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"Day Is Done" is a song written by Peter Yarrow. It was recorded by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary and released as a single in 1969. An anti-war protest song of the Vietnam War era, the song reached No. 21 on Billboard Hot 100, and was ranked No. 48 on the Billboard year-end Top Easy Listening Singles chart of 1969.
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The protest music that came out of the Vietnam War era 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 ...
The song reflects on those who served in the Vietnam War and whose names are forever etched in stone at the Vietnam War Memorial. As of this writing, the wall currently has 58,000 names and counting.
[155]: 508–513 This ended direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, created a ceasefire between North Vietnam/PRG and South Vietnam, guaranteed the territorial integrity of Vietnam under the Geneva Conference of 1954, called for elections or a political settlement between the PRG and South Vietnam, allowed 200,000 communist troops to remain ...
The Vietnam War Song Project has identified over 100 songs about Lt. Calley and the Mỹ Lai massacre, with music historian Justin Brummer writing in History Today that "The most well-known song defending Calley was the ‘Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley’ (1971), by Terry Nelson, which sold over one million copies". [1]
[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.
He left us a legacy of important songs that continue to be relevant in 1976—even though "the war is over". Just one year ago – during this week of the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War – Phil recruited entertainers to appear at the "War is Over" celebration in Central Park, at which I spoke.