75th Anniversary VE Day Collection CD

Ranging from rousing patriotic songs to sentimental ballads of longing, which articulated the agony of separation and potential loss., this 50-track 2-CD set brings together hit recordings from the USA and UK which were part of the soundtrack to the war effort, and most of which were big chart hits in the USA. Includes announcements by Winston Chirchill & Harry S Truman. United Kingdom, 2020, 140 min.

Disc 1 - 1 We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn 2 Moonlight Serenade - Glenn Miller Orchestra 3 Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye - Gracie Fields 4 God Bless America - Kate Smith 5 I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time - Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen & His Orch 6 Til Reveille - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra with Harry, Ginny, Jack & Max 7 Remember Pearl Harbor - Sammy Kaye 8 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - the Andrews Sisters 9 A String of Pearls - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra 10 The White Cliffs of Dover - Vera Lynn 11 I Don't Want to Walk Without You - Harry James & His Orchestra 12 Somebody Else Is Taking My Place - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra with Peggy Lee 13 We'll Be Singing Hallelujah (Marching Through Berlin) - Ethel Merman 14 Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians 15 Just As Though You Were Here - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra & the Pied Pipers 16 Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra 17 He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra 18 One Dozen Roses - Harry James & His Orchestra with Jimmy Saunders 19 This Is Worth Fighting for - Jimmy Dorsey Orch. with Bob Eberly 20 I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen - Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra 21 When the Lights Go on Again (All Over the World) - Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra 22 Der Fuehrer's Face - Spike Jones & His City Slickers 23 Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition - Kay Kyser & His Orchestra 24 For Me and My Gal - Judy Garland & Gene Kelly 25 You'll Never Know - Dick Haymes & the Song Spinners -

Disc 2 - 1 I've Heard That Song Before - Harry James & Helen Forrest 2 Don't Get Around Much Anymore - Ink Spots 3 I'll Be Home for Christmas - Bing Crosby 4 As Time Goes By - Rudy Vallee 5 Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer - the Song Spinners 6 My Shining Hour - Glen Gray & the Casa Loma Orch. with Eugenie Baird 7 I'll Be Seeing You - Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra with Frank Sinatra 8 Long Ago and Far Away - Dick Haymes & Helen Forrest 9 Vict'ry Polka - Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters 10 G.I. Jive - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five 11 I'll Walk Alone - Dinah Shore 12 Goodnight, Wherever You Are - Russ Morgan & His Orch 13 It Had to Be You - Betty Hutton 14 Smoke on the Water - Red Foley 15 Lili Marlene - Anne Shelton 16 There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin (When the Yanks Go - Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters 17 Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers 18 Sentimental Journey - Les Brown Orch. with Doris Day 19 Bell Bottom Trousers - Tony Pastor & His Orch. with Ruth McCullough 20 Till the End of Time - Perry Como 21 V-Day Stomp - Four Clefs 22 I Can't Begin to Tell You - Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallero at the Piano 23 It's Been a Long Long Time - Harry James and His Orch. With Kitty Kallen 24 Announcement of Unconditional Surrender Ve Day - Winston Churchill 25 Harry S. Truman Announces Victory Over Germany 1945 - Harry S. Truman

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