I do not have to tell you guys that in every movie about the Vietnam war music is played that’s deeply connected to that time, the society and lifestyle of the late 60’s/early 70’s. Some -with the fitting age- will remember it anyway.
Driving in my car today I heard a song which I immediately associated with the Vietnam War. I was listening to good old CCR anfd this takes me immediately to one of my faves regarding this topic
Creedance Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son”. Somebody fixed a matching clip to this. Lookie here:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=zhHyusaCRiY&feature=related
Eve of Destruction - by Barry McGuire
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=QslV5asj_yM
Where Have all the Flowers Gone: Eve of Destruction
music: Eve of Destruction, by Barry McGuire
War - by Edwin Starr
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dorHwxb8ecE
War - Vietnam Music Video
1970 single by Edwin Starr
White Rabbit - by Jefferson Airplane
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wlF5540ekDM
Vietnam song
Time of the Season - by The Zombies
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpo6IbNz3jI
WAR VIETNAM WAR NAM music video TIME
For What It’s Worth - by Buffalo Springfield
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PoularuSy9Q
VIETNAM music video WAR WARRIOR
Paint it Black - by The Rolling Stones
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VUFOvAqsM9M
WAR VIETNAM WAR music video BLACK
Have You Ever Seen the Rain - by CCR Creedence Clearwater Revival
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yzU-ETveisM
VIETNAM WAR music video no 2
Who’ll Stop The Rain - by CCR Creedence Clearwater Revival
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9jqwfhQ0_Zs
VIETNAM WAR NAM music video RAIN
Bad Moon Rising - by CCR Creedence Clearwater Revival
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L_n70k1UOP0
VIETNAM WAR NAM music video bad moon
Fortunate Son - by CCR Creedence Clearwater Revival
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x7q_2SoC9rY
VIETNAM WAR music video
All Along the Watchtower - by Jimi Hendrix
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGT9a3NrFI
VIETNAM WAR music video
Magic Carpet Ride - by Steppenwolf
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t9hP3o_EOo8
VIETNAM WAR NAM music video RIDE
Where Have All The Flowers Gone - by Roy Orbison
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=u09V3tkVk7I
from UK televison station Yorkshire Television - city of Leeds in 1970
Fantastic, George, this combination of the music and those pictures gives me goose bumps. Really hard to imagine how to go back to civilian life if you went through all this.
Thanks 
Yes, I can remember those times, although I was just a boy in gradeschool at the time.
Well i like the some what related copper head road and born in the usa
Oh gotta love five to one by the doors
Or “Alice’s Restaurant.”
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGpijVPIwPY&feature=related
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJx3WIMiatg&feature=related
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned “We Gotta Get out of This Place” by The Animals.
Almost the anthem of that war.
Vietnam’s “Lili Marlene”?
Sky Pilot, Eric burden/Animals. one of my favorites from those days. Although you didnt hear it, or any of the real music of that era on A.F.R.N.
I had a swag of songs and links which got lost on random button press, so now I’ll just do them one at a time.
Ohio
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HVi-DXOfnAM
Still in Saigon
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SOfrnKqk3zw
Galveston
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oIUPCfIihQ4
I feel like I’m fixin to die
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s5btZWbViPA
Requiem for the masses
http://youtube.com/watch?v=J-Gdfe-Glxc
Ruby
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYcqlEZxGQ
The Letter
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-z8RCfnWPOo
Vietnam Blues
http://youtube.com/watch?v=c_NTvFrrzao
Soldier boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcYu_gTSCrY
Harper Valley PTA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn4-2qMErgM
Nights in white satin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8
Has to be close to the ultimate Vietnam era song.
A whiter shade of pale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWULu5_nXI&feature=related
Smiley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__s39V3mYE
Standing in the Shadows of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXIjme6BOo
My favourite.
Khe Sahn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH07B90NFjE&feature=related
I was only 19. Three versions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmgwx77osw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-bf2o9UejE
Mr. Bob Dylan:
“Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Subterranean Homesick Blues.”
Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland / Out here in the fields …) - by The Who
and The General - by Dispatch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0z7K1w-A5I
Pats Vietnam Project! (with music by The Who, and Dispatch)
Who’s Next album released on July 31, 1971 in the United States
Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland / Out here in the fields …) - by The Who
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g
Who’s Next album released on July 31, 1971 in the United States
Run Through the Jungle by CCR Credence Clearwater Revival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC4tpeN6pj4
REAL Vietnam Footage…
Love Minus Zero / No Limit - by Bob Dylan (one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAQ7GsDzx8Q
Album - Bringing It All Back Home - 04 Love Minus Zero/No Limit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjmJmm3kV38
1978 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIbfIqHCJiM
1975 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vedUk9UPi0U
1965 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ1_ejNJz84
1965 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wtFrBnDoos
Those Were the Days - by Mary Hopkin (1968) in English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KODZtjOIPg
Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8K4gJxuesw (July 1970)
Those Were the Days - by Mary Hopkin (le temps des fleurs) in French
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRU59nv1yzM
Those Were The Days - by Sandie Shaw (1968 - colour) in French and English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp5VALCcWMw
Those Were The Days - by Bonnie Tyler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrVX8qC_PQ0
Look What They’ve Done To My Song Ma - by Melanie Safka (1970) English and French
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0-bbSSaNFE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iamNec8kl2o (Live 1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHF-iApfWis (Live)
Son of a preacher man - by Dusty Springfield (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJM5K51peVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrxan8S8aoU
Georgy Girl - by The Seekers (1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHM8tmYyrI (Live in Australia 1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-GApOqzgWM - concert was filmed during
Moomba in Melbourne in 1967 at Melbourne’s Sidney Myer Music Bowl to a crowd of 200,000 fans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Renlji79YFE (Ed Sullivan Show 1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVfLNCW4Fs (farewell concert July 7 1968 in London)
Downtown - Petula Clark (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUSYb3igXzI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GVE7lRZuFM (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHNGvEdTwBQ (Live)
These Boots Are made For Walking Original - Nancy Sinatra (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOx5S77MJ7o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnjUIclFUWY (with interview)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OU7Nezg7Ls
ALSO:
http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showpost.php?p=129739&postcount=2
George, thanks for fixing that up.
