I was a young teenager living in Subic Bay at the time, and the kid next door had the Fish Cheer playing max volume. It stopped suddenly, and his father took the album out back and smashed it against the top of the fence that bordered the jungle.
This performance of that song on the “Playboy After Dark” series the Hugh Hefner in the middle of the video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOo13RnfaMc
Vivi story. Case of a music critic’s veto.
This passage sent chills through many of draft age in those days:
“Come on mothers throughout the land, / Pack your boys off to Vietnam. / Come on fathers, don’t hesitate, / Send ‘em off before it’s too late. / Be the first one on your block / To have your boy come home in a box”.
I wasn’t one of them. Tried to enlist and failed the physical. My MD said not to bother trying again. He was a Marine vet. “With your heart you’d be dead during basic training.” Somehow, with God’s help, I healed and the rheumatic fever valve damage healed slowly on its own.
Saw him around 1971. We all waited for the F-cheer. Saying that word back then was serious rebellion when a teenager.
I remember he had a female drummer,clear drum set.