[lodwick]

Thanks for your remembrance.

The Sounds of Viet Nam

The Rock and Roll war.....

To most Americans, the Vietnam War has a rock and roll soundtrack. Almost every novel, memoir or oral history of the war by a veteran mentions the music that the author listened to in Vietnam. All the songs of the '60s were part of the life in a combat zone. Troops listened to Sony radios, Akai stereos and Teac tape decks and new troops arrived weekly with the latest records from the states. Many of the sound clips below were recorded on a reel to reel recorder in Vietnam. They were then sent home and transferred to cassette. The sound quality is not the best but it sounded good to us back then.

[ladtx]

The music was an integral part of almost every helicopter pilots life over there. We could listen to AFVN radio as we flew by tuning the ADF receiver to the proper frequency. So virtually every aircraft was tuned in to the same music every day. The crewchiefs and gunners were always there to remind us to turn up the sounds if we got too busy in the front. The only time the radio was turned off was when we were on final to an assault. Everyone made sure they always caught Chicken Man at sometime during the day.

[lodwick]

Yankee Tangos 23 (front) and 24, aft flight deck LPH-8, late Dec. 1967?

[Mama_Bear]

"The sounds of Viet Nam"

Thank you for this, lodwick. The music during that time was the best. I was in my late teens during that time period. What memories those songs bring back!