Composer Author Barry Sadler 2 Singer Of The Ballad Of The Green Berets Tucson Arizona 1971-2008

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Composer Author Barry Sadler 2 Singer Of The Ballad Of The Green Berets Tucson Arizona 1971-2008

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David Lee Guss

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{The only pro-war song to come out of Vietnam sold 12 million records worldwide, a million copies in Japan alone and went into nine versions in Germany; and even earned a 23 cents royalty from Romania. The first royalty check for the #1 hit of 1966 was for $250,000 with Sadler dumping $50,000 on the living room floor in front of his wife Levona, who simply said "Oh."}

"I like creating but I don't like going on tour-I don't want to be an entertainer. i don't think I like the traveling that much. seems like for about 15 years. My bedroom was over a juke box. My folks were professional gamblers and we traveled a lot, wherever there was a game. Once I went to nine schools in one year. Anyway, every night i went to sleep to the strains of Honky-Tonk Man, God Made Honky Tonk Angels and all the other honky-tonk songs.

"About the time I was 16, I started to play the drums a little and then the guitar. I tried to make a go of it with a combo, but we broke up early; when I was 17, I knew I'd wind up in jail the way I was going. All I knew how to do was fight, so I enlisted in the Air Force and they took me." - Barry Sadler, 1940-1989, as told to Robert M. Powers in early 1971 and subsequently printed in an article entitled, "Ain't Gonna Sing About War No More," in the November 28th issue of the now defunct Sunday supplement West published by the Los Angeles Times.

{Sadler is wearing a vintage WW2 Afrika Corps hat worn by General Rommel's troops.}

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