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RWSmith, thanks for all the memories. Your lists of songs flashed me back to the 60s and 70s.
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Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
White Rabbit - Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane
We Gotta Get Out of This Place - The Animals
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The Doc (Corpsman) and Sky Pilot (Chaplin) were two favs always! We've Got To Get Out Of This Place was the anthem of every Marine Grunt in I Corps in 69-70 and most everyone else!
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Surprised nobody's yet mentioned "Puff the Magic Dragon".
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"For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield...
"Ohio" by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young...
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Bob Dylan's song " Masters Of War" is one. But "Paint It Black" has to be the one that makes me think of that era. But I wasn't a gleam in my daddy's eye yet. But my hat is off to all that have fought for this country when they were called to.
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I remember We Got To Get Out Of This Place, Proud Mary and Leaving On A Jet Plane. The day I left, we were taxing out on the runway at Bien Hoa and the pilot played Jet Plane. There were about 200 guys on that plane and not a dry eye. I will never forget that. We took off on a beautiful bright day and the ground was so green. As we got higher you could see fire support bases, LZ's and smoke. 13 hours later we were in California.
When I was in HS and college, Tim Irvin had a great rock band and they played lots of parties and dances. He was drafted and wrote this song after he got back. There is another version on YouTube where he performs it at the wall and President Clinton in the audience. I thought I would show you this version.
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Here's a few.....
The End by the Doors
The Grave by Don Mclean
Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane (Nothing to do with the war, but the 'love' thing was always thrown up as an alternative to war.
We Gotta Get Outa This Place - The Animals
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I'm 61 was too young for Viet Nam but for me it's "Bad Moon Risin'" by Creedence..
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I hadn't finished reading the question that I was hearing''paint it black'' in my head.Boy,seems like last year!
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I was rejected during the draft. I tried to join the navy and was refused. So I built CNC machines that made turret bearings and main engine rotors for the m1abrams Chrysler tank. I made machines that manufactured the breech box and barrel for the 155mm howitzer for the us Army. Later I assembled the 155mm howitzers. I built machines that made parts for jet engines for the air force too.
I did my tour of duty at home supporting our service men and women with my highest quality of workmanship I could provide. I was proud to do it.
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Not war related but: Lay Lady Lay by Bob Dylan, Green Onions and Time is Tight by Booker T and the Memphis Group and In the Ghetto by
the King Elvis, and Silver Wings by Merle Haggard. Those were all popular my first year in, 1969.
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Way too young to serve but Woodstock "Back to the garden" or Paint it Black.
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I graduated from high school in 1967, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was the summer of love. Berkeley and SF were interesting places then.
The song I remember best started out: one, two, three, four, what are we fighting for? ...
My senior class hired a Bay Area band called The greatfull dead. The school administration would not approve of us paying $400.00 and cancelled the band.
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In addition to many of the above, especially, These Boots Are Made for Walking, Doors The End - No video or audio as it is not rated G.
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Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild." We had a cassette player wired into the line jacks on AM-1780. "Get your motor running, move out on the highway" coming across the tank's intercom was how we moved out every morning.
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I dedicate this to my fellow Americans who went to nam. To the ones who returned and the heros who never came home alive and the MIA's.
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I'm only 36, but I gotta say, that was one of the best eras in Music!! All excellent songs listed here.
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Can't argue with any of these. I kinda have a pre, in country & just back sort of breakdown.
My favorite "These Eyes" by the Guess Who. Seems like I heard it every morning that I was able to hear a radio. Still associated and takes me back after all these years. AFVN Qui Nhon.
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I'm only 36, but I gotta say, that was one of the best eras in Music!! All excellent songs listed here.
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Indeed. I graduated high school in 1967. There was a time, I think in 1966, when I noticed that every song in the Top 40 was good. Every one! I knew when I turned the radio on there would be a good song there.
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Indeed. I graduated high school in 1967. There was a time, I think in 1966, when I noticed that every song in the Top 40 was good. Every one! I knew when I turned the radio on there would be a good song there.
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Not much of an exaggeration.
Googled Top 40 of 1966, found this site with a list and a link to a video of the song.
