Requiem in Black Stone
1986 · Break Records 72967 · Carpinteria, California
- Artist
- Sam Jacobs
- Title
- Requiem in Black Stone
- Release
- Requiem in Black Stone / Behind Bamboo Tears
- Year
- 1986
- Label
- Break Records # 72967
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Carpinteria, California, USA
- Songwriter
- Sam Jacobs & Don Baba
- Genre
- Pop · Pop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — US Military & Veteran Songs
- Vietnam vet, based in Carpinteria, California1 - A-side: memorial wall, patriotic tribute - B-side: P.O.W.s still in Vietnam, do they know the war is over?Sources1Carpinteria_Herald_1986_12_09_3↩
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Break Records 72967, stereo, side A, time 4:07; written by Sam Jacobs & Don Baba, © Requiem Music ASCAP; produced by Mark Hudson. Picture sleeve "Requiem": vocals Sam Jacobs, keyboards Don Baba, guitars Steve Dudas, bass Ed Alton, drums Billy Thomas; additional keyboards Greg Jackson; background vocals Bobby Caldwell, Mavis Vegas Davis, Linda Foote, Mark Hudson, Dave Jolliffe, Liza Miller, Michael Turner and Billy Thomas. Engineered by Jeff Harris; mixed by Jeff Hudson and Mark Hudson; recorded and mixed at the Village Recorder in April 1986. Dedicated "to our brothers and sisters who have died and to those of us who lived... Welcome Home!"; a major portion of the price went to "The Requiem Project" for Vietnam veterans' support groups (c/o The Village Recorder, West Los Angeles). Lyric insert with both songs. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Sam Jacobs served as a corpsman with the Marines in Vietnam in 1967–68; his "Welcome Home" came in May 1985 at the traveling wall in Santa Barbara. He was based in Carpinteria, California. [Record sleeve; Carpinteria Herald, 9 December 1986]