Behind Bamboo Tears
1986 · Break Records 72967 · Carpinteria, California
- Artist
- Sam Jacobs
- Title
- Behind Bamboo Tears
- 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 — P.O.W. / M.I.A. 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 B, time 4:00; written by Sam Jacobs & Don Baba, © Requiem Music ASCAP; produced by Mark Hudson. Picture sleeve and lyric insert as on "Requiem in Black Stone". [From the record label]
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]
Themes
In collections
P.O.W. / M.I.A. Songs · US Military & Veteran Songs · Veterans Memorial Wall Songs