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The project has categorised songs into a variety of themes, from anti-war / protest / peace songs, to patriotic / pro-government / anti-protest songs during the war years, as well an analysis of songs released in the post-war period. Other themes include regional songs, such as Puerto Ricans in the Vietnam War, Australia in the Vietnam War, New ...
Grusin's arrangement of "My Funny Valentine," sung by Michelle Pfeiffer, won the 1990 Grammy for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals. According to a survey conducted by Billboard , The Fabulous Baker Boys was the fifth best-selling jazz album of 1989.
[1] AllMusic writes that "2 + 2" is "a frightening, visceral song that stands among the best anti-Vietnam protests." [ 2 ] Music historian and editor of the Vietnam War Song Project Justin Brummer comments that by 1968 "songs began to emphasise the war’s length, military failures and growing fatality rate.
Walking on a Thin Line (song) War (The Temptations song) The War Is Over (Phil Ochs song) We Gotta Get Out of This Place; What the World Needs Now Is Love; What's Going On (song) Where Are You Now, My Son? Where Do We Go from Here? (Chicago song) The Windows of the World (song)
All compositions by Sonny Stitt except as indicated "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:26 "Sonny's Bunny" – 3:58 "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 4:19
"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard , appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists.
Soldiers stationed in Vietnam, listening to the song in June 1970, were undecided on whether the song was meant to protest the war itself or was "mocking a 'bad image' that many helicopter pilots and gunners feel they have acquired unfairly in the course of the war." [1] Music historian Justin Brummer, editor of the Vietnam War Song Project ...