Milsurp music
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I have just wasted a huge amount of time on You Tube...... and I can attest for absolute certain that it is very difficult to type with a stiff right arm!
They are all there, original recordings:
Panzer Rollen in Afrika Vor..... (Afrika Korps marching song)
Wir Fahren gegen Engeland.....(Kriegsmarine)
Bomben auf Engeland.....(Luftwaffe)
Die Fahne hoch..... (Party anthem, SS march and Party Anthem of the Reich.... haunting and mystical)
and Gawd alone knows how many more!
And the ONE song that went international, both sides of the Lines: Lili Marleen, recorded by Lale Andersson, Bing Crosby and a raft of others.
Balancing things out are a few from our side, too:
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.....
We'll Meet Again.....
White Cliffs of Dover...... Vera Lynn had one of the most beautiful singing voices ever recorded; she toured into the 1980s.....
and my Dad's favourite: Spike Jones and the City Slickers doing "Der Fuhrer's Face". It was a favourite in the Instrument Shack at Number 2 Bombing and Gunnery School in Dafoe, Saskatchewan. Most of the instrument repairmen were Jews, recruited from the jewellery-making and watchmaking trades. You couldn't just pick up an airspeed indicator and fix the thing: it had to be sold to you first! Dad was originally a watchmaker and one of the few non-Jews who was repairing instruments in the early part of the War. He once said, "If you're going to be in a war, you might as well be in it with people you like!" They had their fun, but they kept the aircraft UP and SAFE, 364 days of the year (generally no flying on Christmas Day..... and the Jewish guys would work that day to let the Christians have the day off).
If you are into the Kaiserzeit, there is also a lot there, mostly instrumentals..... and from all sides.
Aroint thee! Get thee hence! GO FOR IT!
They are all there, original recordings:
Panzer Rollen in Afrika Vor..... (Afrika Korps marching song)
Wir Fahren gegen Engeland.....(Kriegsmarine)
Bomben auf Engeland.....(Luftwaffe)
Die Fahne hoch..... (Party anthem, SS march and Party Anthem of the Reich.... haunting and mystical)
and Gawd alone knows how many more!
And the ONE song that went international, both sides of the Lines: Lili Marleen, recorded by Lale Andersson, Bing Crosby and a raft of others.
Balancing things out are a few from our side, too:
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.....
We'll Meet Again.....
White Cliffs of Dover...... Vera Lynn had one of the most beautiful singing voices ever recorded; she toured into the 1980s.....
and my Dad's favourite: Spike Jones and the City Slickers doing "Der Fuhrer's Face". It was a favourite in the Instrument Shack at Number 2 Bombing and Gunnery School in Dafoe, Saskatchewan. Most of the instrument repairmen were Jews, recruited from the jewellery-making and watchmaking trades. You couldn't just pick up an airspeed indicator and fix the thing: it had to be sold to you first! Dad was originally a watchmaker and one of the few non-Jews who was repairing instruments in the early part of the War. He once said, "If you're going to be in a war, you might as well be in it with people you like!" They had their fun, but they kept the aircraft UP and SAFE, 364 days of the year (generally no flying on Christmas Day..... and the Jewish guys would work that day to let the Christians have the day off).
If you are into the Kaiserzeit, there is also a lot there, mostly instrumentals..... and from all sides.
Aroint thee! Get thee hence! GO FOR IT!
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"The Maple Leaf Forever", particularly played by a pipe band, absolutely slays me. What a fine, fine song.
In the pantheon of great national anthems - The "Marseilles", "Deutchland Uber Alles", the Russian national anthem, hell, even the "Scar Strangled Bammer", I always find "Oh, Canada" to be a bit uninspiring. It seems so tepid, designed less to inspire than to not offend. "The Maple Leaf Forever" is apparently offensive to some folks, but the great anthems usually are, what with being historical documents and all.
Here's a fine one - #1 in Lithuania for years now:
[youtube]deeiRJ_n374[/youtube]
Inspiring, strong, lotsa guts and pageantry, and this from a country 1/10 the size of Alberta. And the best we can come up with is "Oh, Canada." Makes one wonder.
Back to topic. Here's a fave of mine. I whistle this walking around at work. No one's got wise yet.
[youtube]yi5iFoMU7Ok[/youtube]
Still an official march of the Chilean military, apparently, proving you can't keep a catchy marching tune down.
In the pantheon of great national anthems - The "Marseilles", "Deutchland Uber Alles", the Russian national anthem, hell, even the "Scar Strangled Bammer", I always find "Oh, Canada" to be a bit uninspiring. It seems so tepid, designed less to inspire than to not offend. "The Maple Leaf Forever" is apparently offensive to some folks, but the great anthems usually are, what with being historical documents and all.
Here's a fine one - #1 in Lithuania for years now:
[youtube]deeiRJ_n374[/youtube]
Inspiring, strong, lotsa guts and pageantry, and this from a country 1/10 the size of Alberta. And the best we can come up with is "Oh, Canada." Makes one wonder.
Back to topic. Here's a fave of mine. I whistle this walking around at work. No one's got wise yet.
[youtube]yi5iFoMU7Ok[/youtube]
Still an official march of the Chilean military, apparently, proving you can't keep a catchy marching tune down.
I worked for an extremely unpleasant Scotsman in the Persian Gulf on an offshore platform. So I taught some of the 'Nationals' (90% were East Indian) to whistle 'The Colonel Bogey' when Cliff (The Scot's Tour Push) was around and they were working. Told them a brief synopsis of "The Bridge over the River Quia" too.
One of my better subversive tricks I thought, still rather proud of it.
91.1 FM has great "Big Band " program running Sundays I think 6 to 10 PM.
Most of the music played is stuff recorded in 1930's and 40's so that would be the thing solders listened to on their radios in WW2.
I started listening this way back when Air Warrior was online.Still do on days when my hearing improves or I'm near com with good headphones.
Most of the music played is stuff recorded in 1930's and 40's so that would be the thing solders listened to on their radios in WW2.
I started listening this way back when Air Warrior was online.Still do on days when my hearing improves or I'm near com with good headphones.
