V-E-Day: 50th Anniversary - Musical Memories

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 18, 1995)
• Original Release Date: April 20, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B000001HIK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #444,051 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Prelude & Fugue-'The Spitfire' - English Chamber Orchestra/Stuart Bedford

2. Speech & Siren - Chamberlain

3. There'll Always Be An England - Alfred Piccaver

4. 'I Would Say To The House...Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat...' - Churchill

5. Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me 'Goodbye' - Gracie Fields

6. Adolf - Billy Cotton' Band

7. Lili Marlen - Lale Andersen

8. (We're Gonna Hang Out) The Washing On The Siegfried Line - Arthur Askey

9. We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn

10. 'We Shall Go On To The End...We Shall Fight On The Beaches...We Shall Never Surrender' - Churchill

11. London Pride - Noel Coward

12. Run, Rabbit, Run - Flanagan & Allen

13. 'Let Us Therefore Brace Ourselves...This Was Their Finest Hour' - Churchill

14. There's Something In The Air - Squadronaires

15. Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer - Anne Shelton

16. 'Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few' - Chruchill

17. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square - Hutch

18. The World Will Sing Again - Betty Driver

19. El Alamein Speech - Montgomery

20. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover - Vera Lynn

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

CD features Various Artists - Jazz - Swing/Big Band.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WW 2 from the British musical and historical perspective., April 25, 2006

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Irving G. Steinberg (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: V-E-Day: 50th Anniversary - Musical Memories (Audio CD)

This is an interesting overview of WW 2 from the British musical and historical perspective. Many of the songs will be unfamiliar to many on this side of the pond but the speeches and many of the songs still invoke the sentiments of the era. Book-ended by modern performances of WW 2 classical works, the Spitfire Prelude works well but a better choice for the end of the CD would have been either the Col. Bogey March or the Warsaw Concerto.