# Name that song **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 7, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-song/71639 "2001-07-07T22:35:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-song/71639/1 "2001-07-07T22:35:37Z")
Heard this song somewhere and the name is bugging me. Its only bugging me because I know its fairly well known for its sampled speech from a Vietnam documentary, including the lyrics about the average age of a soldier in Vietnam being 19 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-song/71639/2 "2001-07-07T22:38:25Z")
“19” by Paul Hardcastle. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-song/71639/3 "2001-07-07T23:58:42Z")
…also lampooned as “19 Not Out” by The Commentators. ---
**Author:** ![PressureMedic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PressureMedic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PressureMedic)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-that-song/71639/4 "2001-07-08T07:50:36Z")
Oh My Gosh… 19 by Paul Hardcastle… My head is “happening”. 80’s are alive again in there. Thanks a lot.