Kansas City
49th State Hawaii Record Co. ST-3462 · Honolulu, Hawaii
- Artist
- Trần Kim Anh
- Title
- Kansas City
- Release
- This Is Saigon, Vietnam
- Label
- 49th State Hawaii Record Co. # ST-3462
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Songwriter
- Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
- Genre
- Vietnamese Music · Nhạc vàng
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Notes
49th State Hawaii Record Co., Honolulu, Hawaii; labels ST 3462-A and ST 3462-B, stereo, titled "This Is Saigon!", with each song credited to its singer ("Miss Tran Kim Anh", "Miss Ngoc My", "Miss Phuong Dung", "Miss Thuy Nhien", "Miss Phuoc Van"); no writers or times are printed. The front cover, a painted Saigon street scene with a woman in a conical hat, cyclists, a scooter and soldiers in red berets, reads "This Is Saigon Viet-Nam" and "Unforgettable songs recorded in Saigon by 49th State Hawaii Record Company", with a "Stereophonic" sticker over LP-3462; the back is numbered "49th State Hi-Fi LP-3462". The back notes introduce South Vietnam and say the album captures "five of the top singers of the night clubs in Saigon" whose songs "are known to every American Serviceman in Viet Nam", singing in Vietnamese, English and French, and end "A great souvenir of Saigon and Saigon…
About the artist
Billed on the sleeve as "Patty Pink", a 26-year-old singer born in Hanoi who came to Saigon twelve years earlier, enjoyed sports and swimming, and sang at the Tu Do Club. [Source: record sleeve and labels]
Themes
From the release This Is Saigon, Vietnam