Of late I have been posting much about Arizona and the leftist nuts, both here and on Facebook...I figured it was time for a change. After working 3 basketball games yesterday, as well as 2 on Thursday, and a rough and tumble JV game on Friday night, the rest for the knees, back, and legs are appreciated...10 games(including 3 double headers) await me this week, with my season, which ends in late February, half over, I can say I am looking forward to some late winter rest, before the Baseball season, and a large umpiring schedule, begins in mid March.
The Music of my Life______
When I arrived at Nha Trang Air Base on July 2, 1969...I was a Top 40 contemporary music and radio fan, by the time I left Tan Son Nhut AB on June 29th a year later, I still liked Top 40, but also had gotten into the newer "country rock" and what we called "Head Music" by the likes of Led Zepplin, Cream, and others. That time between "The Summer of Love(1967)" when I graduated from Celina(Ohio) High School and time after my Air Force days were completed, in May of 1972, were some IMO of the best times for music. The period between the old rock of Elvis, the newer, but tame stuff, by the Beatles, and the time before, in the later 70s that the garbage knows as "Disco" appeared on the scene. Of course Disco was nowhere as bad as the crap known as "Rap" that still infests the music world today, or worse yet, the trash that so-called performers like Lady Gag-Me, and others put out as "music"....anyway, back to the Summer of 69 and some of the songs that were on AFVN(Armed Forces Radio in Vietnam) when I stepped off that C-130 at Nha Trang, that sunny, hot, and humid day, in early July.
Here are a few of the songs in their original forms:
David Clayton and Blood, Sweat, and Tears, had several hits in a short time: "Spinning Wheel" was one I remember from my early days at Nha Trang:
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=kK62tfoCmuQ&feature=related
Kenny Rogers, before he was country icon, performed with "The First Edition" group...the song about a returning disabled Vietnam Veteran was still being played on AFVN when I arrived in-country:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EJGZt3X6uU
And one of my favorite artists, as hokey as it sometimes sounds today, back in 1969 was Glenn Campbell, who followed up his "Wichita Lineman" with the Jim Webb classic about a solider in Vietnam singing about his town and girl back in Texas..."Galveston":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUPCfIihQ4
And finally "Galveston", a more poignant version by the song writer/singer himself Jimmy Webb, on a salute to Vietnam Veterans on you tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMf6ydI-YI&feature=related
Damn, that wasn't hard....enjoy the remainder of the weekend, back later>>>>>
Photos/Pictures~PRH a couple of months after arriving at Nha Trang on the South China Sea, playing "Sky Cop" with the 14th SPS...day shift Law Enforcement was pretty easy duty in a "war zone"...and the album and .45 covers of BS&T, The First Edition, and Glenn Campbell back in the Summer of 1969
7 comments:
DUDE, they do not make music like that any more, such a shame.
You got that right Sarge....brings back some memories, times good and bad, the music, all good!
by the time I got to Ubon... (hmmmm that don't sound right)in 1972. I wasn't a hard core music person like you. I liked folk and folk rock. Simon and Garfunkel, Peter Paul and Mary, John Denver, The Band. Armed Forces Radio at Ubon played different sets at different time for all music persuasions. the one I liked the most came on while I was working nights it was called Metamorphosis. that one catered to the "heads" as it were. One night while riding SAT I managed to get to a telephone for a request, my best friend Ernie Butts was manning a tower that night and I got the DJ to play For What It's Worth and dedicate it to his post. Freaked him totally out and he was kinda hot about it when we got off. But a few beers later all was well.
mark
PS I just read your note to us left wing trolls. The Shadow does know. the night flight at Ubon was called Shadow Flight...
Ernie wasn't related to "Bertha Butts" was he? :)
Besides, you are not a left wing tool, just a garden variety leftist...I can live with those, few of them infested throughout the family, but weeding them out as the years go by, natural selection you know?
Awesome music. Yea, they tried to get some political benefit from that horrible event, but I think it's gonna backfire on them.
Good read, good music. Like Sergeant Charlie said, "they don't make music like that anymore."
BTW, I mentioned ya (and linked) in t'days blog-post.
That music-period is about the ONLY-category I still listen to. I once was heavy into Country---but in the past 10-years, Country ain't "Country" no more!(More like '90's "pop-rock", to me!)
Didn't have much exposure to radio during my time in-country, except during the last-months, when I was re-assigned to a supply-battalion at Chu Lai, I believe it was?
And, stateside? The "big"-thing was, MOST FM-stations were already broadcasting in STEREO!!!
Whoa!!! Tie me down, dude...!!!☺
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