M'amuser
49th State Hawaii Record Co. ST-3462 · Honolulu, Hawaii
- Artist
- Phước Vân
- Title
- M'amuser
- Release
- This Is Saigon, Vietnam
- Label
- 49th State Hawaii Record Co. # ST-3462
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- French
- Country
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- 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
Described on the sleeve as eighteen, the youngest of the album's singers, a student who sang at the Queen Bee, Olympic and Eden Roc night clubs and spoke Vietnamese, French and English. [Source: record sleeve and labels]
Themes
From the release This Is Saigon, Vietnam