It’s about half the list I lost, although a few of the missing ones have been posted by others.
For my punishment, I must write out 100 times:
When doing long or time-consuming posts, do them in Word and keep saving them, then I will not lose them seconds before I am about to post my great work. :evil:
Didn’t get around to this last night, but there’s a story behind Smiley.
Johnny Young, a pop identity of the sixties, wrote it about Normie Rowe, one of the biggest Australian pop stars of the sixties. Rowe served in Vietnam as a cavalryman. It changed him and damaged his promising career.
From an interview transcript in 2006
NORMIE ROWE, IN VOICEOVER: In 1964, November 1964, the Federal Government introduced a ballot to bolster the armed forces via national service, and by 1967 it was my turn. And I turned 20 and I had to register.
I felt that if it was good enough for a bank jockey, a motor mechanic or something like that to go into the army and perhaps go to Vietnam, then it was good enough for a pop singer.
NEWSREADER: Just in case you didn’t recognise him, the soldier is singer, Normie Rowe.
NORMIE ROWE: I actually quite enjoyed my time at Puckapunyal, recruit training and then on to corps training, and I guess it was because I always said that if I had a chance to get a medal for my kids to wear on ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day, I would do that, because I remember feeling left out because my dad didn’t have anything like that. I think even now it was quite, for a young man, an honourable decision. I put my hand up for a fighting unit and I got the call to go to Vietnam.
Living in Vietnam became a strange thing. It was a surreal thing to me, because that became normal. The difference between being in Australia and being here faded because we were so busy doing what we had to do in Vietnam.
When I came home… my brother-in-law was driving the car and I had to say to him, “Mate, please slow down.” He was doing 10mph less than the speed limit and I asked him to slow down, and I think that’s when I realised I’d really changed. When I went on stage for the very first time, that’s when I realised that Australia had changed. And it was like… it was like being on a train, getting off at your station, and realising that that wasn’t the station you thought you were gonna get off at.
It’s true Vietnam killed my career. I can look at it with bitterness and wish things were different, or I can take out of it the fact that I’ve got the best friends any man ever had, and they are all Vietnam veterans. The Vietnam veteran community, the ex-service community at large… is a brother and sisterhood. It’s a fraternity. And we all know something that people who haven’t been to a war don’t know, and most of us would prefer not to know it. But now that we DO know it, we would love to know that no-one else gets to know it.
http://www.abc.net.au/talkingheads/txt/s1565435.htm
Normie in his pre-war heyday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt0RI6N6oL8&feature=related
Civilian appearance with military haircut while, I think, he was in service.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXaToXHaeiY&feature=related
Not a problem RS 
I made a point to copy all your posts to Notepad in the same order that you had originally posted them.
I think we all have went through that unfortunate experience of losing long posts because the login timed out.
I just make a habit of typing longer posts out ahead of time in Notepad.
Great songs by the way
PS: I added a few more songs to my previous post.
Ahh!
I didn’t think of that. I couldn’t work out what happened. Usually I can recover lost work with the back button.
But, as I spent several years telling my obstinate son who would not keep saving as he worked, if you don’t save every few minutes you will lose your work.
I confess I have no excuse for not doing my lost post in Word to begin with.
I shall administer some severe whacks to my wrist later. 
All yours are also good ones, as are all the others posted.
I’ve been a little liberal with a couple of my songs as being part of the era, as distinct from being specifically related to and aired during the war.
There’s a ton of sixties stuff that goes with the war that isn’t war themed but was part of the troops’ experience, e.g. Tracks of my tears, Heard it off the grapevine, a lot of Motown stuff, Beach Boys, Phil Spector Wall of Sound stuff, British stuff like Mersey Sound and all sorts of other influences like Sukiyaki http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k&feature=related and the Singing Nun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suehSgf_ILs although some of these are during Western involvement in Vietnam but before it involved large numbers of Western troops.
Looking back, there was a lot more musical variety in that era than there is now. Or maybe I’m just getting old. Probably the latter. :neutral:
Instrumentals are usually forgotten, but there were some good ones in the sixties which I associate with the Vietnam era I lived through, although some of them were aired much earlier but still remained popular on vinyl off the airwaves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo4DvZmHU9Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY-rPDwzM9M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Q86K5HW2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYSDYDc8mE