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Found Website with WW2 Music

Ahhh... They don't make 'em like they used too. The music industry has changed about 20 times over since the Swing and Big Band era. Good to see that a youngster is interrested in this music.

Here are a couple sites that has some old music and radio shows.

http://www.radiolovers.com/

http://www.otr.net/

The Brits had Vera Lynn.

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Die deutschen Soldaten hatten Lale Andersen.

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Edith Piaf sans paire juste après la guerre pour le Français. "La Vie En Rose"

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Русский имел их кровь, пот и разрывы. Они имели некоторые большие патриотические песни как священнейшие песни войны и людей.

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Helen Forrest and Harry James were big in the USA at the time

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Cool stuff, sometimes I think I was born twenty or thirty years late. I love the music from the 1930s ans 40s. Thanks for posting .
 
here is another one, that i got from someone on another flight sim forum.

http://www.tropicalglen.com/index.html

it's not just swing/big band but there is plenty of that there.
actually, the swing channel and the blues chanell are the only ones i listen to, but i plan to explore the doo-wop and the motown soon. the blues chanell is just sooo good, it's hard for me to listen to the others
 
Thanks for the links gents. I love music of all genres and periods. This will give me some access to these wonderful songs while on my puter.

OBIO
 
Paris in the 1930's and during the occupation it would have been Django Reinhardt that you could hear playing.

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In Germany you might see a film with Marika Rökk singing and dancing.

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txnetcop said:
WOW really great stuff guys. Like Lifejogger I thing I was born about 30-40 years too late.
Ted
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when i hear the stories of everyday life from people back then, not war stories, but every day things, it makes me wonder. people were different back then. many of us, maybe me, wouldn't be able to hold ourselves to their standard.
 
Belgian Fud Candrix (tenor sax) and his orchestra enjoyed their great success in the 30s and 40s. From April to August 1942 the band was playing for members of the "Wehrmacht" in Delphi Palace (Berlin). The 14 instrumentalists and their singer could handle all common American Jazz-numbers in modern arrangements. The Nazis thought Jazz and Swing were not suitable for their racist Übermensch society and officially it was supposed to be banned or generally supressed. Funny how good music always finds an audience. To tell you the truth, I always thought Richard Wagner was a buzz kill at any party other than the Nazi Party. Here Cadrix plays with Django Reinhardt in Paris 1940. Also Cadrix and his Orchestra in a 1939 and 1942 recording.


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Perhaps if you were part of a U-Boat crew there might be some vinyl 78 rpm records bought at Cherbourg by Rina Ketty mixed in with Wagner's "Der Fliegende Holländer" and propaganda songs like "Wir fahren gegen Engelland"

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Those of you who have been at the Sim-Outhouse forums for a number of years may know that my persona of "Pauke! Pauke!" is just something I had concocted for the CFS3 forums as something edgy, more ridiculous than serious. My purpose has never been to promote the twisted beliefs of National Socialist Germany or condone what they did during the years 1933-1945. My interests remained primarily with German aviation development during those years and the "shoot-em up" aspect of the CFS3 game.

That said, an exploration of WWII music should include examples of what was lost as a result of the Holocaust. It was not only the millions of people that were murdered by the Nazis in the death camps. The culture of the Jews and other peoples like the Roma gypsies were attacked and almost destroyed. There were vibrant Yiddish musical theatre companies in Poland and other central European counties that went dark as a result of the deportations to the concentration camps. Some were kept going furtively in the Jewish ghettos during the war in defiance of the Nazis. Many performers perished and much of the material that they preformed were destroyed or fragmented.

Here are 2 examples of an old traditional Klezmer song "Bubliczki ." The first is done by Barbara Rylska in tribute to the famous pre-war Polish cabaret performer Zula Pogorzelska.. Then a swing version done by Ziggy Elman an American jazz trumpeter most associated with Benny Goodman, though he also led his own band: Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra. Then a popular verson of "Bei mir bist due schön" a Yiddish song composed by Jacob Jacobs (lyricist) and Sholom Secunda (composer) for a Yiddish musical, I Would if I Could (in Yiddish, Men Ken Lebn Nor Men Lost Nisht, "you could live, but they won't let you") in 1932. Ziggy Elman in on the trumpet in this verson
As a footnote you can hear a Nazi propaganda version done by "Charlie and his Orchestra" with Karl Schwedler on vocals if you download it from CFS3 sounds here at the out house. http://www.sim-outhouse.com/index.php?lloc=downloads&loc=downloads&page=info&FileID=2316

Barbara Rylska's tribute to Zula Pogorzelska (2): Bubliczki Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOLUaWYGHPI

Old Klezmer Tune: Bublitschki - Ziggy Elman's Orch., 1938 Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUwrx0ZU4Gc&feature=related

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Before I abandon this thread that I seem to have hyjacked, it would be terrible to exclude some of the greatest black entertainers that ever were. During World War II the U.S military was segregated as was much of civil society in many areas of the country. I'm not qualified or entitled to elaborate upon the injustices of the policy of "seperate but equal". Here are some perfomances that I feel are truly without equal from:

Lena Horne
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Dooley Wilson
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Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers
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The Glen Miller Band, Tex Beneke and with the Nicholas Brothers singing and dancing at the end.
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Ada Brown & Fats Waller
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Fats Waller "Honeysuckle Rose"
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Louis Armstrong "Stardust"
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I hope these choices only please and give no offense
 
Kay Kyser

Someone you don't hear much about is Kay Kyser (and his His Kollege of Musical Knowledge) I have several cds of his music. Kay was a jokester, and quite a character.


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Here's a nice song:

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and this one cracks me up:

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His bio is at:

http://www.kaykyser.net/

NC
 
There is a Submariners website that is based on Silent Hunter fans / players. It has a webpage (or two) that has great WWII tunes. Alot of them are German and some are news broadcasts, such as Winston Churchill, German National Service reports, etc. Great stuff.. Wish I could remember where it was.


Bill
 
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