Gaining fame through Barry Sadler's 1966 song "The Ballad of the Green Berets" and the 1968 film starring John Wayne, they became an iconic symbol of military excellence. What You Need to Know ...
"The Ballad of the Green Berets" sold something over two million copies, and brought fame and fortune to a 26-year-old high school drop-out named Barry Sadler, who has a son called Thor and a ...
The war songs of the twentieth century can be lumped into three major groupings. There are the professionally written bolsterers of homefront morale whose archetypes are Iver Novello's Keep the ...