The World at War: 30th Anniversary Edition

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Free Music Review: "events captured by music ~ World at War"
Hit: 5 Stars

Each segment is beautifully told through music and a stand out that is emotional and powerful. This album is not your same old and over dramatized collection ~ but is tense in content and gives you an overscope of years past but never forgotten. Being a "flm-score-buff"and collector for a number of years, must admit being very excited about some hard-to-find cues that are mostly from England and France, bringing the entire project together in fine fashion.

Entire album is a stand out with "WISH ME LUCK AS YOU WAVE GOODBYE" (Gracie Fields), "LONDON PRIDE" (Noel Coward), "THIS IS THE ARMY, MR. JONES" (Irving Berlin), ("WE'RE GONNA HANG OUT)THE WASHING ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE" (Arthur Askey), "BOUM" (Charles Trenet), "ADOLF" (Billy Cotton Band), "THE RED ARMY IS THE STRONGEST (Red Army), "LILI MARLENE" (Lale Anderson ~ one of my all-time favorites, performed by many artists since then), "WHEN THEY SOUND THE LAST "ALL CLEAR"(Vera Lynn) and "COMING IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER" (Anne Shelton). Much care has been taken for the clarity of excerpts by speeches from Winston Churchill(Their Finest Hour-speech), Neville Chamberlain(A State of War-speech) and Dwight Eisenhower(D-Day Announcement-speech).

For the discriminate collector, this is a well balanced collection of the times ~ producer James Fitzpatrick has hit the mark with high standards within each cue ~ this is not a Hollywood production, but real lives and the events that shook the world when war presented itself ~ would like to add the score by Carl Davis and The City of Prague Philharmonic performance is what makes this compilation soundtrack a pearl and a collectors dream.

Total Time: 74:41 on 26 Tracks ~ Silva America 1158 ~ (1/20/2004)

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