Your Words Will Echo Forever
Dihavina 6602 · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Anh Dao
- Title
- Your Words Will Echo Forever
- Release
- Your Words Will Echo Forever
- Label
- Dihavina # 6602
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Annotation — North Vietnamese Songs
Released on the Dihavina record label (# 6602), originally the state label of North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) before reunification in 1975. The song "Lời anh vọng mãi ngàn năm" ("Your Word Will Echo Forever") fits into the Nhạc đỏ ("Red Music") genre - which developed at the beginning of the 20th century, containing elements of Western Classical Music, while lyrically focusing on socialism and independence, as well as containing anti-imperialist / colonialist sentiment. It's also influenced by revolutionary music from China and the USSR. The narrator praises the "hero... the worker of Saigon City" who are "blazing and fighting" to "drown the heads of American invaders". The narrator said that the "entire South is boiling", and that their exploits are renowned throughout the world: "our name spreads.. echoes to Venezuela..." and "Latin America guerrillas... millions of people following your path". It concluded, "long live Vietnam... The nation's words shines forever". The song "Thanh Hóa anh hùng" ("Heroic Thanh Hoa Province"), composed by Hoang Dam, is difficult to translate through Google translate, as it contains the local Vietnamese dialect of the area, Thanh…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
North Vietnamese singer who recorded 'Your Words Will Echo Forever' (Loi Anh Vong Mai Ngan Nam, Vu Thanh's elegy for Nguyen Van Troi) with pianist Hoang My on a 1966 Dihavina EP from Hanoi, shared with the Vietnamese Opera, Ballet and Music Theatre choir. [Source: Discogs]