Vietnam War songs: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/JBrummer/vietnam_war_song_project/
Victor Lundberg, an American businessman and radio newscaster in Michigan, took a conservative position on the cultural changes of the 1960s and youth culture - attacking drugs, secularism, sex, and immorality. The song \"An Open Letter to My Teenage Son\" (Liberty Records # 55996) focused on Vietnam, taking the form of a letter. The song also featured on the 1967 album \"An Open Letter\" (Liberty Records # LST-7547). Lundberg declared that his country was more important than his son, with the memorable / infamous line on draft card burners: \"And if you decide to burn your draft card, then burn your birth certificate at the same time. From that moment on, I have no son!\":
\"You ask my opinion of draft card burners...
All past wars have been dirty...bloody...
However, most have been necessary...
If you doubt that our free enterprise system
In the United States is worth protecting...
Then it is doubtful you belong here...
I love you too, son
But I also love our country...
And if you decide to burn your draft card
Then burn your birth certificate at the same time
From that moment on, I have no son!\"
It entered the Billboard charts on 11 November 1967. The label, Liberty Records, posted an advert in Billboard, saying that \"overwhelming airplay and sales of Victor Lundberg's dramatic record reflects the concern of a nation in conflict and expresses every American's right to reply\". It claimed to have sold 250,000 singles in one week. Just 13 days later, on 25 November 1967, the first \"answer record\" appeared - A Letter to Dad by Every Father's Teenage Son. The Lundberg track went on to spawn several other answer records, listed here:
Every Father's Teenage Son - A Letter to Dad (1967: Buddah BDA-25).
Brandon Wade - Letter From a Teenage Son (1967: Philips 40503).
Dick Clark - An Open Letter to the Older Generation (1967: Dunhill D-4112).
Marceline - An Open Letter to My Dad (1967: Ion 1-102).
Chris Howard / Michael Paul - An Open Letter to Dad / Dear Dad (1967: Carole CAR-1005).
Dick Clair - Hi, Dad (An Open Letter to Dad) / Tell That Joke (1967: Imperial 66272).
Bob Random - An Open Letter to My Father / My Dog (1967: Dragonet 009).
Keith Gordon - A Teenager's Answer (1967: Tower 383).
Robert Tamkin - A Teenage Son's Open Letter to His Father (1968: Date 2-1610).
