Ballads of the Green Berets

SSgt. Barry Sadler - Ballads of the Green Berets

Ballads of the Green Berets
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Artist: SSgt. Barry Sadler
Brand: Infinity
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 1998-05-19
Music Label: Collector's Choice
Soundtracks:
  1. Ballad of the Green Berets
  2. I'm the Lucky One
  3. Letter from Vietnam
  4. Badge of Courage
  5. Saigon
  6. Salute to the Nurses
  7. I'm Watching the Raindrops Fall
  8. Garet Trooper
  9. The Soldier Has Come Home
  10. Lullaby
  11. Trooper's Lament
  12. Bamiba
  13. The A-Team [*]

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Free Music Review: SENDS CHILLS UP YOUR SPINES
Hit: 5 Stars

S/Sgt. Sadler is a true American hero, as are all the veterans, men and women, who have struggled, died , or have been seriously injured, and those who have served in non-combat, supportive roles.I honor them every day.

I have read the 38 reviews and it has been as expected, except for several demeaning ones with which I take strong umbrage.But,
as Voltaire said, "I may not agree with your opinion,but I will fight to my death to defend it.'

This reviewer would like to to touch upon some of the other songs n the tape there are sometimes overlooked, but are very good. One of my favorites is the song sung to the Vietnam nurses; it has a poignancy that is very touching; the way the Sergeant says "Vietnam" gives this otherwise negative word some sense of n ormalcy and therefore provides an ironic counterpopint to the theme. I also like the way the Sergeant pronounces the names of Vietnam cities. "Lullaby" is very poignant; but for every song such as this the Sergeant comes back with a tale of sitting in jail. And, 'Garret Trooper," is very funny; so there is a mikxture of patriotism, irony, humor, pathos, and introspection in the lyrics that belies the seemingly simplictic nature of the songs. Before anyone starts criticizing the Sergeant's songs as being, "simplistic" I would suggest a course English Literature. Start with the concepts of mood, tone, setting and then work up to irony.

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A genuine 60s artifact! This album sold two million copies in five weeks, includes Barry's chart toping single 'The 'A' Team' as a bonus track. Also includes liner notes. Collector's Choice.
Barry 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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