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Second World War popular music...

ndicki

ndicki

Charter Member 2016
Been mucking about on You Tube, and I'm astonished to see everything there is... So how about a WW2 music thread? Most of us are interested in the culture of WW2, and it'd help that lot across the pond to see that there's more to life than Glenn Miller!

So for starters: (if anyone knows how to embed these directly?)

George Formby, Mr Wu's an Air Raid Warden now! (It helps to know the previous songs where he's running a Chinese laundry, and then becomes a window cleaner. But that was before the War.)

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

My father enjoyed this. That says a lot about him.........
 
ndicki said:
So for starters: (if anyone knows how to embed these directly?)
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Write [*YOUTUBE]vnvgpeGxzak[/YOUTUBE*] where the tags are those same (without * of course) and the gibberish between them is what you can find at the very end of the Youtube address after the = mark and before the possible &feature=related. So:

[YOUTUBE]vnvgpeGxzak[/YOUTUBE]
 
Now that you mentioned music..... when I first installed ETO 1.0 it had different shell music in each of the eras. Now I noticed after turning up my sound sliders that the music is all the same in ver 1.31

When did this change?
 
If you've ever wondered about the "Mr Brown's gone up to Town" in the Dad's Army theme song, here he is.

Caroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orpheans, "Mister Brown of London Town"

[YOUTUBE]il9z9BnRPVQ[/YOUTUBE]
 
she was actually a Swedish lady with a beautiful voice, but she lived and sang in Germany from the early thirties until the end of the war (and had a few problems afterwards back in Sweden)


[youtube]ujsI2RkXofk&feature[/youtube]
 
Difficult to find a decent version of this that doesn't have BNP or other extremist propaganda photos attached...

[YOUTUBE]H4yWi06wwZQ[/YOUTUBE]
 
Here's my contribution. This song was composed in 1944 when the brazilian expeditionary forca embarked for Italy. it's a bit too long I admit, but you don't have to listen to the end neither understand portuguese to realize what they're talking about .
Thanks for the thread

[YOUTUBE]5l7WXUYOKeY[/YOUTUBE]
 
[youtube]j9J5Zt2Obko&hl=en_US&fs=1[/youtube]

This is the tune that I used as the theme music for the Panzer Elite - X mod.
 
This one was sung in a movie titled something like "Great Freedom No. 7", actually an adress in Hamburg, but allegedly meant as a provocation to the NAZI party. Hans Albers, the star of the movie, looked like the perfect German, but never cooperated with the NAZIs. I believe the movie was even banned, but the song became very popular.


[youtube]r9uWtuMzj5Q&feature[/youtube]
 
I believe this one was a favourite of the German soldiers (particularly when sitting in the middle of nowhere and wondering why)


[youtube]_JvX4g8ypSY[/youtube]
 
Another song by Lale Andersen (recorded in 1942, I believe), the title is something like "Everything will pass, all will be over....", presumably meaning the war.


[youtube]fy6BQgERi6E&feature[/youtube]
 
....and a famous song by Joseph Schmidt (1933), because its beautiful. He was a German speaking Jewish singer from Romania (born 1904 in Dawideny when the city was still Austrian). He went to Berlin to be educated as a tenor in the twenties and became a famous radio singer in Germany. In 1933 he was not allowed to perform in Germany anymore. He emigrated and managed eventually to get into Switzerland where he died in 1942. His recordings are well known still today.


[youtube]XCdo_gXIhtI[/youtube]
 
You need the era selectors from 1.30 that included the option for different uimuisic. The 1.31 update included era selectors which overwrote your existing install.

Vogelscheuche said:
Now that you mentioned music..... when I first installed ETO 1.0 it had different shell music in each of the eras. Now I noticed after turning up my sound sliders that the music is all the same in ver 1.31

When did this change?
Click to expand...
 
Oki - Period piece for your collection:

Es geht alles voruber,
Es geht alles vorbei,
Es gab Schnapps in Dezember,
Kriegen wir in Mai -
Zuerst faellt der Fuehrer,
Und denn die Partei,
Es geht alles voruber,
Es geht alles vorbei!

I used to do Luftwaffe re-enactment while I was still living in England, where such things are accepted more easily...
 
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