What It's Like in Vietnam
1967 · Wayside 1001 · USA
- Artist
- Cathy Cass
- Title
- What It's Like in Vietnam
- Release
- Pardon My Heartache / What It's Like in Vietnam
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Wayside # 1001
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Buck Carney, Buzz Whittica
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
The song "What's It Like in Vietnam" (Wayside Records # WS-1001) by Cathy Cass, a country / pop singer from Waltham, Massachusetts, born in 1946. The track falls into the plight of the soldier category, with the narrator pledging her love for her man, fighting in Vietnam, and asking him what it is like out there:
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: While I've got you on my mind I'm sending you this line / To let you know that everything is okay / Though we had to change our plans and you left for Vietnam / I'm praying you'll be home real soon to stay... / Don't you worry dear for me because I'm waiting patiently... / I don't have to tell you honey that I'm proud of you indeed / Write me when you can, let me know that your my mine / Tell me what it's like out there in Vietnam
Notes
Wayside Records 1001 (picture sleeve WS-1001), 45 R.P.M., (SO: 3426); "What It's Like in Vietnam" (Buck Carney & Buzz Whittica), 3:00, Reeds Ferry Music BMI; Cathy Cass, vocal, with "Choral Group: The Songsmiths"; "Produced by: Ray Fournier"; Wayside Records, 49 Concord Street, Maynard, Massachusetts; black label with silver watermill logo. The picture sleeve front shows a photograph of Cathy Cass with a twelve-string acoustic guitar, titled "Pardon My Heartache b/w What It's Like in Viet Nam". The back carries a letter from Wayside Records introducing "19-year-old Miss Cathy Cass" from Massachusetts, then appearing every Sunday at the Lone Star Ranch, Reeds Ferry, New Hampshire, alongside Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells and Hank Williams, Jr. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
A 19-year-old singer from Massachusetts (per the 1967 Wayside sleeve), then appearing every Sunday at the Lone Star Ranch, Reeds Ferry, New Hampshire, on bills with Webb Pierce, Kitty Wells and Hank Williams, Jr. [Source: record sleeve and labels]