In doing so, I'm going to use quite a flippant tone, but I want to make it clear that I'm not mocking the very real horrors that people suffered in the wars I'm talking about - it's just that to sum up multiple decades of unimaginable horrors in a few sentences requires glossing over so much that you have to either laugh or cry. The nearest Army base to Nashville, where Sadler lived after his discharge, is Fort Campbell, in Clarksville: The Vietnam War was a long and complicated war, one which affected nearly everything we're going to see in the next year or so of this podcast, and we're going to talk about it a lot, so it's worth giving a little bit of background here. Later he moved to Guatemala City, where he was himself shot in the head. He was sentenced to thirty days in jail for this misdemeanour, of which he served twenty-eight. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he lived until he shot Lee Emerson, a country songwriter who had written songs for Marty Robbins, in the head, killing him, in an argument over a woman.
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Instead, he tried and failed to have a TV career, then became a writer of pulp fiction himself, writing a series of twenty-one novels about the centurion who thrust his spear into Jesus' side when Jesus was being crucified, and is thus cursed to be a soldier until the second coming. Sadler's record became one of those massive fluke hits, selling over nine million copies and getting him appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, but other than one top thirty hit, he never had another hit single. At the time he wrote and recorded that song, he was on active duty in the military - he was a combat medic who'd been fighting in the Vietnam War when he'd got a wound that had meant he had to be shipped back to the USA, and while at Fort Bragg he decided to write and record a song about his experiences, with the help of Robin Moore, a right-wing author of military books, both fiction and nonfiction, who wrote the books on which the films The Green Berets and The French Connection were based. Why not join them? Transcript We've obviously talked in this podcast about several of the biggest hits of 1966 already, but we haven't mentioned the biggest hit of the year, one of the strangest records ever to make number one in the US - "The Ballad of the Green Berets" by Sgt Barry Sadler: Barry Sadler was an altogether odd man, and just as a brief warning his story, which will last a minute or so, involves gun violence. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Other sources used were Monkee Business by Eric Lefcowitz, and the autobiographies of three of the band members and one of the songwriters - Infinite Tuesday by Michael Nesmith, They Made a Monkee Out of Me by Davy Jones, I'm a Believer by Micky Dolenz, and Psychedelic Bubble-Gum by Bobby Hart. If you can find a copy of either, do get one. Sandoval released a second edition of the book last year, which I was unfortunately unable to obtain, but that too is now out of print. Sadly that is now out of print and goes for hundreds of pounds. The single biggest source of information I used in this episode is the first edition of Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees The Day-By-Day Story. For those just getting into the group, my advice is to start with this five-CD set, which contains their first five albums along with bonus tracks. Sadly, though, the only one of those that is still in print is More of the Monkees. The best versions of the Monkees albums are the triple-CD super-deluxe versions that used to be available from, and I've used Andrew Sandoval's liner notes for them extensively in this episode.
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Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at and Resources As usual, all the songs excerpted in the podcast can be heard in full at Mixcloud. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Patreon backers also have a seventeen-minute bonus episode available, on "These Boots Are Made For Walking" by Nancy Sinatra, which I mispronounce at the end of this episode as "These Boots Were Made For Walking", so no need to correct me here. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Episode 144 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Last Train to Clarksville" and the beginnings of the career of the Monkees, along with a short primer on the origins of the Vietnam War.
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