UNFORTUNATELY, THIS ITEM IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.Glenn Miller on the wireless... sing-songs in the barrack rooms, factories and pubs... lasting romance kindled by the melodies of Vera Lynn, Anne Shelton and a host of great dance bands. PLUS, the history and gripping drama of WWII captured in authentic speeches, home-front sounds and fascinating eye-witness commentaries.
70 years later, the sounds of the war years resound like no other - and this superb wartime tribute captures the most indelible memories in one fabulously evocative collection!
Disc One
1.) Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again
2.) The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill - Churchill Wartime Speech
3.) Gracie Fields - Wish Me Luck (As You Wave Me Goodbye)
4.) Flanagan and Allen - (We're Gonna Hang Out) The Washing On The Siegfried Line
5.) Spike Jones and His City Slickers - Der Führer's Face
6.) Arthur Askey - The Thing-Ummy-Bob
7.) Noël Coward - London Pride
8.) Vera Lynn - A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
9.) Harry James and his Orchestra - Sleepy Lagoon
10.) Bing Crosby - Somebody Loves Me
11.) The Ink Spots - Maybe
12.) Glenn Miller and his Orchestra - American Patrol
13.) Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke and the Modernaires - Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
14.) The Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
15.) Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Don't Fence Me In
16.) Doris Day & Les Brown Orchestra - Sentimental Journey
17.) Judy Garland - I'm Nobody's Baby
18.) Anne Shelton - Lili Marlene
19.) Vera Lynn - The White Cliffs Of Dover
20.) The Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill - Churchill Wartime Speech
21.) Air Battle Over the English Channel (BBC Broadcast, 14th July 1940)
22.) Air Battle Over the English Channel (BBC Broadcast, 14th July 1940)
Disc Two
1.) Joe Loss and his Orchestra - In The Mood
2.) Woody Herman and his Orchestra - At The Woodchoppers Ball
3.) Artie Shaw and his Orchestra - Begin The Beguine
4.) Pee Wee Hunt and his Orchestra - Twelfth Street Rag
5.) Glenn Miller and his Orchestra - Pennsylvania 6-5000
6.) Billy Butterfield and his Orchestra - Blue Moon
7.) Lionel Hampton Orchestra - It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
8.) Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Is You Is, Or Is You Ain't My Baby
9.) Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five - Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
10.) Billy Butterfield and his Orchestra - Stormy Weather
11.) Billy Butterfield and his Orchestra - Night And Day
12.) Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
13.) Count Basie and his Orchestra - Jumpin' At The Woodside
14.) Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, Tex Beneke & Marion Hutton and the Modernaires - (I've Got A Gal In) Kalamazoo
15.) Benny Goodman and his Orchestra - Sing, Sing, Sing
16.) Harry James and his Orchestra - Trumpet Blues & Cantabile
17.) Bob Crosby and his Orchestra - South Rampart Street Parade
18.) Johnny Mercer - GI Jive
19.) Duke Ellington and his Orchestra - Take The 'A' Train
20.) Harry James and his Orchestra - Ciribiribin
Disc Three
1.) Ambrose and his Orchestra & Anne Shelton - As Time Goes By
2.) Flanagan & Allen - Underneath the Arches
3.) Billy Cotton and his Orchestra & Alan Breeze - The Lambeth Walk
4.) Lew Stone and his Band - Till the Lights of London Shine Again
5.) Ambrose and his Orchestra & Anne Shelton - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
6.) Paul Rich - Bow Bells
7.) Field Marshall The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein - Message the Night Before D-Day
8.) Vera Lynn - It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
9.) Two Spitfire Flypast
10.) Noël Coward - London Pride
11.) Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill - Be Ye Men of Valour
12.) Flanagan & Allen - There's A Boy Coming Home On Leave
13.) Vera Lynn - The London I Love
14.) Bob Hope and Shirley Ross - Thanks for the Memory
15.) Bing Crosby - I'll Be Seeing You
16.) The Ink Spots - Don't Get Around Much Anymore
17.) Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra & Frank Sinatra - Blue Skies
18.) Pearl Carr - Don't Dilly Dally on the Way
19.) George Formby - Bless 'Em All
20.) Jack White and his Band - In the Quartermaster's Store
21.) Jack Payne - There'll Always Be an England
22.) Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill - We Shall Fight On the Beaches
23.) Deanna Durbin - Beneath The Lights of Home