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Carl Davis and the War Years
Nostalgia presents a fine album of familiar hits from the 40s, marshalled by world-famous American conductor Carl Davis.
Preview “13. Run Rabbit Run”
1 | Speech: 'A State of War' | Neville Chamberlain |
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2 | Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye | Gracie Fields |
3 | (We're Gonna Hang Out) The Washing on the Siegfried Line | Arthur Askey Orchestra cond. by Ronnie Munro |
4 | Boum | Charles Trenet |
5 | Speech: 'We Shall Go On to the End' | Winston Churchill |
6 | Adolf | The Billy Cotton Band ft. vocal by Alan Breeze |
7 | Lili Marlene | Lale Anderson Chorus & Orchestra cond. by Bruno Sealer-Winkler |
8 | The Red Army is the Strongest | The Red Army Choir cond. by A. Alexandrov |
9 | Speech: El Alamein address to the Troops | Field Marshall Montogomery |
10 | This is the Army Mr. Jones | Irving Berlin |
11 | Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer | Anne Shelton |
12 | Speech: D-Day Announcement | General Eisenhower |
13 | Run Rabbit Run | Flanagan and Allen with The Harry Bidgood Orchestra |
14 | I'm Going to Get Lit Up (When the Lights Go On Up London) | Carrol Gibbons with The Savoy Orpheans |
15 | London Pride | Noel Coward Orchestra cond. by Carroll Gibbons |
16 | When They Sound the Last 'All Clear' | Vera Lynn with Mantovani and his Orchestra |
About the songs
These wartime classics are guaranteed to resonate in the soul and cause a bit of a nostalgic tear. A combination of popular classics with rousing speeches and anthemic chorus-numbers.
About the featured artists
Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower are political figureheads reponsible for leading the West to War and then causing an end to it. All the singers were stars of their day whose songs have become immortalised by way of prolonged media exposure – whether for propaganda purposes or commercial gain.