Barry Sadler The Green Berets Homage 1968 Tucson Arizona 1971 #4
by David Lee Guss
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Barry Sadler The Green Berets Homage 1968 Tucson Arizona 1971 #4
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David Lee Guss
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Barry Sadler (1940-1989) appeared in one episode of "The High Chaparral" TV Western involving a Thanksgiving dinner. Sadler had become a sensation in late 1966 with his song, "The Ballad of the Green Berets."
He parlayed that short lived fame into TV and film work. I had heard a rumor that Andy Warhol and his merry band had filmed the gay Western "Lonesome Cowboys" at Old Tucson at the time of Sadler's "Chaparral" appearance.
Suspecting that he would not have approved of Warhol, I asked him if the rumor were true.
Sadler was even more macho than Duke Wayne, with his Green Beret pedigree, numerous and varied machine guns and his vintage German WW2 Africa Korps hat and VW, among his vast Nazi memorabilia collection. With a snarl he said that Warhol had been shooting across the way on the main street of Old Tucson.
Sadler was gunned down in Guatemala City in 1988. The bullet pierced the frontal lobe of his brain, rendering him a vegetable. His body had withered to 67 pounds when he died in the Alvin C. York Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee some 14 months after being shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CXcgJURbg
Sadler referred to Hollywood as "phonier than camouflage." His one Hollywood friend was Jeffrey Hunter (1926-1969) who had acted with Duke Wayne in "The Searchers."
Hollywood used Sadler's song in Wayne's critically maligned, but still box office hit, "The Green Berets" 1968, which laughably ends with the sun setting in the East.
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