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America Sings of War: American Sheet Music from World War I. Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10278-0. Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Songs of World Wars I & II. Recorded Anthology of American Music, 1977. OCLC 221633326; United States. Songs of the Soldiers and Sailors, U.S. Washington: G ...
"Over There" is a 1917 war song written by George M. Cohan that was popular with the United States military and the American public during World War I and World War II.Written shortly after the American entry into World War I, "Over There" is a patriotic propaganda song intended to galvanize American men to enlist in the American Expeditionary Forces and fight the Central Powers.
"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" is an American anti-war song that was influential within the pacifist movement that existed in the United States before it entered World War I. [1] [2] It is one of the first anti-war songs. [3] Lyricist Alfred Bryan collaborated with composer Al Piantadosi in writing the song, [4] which inspired a sequel ...
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 ...
[3] The song was recorded on Columbia records by Arthur Fields and Peerless Quartette [4] and on Victor by William J. ("Sailor") Reilly. [5] The song was part of a genre of "Kaiser-hanging songs," which numbered more than a hundred in 1917 and 1918. [6] The title page featured an illustration of the Kaiser recoiling as US troops entered Berlin. [6]
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"Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" was a popular British patriotic song of the First World War.It was first recorded on 6 October 1914 by Mark Sheridan. [1] The song refers to the 1914 campaign in Belgium when the small British Expeditionary Force, along with an unexpectedly fierce Belgian defence, managed to delay the much larger German army, slowing them and wrecking the Schlieffen Plan ...
The song was also showcased in Frank Lloyd's Cavalcade, and in the musical and film Oh, What a Lovely War!. [2] This song is well known for spawning numerous obscene parody versions which were performed in music halls during World War I and World War II, and are often still sung by serving soldiers today. [3]