Songs That Got Us Through WW2, Vol. 2
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1994-07-19
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Juke Box Saturday Night - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
- Ration Blues - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
- There! I've Said It Again - Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra
- Perdido - Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra
- Mr. Five By Five - Freddie Slack & His Orchestra
- Lili Marlene (German Version) - Marlene Dietrich
- Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
- Caldonia - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Dinah Shore
- On The Atchison, Topeka And Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer & The Pied Pipers
- Idaho - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
- Sweet Slumbe - Lucky Millinder & His Orchestra
- When My Man Comes Home - Buddy Johnson & His Band
- Mairzy Doats - The Pied Pipers
- Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?) - Billie Holiday
- San Fernando Valley - Roy rogers (King Of The Cowboys)
- It Could Happen To You - Jo Stafford
- Flying Home - Lionel hampton & His Orchestra
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Free Music Review: Blame Mr. Allen, Please
Hit: 4 Stars
Yes, here is one more thing to blame on Woody Allen, as if he hasn't had enough problems in his life. Earlier this year I watched and reviewed in this space the film Radio Days that Woody directed. Every since then in the deep recesses of my brain the tunes Paper Dolls and Sentimental Journey have been pounding away. Hey this is music made before I was born, although maybe I picked it up in the womb. Why is it in my head? I am still a child of my generation and fought the anti-Vietnam War fight to the tunes of Bob Dylan's Desolation Row and The Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter but I think I can make a little room for this, if only to keep my brain from stopping that pounding. Directly below are a few comments from my Radio day review that fit here and below that some specific comments on the CD being reviewed.
...I am a first generation child of the television age, although in recent years I have spent more time kicking and screaming about that fact than watching the damn thing. Nevertheless I can appreciate Director (and narrator) Woody Allen's valentine to the radio days of his youth. I am just old enough, although about a half generation behind Allen, to remember the strains of songs like Paper Dolls and Autumn Leaves that he grew up with and that are nicely interspersed throughout his story as backdrop floating in the background of my own house.
I am also a child of Rock and Roll but those above-mentioned tunes were the melodies that my mother and father came of age to and the stuff of their dreams during World War II and its aftermath. The rough and tumble of my parents raising a bunch of kids might have taken the edge off it but the dreams remained. In the end it is this musical backdrop that makes Radio Days most memorable to me......
....Allen's youth, during the heart of World War II, was time when one needed to be able to dream a little. The realities of the world at that time seemingly only allowed for nightmares. My feeling is that this film touched a lot of sentimental nerves for the World War II generation (that so-called `greatest generation') whether it was his Jewish families (as portrayed here) on the shores of New York's Far Rockaway or my Irish families on the shores of Quincy, Massachusetts. Nice work, Woody.
The highlights here are Vaughan Monroe's There I've Said It Again. This is the time of the male crooner and the big band orchestra and Monroe combines both here. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters hit with Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby. Male crooner and three female harmonies was another trade mark of the times. Billie Holiday's Lover Man. Let me keep this one simple- I could get through war, pestilence and the apocalypse as long as I had a Billie album with me.
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