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

[loknload]

A lot of really great stuff posted here! Really brings back some memories!

 

[caduceus]

Ringo kid thanks glad to have a shipmate. They were interesting times.

 

[pawngal]

Don't remember if this has been mentioned or not, some will apply it to today also.

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[Retired W4]

Sky Pilot

Eric Burton and the Animals said it best for me with Sky Pilot, a young W1/W2 flying combat assaults for the 25th ID, 9th ID (what was left of them), 199 Light IN, and 5 SF.

Out of uniform: Pat Fitzsimmons (KIA in an OH-58, AUG 1970) and myself, blowing smoke and trying not to think about the KIA's earlier that day.

 

[Retired W4]

Never understood that song. The subject seems to change.

Where you a helicopter pilot in RVN?

 

[Faulkner]

I'm not old enough to remember the war in Vietnam. Seems the first exposure to the war that I can recall was watching the movie.


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Only John Wayne could make the sun set in the east . . .

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[Captain O]

Eric Burton and the Animals said it best for me with Sky Pilot, a young W1/W2 flying combat assaults for the 25th ID, 9th ID (what was left of them), 199 Light IN, and 5 SF.

Out of uniform: Pat Fitzsimmons (KIA in an OH-58, AUG 1970) and myself, blowing smoke and trying not to think about the KIA's earlier that day.

Bless you, brother and welcome home.

We'll never forget.

 

[joeintexas]

The best place to get good sound back then without records was out of those two big reels at 7 1/2 "/ sec. with Ampex Tape and the TEAC that could probably be had at a great price at the PX along with the Pentax camera.

Man I hadn't thought of those things in ages!! One of my buds had one and he tortured us at least 19 hours a day with the 5th Dimension! Wedding bell blues, Aquarius-Let the sun shine in, Up up and away....I'm going to have nightmares tonight!!

 

[Gamecock]

Induction, then destruction who wants to die

 

[Bkreutz]

During that same period it seem most of us had to purchase a reel to reel sound system with turntable to spin those vinyls. It usually came with very large speakers, tweeters, woofers etc. you could blow the windows out. ......

I still have mine up in the attic, Teac 6300, Pioneer turntable, amp, tuner, cassette player and a couple of Sansui speakers with 15" bass cones. They've been boxed up for over 25 years, wonder if the mice have been chewing on them. I still have a closet full of records and tapes. Might come in handy someday (my wife says I never get rid of anything, she's correct).

 

[2hawk]

Wow, great thread! Another vote for "White Rabbit" here. Didn't serve, just missed the cutoff by about 18 months (whew!)- but I did hang with a lot of grunts from KMCAS in my ne'er-do-well youth.

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[Retired W4]

I still have mine up in the attic, Teac 6300, Pioneer turntable, amp, tuner, cassette player and a couple of Sansui speakers with 15" bass cones. They've been boxed up for over 25 years, wonder if the mice have been chewing on them. I still have a closet full of records and tapes. Might come in handy someday (my wife says I never get rid of anything, she's correct).

I had my Pioneer 1500 rebuilt several times and finally gave up. I still have it. I do still use my Pioneer PL 41 turntable and 88A speakers. What a sound. I gave my parents my Pioneer 77 speakers. The Animals could not have understood what they put down on vinyl, or could they? You'll never reach the sky. We would drop you off at the end of the day, and we would go home to our hooch and our stereo, hoping to get you out of there the next day.

Was it a Chaplin or the helicopter pilot? I don't know.

 

[GunarSailors]

https://youtu.be/j8vY3vAbAdQI am a man.

 

[tom turner]

So many, many already mentioned.

This one, was a sad one . . .
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[GRIZZLYBEAR]

Enjoyed looking through this thread and didn't remember seeing some of these names:

Wild Thing - The Troggs
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Machine Gun-Jimi Hendrix:
Hello Vietnam-Tom Hall
The Fightin Side of Me-Merle Haggard
Okie From Muskogee-Merle Haggard

 

[Fishslayer]

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[ordy]

Surprised no one has mentioned Janis Joplin....Take a little piece of my heart. Used to play that eight track in the ordnance shop and it drove the chief crazy. He'd yank it out of the player and replace it with different C&W artists. It disappeared one day and everyone accused the chief with a smile. He never admitted it but we knew it was him.

 

[perryhd]

I just wanted to thank Rustyt for posting that link to Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth. I listened to it and can not get it out of my head. Thanks a lot.

 

[cmort666]

"Ride of the Valkyries", "Run Through the Jungle" and "This is the End".

 

[pineappleshooter]

"Billy Don't be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. My teenage sister played that 45 over and over in the early 70s and it was probably the first song I knew the words to other than happy birthday. I was 5 or 6 at the time. My two daughters know all the words also since I play it frequently on my ipod in the car. They are 12 and 13.