Episode 73: Vietnam War: The Music – Inspired by Michael Herr’s “Dispatches”

Vietnam War: The Music – Inspired by Michael Herr’s “Dispatches”
Dispatches (1977) by Michael Herr - A hybrid of memoir and fiction. It was hailed as one of the most important books about the war describing the experiences of disillusioned young American soldiers there. -----

Other Vietnam War reading:

• The Things They Carried (1990) by Tim O’Brien

• Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam (2001) by Lynda Van Devanter

• The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene

• Gods Go Begging (1999) by Alfredo Vea

• Music and War In The United States (2019) (Sarah Mahler Kraaz, Ed.) also references the manuscript by Christopher Waltrip, “Radio: Broadcasting the Story of a Soldier’s Life”

• Songs of The Vietnam Conflict (2001) by James E. Perone

• Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (2011) by Heather Stur

• Into The Green: A Reconnaissance By Fire (2001) by Cherokee Paul McDonald

• Year In Nam: A Native American Soldier’s Story (1999) by Leroy Tecube

• What It Is Like To Go To War (2011) by Karl Marlantes

• We Were Soldiers Once … And Young (1992)

• We Are Soldiers Still: A Journey Back to the Battlefields of Vietnam (2009)
o Both by Lt. Gen. Harold G. "Hal" Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway

----- For children: The Wall (1992) by Eve Bunting; Illustrated by Ronald Himler
Eve Bunting’s book does not attempt to explain the war but rather focuses on the loss to our country. Filled with sympathy for those who served, the story follows a young boy and his father visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington to look for the grandfather’s name. It is one of the most highly praised of all Vietnam War books for children. -----

In this episode you’ll hear:
1) 19th Nervous Breakdown by The Rolling Stones
2) San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) by Scott McKenzie
3) Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl by The Yardbirds
4) Galveston by Glen Campbell
5) Lil' Red Riding Hood by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
6) Foxy Lady by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
7) Puff (The Magic Dragon) by Peter, Paul And Mary
8) I'll Be Your Baby Tonight by Bob Dylan
9) (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by Aretha Franklin
10) Magical Mystery Tour by The Beatles
11) Trouble Every Day by The Mothers of Invention
12) Black Is Black by Los Bravos
13) The Unknown Soldier by The Doors
14) We Can Be Together by Jefferson Airplane
15) Spooky by Classics IV
16) Citadel by The Rolling Stones
17) Outside Woman Blues by Cream
18) Ring Of Fire by Johnny Cash
19) Shotgun by Junior Walker & The All Stars
20) Hungry by Paul Revere & The Raiders
21) Casey Jones by The Grateful Dead
22) We Gotta Get Out Of This Place by The Animals
23) Tighten Up by Archie Bell & The Drells
24) Ode to Billie Joe by Bobbie Gentry
25) Funky Broadway by Wilson Pickett
26) For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield
27) Visions Of Johanna by Bob Dylan
28) 2000 Light Years From Home by The Rolling Stones