If you are watching Vietnam on PBS can you name the tunes in 3 notes or less?

[BigmanPigman]

Am I alone? The only good thing to come out of that horrendous nightmare is great music.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I said that to my wife - the strife birthed some legendary music for sure

[pangaia]

2. The 1960s produced about the best "pop" music, if I can call it that, ever.

I have often thought I was born at the right tine.

[Warpy]

3. Yeah, then it mostly went to hell in the 70s when the suits horned in

and insisted on first formula stuff and later disco. Plus, everybody started to grow up, especially the bands.

[argyl]

6. Yeah, late 60s/early 70s the suits lost control of the airwaves.

Hippy FM DJs would play whatever the fuck they and their audience liked and wanted to hear. We’d call in and request tunes we wanted to hear and the DJs were more than happy to oblige. They sure weren’t going by any set playlist.
When “Frampton Comes Alive” came out I knew the good times were done for. Couldn’t hit a station that didn’t have a song from that mediocre at best LP.
Then “Saturday Night Fever” and The Bee Gees. The final nail.

[Ohiya]

5. No problem whatsoever...

...just don't ask me to identify anything after the eighties.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

7. Bought the DVD set.

That I'll watch every few months. Very compelling.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I'm glad Ken Burns covered the My Lai massacre.

I took a class while in Art School called Vietnam in film and we studied the Pinksville Massacre. Horrific crimes occured and the criminals received almost no punishments. Calley is still alive, I tracked him down to Georgia. Medina died a few months ago in his 80s.

"My Lai was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in South Vietnam on 16 March 1968. Between 347 and 504 unarmed people were massacred by the U.S. Army soldiers from Company C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd (Americal) Infantry Division. Victims included men, women, children, and infants. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated.[1][2] Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only Lieutenant William Calley Jr., a platoon leader in C Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest.

In a separate trial, Captain Medina denied giving the orders that led to the massacre, and was acquitted of all charges, effectively negating the prosecution's theory of "command responsibility", now referred to as the "Medina standard". Several months after his acquittal, however, Medina admitted he had suppressed evidence and had lied to Colonel Henderson about the number of civilian deaths.[92]

[ooky]

9. I DVR'd every episode when it was running on PBS

and couldn't part with it when I finished the last episode. So am storing all episodes on my DVR until I can watch it again.