Credited on the record as Various Artists.
Quando il fronte era fronte
1965 · I Dischi del Sole DS 57 · Italy
- Artist
- Amedeo Merli
- Credited on the record as
- Various Artists
- Title
- Quando il fronte era fronte
- Release
- Sul fronte del Viet Nam
- Year
- 1965
- Label
- I Dischi del Sole # DS 57
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Songwriter
- Ivan Della Mea
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
Italian and Vietnamese folk music Anti-war. All songs. Tribute to Ho Chi Minh
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
I Dischi del Sole DS 57 (Edizioni del Gallo, Milan; Collezione internazionale, 17 cm, 33 rpm; November 1965; graphics Collettivo Comunicazioni Visive, Turin): "Sul fronte del Viet Nam 1945/1965 — canti della Repubblica Democratica e dei partigiani del Viet Nam", edited by Michele L. Straniero with E. Collotti-Pischel, V. and M. Regis, E. Sarzi-Amadé and a group of Vietnamese students at the University of Grenoble. Tracks 2–6 are Radio Prague recordings; the gunfire and track 7 were recorded by Emilio Sarzi Amadé on his journey in the summer of 1965. Full Italian texts and notes on the inner sleeve (Nguyen Khac Vien on the name Viet Nam; a chronology 1010–1964; a note on the southern Hát dùm and Hô song genres and the one-string đàn bầu). Cover: the Lời ca Giải phóng songbook and Nguyen Van Troi speaking to journalists before his execution; back: Ho Chi Minh and the đàn đáy and đàn bầu.…
About the artist
Italian folk singer.
Themes
Anti-War · Ho Chi Minh · Protest · Peace
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]