19 (song) 19 (song) "19" is a song by British musician Paul Hardcastle released as the first single from his self-titled third studio album "Paul Hardcastle" (1985). The song has a strong anti-war message, focusing on America's involvement in the Vietnam War and the effect it had on the soldiers who served. The track was notable for early use of sampled and processed speech, in particular a synthesized stutter effect used on the words 'nineteen' and 'destruction'. It also includes various non-speech, re-dubbed sampling, such as crowd noise and a military bugle call. "19" features sampled narration (voiced by Peter Thomas), out-of-context
The A Team (Barry Sadler song) 12 men, invincible, the A-Team." "The A Team", the title song to Sadler's second album, made it to No. 28 on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot 100, but its success was seen as a disappointment following the No. 1 "Ballad of the Green Berets". The A Team (Barry Sadler song) "The A Team" is a 1966 song and charting single by Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. It was Sadler's second and final American patriotic hit song at the time of the Vietnam War, following the success of "Ballad of the Green Berets". The song's lyrics are about the basic twelve-man Special Forces