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The song was recorded by the Song Spinners [5] for Decca Records, reaching number one on the Billboard pop chart on July 2, 1943. [6]"Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" was the only song with a war connection to appear in the top twenty best-selling songs of 1943 in the United States (although record sales in this period were heavily affected by the first Petrillo recording ban).
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 ...
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.
The song begins with the line "Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein" (On the heath a little flower blooms), the theme of a flower (Erika) bearing the name of a soldier's sweetheart. [2] After each line, and after each time the name "Erika" is sung, there is a three beat pause , which is filled by the timpani or stamping feet (e.g. of ...
The Ballad of Rodger Young is an American war song by Frank Loesser, written and first performed during World War II in March 1945.The ballad is an elegy for Army Private Rodger Wilton Young, who died after rushing a Japanese machine-gun nest on 31 July 1943, [1] and is largely based on the citation for Young's posthumous Medal of Honor
"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" is a World War II jump blues song written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince which was introduced by The Andrews Sisters in the Abbott and Costello comedy film, Buck Privates (1941). [1] The Andrews Sisters' Decca recording reached number six on the U.S. pop singles chart in the spring of 1941 when the film was in release.
When the big bands struggled to keep going during World War II, a shift was happening in jazz in favor of smaller groups. Some swing era musicians, like Louis Jordan, later found popularity in a new kind of music, called "rhythm and blues", that would evolve into rock and roll in the 1950s. [1]
Sentimental Journey (song) Shtil, di nakht iz oysgeshternt; Si vas para Chile; Siekiera, motyka; The Sinking of the Reuben James; Smoke on the Water (Red Foley song) A Soldier Speaks; Soldier's Last Letter; Song of the Soviet Army; Stalin Wasn't Stallin' Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima