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Release Sing Me a Song of Songmy
Year 1971
Label Atlantic # SD 1576
Format LP · Album
Country USA
Language English
Songs here 3 in the archive
Citation: Justin A. Brummer, Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) — Freddie Hubbard & Ilhan Mimaroglu, Sing Me a Song of Songmy, accessed 13 November 2026; cite each song by its SongID

Sing Me a Song of Songmy

1971 · Album · Atlantic # SD 1576 · USA
3 songs from this release are in the archive, listed below in catalogue order. Track positions are not recorded; the release may carry other songs that do not reference the war. Most common themes: Anti-War, Kent State, My Lai, Anti-Calley, Civil Rights.
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Annotation
A very experimental jazz album (Atlantic # SD 1576) from Freddie Hubbard and Ilhan Mimaroglu, it tackled the themes of war, violence, and Civil Rights, and included spooky monologues and Vietnamese poetry recited by Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca. The title of the album referred to the mass killings of Vietnamese civilians in two hamlets in the village of Song My, known at the time as the Massacre at Songmy, currently called the My Lai massacre. The front cover is Pablo Picasso's painting "Massacre in Korea" (1951), which protested American involvement in that conflict and was a strong anti-war piece. Recorded September 14–16, 1971, at Regent Sound Studios, New York City.

The song "What a Good Time for a Kent State" (Atlantic # SD 1576) began with sparse piano playing with a poem. Then the trumpets and saxophones entered with a bang, and a choir sung the names of those killed at the Kent State demonstration - as mentioned above, only a few other tracks did this.
Other Vietnam songs on this album
The album also included other references to Vietnam, such as in the songs "Black Soldier" (which combined the political issues of Vietnam with Civil Rights), "This Is Combat I Know", and "The Crowd", which included anti-war poetry: "I feel I can hold a guitar, I know I can hold...I think I can kill…This is combat, do whatever you want, burn my sky…but don’t burn my prize cows"12
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
The songs
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1971 · Album · Atlantic # SD 1576 · New York City, New York · Sing Me a Song of Songmy

Freddie Hubbard - born 7 April 1938, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Died 29 December 2008, Sherman Oaks, California, USA. İlhan Mimaroğlu - born 11 March 1926, İstanbul, İstanbul, Turkey. Died 17 July 2012, New York City, New York, USA.

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1971 · Album · Atlantic # SD 1576 · New York City, New York · Sing Me a Song of Songmy

Freddie Hubbard - born 7 April 1938, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Died 29 December 2008, Sherman Oaks, California, USA. İlhan Mimaroğlu - born 11 March 1926, İstanbul, İstanbul, Turkey. Died 17 July 2012, New York City, New York, USA.

3.
1971 · Album · Atlantic # SD 1576 · New York City, New York · Sing Me a Song of Songmy

Section of the side-long "Sing Me a Song of Songmy" suite; a choir sings the names of the four Kent State dead. Recorded July-August 1970, Regent Sound Studios, New York.

Genre: ♪ Jazz