The Wall
Soldier's Song MM-001-2 · USA
- Artist
- Michael McCann
- Title
- The Wall
- Release
- Soldier's Songs
- Label
- Soldier's Song # MM-001-2
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Tim Murphy
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Veterans Memorial Wall Songs
The ultimate Vietnam War compilation, released by Bear Family Records, it includes 13 discs, 334 tracks, and a 304 page booklet. In fact you can spend 16 hours and 49 minutes listening to Vietnam War songs if you like. Hugo Keesing, a popular music collector and teacher (formerly at the University of Maryland) produced the compilation, and help to find, select, and evaluate most the songs included - his personal collection of Vietnam War songs stretches into the thousands. Also see The Keesing Collection on Popular Music and Culture.1 It is split into various themes, such as veterans, the patriotic, the draft, the protest movement, the plight of the soldiers etc. The blurb says: The compilation of course included several songs about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in D.C. including "The Big Parade" by 10,000 Maniacs, "Long Black Wall" by Johnny Anthony, "More Than a Name on the Wall" by the The Statler Brothers, "The Wall" by Michael McCann, "Finally Welcomed Home" by Bobby Ross, "Who Are the Names on the Wall" and "Time to Lay It Down (aka The Wall)" by Michael J. Martin & Tim Holiday, "The Women on the Wall" by John Black, "Ride to the Wall" by Paul Revere & The Raiders, and…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
CD album Soldier's Songs (Soldier's Song MM-001-2); "The Wall" written by Tim Murphy. Also on the Bear Family box ...Next Stop Is Vietnam (2010). Pat Garvey's "Still Waiting at the Wall" (VWSP5693) is also by Tim Murphy.
About the artist
Michael McCann, a history graduate of Fairfield University, served in Vietnam as a paratrooper and Green Beret sergeant on a Special Forces A-Team, receiving the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He later performed for historical societies, veterans and schools in Connecticut. [Dream Books Co.]