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The Courage Corporate: Adelaide Songs of World War One. Oakland Park, S. Aust: Pioneer Books in association with Academy Enterprises and Hermit Press, 1983. ISBN 0-908065-28-0 OCLC 19093270; Holden, Robert. And the Band Played On: How Music Lifted the Anzac Spirit in the Battlefields of the First World War. Richmond, Victoria: Hardie Grant ...
After the War (song) After the War Is Over; After the War Is Over Will There Be Any "Home Sweet Home"? All Aboard for Home Sweet Home; Allegiance: Patriotic Song; America, Here's My Boy; America! My Home-Land; America's the Word for You and Me; American Patrol; The Americans Come (An Episode in France in the Year 1918) An Eala Bhàn; And He'd ...
"Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" is a music hall song written by Arthur J. Mills, Fred Godfrey and Bennett Scott in 1916. It was popular during the First World War, and tells a story of three fictional soldiers on the Western Front suffering from homesickness and their longing to return to "Blighty" - a slang term for Britain.
The song was covered by death industrial band Maruta Kommand on their 2000 album "Holocaust Rites". The song is part of the "Great War Trilogy" (The Valley of the Shadow / The Old Barbed Wire / Long, Long Trail) sung by John Roberts and Tony Barrand in their album, A Present from the Gentlemen: A Pandora's Box of English Folk Songs (Golden Hind ...
The 1955 French film La Madelon, directed by Jean Boyer was a comedy based on Madelon's legend starring the great Line Renaud who plays the title character and sings the song surrounded by soldiers. Spanish actress-singer Sara Montiel sang it in the box office hit movie El Último Cuplé ( Juan de Orduña , Spain 1957).
"Sgt. MacKenzie" is a lament written and sung by Joseph Kilna MacKenzie (1955-2009), [1] in memory of his great-grandfather who was killed in combat during World War I. It has been used in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers and the ending scene of the 2012 film End of Watch.
Herman Darewski composed the music, with lyrics by R.P. Weston. Both Billy Murray and Al Jolson sang early versions of the song, which was published by T. B. Harms & Francis and Day & Hunter in 1914. [2] Each verse was meant to be sung faster than the last, which presented issues for soldiers who had consumed large quantities of beer. [3]
Pages in category "Songs about World War I" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.