SSgt. Barry Sadler - Ballads of the Green Berets
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Artist: SSgt. Barry SadlerBrand: BALLAD OF THE GREEN BERETS (CD)
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-05-19
Music Label: Collector's Choice
Soundtracks:
- Ballads Of The Green Berets
- I'm A Lucky One
- Letter From Vietnam
- Badge Of Courage
- Saigon
- Salute To The Nurses
- I'm Watching The Raindrops Fall
- Garet Trooper
- The Soldier Has Come Home
- Lullaby
- Trooper's Lament
- Bamiba
- The 'A' Team
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Free Music Review: My Cousin and A Pride to our Family and our Country
Hit: 5 Stars
I grew up listening to Barry, his ballads were heard not just because of his being our cousin, but because of the pride we all took in him as a green beret and for our country and for what his ballads stood for. My father has his original album today. Still unscathed throughout the years. I still enjoy listening to it, and always will and will always pass this pride down to my own grandchildren, with the story of Barry Sadler, his heritage, and his belief and commitment to the United States of America.
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1. Ballad Of The Green Berets2. I'm A Lucky One3. Letter From Vietnam4. Badge Of Courage5. Saigon6. Salute To The Nurses7. I'm Watching The Raindrops Fall8. Garet Trooper9. Soldier Has Come Home The10. Lullaby11. Trooper's Lament12. Bamiba13. Team The "A" - (bonus track)Format: CDBarry Sadler drove a sharp spike into the already polarized American psyche with his unabashedly patriotic and pro-Vietnam War chant "Ballad of the Green Berets," which rocketed to the top of the charts in 1966. Supporters of the war in Southeast Asia embraced "Ballad of the Green Berets" as an anthem; antiwar activists derided it as jingoistic, machismo garbage. In retrospect, they were both right. Sadler, a wounded and decorated Vietnam veteran, possessed a thin, stilted baritone better suited to recitations than actual singing (which there is actually very little of herein). As a songwriter, he was little more than one-dimensional. And, sadly, like so many veterans, Sadler's life seemed to slowly unravel after the war, and after the fleeting taste of fame that "Green Berets" afforded him. Though he continued to record and write soldier-of-fortune-style pulp war novels, he never had another hit. He died in 1989 after being shot in the head near his home in Guatemala, under mysterious and somewhat seedy circumstances. Oddly, though, when heard today, far removed from its emotion-charged original context, this scant, musically inconsequential collection of guts-and-glory odes and reminiscences takes on new meaning as a slender but vivid historical document from one of America's most divided and tumultuous epochs. --Bob Allen
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