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2. List of songs about the Vietnam War - Wikipedia

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   This list needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this list. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of songs about the Vietnam War" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This is a list of songs concerning ...

3. Vietnam War protest music - Wikipedia

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   The protest musicthat came out of the Vietnam Warera was stimulated by the unfairness of the draft, the loss of American lives in Vietnam, and the unsupported expansion of war. The Vietnam War era (1955–1975) was a time of great controversy for the American public. Desperate to stop the spread of communism in South-East Asia, the United ...

4. Vietnam War Song Project - Wikipedia

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   The Vietnam War Song Project ( VWSP) is an archive and interpretive examination of over 6000 Vietnam War songs identified. [ 1] It was founded in 2007 by its current editor, Justin A. Brummer, a historian with a PhD in contemporary Anglo-American relations from University College London. [ 2][ 3] The project analyses the lyrics, and collects ...

5. The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag - Wikipedia

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   The song's lyrics implicitly blame American politicians, high-level military officers, and industry corporations on starting the Vietnam War. McDonald composed "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" in the summer of 1965, just as the U.S.'s military involvement was increasing, and was intensively opposed by the young generation. [6]

6. Goodnight Saigon - Wikipedia

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   Goodnight Saigon. " Goodnight Saigon " is a song written by Billy Joel, originally appearing on his 1982 album The Nylon Curtain, about the Vietnam War. It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines beginning with their military training on Parris Island and then into different aspects of Vietnam combat.

7. The Great Compromise (song) - Wikipedia

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   Atlantic Records. Songwriter (s) John Prine. The Great Compromise is a song written and performed by John Prine. [1] The song was included on Prine's album Diamonds in the Rough which was released by Atlantic Records in 1972. It is an anti-war song and a protest song. Its theme is the disillusionment of the country during the Vietnam War era.

8. War (The Temptations song) - Wikipedia

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   War (The Temptations song) " War " is a counterculture -era soul song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for the Motown label in 1969. Whitfield first produced the song – a self-evident anti-Vietnam War statement – with The Temptations as the original vocalists. After Motown began receiving repeated requests to release "War" as ...

9. Fortunate Son - Wikipedia

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   In 2007, this song was used diegetically in Live Free or Die Hard and in the end credits. In the 2009 American Dad episode "In Country...Club", "Fortunate Son" plays during a Vietnam War reenactment battle. in 2010, the song was sung by Jeffster on the TV show Chuck. In 2012 the song was used for the end credits of Peter Berg's film Battleship.