...Next Stop Is Vietnam (The War on Record: 1961-2008)

Annotation — Vietnam War Compilations

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, finding, selecting, and evaluating 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 notes said: "From America's first, naive impressions of a country called Vietnam through the spirited musical debate over the morality of the war to the healing meditations on the conflict's lengthy aftermath, this set captures it all and more" Sources1Digital Repository at the University of Maryland↩

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Bear Family BCD 16070, 13xCD box set with 304-page hardcover book, Germany, 2010; 334 songs and spoken-word recordings on the Vietnam War and its aftermath, 1961-2008, arranged by theme (speeches, news reports, PSAs, broadcasts, two discs by veterans). Compiled with notes by Hugo A. Keesing; history by Lois T. Vietri; oral history by Doug Bradley & Craig Werner; introduction by Country Joe McDonald. Entered as one release. [From Discogs and Bear Family]

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Themes

Soldier's Perspective · Home Front Perspective · Anti-War · Patriotic · Vet