Barry Sadler - Back Home (1967/2016)FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 28:44 minutes | 1,07 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 28:44 minutes | 646 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover The timing of Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler's number-one smash "The Ballad of the Green Berets" couldn't have been more impeccable. Released in early 1966, when anti-war sentiment was beginning to swell, "The Ballad of the Green Berets" tapped into an enormous wellspring of patriotic fervor among Americans who were tired of the dissent and ambiguity surrounding Vietnam. The Army ate him up, of course, and after several appearances on TV back home, Sadler joined the USO tour for awhile. He scored a minor hit with the follow-up single "The "A" Team," and went on to release two more albums, 1967's Back Home and 1968's The A Team (which, oddly enough, didn't contain that song). Sadler never duplicated its blockbuster success, and soon retired from music to become a successful author.