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Old 01-06-2011, 10:20 AM
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Now this may not be T2K, but it is intresting...This is a list of the popular music of the US Army in Vietnam:

The Letter (Box Tops)
Leaving on a Jet Plane (Peter, Paul and Mary)
We've Gotta Get Out of This Place (The Animals)
Paint it Black (Rolling Stones)
The Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)
I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Tony Bennett)
Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival, hereafter CCR)
Bad Moon Rising (CCR)
Wooly Bully (Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs)
A Whiter Shade of Pale (Procol Harum)
All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (the Fifth Dimension)
As Tears Go By (Rolling Stars)
Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin)
Baby Love (Diana Ross and the Supremes)
Ballad of Ira hayes (Johnny Cash)
Billy and Sue (BJ Thomas)
Black is Black (Los Bravos)
Black Magic Woman (Santana)
Bobby McGee (Bobby Gentry & Glen Campbell)
Born on the Bayou (CCR)
Burning Bridges (the Mike Curb Congregation)
Coming Home Soldier (Bobby Vinton)
Crimson and Clover (Tommy James & the Shondells)
Darling Be Home Soon (Lovin' Spoonful)
Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes)
Different Drum (Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys)
Do You Believe in Magic (The Lovin' Spoonful)
Don't Worry, Baby (Beach Boys)
Draft Dodger Rag (Phil Ochs)
Drive On (Johnny Cash)
Eve of Destruction (Barry McGuire)
For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield)
Fortunate Son (CCR)
Galveston (Glen Campbell)
Get Off of My Cloud (Rolling Stones)
Good Morning Sunshine (Oliver)
Goodnight Saigon (Billy Joel)
Hang on Snoopy (The McCoys)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain (CCR)
Heartbreaker (the Crystals)
Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix)
Heu Jude (the Beatles)
House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
I Wish It Would Rain (the Temptations)
I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag (Country Joe McDonald & the Fish)
I'm a Believer (The Monkees)
In the Year 2525 (Zaeger & Evans)
Is There Anybody Here (Phil Ochs)
Judy in Disguise (John Fred & the Playboys)
Let's Spend the Night Together (Rolling Stones)
Light My Fire (the Doors)
Long As I Can See the Light (CCR)
Lookin' Out My Back Door (CCR)
Louie Louie (the Kingsmen)
Love the One You're With (Stephen Stills)
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo (Lobo)
Monday, Monday (Mamas & the Papas)
Mr. Lonely (Bobby Vinton)
My Girl (the Temtations)
Nowhere Man (the Beatles)
Ode to Billy Joe (Bobbie Gentry)
Okie from Muskogee (Merle Haggard)
One (Three Dog Night)
Positively 4th Street (Bob Dylan)
Presence of the Lord (Blind Faith)
Proud Mary (Ike and Tina Turner)
Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
Radio V-I-E-T-N-A-M (Bell & Shore)
Reach Out, I'll Be There (the Four Tops)
Rescue Mission (Kris Kristofferson)
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town (Kenny Rogers)
Run Through the Jungle (CCR)
Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the Beatles)
Sherry (the Four Seasons)
Silver Medals and Sweet Memories (the Statler Brothers)
Snoop vs the Red Baron (the Royal Guardsmen)
Soldier Boy (the Shirelles)
Soul Deep (the Box Tops)
Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette)
Star-Spangled Banner (Jimi Hendrix)
Still in Saigon (Charlie Daniels Band)
Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch (the Four Tops)
Susie Q (CCR)
These Boots Are Made for Walking (Nancy Sinatra)
Tighten Up (Archie Bell & the Drells)
Unchained Melody (the Righteous Brothers)
Up Around the Bend (CCR)
Veterans Day (Tom Russell)
Vietnam Blues (Dave Dudley)
Walk Like a Man (the Four Seasons)
What's Going On (Marvin Gaye)
When A Man Loves A Woman (Percy Sledge)
Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin
You Didn't Have To Be So Nice (the Lovin'Spoonful)

and then there is Special Forces Sergeant Barry Sadler who had three hit songs: "The Ballad of the Green Beret", "I'm A Lucky One" and "Trooper's Lament"

This list is from Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War by James F. Dunnigna and Albert A Nofi. It simply is the best list that I have seen for the music of the Vietnam War.
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