Veterans Day virtual 10 at 10

[Tinka Cat]

Too bad KFOG missed the chance to do a Veterans Day set.  I didn't even think of suggesting one via FB to AL, but maybe for next year the groundswell of support (we're about to generate, here, with this topic!) will reach her.    I don't have anywhere near the all encompassing or encyloedic knowledge of rock or pop that some here have, but I'll start off wit my two cents, putting down what will probably be obvious:

Veterans Day 10 at 10 - (Hypothetical)

Unknown Soldier - The Doors
Over There -  George M. Cohan
In The Navy - Village People
Born In The U.S.A. -  Bruce Springsteen
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - Better Midler
Ballad of the Green Berets  (HFH)
Generals and Majors - XTC  (I know, uber Morey-fave bordering on Katrina)
Sky Pilot - The Animals

there are countless news and movie clips we could use, among them:

The mean sgt from Full Metal Jacket ("Fatbody!")
Sgt Hulka (played the fantastic Warren Oates) from Stripes ("Lighten up, Francis.")
The Best Years of Our Lives
Officer And A Gentleman ("..Steers and queers..")
etc

[sundaygal]

I'd also add:  I Love A Man In A Uniform - Gang Of Four 

[RGMike]

peacenik that I am, I'd suggest:

Donovan, "Universal Soldier"

would "Ruby Don't take Your Love to Town" be appropriate? 

[ggould]

Donovan "Universal Soldier"
Dylan "God on Our Side"
Joan Baez "The Partisan"  (Leonard Cohen song)
Country Joe and the Fish "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag"

and so on

[urth]

And perhaps CSNY's Find the Cost of Freedom?

[RGMike]

And perhaps CSNY's Find the Cost of Freedom?

oh my yes.

and for lightheartedness:

"Soldier Boy", Shirelles
"Navy Blue", Diane Renay

and creepiness:

Stan Ridgeway, "Camouflage"

oh, and for DADT: Billy Bragg's "Tender Comrade".

[Gazoo]

Ssgt. Barry Sadler, "Ballad of the Green Berets"
Don McLean or George Michael, "The Grave"
Freda Payne, "Bring the Boys Home"

[RGMike]

Ssgt. Barry Sadler, "Ballad of the Green Berets"
Don McLean or George Michael, "The Grave"
Freda Payne, "Bring the Boys Home"

BTW are you (or anyone here) familiar with the LP that Country Joe McDonald did in the early '70s, where he took the anti-war poems of Robert W Service -- written during WWI; Service was a soldier -- and set them to music. It was much-admired back then and I think it is long-since out-of-print. Geoff might remember it, if anyone here would.

[ggould]

Ssgt. Barry Sadler, "Ballad of the Green Berets"
Don McLean or George Michael, "The Grave"
Freda Payne, "Bring the Boys Home"

BTW are you (or anyone here) familiar with the LP that Country Joe McDonald did in the early '70s, where he took the anti-war poems of Robert W Service -- written during WWI; Service was a soldier -- and set them to music. It was much-admired back then and I think it is long-since out-of-print. Geoff might remember it, if anyone here would.

I had to go over to my vinyl and see if I had it; I couldn't find it.  Yes, I remember it, but don't know how much I've heard.  Country Joe always was the real deal, being a vet himself.  Not like these chicken hawks.

[Tinka Cat]

NPR did a piece on music related to Veterans Day, and they profiled this 13-CD box set titled Next Stop Is Vietnam.

"They range from a folk ballad released just before U.S. troops landed to a 2008 song about the aftereffects that veterans still suffer. Hugo Keesing put the collection together. It's a project he's worked on since the early 1970s, when he taught psychology courses to U.S. troops a few hundred miles up the coast from Saigon."

http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131242902/-next-stop-is-vietnam-a-war-in-song

[RGMike]

NPR did a piece on music related to Veterans Day, and they profiled this 13-CD box set titled Next Stop Is Vietnam.

wow, that set looks seriously awesome -- only $289.98 on Amazon! 

[ggould]

NPR did a piece on music related to Veterans Day, and they profiled this 13-CD box set titled Next Stop Is Vietnam.

wow, that set looks seriously awesome -- only $289.98 on Amazon! 

I found a song list elsewhere:
http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8238943

Lots of bizarre answer songs (Dawn of Correction to Eve of Destruction, Universal Coward to Universal Soldier)

spend some time checking out the sound samples