Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrews Sisters
2. I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Helen Forrest, Harry James & His Orchestra, Harry James & His Orchestra
3. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! - The Glee Club, Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
4. Lil Marlene - Lale Andersen
5. This Is Worth Fighting For - The Ink Spots
6. That Old Black Magic - Charlie Barnet, Frances Wayne
7. Dearly Beloved - Dinah Shore, Paul Weston
8. Rosie the Riveter - Four Vagabonds
9. (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover - Dick Todd
10. Remember Pearl Harbor - Eddy Howard & His Orchestra,

Disc 2:

1. Der Fuehrer's Face - Carl Grayson, Spike Jones
2. Paper Doll - The Mills Brothers
3. I Threw a Kiss in the Ocean - Kate Smith
4. Last Time I Saw Paris - Roy Bargy,
5. Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer - Golden Gate Quartet
6. Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter and His Troopers
7. Sleepy Lagoon - Harry James
8. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To - Dinah Shore, Paul Weston
9. Sunday, Monday or Always - Bing Crosby, Ken Darby Singers
10. Tangerine - Jimmy Dorsey

Disc 3:

1. Sound off (The Duckworth Chant)
2. You'll Never Know - Dick Haymes
3. Blues in the Night - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
4. We'll Meet Again - The Ink Spots
5. There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere - Elton Britt
6. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) - The Andrews Sisters
7. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square - Sammy Kaye
8. They're Either Too Young or Too Old - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
9. I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen - Kenny Baker, Kenny Baker
10. Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning - Irving Berlin

Disc 4:

1. (I Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra
2. Shoo Shoo Baby - Bing Crosby, John Scott Trotter
3. Mairzy Doats - Al Trace
4. Boy in Khaki - A Girl in Lace - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
5. G.I. Jive - Johnny Mercer
6. Rum and Coca-Cola - Jeri Sullavan
7. As Time Goes By - Dinah Shore
8. When the Lights Go on Again (All over the World) - Vaughn Monroe
9. I'll Walk Alone - Frank Sinatra, Mark Warnow
10. St. Louis Blues March

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17846 in Music
• Released on: 2008-11-10
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: .25" h x 5.50" w x 5.50" l, .16 pounds

Album Description
Classics For Kids - Violin

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Customer Reviews

Great 4 cd Series of some of the best songs from the era
If you want a great collection of music from the war years, this is it. I was not sure when I bought it because none of the artists were listed. But, not to worry, it all the original artists. Brings back memories about my parents and what they had to go through with the war.

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Don't bother with this set if you're looking for quality sound reproduction of the music of the war years. Since it first came out in 1993 there have been other releases which not only have superior sound, eliminating much of the hiss and pop, but which give you only hit versions of the songs in question.

In this 4-disc set it's a mix and match when it comes to original hit renditions. For example, in disc one tracks 1 to 4 and 6 to 9 were all hits for the artists concerned, but on This Is Worth Fighting For the acknowledged 1942 hit belonged to Jimmy Dorsey, not The Ink Spots. Also, for (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover there were five hit versions in 1942 - Glenn Miller, Kay Kyser, Kate Smith, Jimmy Dorsey, and Sammy Kaye - any one of which would have been preferable to that by Dick Todd, a Canadian artist who had six major hits from 1940 to 1953 - but this was not one of them.

The same kind of thing is evident in each of the other three discs as well. For track 1 on disc 2, Carl Grayson did do the vocal, but the credited artist was Spike Jones & His City Slickers. And while everything else here relates to WW II, the inclusion of Sound Off (The Duckworth Chant} is a little out of place since it came out in 1951 [or was that included because of the Korean War?].

There are liner notes [by David Lennick], but this Canadian-produced set just does not stand the test of time with respect to sound clean-up. Do it over InterSound, and this time do it properly.