018 in Hanoi; wrote celebrated revolutionary and wartime songs. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release Vietnam canta a Cuba - Cuba canta a Vietnam