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Resources of American music history : a directory of source materials from Colonial times to World War II. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1981. ISBN 0-252-00828-6. OCLC 6304409. Lee, Vera. The black and white of American popular music : from slavery to World War II. Rochester, Vt. : Schenkman Books, 2007. ISBN 0-87047-077-9.
Song. Recorded. November 1941. Composer (s) Walter Kent. Lyricist (s) Nat Burton. " (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover " is a popular World War II song composed in 1941 by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton. Made famous in the United Kingdom by Vera Lynn 's 1942 version, it was one of Lynn's best-known recordings and among ...
World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically distributed music. Many people in the war had a pressing need to be able to listen to the radio and 78-rpm shellac records en masse. By 1940, 96.2% of Northeastern American urban households had radio. The lowest American demographic to embrace mass-distributed music ...
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy " is a World War II jump blues song written by Don Raye and Hughie Prince which was introduced by The Andrews Sisters in the Abbott and Costello comedy film, Buck Privates (1941). [1] The Andrews Sisters' Decca recording reached number six on the U.S. pop singles chart in the spring of 1941 ...
The song was recorded by the Song Spinners [5] for Decca Records, reaching number one on the Billboard pop chart on July 2, 1943. [6]"Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" was the only song with a war connection to appear in the top twenty best-selling songs of 1943 in the United States (although record sales in this period were heavily affected by the first Petrillo recording ban).
The Ballad of Rodger Young. Be Honest with Me. Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar. Beer Barrel Polka. Bell Bottom Trousers. Bless 'Em All. Blood on the Risers. Blue Smoke (song) Bomber Command (song)
Pistol Packin' Mama. " Pistol Packin' Mama " was a "Hillbilly"- Honky Tonk record released at the height of World War II that became a nationwide sensation, and the first "Country" song to top the Billboard popular music chart. It was written by Al Dexter of Troup, Texas, who recorded it in Los Angeles, California on March 20, 1942, with top ...
On October 1, 1943, Crosby recorded the song under the title "I'll Be Home for Christmas (If Only in My Dreams)", with the John Scott Trotter Orchestra for Decca Records; [3] it was released as a 78 rpm single, Decca 18570A, Matrix #L3203, and reissued in 1946 as Decca 23779. Within a month of release, the song charted for 11 weeks, with a peak ...