Credited on the record as Tran-van-Minh (11 Jahre), kommentiert von Frau Jung, Terre des Hommes, Berlin.
Vietnamesische Volkslieder (5 untitled Vietnamese folk songs)
Teldec T 76 134 · Hué, Vietnam
- Artist
- Tran Van Minh
- Credited on the record as
- Tran-van-Minh (11 Jahre), kommentiert von Frau Jung, Terre des Hommes, Berlin
- Title
- Vietnamesische Volkslieder (5 untitled Vietnamese folk songs)
- Release
- Minh singt seine Sehnsucht: Lieder aus Vietnam
- Label
- Teldec # T 76 134
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hué, Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Traditional (Vietnam)
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Vietnamese Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Vietnamesische Volkslieder 1 (Minh, Tran Van) Vietnamesische Volkslieder 2 (Minh, Tran Van) Vietnamese folk music. Sung By the Blind Tran Van Minh (11 Years Old). Rescued during the war. Commented By Frau Jung, Terre Des Hommes, Berlin - child relief charity.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Teldec "Telefunken-Decca" T 76 134 (matrices 45-9/56 466 and 467), West Germany, 7" 45 EP, undated; Terre des Hommes Berlin benefit record ("Der Reinerlös fließt in die Arbeit von Terre des Hommes"). Vietnamese folk songs sung by the blind eleven-year-old Tran Van Minh, with spoken commentary by Frau Jung of Terre des Hommes Berlin; sleeve text: Minh, born in Hué, lost a leg and his sight to shrapnel, was flown to West Germany by the Terre des Hommes airlift "Unternehmen Schöne Wolke" and lived among thirty Vietnamese children at the Friedensdorf Oberhausen; the songs are adult songs of longing for peace, for a future "like the spring in the North", for reunification, and a soldier's love song. Cover photo H. J. Kartenberg, Gladbeck. Stated on center labels: gesungen vom blinden Tran-van-Minh (11 Jahre); kommentiert von Frau Jung, Terre Des Hommes, Berlin; Fabrikation: TELDEC…
About the artist
Tran Van Minh - Vietnamese boy born in Hué, blinded and maimed by shrapnel in the war, brought to West Germany by Terre des Hommes and raised at the Friedensdorf Oberhausen; aged eleven on this record.
Themes
Vietnamese Children · Vietnamese Perspective · Child · Refugees · Benefit Record