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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New acquisition: this one is completely new to the archive, not seen it before: "Replacement in Viet Nam" by Buck Gallagher, Nashville release, country. About new recruit, K.I.A. in first battle. "Fighting for liberty and America" - so patriotic track

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New acquisition: "A Mother's Salute to Lt. Calley" - been looking for a vinyl copy for over 10 years, already had a scan and mp3.

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That Old Retro Store, Calgary- "it's not hoarding if it's vinyl collecting"

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Record Collectors Paradise, Edmonton AB. Ask for the back room 45s

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New acquisition: "From Memphis to Vietnam" by John & Margie Cook, songwriter Catherine Sorrell, released on Blake Records (Memphis)

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

New acquisition, and new to the discography: "Viet Nam" by Trío Universitario, on album called "Canciones de protesta". Released in Ecuador, 1972 - the first Vietnam song from Ecuador identified.

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On the hunt in Corfu with assistance from my nephew

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

At the opening of the new Plum Creek Records & Tapes location in Lockhart, TX

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

150+ Vietnam War "song poems" - these are song lyrics ("poems"), sent to specialist recording companies, in response to an advertisement, that have been set to music for a fee. Its also earned the nickname "song sharks", "song sharking", and "vanity music": rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

July 1976 Country Music magazine Bicentennial special issue

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

180+ Vietnam War songs referencing Civil Rights issues - racial mistreatment at home or Vietnam, draft inequality, lack of rights in the US despite fighting in the war: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New acquisition: "Carry on My Brothers / The Canaan Land" - MLK, JFK, RFK, Civil Rights and reference to Vietnam: "they fought for the men in Viet Nam".

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Successful first day at the 45th Austin Record Convention (apart from leaving my glasses on a pile of 45s somewhere! 😳 Fortunately they were swiftly handed in after an announcement). Back tomorrow, on the hunt 🧐

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New acquisition: "The Lieutenant's Last Salute" about the My Lai Massacre - it defended mass murderer Calley, saying he followed orders and that there was a miscarriage of justice. B-side is anti-drugs, anti-Hippie culture

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Posted a single on YouTube by Fabrizio de André - unknown to me, they are rare English re-recordings of his songs from 1969, many users from Italy were excited to listen

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

New acquisitions: "Mi camino para Vietnam" - Hispanic-America, recorded in Rio Grande Valley TX; "Missing in Action (In Viet Nam), rare 'song poem'; "21st Birthday", Australian country, hard to find 7"; "Vietnam" by Marty Collins, anti-war country song

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Kent State demonstration on 4 May 1970 - "the war’s brutality had reached American soil shocked the nation", within weeks, CSNY released the song "Ohio", one of 80+ songs about the shooting rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Nina Simone's 1967 "Backlash Blues: "You raise my taxes, freeze my wages and send my son to Vietnam, you give me second class houses and second class schools, do you think that all colored folks are just second-class fools?" www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Original release of "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag" (Rag Baby Records # 1001) from 1965 - EP issued in an envelope with lyrics / music inserts. This is a more acoustic version, with war sound-effects compared to the 1967 album version: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

New acquisition: Vietnamese 12", with post war songs, including "Let Us Make Music, American Friends"

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Stamba, repurposed publishing house in Tbilisi, lots of records but not for sale

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Tbilisi record stop #3, "XO Vinyl Shop & Bar" - picked up a rare North Vietnamese 10" with patriotic songs

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Cafe Novel, vinyl, books, and coffee, Tbilisi

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Greetings from Tbilisi, Georgia, on the hunt, at Vodkast Records🧐

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Recent soul anti-war songs posted on youtube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Also Civil Rights-related

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"Napalm Sticks to Kids" (1972) performed by active-duty GIs Covered Wagon Musicians, a vivid account of US forces indiscriminately dropping bombs on Vietnam, hitting pregnant women, children, and other civilians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tUP...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Matt Jones, Civil Rights activist, also part of the music group The Freedom Singers - released "Hell No! I Ain't Gonna Go" (1970). The narrator refused the draft call, declared the war a sham, and said "the Vietcong just like I am...the US army is the Ku Klux Klan": www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NMj...

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Pat Thomas author @patthomashistorian.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Free Angela Davis ‘45 single

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

100+ US songs about the 1979 Iranian Hostage crisis, several also reference the Vietnam War: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Today was a special day. As I walked through My Lai, just after sunrise, an old man called out and invited me inside his house. It turned out to be Do Ba - the small child that Hugh Thompson, Larry Colburn and Glen Andreotta saved on March 16, 1968.

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

As well as the well-known "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag", Country Joe McDonald released lots of Vietnam War-related songs, many featured on this 1985 double LP "Vietnam Experience"

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

400+ songs reference the Vietnam War draft - a popular topic across genres, from patriotic pride, to draft dodging, draft resistance, and draft inequality: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

New acquisitions: "Oriental Moon of Vietnam" and "Vietnam Mud"

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Two great new additions to the Vietnam War Song Project, thanks to the awesome @phonicunderground.bsky.social 🧐🎵

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Updated: 150+ songs about the My Lai Massacre and Lt. William Calley - the mass murder of between 300-500 civilians in South Vietnam by US forces on 16 March 1968 - most of the songs released from 1969-1971 supported war criminal Calley, as did public opinion polls: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Phil Ochs, a leading protest / topical singer born in El Paso, TX, often played songs at anti-war and civil rights rallies in the 1960s. Here's 11 of his songs related to the Vietnam War, as well as live performances: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

18 Pete Seeger songs related to the Vietnam War: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Anti-protest garage, "What's Come Over This World" (1965) by Billy Carr, called draft card burners "an army of cowards". Full-page advert in Billboard on 6 November 1965 rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFgn...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

New research: 130+ Vietnam War garage rock songs - many diversified views, from anti-protest "patriotic" songs, to peace and anti-war. Also many reference to the draft. See here: rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrumme... Playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Vietnam War Song Project @vietnamwarsongs.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Chicago novelty garage group Seeds of Euphoria, fed up with the war by 1967, advised LBJ: “Let’s Send Batman to Viet Nam”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWa...