Orchestra of the Voice of Vietnam
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
1976 · Paredon P-1033 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Orchestra of the Voice of Vietnam
- Title
- Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
- Release
- The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh: Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom
- Year
- 1976
- Label
- Paredon # P-1033
- Format
- LP · Compilation
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Songwriter
- Hồ Chí Minh
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Speech · Spoken Word
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — North Vietnamese Songs
A mixture of songs, speeches, and poems about and by Hồ Chí Minh, the Vietnamese revolutionary leader. He died in 1969, a few years before the release of this record in 1976 - one year after the collapse of South Vietnam and the reunification of the country, a key objective of Ho Chi Minh. Paredon Records issued the LP (P-1033), aimed at the US music market.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Paredon P-1033, © 1976 Paredon Records, Box 889, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11202; the sleeve front carries a drawing of Ho Chi Minh's profile and describes the record as speeches, writings and poems of the leader of the Vietnamese Revolution read in English by Vu Thien Dinh, the actual voice of Ho Chi Minh addressing the American people in English, and music of the Vietnamese people and songs to the memory of Ho Chi Minh sung by Barbara Dane, Chris Iijima, Pablo Milanés and others. The 16-page booklet (printed by Faculty Press, Brooklyn) lists Side 1, Band 1 as "Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam" (Sept. 2, 1945), 4:45, read over "Hymn to the Leader" played by the Orchestra of the Voice of Vietnam and "The March of Liberation" sung by Vietnamese students, and prints the text of the declaration. In "How Did This Record Come to Be?" executive producer Barbara Dane…
About the artist
The orchestra of the Voice of Vietnam, the national radio of Vietnam, in Hanoi.
Themes
From the release The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh: Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom