Let's Hear It for the Grunt
1986 · JRM Records JRM4-20-87 · Salem, Virginia
- Artist
- Bobby & Virginia Lee
- Title
- Let's Hear It for the Grunt
- Release
- Vietnam: The Soldier's Story
- Year
- 1986
- Label
- JRM Records # JRM4-20-87
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Salem, Virginia, USA
- Songwriter
- Virginia L. Hambrick
- Genre
- Country · Country
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Notes
Side B track 5 (3:09). JRM Records JRM4-20-87, picture disc LP in die-cut sleeve ("Special Collector's Edition"). Vocals: Virginia Lee, Bobby Lee, Bill Craft, Leon Pugh, Rhonda Lee. All songs written by Virginia L. Hambrick (BMI) © 1986; published by Double Jack Co. (BMI), Salem, Virginia; recorded at JRM Studio, Salem. Produced by Jack Mullins; engineer and special arrangements Rick Mullins; harmony vocals Virginia, Bobby & Rhonda Lee, Bill Craft, Jackie Jean and members of Vet Center 226; guitars Bobby Lee, Bobby Smith; keyboards Aubrey Hilton & David Ferguson; steel guitar Mike Calloway, Joey McCray, Mike Sweeney; drums Rick Mullins; bass Chuck Crush; harmonica Bobby Smith; "marching and combat sounds are authentic". Back cover: Mary Stout (National Officer of Vietnam Veterans of America) and Bobby & Virginia Lee (Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 81, Roanoke, Virginia); Bobby Lee…
About the artist
Bobby Lee, who served with the 19th Combat Engineers in Vietnam in 1966–67, and his wife Virginia Lee (songwriter Virginia L. Hambrick) were members of Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 81, Roanoke, Virginia. [Record sleeve]