American Favourites from the War Years by Various (CD, 2020)

Not Now UK, Nnow

5060143497728

5046056068

2020

CD

Rock

Various

American Favourites from the War Years

0.26 in

0.14 lb

5.51 in

4.97 in

40

2

1.1 In the Mood - Glenn Miller 1.2 Take the 'A' Train - Duke Ellington 1.3 Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy) - Jimmy Dorsey (With Helen O'Connell) 1.4 Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald ; the Ink Spots 1.5 I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time - the Andrews Sisters 1.6 After You're Gone - Benny Goodman 1.7 Together - Dick Haymes ; Helen Forest 1.8 Skyliner - Charlie Barnet ; His Orchestra 1.9 You Always Hurt the One You Love - the Mills Brothers 1.10 Tangerine - Jimmy Dorsey (With Bob Eberly ; Helen O'Connell) 1.11 Sentimental Journey - Les Brown (With Doris Day) 1.12 Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby - Louis Jordan 1.13 Don't Fence Me in - Bing Crosby (With the Andrews Sisters) 1.14 Big Noise from Winnetka - Bob Crosby's Bob Cats 1.15 Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer - the Song Spinners 1.16 Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland 1.17 Begin the Beguine - Eddie Heywood ; His Orchestra 1.18 Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition - Kay Kyser 1.19 Shoo Shoo Baby - Ella Mae Morse 1.20 I'll Be Seeing You - Tommy Dorsey 2.1 Frenesi - Artie Shaw ; Orchestra 2.2 For Me and My Gal - Judy Garland ; Gene Kelly 2.3 A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Glenn Miller (With Ray Eberle) 2.4 G.I. Jive - Louis Jordan ; His Tympany Five 2.5 You'll Never Know - Dick Haymes ; the Song Spinners 2.6 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - the Andrews Sisters 2.7 Wishing (Will Make It So) - Turner Layton 2.8 Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar - Will Bradley ; Orchestra 2.9 Do I Worry - the Ink Spots 2.10 Swingin' on a Star - Bing Crosby 2.11 Whispering - Tommy Dorsey 2.12 Remember Pearl Harbour - Sammy Kaye ; Orchestra 2.13 The Hut Sut Song - Freddy Martin ; Orchestra 2.14 Paper Doll - the Mills Brothers 2.15 My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time - Doris Day ; Les Brown 2.16 Pompton Turnpike - Charlie Barnet ; Orchestra 2.17 Blues in the Night (My Mama Done Told Me) - Woody Herman ; Orchestra 2.18 My Shining Hour - Glen Gray 2.19 I'm Beginning to See the Light - Duke Ellington 2.20 When the Lights Go on Again (All Over the World) - Vaughn Monroe ; Orchestra

2CD Set. On Sunday 7 December 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and America found itself embroiled in World War II. Response among the nation's tunesmith's was immediate. Within ten days, Sammy Kaye's band recorded a hit titled Remember Pearl Harbor and America's Tin Pan Alley became Tin Hat Alley as it sought to fashion songs that inspired a mixture of patriotism and a kind of nostalgia for times that seemed to have evaporated in the aftermath of President Roosevelt's acclaimed "Day Of Infamy".