OH! IT’S A LOVELY WAR  (Vol 2) 

CD41-003

 

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Volume Two is a double CD containing 50 tracks and no less than two and a half hours of material! Disc one concentrates on songs popular with the troops, including Boys of the Old Brigade, Are We Downhearted?, Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty, Mademoiselle From Armentieres, Soldiers of the King, Abide With Me, Hold Your Hand Out Naughty Boy, There's a Long, Long Trail, Little Grey Home in the West, Just Before the Battle Mother and Tanks That Broke the Ranks. Disc two is more concerned with the Home Front, and includes tracks such as Goodbye Dolly Gray, Belgium Put the Khibosh On the Kaiser, Till the Boys Come Home, Special Constable Smith and Since Father Joined the Territorials, as well as many descriptive sketch records and comic songs. No tracks are repeated from Vol One, and the CD booklet contains detailed historical notes and recording information.

DISC ONE : “WITH OUR BOYS AT THE FRONT”

The Boys of the Old Brigade                        Uncredited                   1914

Are We Downhearted?                                      Arthur Boyton                         1914

Mademoiselle from Armentieres              Jack Charman                      1915

Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty              Florrie Forde              1917

Hold Your Hand Out, Naughty Boy              Kate Moore                          1913

Soldiers of the King                             W Thorpe                         1914

The Old Contemptibles                                     Robert Carr                 1915

Bravo! Territorials                               Harrisson Latimer               1915

Our Whistling Tommies                      Royal Court Orchestra              1915

Tommy in the Trenches                      sketch                                      1915

There’s a Long, Long Trail                  John McCormack              1917

Little Grey Home in the West                Peter Dawson                       1912

When You’re a Long Way From Home            Kirby & Cove                1916

The Rose of No-Man’s Land                          William Thomas              1916

Just Before the Battle, Mother                          Orpheus Quartette             1910

The Big Push                                        sketch                                      1917

British Troops in Action Pt 1                sketch                                      1915

British Troops in Action Pt 2                sketch                                      1915

We Didn’t Want to Fight               Stanley Kirkby  1914

The Tanks that Broke the Ranks              Fanning & Fortune             1916

When We’ve Wound Up the Watch              Stanley Kirkby  1915

Colonel Bogey March                           1st Life Guards Band              1910

6 Regimental Marches                                   Band of HM Guards              1914

Abide With Me                                                  Wilfred Shepherd              1913

 

 

DISC TWO: “TILL THE BOYS COME HOME”

Since Father Joined the Territorials             Billy Williams                       1909

We Must All Fall In                           Robert Carr                 1915

Goodbye Dolly Gray                             Harry McDonough              1901

The Homes They Leave Behind              Maggie Teyte              1914

Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser             Mark Sheridan                      1915

Three Cheers for Little Belgium             Violet Lorraine                       1914

Special Constable Smith (Pts 1 & 2)         sketch                                      1915

Sister Suzie’s Sewing Shirts…                         Jack Charman                      1914

I Saw Six Short Soldiers                        Jay Laurier                         1916

Mary Told the Story to the Soldier             Ella Retford                         1912

They All Look Alike in Khaki                Ella Retford                         1918

Somewhere in France, Dear Mother              Stanley Kirkby  1915

Laddie in Khaki                                      Robert Carr                 1915

Till the Boys Come Home                 Stanley Kirkby               1915

A Concientious Objector                       Alfred Lester                          1915

War in the Air                                      Cossack Band                         1915

An Air Raid                                           sketch                                      1917

The Kaiser in a Zeppelin                       sketch                                      1915

When Tommy Comes Marching Home            Harry Marlow                         1914

Marching Back to Blighty                     Harry Cove                1916

Blighty Leave                                      sketch                                      1917

Our Heroic Family                                      Jay Laurier                         1921

Stony Broke in No-Man’s Land                          Frank Miller                1921

Rule Britannia                                     Regimental Band              1912

God Save the King                             Regimental Band             1912

 

NB: date in brackets is date of recording, not composition

 

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