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May 11, 2005 4:57 AM

World War Two Songs. CBS World News audio from World War II. Also, vintage audio and songs from the World War I era.
posted by jasonspaceman (8 comments total)

very nice stuff spaceman. i could/should have used this in my class a few weeks ago..
posted by jmccw at 5:54 AM on May 11, 2005

No discussion of World War II songs would be complete without at least mentioning "Lili Marlene". And for entertaining (?) song titles, how about this: "I'm a Cranky Old Yank In My clanky Old Tank (On The Streets Of Yokohama With My Honolulu Mama, Singin' Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat On My Seat-o, Hirohito Blues)."

(Yeah, I know. But it was a different, less self-consciously ironic era...)
posted by alumshubby at 6:14 AM on May 11, 2005

Thanks jasonspaceman AND alumshubby. I love this sort of stuff (in a different, less self-consciously ironic way, of course)
posted by briank at 6:38 AM on May 11, 2005

Great post and follow-up! I teach history over the internet, and posts like this are pure gold.
posted by LarryC at 7:15 AM on May 11, 2005

Oh my god, I just got a project to do the sound design for a WW2 era play. I'm thinking of googling for links, but Mefi came first.

You're my savior :) Thank you
posted by Be'lal at 7:19 AM on May 11, 2005

One of my favorites is "There'll be a hot time in the Town of Berlin" (half way down).
posted by sadie01221975 at 12:31 PM on May 11, 2005

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition? My parents had a 78 of that one. It could be remade for today's, um, conflict.
posted by fixedgear at 1:20 PM on May 11, 2005

World War II songs (and movies) from the other side.
posted by Ljubljana at 2:31 AM on May 12, 2005