ベトナムへ送るまい [Do Not Send to Vietnam]

Annotation — North Vietnamese Songs

Japanese released record, split into two halves. The first side is North Vietnamese patriotic songs in 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. Some also contained elements of Vietnamese Folk Music. The 7" EP was part of series, with a few focused on Vietnam, including this (Center Record # CLS-11). The B-side featured Japanese songs about the Vietnam War.A1| 自由ベトナム行進曲 ("Free Vietnam March") A2| 南ベトナムを解放しよう ("Let's Liberate South Vietnam") A3| 行動のとき ("When Taking Action") B1| ベトナムの乙女たち ("Vietnamese Maidens") B2| ベトナムへ送るまい ("Do Not Send to Vietnam")

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Annotation — Japanese Songs

The second of those track was "ベトナムへ送るまい" ("Do Not Send to Vietnam") by 作詞 窪田 亨 (Toru Kubota) and 大西進 (Susumu Onishi), written from the perspective of a Japanese woman to the mothers and wives of those fighting in the Vietnam War, taking an anti-war position: "mothers who wish for peace should join hands". It noted the protesters in the US: "young Americans burn their draft cards", while referencing North Vietnamese nationalism: "Vietnamese mothers and children protect their homeland". It called on countries to not supply weapons to the war: "let's stop the military transport that sends weapons to Vietnam".

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Lyrics

Japanese: 愛する人のたよりを あなたは待つでしょう サイゴンや沖縄からのたよりを待つでしょう

Notes

Center Record CLS-11, "LPステレオ", 7-inch, 33⅓ rpm, five songs, produced by 音楽センター (Ongaku Center), 東京都新宿区西大久保3-67, ¥500; conductor 井上頼豊 [Yoritoyo Inoue], chorus 中央合唱団 (Central Choir), accompaniment Center Orchestra, piano 田中園子 [Sonoko Tanaka], arrangements by 助川敏弥 [Toshiya Sukegawa], 伊藤辰雄 [Tatsuo Ito] and 安達元彦 [Motohiko Adachi]. Side A: "自由ベトナム行進曲" (Japanese words 関忠亮, music Doãn Quang Khải), 1:47; "南ベトナムを解放しよう", 3:14; "行動のとき" (words タン・ハイ [Thanh Hải], music ル・グエン・ロン・フン), 2:07. Side B: "ベトナムの乙女たち" (Vietnamese song, Japanese words 関鑑子 [Akiko Seki]), 3:25; "ベトナムへ送るまい" (original words ベトナム話し合いの会, adapted by 窪田亨 [Akira Kubota], music 大西進 [Susumu Onishi]), 3:41. The front sleeve photo shows a boy in a large straw hat playing a bamboo flute. The back-sleeve notes say "自由ベトナム行進曲" became a song of all the Vietnamese people in the 1949 struggle against French imperialism and was introduced to…

About the artist

Japanese choir (Chuo Gasshodan), founded 10 February 1948 in Tokyo by Akiko Seki as the music section of the Japan Young Communist League; the central choir of the utagoe (Singing Voice of Japan) movement, based at the Music Center in Shinjuku, Tokyo from 1951, performing and recording for Japanese Communist Party events until 1973. [Source: Wikipedia (Japanese)]

Themes

Vietnamese Patriotic · Anti-War · Peace · Solidarity

In collections

Japanese Songs · North Vietnamese Songs