More Vets Day music, with seven 78s freshly ripped for this post, including Ernestine Schumann-Heink's 1918 recording of George F. Root's magnificent and moving Just Before the Battle, Mother, a Civil War hit.
Click here to reach the zip file: Veterans' Day, 2008--Part 2.
PLAYLIST
OVER THERE FANTASIE (Grofe)--United States Army Band, 1976.
PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION--The Merry Macs, 1942. (From 78)
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME--Glenn Miller Orch. (Arr: Bill Finegan), 1942.
THE MARINES' HYMN--Dick Powell, w. Norsemen Quartet, 1940. (From 78)
THE ARMY AIR CORPS--Dick Powell, w. Norsemen Quartet, 1940. (From 78)
P.T. 109--Jimmy Dean, 1962.
GOODBYE, DOLLY GRAY--The Columbia Quartette, 1901. (From 78)
KOREA (FIGHTING IN THE FOREIGN LAND)--The Gospel Pilgrims, 1951.
THIS IS WORTH FIGHTING FOR--Jimmy Dorsey O., Voc: Bob Eberly, 1942. (From 78)
JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER (Root)--Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 1918. (From 78)
WE'RE GOING OVER--MEDLEY--Pietro, Piano accordion solo, 1917. (From 78)
GOODBYE, BROADWAY, HELLO FRANCE--Same.
Lee
2 comments:
A proud day for my family, Lee. Dad and five of his brothers in WW II, Dad and one of his brothers-in-law in Korea, and myself in Vietnam.
Heck, even Mom was a WAC during WW II!
Cool! Your service is greatly appreciated (at this blog, for sure).
My (late) Dad and I--both Navy--were lucky enough to land non-wartime service, though my Dad *had* enlisted during WWII. A war which ended halfway through his boot camp. He told me that Perry Como was playing over the base loud speakers at some point ("Till the End of Time," maybe?).
My biological Dad, I should note--Robert Howard, vice John, my foster dad who died last year.
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