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27-04-2008, 07:47 AM
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YouTube - Frank Sinatra - Begin The Beguine (Studio and Radio version)
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm Last edited by spidge; 27-04-2008 at 07:50 AM. | |
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27-04-2008, 08:03 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | And what could be better than Dame Vera Lynn and the "White Cliffs of Dover and the magical sound of the Spitfire. Talk about goosebumps......................... YouTube - White Cliffs Of Dover - Spitfire Show - Music Video
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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27-04-2008, 08:07 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Should have had this up for St Georges Day! "There'll Always be an England" from Vera Lynn. YouTube - There'll Always Be An England
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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27-04-2008, 02:09 PM
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You're Top Poster: #28  | Lili Marlene by Marlene Dietrich, tune was used by the D-Day dodgers. YouTube - Lili Marlene D-Day Dodgers lyrics: THERE IS A SONG EIGHT ARMY USED TO SING MARCHING THRO THE DESERT, MARCHING WITH A SWING BUT NOW THEY'RE ON A DIFFERENT GAME. ALTHOUGH THE TUNE IS THE SAME THE WORDS HAVE ALL BEEN ALTERED -THE WORDS WE'RE SINGING STILL WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS HERE IN ITALY DRINKING ALL THE VINO, ALWAYS ON THE SPREE, WE DIDN'T LAND WITH EISIENHOWER AND SO THEY THINK WE'RE JUST A SHOWER FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY HERE'S TO LADY ASTOR, OUR PIN UP GIRL OUT HERE SHE'S THE DEAR OLD LADY, WHO SENDS US SUCH GOOD BEER AND WHEN WE GET OUR ASTOR BAND WE'LL BE THE PROUDEST IN THE LAND FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY SALERNO AND CASSINO WE'RE TAKIN IN OUR STRIDE WE DIDN'T GO TO FIGHT THERE, WE WENT THERE FOR THE RIDE ANZIO AND SANZIO WE'RE O. K. JUST ANOTHER HOLIDAY FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY AROUND LAKE TRASIMANO WE HAD A LOVELY TIME BAGS OF WINE AND WOMAN THERE, THEY DIDN'T COST A DIME BASE WALLAHS, AMGOT AND THE YANKS ALL STAYED IN ROME , TO DODGE THE TANKS FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY WE STAYED A WEEK IN FLORENCE POLISHED OF THE VINO THEN THUMBED OUR WAY TO RIMINI THRO THE GOTHIC LINE SOON TO BOLOGNA WE WILL GO WHEN JERRYS GONE ACROSS THE PO FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY SOON THE BOYS IN FRANCE, WILL BE GETTING LEAVE AFTER SIX MONTHS SERVICE ITS A SHAME THERE NOT RELIEVED BUT WE CON CARRY ON OUT HERE FOR WHAT MAY BE A FEW MORE YEARS FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY ONCE WE HEARD A RUMOUR WE WERE GOING HOME BACK TO DEAR OLD BLIGHTY NEVER MORE TO ROAM THEN SOME ONE SAID IN FRANCE YOU'LL FIGHT WE ANSWERED "NO WE'LL JUST SIT TIGHT" FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY wHEN THE WAR IS OVER AND WE'VE DONE OUR BIT CLIMBING OVER MOUNTAINS, THRO' MUD AND SLEET THEN WE WILL ALL BE SENT OUT EAST TILL B.L.A. HAVE BEEN RELEASED FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY FORGOTTEN BY THE MANY REMEMBERED BY THE FEW WE HAD OUR ARMISTICE WHEN AN ARMESTICE WAS NEW ONE MILLION GERMANS GAVE UP TO US WE FINISHED OUR WAR WITHOUT MUCH FUSS FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY IF YOU LOOK AROUND THE MOUNTAINS IN THE WIND AND RAIN YOU'LL FIND THE SCATTERED CROSSES SOME WHICH BEAR NO NAME HEART BREAK AND TOIL AND SUFFERING GONE THE BOYS BENEATH THEM SLUMBER ON FOR WE'RE THE "D" DAY DODGERS OUT HERE IN ITALY
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27-04-2008, 06:03 PM
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Nana, I love the song "Everytime We Say Goodbye." When did it make its debut? | |
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27-04-2008, 08:17 PM
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"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" is a song by Cole Porter, introduced in 1944 in Billy Rose's musical revue, Seven Lively Arts. The song became a jazz standard, recorded by Ella Fitzgerald (Verve Records 1956) ......... However my original copy was a "45" (as apposed to "78" - heavens half of you won't have a clue what that means!!!) in 1958, so I would put it around that time or maybe a little later - or maybe it took me ever soooooo long to save up!!!! Amazing to think that it has endured as my favourite song for 50 years. Either a mature teenager or an immature pensioner - don't anybody dare answer that!!!!
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27-04-2008, 08:39 PM
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Kitty - Big bands!!!! Mmmm! We saw the amazing Count Basie and Duke Ellington several times. For sheer entertainment value Fats Domino took some beating, the audience ranged from teenagers to pensioners, all up on their feet dancing and clapping, it was hypnotic you simply had to do it - the band even came down to join us! Do I sound like Victor Meldrew again if I say that I cannot believe that people will be writing about Amy whatever her name is or Take That (which exhausts my contemporary knowledge) in 50 years time? - Better take the pill now!!!
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28-04-2008, 01:56 AM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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15-05-2008, 02:42 PM
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my mum once had an album called songs of world war 2 sung by warren mitchell | |
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