Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
You're in French Indochina from 1945 - 1954, this is what the music you and your buddies would be listening to while fighting communist insurgents
People say the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) has a soundtrack, but the French Indochina War doesn't. I beg to differ.
Guerre d'Indochine
Chiến tranh Đông Dương
La Sale Guerre - "The Dirty War" the First Indochina War described by French Leftists
The government of France forbade the use of metropolitan recruits, fearing that that would make the war more unpopular than it already was. Instead, French professional soldiers and units of the French Foreign Legion were augmented with colonial troops, including Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese ethnic minorities.
Kinda reminds of what's going on in Russia...
Vietnamese music is probably just Bolero or something
Apologies for the use of cover singing if you wanted the real deal, but it's the only way to convey this concept in my mind visually without copyright strike hell, I just wanted to get this out of my head.
Basically fighting a war to Fallout 3 radio music
Music:
Soundtrack of the French War in Indochina
0:00 Pre-1945 Quand Jesus Christ Crea La Coloniale
1:45 1945 - Ah! le petit vin blanc - Roberte Marna
4:52 1946 - Charles Trenet - La mer
8:27 1947 - La Vie en rose - Edith Piaf
11:34 1948 - Luis Mariano - La Belle De Cadix
youtube.com/watch?v=tQF8uTXnYa8&ab_channel=chapeaulartiste
14:01 1949 - Henri Betti - C'est si bon
16:36 1950 - La rue des Blancs Manteaux by Juliette Greco
18:29 "Bal petit bal" - Eartha Kitt
21:18 André Claveau - Domino youtube.com/watch?v=t65wpi57n28&ab_channel=SabrinaThevenin
24:05 1951 - Padam, Padam - Edith Piaf
youtube.com/watch?v=S6O87xTeUII&ab_channel=JustCoverIt
27:17 1952 - Georges Brassens - La Mauvaise Réputation
youtube.com/watch?v=16PkoNOvnI4&ab_channel=BenjaminAlfandari
29:45 1953 - Quand un soldat (When a Soldier) - Francis Lemarque
31:37 1954 - Le Deserteur - Boris Van
youtube.com/watch?v=XzP5_B8hsG8&ab_channel=Benj
Thank you to all the cover artists for performing such amazing covers that allowed me to make this video without it being blocked worldwide
Truly…a 50’s Era War…
You're in French Indochina from 1945 - 1954, this is what the music you and your buddies would be listening to while fighting communist insurgents
People say the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) has a soundtrack, but the French Indochina War doesn't. I beg to differ.
Guerre d'Indochine
Chiến tranh Đông Dương
La Sale Guerre - "The Dirty War" the First Indochina War described by French Leftists
The government of France forbade the use of metropolitan recruits, fearing that that would make the war more unpopular than it already was. Instead, French professional soldiers and units of the French Foreign Legion were augmented with colonial troops, including Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Laotian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese ethnic minorities.
Kinda reminds of what's going on in Russia...
Vietnamese music is probably just Bolero or something
Apologies for the use of cover singing if you wanted the real deal, but it's the only way to convey this concept in my mind visually without copyright strike hell, I just wanted to get this out of my head.
Basically fighting a war to Fallout 3 radio music
Music:
Soundtrack of the French War in Indochina
0:00 Pre-1945 Quand Jesus Christ Crea La Coloniale
1:45 1945 - Ah! le petit vin blanc - Roberte Marna
4:52 1946 - Charles Trenet - La mer
8:27 1947 - La Vie en rose - Edith Piaf
11:34 1948 - Luis Mariano - La Belle De Cadix
youtube.com/watch?v=tQF8uTXnYa8&ab_channel=chapeaulartiste
14:01 1949 - Henri Betti - C'est si bon
16:36 1950 - La rue des Blancs Manteaux by Juliette Greco
18:29 "Bal petit bal" - Eartha Kitt
21:18 André Claveau - Domino youtube.com/watch?v=t65wpi57n28&ab_channel=SabrinaThevenin
24:05 1951 - Padam, Padam - Edith Piaf
youtube.com/watch?v=S6O87xTeUII&ab_channel=JustCoverIt
27:17 1952 - Georges Brassens - La Mauvaise Réputation
youtube.com/watch?v=16PkoNOvnI4&ab_channel=BenjaminAlfandari
29:45 1953 - Quand un soldat (When a Soldier) - Francis Lemarque
31:37 1954 - Le Deserteur - Boris Van
youtube.com/watch?v=XzP5_B8hsG8&ab_channel=Benj
Thank you to all the cover artists for performing such amazing covers that allowed me to make this video without it being blocked worldwide
Truly…a 50’s Era War…
