Music : Songs That Got Us Through WW2, Vol. 2
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227171827
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: July 19, 1994
Sales Rank: 3810
Studio: Rhino / Wea
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This album and its companion Vol.1 are exellent to own for those who like the music during the 1940s.
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Yes, here is one more thing to blame on Woody Allen, as if he hasn't had enough problems in his life. Earlier this year I watched and reviewed in this space the film Radio Days that Woody directed. Every since then in the deep recesses of my brain the tunes Paper Dolls and Sentimental Journey have been pounding away. Hey this is music made before I was born, although maybe I picked it up in the womb. Why is it in my head? I am still a child of my generation and fought the anti-Vietnam War fight to the tunes of Bob Dylan's Desolation Row and The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter but I think I can make a little room for this, if only to keep my brain from stopping that pounding. Directly below are a few comments from my Radio day review that fit here and below that some specific comments on the CD being reviewed.
...I am a first generation child of the television age, although in recent years I have spent more time kicking and screaming about that fact than watching the damn thing. Nevertheless I can appreciate Director (and narrator) Woody Allen's valentine to the radio days of his youth. I am just old enough, although about a half generation behind Allen, to remember the strains of songs like Paper Dolls and Autumn Leaves that he grew up with and that are nicely interspersed throughout his story as backdrop floating in the background of my own house.
I am also a child of Rock and Roll but those above-mentioned tunes were the melodies that my mother and ... Read More
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This excellent album contains eighteen songs that were popular during the WW2 years. The album starts with that well-known hit Juke Box Saturday Night (performed by Glenn Miller & His Orchestra!), and then moves between jazzy hits (such as On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe, and Caldonia) and bluesy tunes (such as There! I've Said It Again, and When My Man Comes Home). I must say, my favorites were two tunes I don't think I have heard before - Ration Blues by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, and Marlene Dietrich's German version of Lili Marlene. (I looked around, and found an English version of Lili Marlene, but it didn't have the heart of this German version.)
I must say that I found this to be a very good album. I miss my GI father, who passed away a year ago, and I felt like I captured a little piece of him when I listened to the music he loved all those years ago. So, if you like that great Big Band sound, or want to get a glimpse into the world of WW2, then get this album. I highly recommend it!
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This CD is a great collection of songs from the WWII era.
I recomend it to 40's song lovers and WWII buffs!
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The songs that were a part of the CD were well chosen, and they
fairly represented that era. My husband and I fully enjoyed this CD
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