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Kathryn Grayson – I Dug A Ditch
from the movie “Thousands Cheer”（1943）万雷の歓呼
戦意高揚のために作られたミュージカル。
The Four Vagabonds – Ten Little Soldiers（1943）
King’s Men with Billy Mills and his Orchestra – What Do You Do In The Infantry?（1943）
the infantry＝歩兵
The King’s Men vocal quartet–active on radio, on records, and in movies during the 1930s &’40s–consisted of award-winning composer, vocal arranger, lyricist, and conductor Ken Darby, plus Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, and Bud Linn. Between 1940 and 1953 they were featured vocalists on the “Fibber McGee and Molly” radio program where they were accompanied （as here） by the show’s musical director Billy Mills.
The Sportsmen – What Do You Do In The Infantry（1943）
口笛が入ります。
Prior to becoming regulars on Jack Benny’s radio program during the 1940s, The Sportsmen Quartet had performed on the voice tracks of various Warner Brothers cartoon shorts. Famed songwriter Frank Loesser composed this march-tempo tune during his WW2 duty tour with the Army Air Force.
This was one of the’recording ban’ releases, performed a cappella （all vocal…no musical instruments） due to the ongoing strike against the recording industry by James C. Petrillo’s American Federation of Musicians which began August 1, 1942, and remained in effect for each of the major labels until they reached agreement on a new contract with the union.
Hal McIntyre and his Orchestra – This Is The Army, Mister Jones（1942）
vocal: Jack Lathrop
from the All-Soldier Show “This Is The Army”
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Billy Ford – This Is Worth Fighting For（1964/03）
２度目の引用。
In 1967, producer Al Scmitt and arranger, Nick DeCaro along with many of the same musicians issued another version of the tune sung marvelously by GIL BERNAL and released on RCA Victor.
Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra – This Is Worth Fighting For（1942）
vocal: Bob Eberly
タイトルは「これは戦う価値がある」の意。
２度目の引用。
Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra – This Is Worth Fighting For（1942）
vocal: Vaughn Monroe
２度目の引用。
This patriotic ballad was featured in the 1942 Universal musical “When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” which starred Allan Jones and Jane Frazee. Other notable recorded versions of the song included those by Jimmy Dorsey, Kate Smith, and The Ink Spots.
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Kay Kyser and his Orchestra – This Time（1942）
vocal: Harry Babbitt and quartet
戦意高揚ソング。
A patriotic wartime effort composed by Irving Berlin.
Shep Fields and his New Music – The Caissons Go Rolling Along（1942）
vocal: Ken Curtis & Ensemble
This was recorded some years before Curtis transitioned into his better-known career as actor in a series of western movies and TV shows （most notably as Festus in “Gunsmoke”）.
Composed by Edmund Gruber in 1918 as “The U.S. Field Artillery March,” this was among the many patriotic tunes recorded in the weeks following 12/7/41. Note the absence of brass instruments in this and other recordings made by Fields’ “New Music” band from this period.
Andrews Sisters – Here Comes The Navy（1942）
（Adapted To The Melody If “Beer Barrel Polka”）
orchestra conducted by Vic Schoen
２度目の引用。
New wartime lyric set to pretty much the same Vic Schoen arrangement used in the sisters’ 1939 recording of “Beer Barrel Polka”
＜参考＞
Andrews Sisters – Beer Barrel Polka（Roll Out The Barrel）（1939）
２度目の引用。
Alvino Rey and his Orchestra – The Army Air Corps（1942）
vocal: The Four King Sisters, Bill Schallen and Chorus
“Off we go into the wild blue yonder!” Subtitled “Official Song of the United States Army Air Corps,” this familiar piece was written in 1939 by professional musician Robert MacArthur Crawford. For details on its history and changes in title and lyrics over the years, see the Wikipedia page: The U.S. Air Force （song）. And for a completely different approach to the tune, listen here to Skitch Henderson’s lovely & leisurely 1947 “Thornhill-esque” arrangement
Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights – Goodbye Dear, I’ll Be Back In A Year（1941）
vocal: Ronnie Kemper, assisted by Donna Wood
イントロで軍隊ラッパ風な雰囲気。
３度目の引用。
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Dean Hudson and his Orch. featuring Parker Lund on drums – Blitzkrieg（1941）
recorded in NYC August 1, 1941
Una Mae Carlisle with Orchestra – Blitzkrieg Baby （You Can’t Bomb Me）（1941）
Accompanied by Lester Young and a small jazz group.
（Blitzkrieg から転送）
電撃戦（でんげきせん、独: Blitzkrieg、 ブリッツクリーク）とは、一般に機甲部隊の高い機動能力を活用した戦闘教義である。「電撃」のように迅速に短期間で決着を付けたためこの呼称がある。
＜電撃戦 – Wikipedia より一部引用＞
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%BB%E6%92%83%E6%88%A6
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第二次世界大戦の欧州戦線において、当初中立だったアメリカが１９４１年３月、『武器貸与法』を成立させイギリス支援を開始、 同年８月９日、ルーズヴェルトとチャーチルが反ファシズムで合意（大西洋憲章）、同年１２月の真珠湾攻撃を受け、正式参戦となった。
この歌は３月の録音なので、恋愛を戦争に喩える心のゆとりがあったのだろう。
Billy Cotton and His Band – iss Me Goodnight, Sergeant-Major（UK:1939）
イギリスの戦時歌謡。
２度目の引用。
Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans – We’re A Couple Of Soldiers, My Baby And Me（1932）
vocal: Les Allen & Cecile Petrie
途中、”Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” のイントロと同じメロあり。
２度目の引用。
Rodgers & Hart’s “Mimi” is on the flip side.
Peerless Quartet with Billy Murray – My Dream Of The Big Parade（1926）
アメリカが第一次世界大戦（1914/07/28～1918/11/11）に参戦したのは末期に近くなった１９１７年だったが、兵士の犠牲は大きかったようだ。この楽曲は終戦直後に行われた帰還兵の凱旋パレードを回想する内容で、悲惨な戦場の様子や、毒ガス、潜水艦、戦車、手榴弾などの近代兵器にも言及している。好戦・厭戦どちらでもなく、犠牲者や負傷者、その家族・友人らを思い平和の尊さを表現しているように感じられる。
途中から語りが入る構成で、最後はアカペラのコーラスになる。
２度目の引用。
released September 1926
Though it’s been decades since I purchased this 78, it still never fails to move me. The electrically recorded voices of Henry Burr and Billy Murray, two giants of early 20th Century popular music, are heard together in this Al Dubin-Jimmy McHugh tribute to the fighting servicemen of The Great War.
Though artist billed as the Peerless Quartet, the label also indicates vocal by a male quintet. Aside from the Murray narrative, the five singers at this session （according to the Victor ledgers） were Burr, Monroe Silver, Carl Mathieu, James Stanley, and Stanley Baughman.
Eugene Buckley and Peerless Quartette – Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip（1918）
Peerless Quartette – I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier（1915）
Popular anti-war song adopted by the pacifist movement prior to the U.S. entry into WWI.
Henry Burr （lead）, Albert Campbell, Arthur Collins, and John H. Meyer were probably the Peerless personnel at the time of this recording.
Byron G. Harlan – I’d Like to be a Soldier Boy in Blue（1910）
- 体力の衰えをひしひしと感じる今日このごろ（４） 續 more register movement
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