The White Cliffs Of Dover

Bing Crosby (Performer), Dick Haymes (Performer), Helen Forrest (Performer), Harry James (Performer), Betty Grable (Performer), Deanna Durbin (Performer), Victor Young (Performer), Vera Lynn (Performer), Jo Stafford (Performer), Dooley Wilson (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Good Music/MCA
• ASIN: B000ES41LM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,481 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Disc one tracks are: 1. Now Is The Hour - Bing Crosby, 2. It Had To Be You - Dick Haymes and Helen Forest, 3. I Can't Begin To Tell You - Harry James and Betty Grable, 4. Always - Deanna Durbin, 5. Love Letters - Dick haymes, 6. Sleepy lagoon - Harry James, 7. Auf Weidersehn Sweetheart - Vera Lynn, 8. I'll Be Seeing You - Jo Stafford, 9. Sleepy Time Gal - Harry james, 10. As Time Goes By - Dooley Wilson, 11. Embraceable You - Jimmy Dorsey, 12. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon - Snooky Lanson and Ray Noble, 13. Gypsy - The Ink Spots, 14. Seems Like Old Times - Guy Lombardo, 15. Give Me Five Minutes More - Tex beneke, 16. My Devotion - Vaughan Monroe, 17. Serednade In Blue - Glenn Miller, Ray Eberle, 18. Deep Purple - Bea Wain, Larry Clinton, 19. That Old Feeling - Bob Voday, Shep Fields, 20. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Dinah Shorte, 21. That Old Black magic - Skip Nelson and The Modernaires. Disc two tracks are; 1. Dancing In The Dark - Artie Shaw, 2. Miss You - Dinah Shore, 3. Marie - Jack Leonard Tommy Dorsey, 4. I Think Of You - Frank Sinatra, 5. My Buddy - Tommy Ryan, Sammy Kaye, 6. Lili Marlene -n Perry Como, 7. Something To Remember You By - Dinah Shore, 8. To Each His Own - Eddy Howard, 9. My Prayer - The Ink Spots, 10. Peg O My Heart - The Harmonicats, 11. Maria Elena - Jimmy Dorsey, 12. Mam'selle - Art Lund 13. Mexicalli Rose - Bing Crosby, 14. La Vie En Rose - Edith Piaf, 15. I Don't Want o Set The World On Fire - The Ink Spots, 16. Wheere Or When - Guy Lombardo, 17. Linda - Buddy Clark, 18. Moonlight Becomes You - Bing Crosby, 19. Harbor Lights - Frances Lsngford, 20. We;ll Meet Again - Guy Lombardo, 20. The white Cliffs Of Dover - Kay Kyser, Harry Babbitt.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars There Was So Much To Choose From To Meet The Claim, October 21, 2007

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AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The White Cliffs Of Dover (Audio CD)

This came out from The Good Music Record Co., of Paramus, N.J. at the dawn of the CD age, also offering records and tapes. You saw it advertised on TV and in magazines such as World War II. There are no liner notes, and the sound is, well .... adequate shall we say, but far from what you get now on cleaned-up compilations.

The blurb says "Here are 42 of World War II's most cherished love songs which will rekindle your warmer memories. The songs of separated sweethearts ... and coming home again. The songs which kept our loves and our hearts strong. The songs with the melodies we'll never forget ... and words which will last forever."

Well, I can tell you right off that 16 of the tracks are somewhat misplaced in that they either came out before WW II, or well after. Both Harbor Lights by Frances Langford and That Old Feeling by Shep Fields were hits in 1937, Marie by Tommy Dorsey was at its peak in late 1937/early 1938, Bing Crosby's Mexicali Rose was popular in 1938, while Deep Purple by Larry Clinton orchestra and Bea Wain was an early 1939 tune, months before the war began in September 1939. It can, of course, be argued that these remained popular throughout the war years and so are valid entries in the volume, but the fact is, there were all kinds of war-time tunes that would have been better suited to the compilation.

That's even more applicable where the following are concerned, all of which came out a year or more after the war, which ended in Europe in May and in the Pacific in August 1945: Seems Like Old Times by Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians, The Gypsy by The Ink Spots, I Can't Begin To Tell You by Harry James & His Orchestra and Betty Grable, To Each His Own by Eddy Howard & His Orchestra, and Give Me Five Minutes More by Tex Beneke & The Glenn Miller Orchestra, all were hits in 1946; from 1947 come Linda by Ray Noble & His Orchestra with Buddy Clark, Peg O' My Heart by The Harmonicats, and Mam'selle by Art Lund with Johnny Thompson's orchestra; Bing Crosby's Now Is The Hour was a 1948 hit; La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf hit the charts in 1950, and Auf Wiederseh'n by Vera Lynn was huge in 1952. Seven years after the war!

And while Always, I'll Be Seeing You, and As Time Goes By were indeed wartime hits, they weren't by Deanna Durbin, Jo Stafford, and Dooley Wilson. Of course, the Durbin and Wilson renditions will always be fondly remembered from the films Christmas Holiday and Casablanca, but the hits belonged to others: Always - instrumentals by Gordon Jenkins & His Orchestra (# 11) and Paul Lavalle & His Orchestra (# 29) in 1944, and Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye - Arthur Wright vocal (# 10), and Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians - Stuart Foster vocal (# 10) in 1945; I'll Be Seeing You - Bing Crosby with the John Scott Trotter orchestra (# 1), and Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - vocal Frank Sinatra (# 4) in 1944; and As Time Goes By - Rudy Vallee (# 2) and a revival from 1931 due to its renewed popularity thanks to Casablanca), and Jacques Renard & His Orchestra - vocal Frank Munn (# 3) in 1943.

Those 16 could have been replaced by the following, which not only keep with the theme of love songs, but also genuinely reflect wartime memories: I'll Never Smile Again - Tommy Dorsey/Frank Sinatra and A Million Dreams Ago - Dick Jurgens - both 1940: Yours (Quiereme Mucho) - Jimmy Dorsey/Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell and It All Comes Back To Me Now - Hal Kemp/Bob Allen - both 1941; I Don't Want To Wlk Without You - Harry James/Helen Forrest, When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World) - Vaughn Monroe, I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen - Sammy Kaye/Don Cornell, and Somebody Else Is Taking My Place - Russ Morgan/The Morganaires - all 1942. These are just a few examples of what I mean.

Not a bad buy 17 years ago, but now you can get all of the original hit songs in so many more compilations with cleaner sounds, discographies, and background notes.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like '40s music, this is a must, March 22, 2009

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Steve in Memphis "Steve in Memphis" (Memphis Tennessee) - See all my reviews

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My wife loves '40s music and this is her favorite. It has a good selection of music from that era. It's swell music to listen to at the officer's club while you're having a beer with Richard Bong and the fellas.

5.0 out of 5 stars So Glad, January 21, 2011

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I have wanted this CD for years and am so very glad that I found it on Amazon. Thanks!