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The war in American culture : society and consciousness during World War II. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 0-226-21511-3. OCLC 32894116. Fauser, Annegret. Sounds of war : music in the United States during World War II. New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]. ISBN 0-19-994803-8. OCLC 819383019.
Therefore, the best that can be understood about German Music during the war is the official Nazi government policy, the level of enforcement, and some notion of the diversity of other music listened to, but as the losers in the war German Music and Nazi songs from World War II has not been assigned the high heroic status of American and ...
World War II [b] or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war .
"It's Been a Long, Long Time" topped Billboard's composite Honor Roll of Hits chart for the last seven weeks of 1945. Les Paul recalled in an interview for Mojo magazine that "Bing was a sucker for guitar and that particular song was a case of you don't have to play a lot of notes, you just have to play the right notes." [8]
Coward wrote "London Pride" in the spring of 1941, during the Blitz.According to his own account, he was sitting on a seat on a platform in Paddington station, watching Londoners going about their business quite unfazed by the broken glass scattered around from the station's roof damaged by the previous night's bombing: in a moment of patriotic pride, he said that suddenly he recalled an old ...
The song inspired and gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again, where Lynn stars in a loose adaptation of her life as a Forces' Sweetheart during the war. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Lynn's 1953 recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick 's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear ...
Coming into 2023, drought was a major concern for California and other parts of the West. "This is a megadrought," California Governor Gavin Newsom said. "Some scientists argue it's the most ...
The music for this song came from the Lied der Legion Condor ("Song of the Condor Legion"), whose lyrics and music were written by Wolfram Philipps and Christian Jährig, two Condor Legion pilots with the rank of Oberleutnant. The somber music has a minor character, and the song was "exposed to the accusation of being un-German, Russian or ...