Vietnam-Brief
1982 · AMIGA 8 45 215 · Berlin, Germany: East [GDR]
- Artist
- Perry Friedman
- Title
- Vietnam-Brief
- Release
- Perry Friedman
- Year
- 1982
- Label
- AMIGA # 8 45 215
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- German
- Country
- Berlin, Germany: East [GDR]
- Songwriter
- Perry Friedman, Walter Vorwerk
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — European Songs
Vietnam-Brief (Friedman, Perry) Canadian born, but based in GDR.1 Member of GDR group OktoberklubSources1Wikipedia: Perry Friedman↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
AMIGA 8 45 215, stereo, price 12,10 M; VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin DDR, Made in German Democratic Republic; print code Ag 511/01/82/A; sleeve design by Jürgen Haufe after photos by Otto Sill. The front cover shows two grainy, roughly printed images of a bearded, bespectacled Perry Friedman singing with banjo and guitar inside a red frame. Seite 1, track 7: "Vietnam-Brief", 2:58, Komposition: Perry Friedman, deutscher Text: Walter Vorwerk, with the sleeve comment "aus der Zeit der US-Aggression in Vietnam. Die wahnwitzigen Pläne der Reagan-Administration brachten mich darauf, den Brief wieder in Konzerten zu verwenden" (from the time of US aggression in Vietnam; the insane plans of the Reagan administration led me to use the letter in concerts again). Perry Friedman, vocals and banjo; Ralf Kothe, guitar; Hans Schätzke, bass; recorded 14 and 15 April 1982 at the AMIGA-Studio…
About the artist
Born 25 September 1935, Prince Albert, SK, Canada. Died 16 March 1995, Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Based in GDR. Member of GDR group Oktoberklub