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World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically distributed music. Many people in the war had a pressing need to be able to listen to the radio and 78-rpm shellac records en masse. By 1940, 96.2% of Northeastern American urban households had radio. The lowest American demographic to embrace mass-distributed music ...
Resources of American music history : a directory of source materials from Colonial times to World War II. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1981. ISBN 0-252-00828-6. OCLC 6304409. Lee, Vera. The black and white of American popular music : from slavery to World War II. Rochester, Vt. : Schenkman Books, 2007. ISBN 0-87047-077-9.
Music While You Work. Music While You Work was a daytime radio programme of continuous live popular music broadcast in the United Kingdom twice daily on workdays from 23 June 1940 [1][2] until 29 September 1967 [3] by the BBC. Initially, the morning edition was generally broadcast on the BBC Home Service at 10:30am, with the afternoon edition ...
Mail Call was an American radio program that entertained American soldiers from 1942 until 1945, during World War II. Lt. Col. Thomas A.H. Lewis (commander of the Armed Forces Radio Service) wrote in 1944, "The initial production of the Armed Forces Radio Service was 'Mail Call,' a morale-building half hour which brought famed performers to the microphone to sing and gag in the best American ...
The British Library Sound Archive, formerly the British Institute of Recorded Sound; also known as the National Sound Archive (NSA), [1] in London, England is among the largest collections of recorded sound in the world, including music, spoken word and ambient recordings. It holds more than six million recordings, [2] including over a million ...
Command Performance. (radio series) Command Performance broadcast with Jane Russell, Bob Hope and, in background, Major Meredith Willson conducting the AFRS band (c. 1944) Command Performance was a radio program which originally aired between 1942 and 1949. The program was broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRS) and transmitted by ...
Audio format. Mono. Workers' Playtime was a British radio variety programme transmitted by the BBC between 1941 [1] and 1964. [2] Originally intended as a morale-booster for industrial workers in Britain during World War II, the programme was broadcast at lunchtime, three times a week, live from a factory canteen "somewhere in Britain".
Be Honest with Me. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar. Beer Barrel Polka. Bell Bottom Trousers. Bless 'Em All. Blood on the Risers. Blue Smoke (song) Bomber Command (song) Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.