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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.
We'll Meet Again. " We'll Meet Again " is a 1939 song by English singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by English songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous of the Second World War era and resonated with servicemen going off to fight as well as their families and loved ones.
1942 Broadway 1943-1945 traveling show. This Is The Army is an American musical revue in two acts, designed to boost morale in the U.S. during World War II, with a book by James McColl and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It was produced by the U.S. Army on Broadway in 1942, with a cast of U.S. soldiers, for the benefit of the Army Emergency ...
The Panzerlied (English: "Tank Song") is a Wehrmacht military march of the Nazi era, sung primarily by the Panzerwaffe, the tank force of Nazi Germany during World War II. It is one of the best-known songs of the Wehrmacht and was popularised by the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge. [ 1 ] It is still used today by the Chilean and Brazilian armies ...
All This and World War II is a 1976 musical documentary film [2] directed by Susan Winslow. It juxtaposes Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with World War II newsreel footage and 20th Century-Fox films. [3] The film was panned by critics and ran for only two weeks in cinemas. [4]
WWII Hanford engineer’s hobby was recording music, interviews. Hear them at free program. Annette Cary. October 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM. During World War II Lt. Col. William Sapper and his fellow ...
Genre. March. Composer (s) Herms Niel. Lyricist (s) Herms Niel. " Erika " is a German marching song. It is primarily associated with the German Army, especially that of Nazi Germany, although its text has no political content. [1] It was created by Herms Niel and published in 1938, and soon came into usage by the Wehrmacht.