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"Propaganda and Dissent in British Popular Song during the Great War", an academic article by John Mullen. Songs of war and peace: patriotic and popular. Music Commemorations of World War I; Songs of the First World War. Popular Songs of World War I. Harmonies of the Homefront; Trench Songs. World War I Sheet Music. World War I
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 ...
The song is often cited when documentary footage of the First World War is presented. One example of its use is in the annual television special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966). Snoopy—who fancies himself a First World War flying ace—dances to a medley of First World War-era songs played by Schroeder. The song is included, and ...
The band's songs are all related to WWI events. 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 ...
In John Dickson Carr's 1951 novel The Devil in Velvet, the protagonist — a WWI veteran — hears the song in a nightmare of his war experiences: "He heard a great noise of voices singing to music. It was a cheerful song, roared out with mighty cheerfulness, yet underneath every word ran a strain of heartbreak." (Ch.XIV).
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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).
"Mademoiselle from Armentières" is an English song that was particularly popular during World War I. It is also known by its ersatz French hook line, 'Inky Pinky Parlez Vous,' or the American variant 'Hinky Dinky Parlez-vous' (variant: Parlay voo). 'Inky Pinky' was a Scottish children's name for parsnip and potato cakes, but it has been ...