Vietnam Voices

Annotation — Australian & New Zealand Songs

- Australian, narration - Featured Vietnamese children singing - Christian in Vietnam, refugee team, medical work

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

One-sided 33 rpm flexi disc issued by Australian Inter-Church Aid for the Christmas Bowl appeal as a Sunday School teachers' aid, bringing the comic strip "Vietnam Nurse" to life: Joan Davies talks about her work, and Vietnamese children sing folk songs and a Vietnamese Lord's Prayer. Manufactured by Ambassador Records, Sydney. Year from the sleeve text (she returned to Vietnam early in 1969; "she's still there today"). Australian Inter-Church Aid one-sided black flexi disc, speed 33⅓ r.p.m., "Manufactured in Australia by Ambassador Records, Sydney"; gatefold-style sleeve titled "Vietnam Voices — Sister Joan Davies and the children of Vietnam — A Sunday School Teachers' Aid", with the "Give to the Christmas Bowl" emblem (two hands holding a bowl) and photographs of Joan Davies tending a boy's eye and of four Vietnamese boys. Inside, under "A Comic Strip Comes to Life", the text explains…

About the artist

Sister Joan Davies - nursing sister, widow of a Methodist minister, attached to an Asian Christian Service refugee team in Vietnam; wounded in a Viet Cong mortar raid in 1968 and back at work early in 1969.

Themes

Vietnamese Children · Refugees · Religion · Nurses · VC · Civilian Casualties

In collections

Australian & New Zealand Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Vietnamese Boat People / Refugee Crisis