"Ballad of the Green Beret" at "1.
Top40Charts.net - 1966 Music Charts
When I hear the opening to "Spirit in the Sky" I'm taken
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In the late '70's I was in NYC and going to Columbia grad school. One night, listening to the college radio station, the DJ played part of The Ballad of the Green Berets, abruptly stopping it. He then proceeded, insultingly, to bad mouth the song, and what it stands for.
So I called the station up, got the DJ kid on the line, and, uh, berated him with extreme vigor. The jerk hung up on me, but he sure got the message that one listener at any rate, had a different point of view.
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Of course there was the:
"I feel like I'm fixing to die rag" by Country Joe and the Fish.
Heard this at a Country Joe concert in a very small venue the night before my second draft physical.
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"8 Miles High" by the Byrds.
Every time I hear it I picture a medvac chopper lifting off from a hot zone. Can't explain why, I was 21 in '67 and like many others from that period fully participated in the culture.
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I was talking to my wife about this just yesterday listening some good ol' 60's-70's music. Just listening to the songs you get taken back to good memories. Yes they were bad times, but still, the people that lived through those era's were great. I just don't see any of that with today's music. Music today tells stories of MONEY, FAME, SEX, and just stupid JUNK in general. Back then, the music told stories of struggle, War,Love, Life, etc.
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The shards of glass,plastic and metal that is working itself out to the surface of my cheeks and face.
These shards were healed over many years ago, and have been coming to the surface for many years.
Just felt another, and it came out with a fingernail assistance.
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Of course, as some have said, One Tin Soldier...
Jinx Dawson of Coven recorded this for the soundtrack of "Billy Jack"...I was 16, the war was still on, and draft registration was imminent for me at 18...but my number wasn't up, and the war finally wound down...but the lyrics were haunting and remain relevant, even, today...
"Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend, do it in the name of Heaven, you can justify it in the end, there won't be any trumpets blowing, come the judgment day, on the bloody morning after...One Tin Soldier rides away."
Originally recorded by Canadian group, The Original Caste.
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- Run Through the Jungle - Credence Clearwater Revival
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I notice in that top 40 list that it's a total mix Rock and Roll, R&B, Soul, Sinatra and Country. We were actually free to like any and all music....didn't have to choose up sides and hate some music. I remember in '66 at the EM club one of the juke box favorites was Buck Owens ( I Got the Hungrys for your Love and I'm Waitin' in your Welfare Line)...no kidding!
Every time I hear CCR "Fortunate Son" it reminds me of what a cowardly slug Al Gore was back then.
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The only possible way to make that song any worse is to have the burn out Bob Dylan try to sing it!!!!!!
He might have wrote a lot of great songs but the dude couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
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Fortunate Son
Purple Haze
Experience
White Room
Satisfaction
Seasons in the Sun
The End
For what it's worth
White Rabbit
Leaving on a jet plane
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I was born in 67, so a wee bit to young to serve. Anyway, by the end, I was old enough to remember a few things like---the music.
I've been wanting to ask this for a long time and was wondering what is THE song, that reminds you of Nam?
For me its many like:
Chapel of Love, Wooly Bully, These Boots Are Made For Walking, Paint It Black, Smoke On the Water etc.
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The Who - "Baba O'Riley"
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Steppenwolf - "Magic Carpet Ride"
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I don't know if it's been mentioned before by: Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter Paul and Mary. I recall that song was laying when my Cousin Bobby-was leaving for Nam in 70.
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I was born in 67, so a wee bit to young to serve. Anyway, by the end, I was old enough to remember a few things like---the music.
I've been wanting to ask this for a long time and was wondering what is THE song, that reminds you of Nam?
For me its many like:
Chapel of Love, Wooly Bully, These Boots Are Made For Walking, Paint It Black, Smoke On the Water etc.
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I feel like I'm Fixing to Die rag - Country Joe and The Fish,
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And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for?
Don't ask me I don't give a damn
Next stop is Vietnam.
And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates,
Well there ain't no time to wonder why,
Whoopie! We're all gonna die!
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followed by the live version of Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie; Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane; Star Spangled Banner - Hendrix live at Woodstock
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