Whats THE song, that makes you think of the Vietnam War?

[rwsmith]

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

 

[wuluf]

I'm 61 was too young for Viet Nam but for me it's "Bad Moon Risin'" by Creedence..

 

[Qc Pistolero]

I hadn't finished reading the question that I was hearing''paint it black'' in my head.Boy,seems like last year!
Qc

 

[BigBill]

Mine is ccr here it goes,,,,, Taxi, taxi, taxi!!!!!!!
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TyDQs0ajxEc[/ame]

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVpihgwE18[/ame]

 

[df06]

Nam song

Fortunate Son by Credence Clearwater

Fortunate son, CCR.

Did not serve in the military. Several friends did and survived, but one changed in a bad way.

 

[BigBill]

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.

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

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.

 

[BigDog48]

Scott McKenzie, "San Francisco" San Francisco - Scott McKenzie - YouTube

 

[lowriderfxr]

Way too young to serve but Woodstock "Back to the garden" or Paint it Black.

 

[joebiker]

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.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

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.

 

[Stevens]

CCR's Run Through the Jungle
Steve W.

 

[old tanker]

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.

 

[Frank46]

We gotta get outta this place, Louie louie and Galveston. Frank

 

[BigBill]

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.
May godbless them all on this special holiday.
[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LNYT1J8Fop4[/ame]

 

[RubenZ]

I'm only 36, but I gotta say, that was one of the best eras in Music!! All excellent songs listed here.

 

[Andrew2105]

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.

 

[Gamecock]

I'm only 36, but I gotta say, that was one of the best eras in Music!! All excellent songs listed here.

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.

 

[soFlaNative]

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.

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
back to 1970 when I was 10. Cool song.

 

[Onomea]

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.