Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler hits #1 with “Ballad of the Green Berets”

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[Lumper20]

I am a Vietnam Vet who was shot twice on 04/26/69.
Ask me for my records.

[Fiji Hill]

This got airplay on some stations in my area.

Wish You Were Here, Buddy--Pat Boone (1966)

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Barry Sadler - Gareth Trooper
https://youtu.be/CJfnBJ3t1E4

[Fiji Hill]

The Shangri-Las weighed in to support the war effort.

Take the Time--The Shangri-Las (1967)

[shanover]

Vietnam was a patriot war before it wasn't

We even did cadence about Vietnam and War of 1812.

[ValleyofHope]

My grandmother had this 45 at her house...us kids played it constantly on the portable record player when we were there

[Dan in Wichita]

I still have a 45 RPM of this record. I will cherish it always.

[Paal Gulli]

His son, Thor, took a commission in the army in 1990. I lost track of him about 10 years ago but last I heard he was a Lite Colonel and serving in MI. AFAIK he never went the SFQC route but he did earn his “silver” airborne wings.

[Dan in Wichita]

I remember watching Sgt. Sadler perform the "Ballad of the Green Beret" on the Ed Sullivan show.

Also, loved the John Wayne movie from 1968 called "The Green Berets". The critics hated that movie, because it told a side of the Vietnam War they did not want told.

[MileHi]

Welcome home

[A_Former_Democrat]

I believe I just watched it’s a mad mad mad mad world and then coming home from the theater it was announced that the ballad of the Green Berets had hit number one

[Night Hides Not]

I liked Carl Spackler’s rendition in Caddyshack.

[Lumper20]

ty. I served with men who above the rest. I had SF NCO’s with 4 years in combat in late 68. Those men were my real friends.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I have the album packed away with my other vinyl LPs.

The 33 1/3 record album is in mint condition.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

The Decades channel airs old episodes of “The Ed Sullivan Show” every weekday, two at 7:00 AM and then the same two at 7:00 PM.

Recently, I saw the show with Sgt. Sadler singing his famous ballad.

[greeneyes]

Love that song, but every time I hear it, I get teary eyed. Watched the John Wayne Movie a dozen times.

[pas]

lol

[Dan in Wichita]

Thanks for the tip! The Ed Sullivan show was a piece of Americana gone forever.

Youtube has Sgt. Sadler's appearance on the Ed Sullivan show if you ever want to see it again.

[PhineasSpear]

The type of song that will NEVER have the Freedom of Speech, to be allowed to made today, or , if made, would get NO airplay, slandered by the media and leftists, as “White Supremacist”, and “Fascist”, et al.