Tôi người lái xe (I'm a Truck Driver)
Dihavina · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Quốc Hương & Hoàng Mãnh
- Title
- Tôi người lái xe (I'm a Truck Driver)
- Release
- Hànội Huế Sàigòn
- Label
- Dihavina
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- An Chung
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc đỏ
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Notes
Dihavina 33, "Hànội – Việt Nam"; the front shows two white cranes in flight over a dark landscape under a yellow-green sky, with the title "Hànội Huế Sàigòn" in hand lettering and a small artist's signature at the top left. The back gives, for each song, the Vietnamese and English titles, music, lyrics, orchestration or piano arrangement, performers and conductor, with a one-sentence English summary; performers include Thanh Huyền (soprano) with the Orchestra of the Central Folk Music Ensemble, the Girl Chorus and Orchestra of the National People's Song and Dance Ensemble (conductors Quang Hải, Trần Quý), the Girl Chorus and Orchestra and the Male Chorus and Orchestra of the "Voice of Viet Nam" (conductors Nguyễn Văn Đậu, Cao Việt Bách), with Hoàng Mãnh at the piano. The title song is described as "Hà nội, Huế and Sài Gòn sisters of the same family now temporarily separated but surely…
About the artist
Quốc Hương: Vietnamese singer, born Nguyễn Quốc Hương on 21 August 1915 in Kim Sơn, Ninh Bình, died 19 February 1984 in Ho Chi Minh City; one of the first generation of revolutionary singers, closely identified with "Hồ Chí Minh đẹp nhất tên người", and also a songwriter. Hoàng Mãnh: Vietnamese pianist, born Võ Đức Quý on 17 December 1933 in Saigon, died 1 August 2015 in Ho Chi Minh City; a Meritorious Artist and one of the best-known piano accompanists of Vietnamese vocal music. [Source: Wikipedia (Vietnamese)]
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Communism · Air War