Words & Music of World War II

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 15, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000008MGK
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #197,413 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Air-Raid Siren: "Warning"/Pearl Harbor Is Attacked, December 7th, 1941/Remember Pearl Harbor/President Roosevelt Declares War. December 8th, 1941/We Did It Before And We Can Do it Again

2. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Returns From Munich, September 29th, 1938/The Umbrella Man

3. Indian Summer/President Roosevelt Opens The New York World's Fair/Dawn Of a New Day

4. Neville Chamberlain Declares War, September 3rd, 1939/We'll Meet Again/Ed Murrow Broadcasts On The Evacuation Of Children From London, September 1939/My Sister And I

5. Ed Murrow On The Retreat From Dunkirk, June 1940/(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover/News Flashes On The German Advance Across europe: France Surrenders/The Last Time I Saw Paris

6. The London Blitz, Fall 1940/I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire/The Deepest Shelter In Town/Ed Murrow On The Devastation Of London, 1940/A Little Old Church In England/London Pride

7. Winston Churchill Tells America "Give Us The Tools And We'll Finish The Job"/President Roosevelt "Arsenal Of Democracy" Speech To Congress, Spring 1941/Any Bonds Today

8. Joltin' Joe DiMaggio

9. Stalin Wasn't Stallin'

10. This Is The Army, Mr. Jones/Bell Bottom Trousers/Keep 'Em Flying/The Marines' Hymn/Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie/Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy/Mary Anderson, Director Of The Women's Bureau, Department Of Labor, On Women's Value To The War Effort/Pistol Packin' Mama/I Don't Want To Walk Without You/Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree

Disc: 2

1. When The Lights Go Again/Paul O'Leary, Deputy Administrator In Charge Of Rationing, Discusses Problems With A Typical Housewife And Her Grocer/There Won't Be A Shortage Of Love

2. William Joyce "Lord Haw-Haw" Over German Radio/Der Fuhrer's Face/Tokyo Rose Broadcasts To The American Troops In The Pacific/You're A Sap, Mr. Jap/President Roosevelt Labor Day 1941 Address/FDR Jones/Lili Marlene

3. I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen/Girls, Don't Refuse To Kiss A Soldier/Interview Outside Voltee Aircraft Plant, Nashville, Tennessee/Praise the Lord And Pass The Ammunition/ Harlem On Parade

4. They're Either Too Young Or Too Old

5. Ed Murrow Broadcasts His Experiences On A Bomb Raid Over Berlin/Comin' On A Wing And A Prayer

6. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To/Wonder When My Baby's Coming Home

7. On-The-Spot Account Of American Forces Landing On Iwo Jima/Stars And Stripes On Iwo Jima

8. President Roosevelt Addresses Congress On The Results Of The Three-Power Yalta Conference, February 1945/Yalta/Don't Fence Me In/I'll Buy That Dream

9. Hitler Speaks: Death Of Hitler Is Reported/When That Man Is Dead And Gone/President Truman Announces The Dropping Of The First Atomic Bomb Over Hiroshima/Atom And Evil/The Unconditional Surrender Of The Japanese Is Announced/General MacArthur Announces The surrender Of The Japanese Aboard The USS Missouri In Tokyo Bay/Fightin' Doug MacArthur

10. Finale

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Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cross purposes?, August 15, 2002

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This review is from: Words & Music of World War II (Audio CD)

I bought this item primarily for historical purposes, to have on my shelf the actual words and sounds of the period. I think the editors had a different purpose in mind, perhaps to weave the important historical speeches with the music of the day in order to achieve a more narrative perspective with some entertainment value added. The "excerpting" of tunes and speeches was a bit overdone, I think, especially when one knows what the rest of the speech was, and I found myself waiting for the real point of the speech which came, as usual, toward the end. What you hear on this disc are primarily the oft-quoted preambles to speeches. Also, the riveting words of Mr. Churchill to the United Kingdom and the Empire were given less representation than they should have been.

Technically, the two disc set was remarkably clean and the digital processing successfully eliminated the surface noise and degradations of time on these historic recordings. Very well done.

If you're looking for an important historical record, look elsewhere, but for a "mass market" overview of this terrible time this set serves its purpose well.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars World War II Music and Words, November 6, 2007

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M. J. Walter "[e-mail]" (Alpine, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This is an excellent product, and my students get to hear the actual voices and sounds of some of the most important moments of WWII.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Snapshots of the War, March 1, 2006

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Margaret A. Bickers (Kansas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This collection of speech and song excerpts gives listeners a sense of the Second World War and how it effected popular culture. As the editors admit, it is rather light-hearted, with humorous songs mixed with news broadcasts and narration. Although it is not an archive of material from 1939 - 1945, the CDs provide a series of audio snapshots of WW II.