The victory collection sound recording : the Smithsonian remembers when American went to war / compilation by the Smithsonian Institution Press ; produced in association with ... RCA Special Products

Object Details

Author

Talbot, Bruce

Tarnow, David

Smithsonian Institution Press

Smithsonian Institution Press: RD 106 (addition no.: DMC3-1243).

All selections, whether monaural or stereophonic, have been remastered in their original forms.

Compact discs.

Program notes by David Tarnow with bibliography (20 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.) laid in container.

Contents

CD 1, We managed to keep a sense of humor and sing some blues too: It's just a matter of time ; Plain talk / Carson Robison (C. Robison, vocal) -- Wartime blues / W. Gillum (Jazz Gillum, vocal, harmonica) -- Pearl Harbor blues / Joe Clayton (Doctor Clayton, vocal) -- Get your gun and come along (we're fixin' to kill a skunk) / Carson Robison (C. Robison, vocal) -- Stop the war (the cats are killin' themselves) / Wingy Manone (W. Manone, vocal, trumpet ; and his orchestra) -- That's what the well-dressed man in Harlem will wear / Irving Berlin (Fats Waller, vocal) -- Little Bo Peep has lost her jeep / music, Frank DeVol ; lyrics, Jerry Bowne (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) -- Pistol packin' mama / Al Dexter (Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band) -- Mussolini's letter to Hitler ; Hitler's reply to Mussolini / Carson Robison (C. Robison, vocal) -- Obey your air raid warden / Les Burness, John Morris (Tony Pastor and his Orchestra) -- Shh, it's a military secret / Alan Courtney, Earl Allvine, Walter Bishop (Glenn Miller and his Orchestra) -- News of the world / Cliff Nazarro, commentator -- Siam / Del Porter (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) -- The story of Jitterbug Joe / Carson Robison (C. Robison, vocal) -- One letter home / W. Gillum (Jazz Gillum, vocal, harmonica) -- Win the war blues / Sonny Boy Williamson (S.B. Williamson, vocal, harmonica) -- Hirohito's letter to Hitler ; Hitler's last letter to Hirohito / Carson Robison (C. Robison, vocal) -- V-Day stomp / Johnny Green (The Four Clefs -- Leave the dishes in the sink, Ma / Milton Berle, Spike Jones, Gene Doyle (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) -- I'm goin' back to whur I come from / Carson Robison (C. Robison, vocal)

CD 2, Sometimes we got sentimental: This is worth fighting for / Edgar de Lange, Sam Stept (Shep Fields and his New Music -- Dear Mom / Maury Coleman Harris (Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye) -- Three little sisters / Irving Taylor, Vic Mizzy (Dinah Shore, vocal) -- Siboney / Ernesto Lecuona (Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra) -- Rum and Coca-Cola / Morey Amsterdam, Jeri Sullivan, Paul Baron (Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra) -- Rose Ann of Charing Cross / Kermit Goell, Mabel Wayne (The Four Vagabonds) -- She'll always remember / Eddie Pola, Johnny Marks (Glenn Miller and his Orchestra) -- Comin' in on a wing and a prayer / Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh (The Four Vagabonds) -- There's a star spangled banner waving somewhere / Paul Roberts, Shelby Darnell (Elton Britt, vocal, guitar) -- He wears a pair of silver wings / Eric Maschwitz, Michael Carr (Dinah Shore, vocal) -- Symphony / Alex Alstone, Jack Lawrence (Freddy Martin and his Orchestra) -- A G.I. wish / Borelli, Niederman, Sarnoff (The Four Vagabonds) -- Johnny Doughboy found a rose in Ireland / Kay Tromey, Al Goodhart (Freddy Martin and his Orchestra) -- From the coast of Maine to the Rockies / Benny Davis, Russ Morgan, Ted Murry (Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra) -- Stars and stripes on Iwo Jima Isle / Bob Wills, Cliff "Cactus Jack" Johnson (The Sons of the Pioneers) -- Last page of Mein Kampf / Jack B. Johnstone, Will Livernash (Texas Jim Robertson and his Panhandle Ranchers) -- (We'll be singing hallelujah) Marching through Berlin / Bob Reed, Harry Miller (Ethel Merman, vocal) -- When Johnny comes marching home / music and lyrics adapted by Harold Dickinson, Bill Conway, Bill Finegan (Glenn Miller and his Orchestra) -- Just a blue serge suit / Irving Berlin (Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra) -- Counting the days / Alex Kramer, Hy Zaret (Dinah Shore, vocal) -- Spellbound / Miklos Rozsa (Al Goodman and his Orchestra) -- God bless America / Irving Berlin (Kate Smith, vocal)

CD 3, For the duration: The wartime era at home is portrayed through actual radio broadcasts from that period and interviews. This audio documentary provides a context for the songs featured in The victory collection

1995

P1995

1931-1940

1941-1950

1933-1945

Call number

disc 000304

Type

Sound recordings

Songs and music

Sources

Physical description

3 sound discs : digital, mono., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in

Place

United States

Title

Smithsonian remembers when American went to war

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Popular music

Radio programs

World War, 1939-1945

History

Record ID

siris_sil_633609

Metadata Usage (text)

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