Wartime Heart-Throbs

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 22, 2000)
• Original Release Date: February 22, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B00004BYYO
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,408 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. This Love of Mine

2. Begin the Beguine

3. To You, Sweetheart, Aloha

4. J'Attendrai

5. Faithful Forever - Ray Eberle

6. Stardust

7. I'll Never Smile Again

8. Only Forever

9. Dreaming

10. Blue Champagne

11. Where in the World?

12. Skylark

13. Always in My Heart

14. When the Lights Go on Again

15. Dearly Beloved

16. As Time Goes By

17. You'll Never Know

18. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To

19. Embraceable You

20. Long Ago and Far Away

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Pleasant Change of Pace!!, May 17, 2003

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AbeStreet (Mayfield Heights, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wartime Heart-Throbs (Audio CD)

Growing up 2 1/2 decades after the end of WWII I can hardly look back on this music the way people who lived through the war years. However my father, a WWII vet, played the music while I was growing up. I remember wishing I could listen to more 70's contemporary music like Peter Frampton or groups like Boston but all I got was the Big Band Era music.

I now find I enjoy listening to the Big Band Era music. Given what passes for pop music today I find the WWII era music to be and excellent way to relax. I can actully understand the lyrics and they make sense.

Some of my personal favorites are Begin the Beguine - Chick Henderson, J'attendrai - Jean Sablon, Always in My Heart - Kenny Baker, Long Ago & Far Away - Perry Como, I'll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby, and In a Shady Nook, By a Babbling Brook - Donald Peers.

As the years of the Big Bands grow further and further distant it will only become harder and harder to find radio stations that broadcast this type of music. I live in the Cleveland, Ohio area and to my knowledge there is only one station left, an a.m. station. So if you want to have access to the variety of Big Band music and crooners of the war years this is a good place to start.

Lastly, as the title suggests these songs are slower soft songs. If you want a mix of upbeat and slower songs I might suggest the cd's "Songs That Got Us Through World War II" and it's sequel "Songs That Got Us Throught World War II, Vol. 2."