Credited on the record as Trần Thụ, Tuyết Nhung and The Girl Chorus and Orchestra of the "Voice of Viet Nam".
Vàm Cỏ Đông
Dihavina · Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Artist
- Trần Thụ & Tuyết Nhung
- Credited on the record as
- Trần Thụ, Tuyết Nhung and The Girl Chorus and Orchestra of the "Voice of Viet Nam"
- Title
- Vàm Cỏ Đông
- Release
- Hànội Huế Sàigòn
- Label
- Dihavina
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Vietnamese
- Country
- Hanoi, North Vietnam
- Songwriter
- Trương Quang Lục, Hoài Vũ
- 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
Trần Thụ: Vietnamese baritone, born 26 November 1929 in Hanoi, died 2009 in Hanoi; a leading voice of revolutionary and chamber song, long attached to the Voice of Vietnam radio, and made Meritorious Artist in 1984. [Source: Wikipedia (Vietnamese)]
Themes
Vietnamese Perspective · Vietnamese Patriotic · Guerrilla Warfare