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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mustaine on September 10, 2008, 12:07:42 AM
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What's your's?
mine is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEYFoDbEZwA
Please read what my comments on the video are to help identify this version. I've heard 100 versions of this song, but never close to the tempo and feel. The closest was actually in the movie "The Glenn Miller Story" with Jimmy Stewart, but the song was cut off when Helen Miller came along the studio in the movie.
What's your favorite WWII era song?
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I think it was a WW2 song, called 'In the mood'
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ANYTHING by G. Miller but esp. this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs
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At the end of October, 1941, the Destroyer Ruben James became the first american warship torpedoed by the Germans. She was escorting a Lend-lease convoy and met her end in a few seconds on a cold night off the coast of Ireland. The US didn't enter the war until Dec 8th, but when the 'Rube' went down, America began to understand there would be no avoiding the war in Europe.
Ruben James
Woodie Guthrie
Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James
Manned by hard fighting men both of honor and fame?
She flew the Stars and Stripes of the land of the free
But tonight she's in her grave at the bottom of the sea.
CHORUS:
Tell me what were their names, tell me what were their names,
Did you have a friend on the good Reuben James?
One hundred men were drowned in that dark watery grave
When that good ship went down only forty-four were saved.
'Twas the last day of October we saved the forty-four
From the cold icy waters off that cold Iceland shore.
It was there in the dark of that uncertain night
That we watched for the U-boats and waited for a fight.
Then a whine and a rock and a great explosion roared
And they laid the Reuben James on that cold ocean floor.
Now tonight there are lights in our country so bright
In the farms and in the cities they are telling of the fight.
And now our mighty battleships will steam the bounding main
And remember the name of that good Reuben James.
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"Le chant des Marais",
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsV74RbMxc&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsV74RbMxc&feature=related)
song written in WW2 concentration camps, and sang every morning by 200 officer students walking at 5am in a foggy Normandie's air base. Pretty moving knwoing where the song came from, and how similar it was with what u had to endure to go thru the school.
"Le chant des partisans" is my other favorite, for the fighting spirit in the lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc1ykcSk4J8&feature=related (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc1ykcSk4J8&feature=related)
Friend, do you hear the crows' dark flight over our plains?
Friend, do you hear the muffled cries of the country being shackled?
Ahoy ! Resistants, labourers and farmers, the alarm has sounded!
Tonight the enemy shall know the price of blood and tears.
Come out of the mine, come down from the hills, comrades,
Take the guns, the munitions and the grenades from under the straw;
Ahoy killers, with bullets and knives kill swiftly!
Ahoy saboteurs, be careful with your burden of dynamite!
We're the ones who smash the bars of jails, for our brothers,
Hate pursuing us, it's hunger that drives us, dire poverty.
There are countries where people sleep in their beds and dream.
Here, you see, we walk and we kill and we die
Here, each one of us knows what he wants, what he does when he passes by;
Friend, if you fall, a friend comes from the shadows in your place.
Tomorrow, black blood will dry in the sun on the roads
Sing, companions, in the night, freedom listens to us.
Those were the songs I was the proudest to sing.
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Like any era. just too many to single out just one.
In the mood is at the top of my list too.
As is this one.
Still a great song.
Not bad in this updated version either
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZlBb6kYVvY
Or the original if you prefer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiVkdVPGoY&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmNFjI_tMU
Wrong link!
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The greatest song about an airplane...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS12isLjS5w&fmt=18
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Kay kyser - Praise the lord and pass the ammunition
The four vagabonds - coming in on a wing and a prayer
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IMO nothing can top THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3N75wqpR7Q&fmt=18)
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The greatest song about an airplane...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS12isLjS5w&fmt=18
Was that our Pannono that commented that video lol??
No matter where I see him he always manages to piss someone off lol
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Was that our Pannono that commented that video lol??
No matter where I see him he always manages to piss someone off lol
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Name: Louis
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My name is Louis. I'm 15 :noid. I like football and video games. I also enjoy WWII aviation history.
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Hey Frenchy, when its convenient give us the words to the first chant...
Merci, Gunthr
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String of pearls .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuP_-xfu4T0
Boogie woogie bugle boy .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiVkdVPGoY
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"We'll Meet Again" -Vera Lynn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY
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Wait. the thread title is the greatest WWII ERA song.
Nobody can argue with this song as every year since it was recorded it has been on of the most listened to and sung, songs.
Now I ask you.
What holiday season would be complete without hearing
Bing Crosby
"White Christmas"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vPfOjAw5Z0
In 1942 alone, the song spent eleven weeks on top of the charts. It returned to the #1 spot again during the holiday seasons of 1945 and 1946 (on the chart dated January 4, 1947), thus becoming the only single in history with three separate runs at the top of the U.S. charts.
Eventually, Crosby's "White Christmas" single sold more than 50 million copies. The Guinness Book of World Records currently lists the song as a 100-million seller (this encompassing all versions of the song, including on albums).
Crosby's single of "White Christmas" is recognized as the best-selling single in any music category and Crosby's recording has sold millions of additional copies as part of numerous albums, including his best-selling holiday collection Merry Christmas, which was first released as an LP in 1949 and has never been out-of-print since.
"ItsRanked" has Crosby's version of "White Christmas" as the number one Christmas song on its Top 40 Christmas Songs of all time ranking.[4]
The Crosby recording is the biggest selling single of all time, as confirmed by the 2008 Guinness Book of Record
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18
My brother had me listen to this when he was in the 82nd
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:salute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18
My brother had me listen to this when he was in the 82nd
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My favorite
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJE-onnw2gM&feature=related
although it does seem to me to get over used in WW2 movies and documentaries
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White Christmas
Charon
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Reuben James
Woodie Guthrie
Great Song, Even today.
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In the Mood for me, I played this where I worked and only one other person there liked it.
Arian
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"I'll be home for Christmas" Bing Crosby
done right it is both heartbreaking and beautiful.
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J'attendrai by Rina Ketty. Sorry I do not have a youtube or clip of it.
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Here's 1940
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBH-zUqVRw0
And a nice nice song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUx3MU9iM6c
More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY&feature=related
But more of a quen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfllUtxDriA
No regrets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFRuLFR91e4&feature=related
Want more?
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Here we go:
'In the mood' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3K5uB-wMA
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"I'm a Cranky Old Yank, in a Clanky Old Tank, on the Streets of Yokahama with My Honolulu Mama, Doing Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat on My Seat-o, Hirohito Blues." -- Written by Hoagy Carmichael, sung by Bing
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Moonlight serenade....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs