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26-04-2008, 12:44 AM
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You're Top Poster: #56   | World War II music and song titles I hope lots of you join in with song titles that were popular during WWII. The music meant so much to everyone during those sad times. I'll start with this one, it was an American favorite during the war and maybe it was popular in Britain, Australia and allied countries also: "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer" Whoops! I didn't read far enough or I would have noticed the above song has already been posted. Sorry. Here is a song that the British must remember; "The White cliffs of Dover" but did you know this song was very popular in America during WWII? If I can remember the words my mother use to sing; There'll be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow when the world is free, There'll be love and laughter and peace ever after Tomorrow just you wait and see. The sheperd will tend his sheep The valley will bloom again, And Jimmy will go to sleep In his own little room again repeat chorus. Last edited by Liz; 26-04-2008 at 01:06 PM. Reason: added; White Cliffs of Dover |
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26-04-2008, 04:55 PM
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You're Top Poster: #8  | My Dad's favourite was, I think, a pre-war song - "When they begin the Beguine" which I thought was sung by Billy Eckstein but I can't find a reference to that.
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26-04-2008, 06:15 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Not heard a vocal version of Beguine, but I do have the musical version on CD. I adore Coming In, always sing along to that one. What i do have is a lyric version of In The Mood by the Puppinni Sisters. Ah Big Band 
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26-04-2008, 06:32 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | I have a Beguine recording by Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle).
__________________ 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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26-04-2008, 10:07 PM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | I like the sound of Glenn Miller, but I do have problem with it! Everytime I hear it I get this dreadful urge to bomb Germany
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27-04-2008, 12:42 AM
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You're Top Poster: #8 | Quote:
Actually my favourite is "String of Pearls".
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27-04-2008, 01:44 AM
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You're Top Poster: #56 | "You'll Never Know" Quote:
You'll never know just how much I miss you, You'll never know just how much I care, And if I tried I still couldn't hide my love for you, You ought to know for haven't I told you so A million or more times? You went away and my heart went with you, I speak your name in my every prayer, If there is some other way to prove that I love you, I swear I don't know how you'll never know If you don't know now. This song really gets me when I think of all those lovers who were separated by the war. | |
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27-04-2008, 02:03 AM
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My favourite song of all time is "Everytime we say goodbye". Cheating a bit because I don't think it was actually a hit until much later.
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27-04-2008, 07:22 AM
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Hope you like Barbara Streisand! YouTube - Barbra Streisand - You'll Never Know
__________________ 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, 07:34 AM
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YouTube - Ella Fitzgerald, live in London (1965) #5
__________________ 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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