Credited on the record as 中央合唱団.
南ベトナムからの手紙 [Letter From South Vietnam]
1966 · Center [Tokyo] Sonopiece 18 · Tokyo, Japan
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- Artist
- Central Choir
- Credited on the record as
- 中央合唱団
- Title
- 南ベトナムからの手紙 [Letter From South Vietnam]
- Release
- 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう １８ ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2]
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Center [Tokyo] # Sonopiece 18
- Format
- Flexi · EP
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Tokyo, Japan
- Songwriter
- 寺原伸夫 (music), 門倉訣 (words)
- Genre
- Japanese Music · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
Japanese: 母さん母さん元気ですか 銃声とだえた夜明け前 北を見つめて心に誓う 狼の群を追いはらう
Notes
B3. A young South Vietnamese fighter writes to his mother: "drive out the pack of wolves, beat back the American soldiers". Written summer 1965 for the 1st Concert Against the Aggression in Vietnam Center Sonopiece series No. 18, "ベトナム特集 NO.2", ¥300, dark red flexi-disc, 33⅓ rpm, "音楽センター制作"; No. 18A: 日本・ベトナム, 大行軍の歌, ベトナム叙事詩, ディエンビエンの勝利; No. 18B: 統一ベトナム, ベトナム開放区 [sic], 南ベトナムからの手紙; chorus 中央合唱団, piano 田村慧子, accordion 松永 and 木下, conductor 井上頼豊; the lyric sheet gives side timings A 8:14 and B 8:02. The front is a colour photograph of a smiling young Vietnamese woman in a conical hat with workers building behind her; the back lists the Center Sonopiece series (Nos. 6, 10 and 11 marked as missing numbers) and Ongaku Center, 西大久保3-67, 新宿区, Tokyo. The lyric sheet is printed over photographs of a fisherman with nets and a soldier in a conical hat with rifle. The notes say 日本―ベトナム won first place…
Themes
Anti-War · Vietnamese Perspective · Reunification · Anti-American
From the release 平和のうたごえを１０００万人にひろげよう １８ ベトナム特集 NO.2 [Let's Spread the Voice of Peace to 10 Million People 18 – Vietnam Special No. 2]
In collections
Japanese Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]