OH! IT'S A LOVELY WAR (Vol 1)
Original sound recordings from the First World War 1914-1918
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The first of four volumes in our acclaimed archive series Oh! It's A Lovely War, this CD album and download runs for 74 minutes and features some of the best known period songs and sound recordings of the First World War era. The recordings are mainly British, and include patriotic songs, marches, descriptive sketch records and actuality material. Recording dates are as stated below. All selections have been sympathetically remastered using CEDAR technology, while the booklet features detailed historical and recording notes by historian James Hayward. Now running to four volumes, the Oh! It's a Lovely War series is a must for military and social historians, as well as collectors of song, music hall and comedy recordings. Full tracklist:

1. IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY John McCormack (1914)
2. PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES Murray Johnson (1916)
3. GOOD BYE-EE Courtland & Jeffries (1918)
4. OH! IT'S A LOVELY WAR Courtland & Jeffries(1918)
5. HREE WE ARE AGAIN!!! F. Wheeler (1915)
6. MEDLEY: WARTIME SONGS OF 1914 *1 male ensemble (recorded 1920s)
7. MEDLEY: WARTIME SONGS OF 1914 *2 male ensemble (recorded 1920s)
8. KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING John McCormack (1917)
9. ON THE MARCH Sgt E. Dwyer V.C. (1915) monologue
10. IN THE TRENCHES Sgt E. Dwyer V.C. (1915) monologue
11. IN THE TRENCHES descriptive sketch (1917)
12. THE ESTAMINET 'Some of the Boys' (1920s) descriptive sketch
13. THE ATTACK 'Some of the Boys' (1920s) descriptive sketch
14. TOMMY'S FAGS Leo & Hesse (1916) comic sketch
15. 'ER BLOKE, V.C. Leo & Hesse (1916) comic sketch
16. GAS SHELLS BOMBARDMENT British troops advancing on Lille (1918) actuality
17. UNITED FORCES MARCH Metropolitan Military Band (1914)
18. YOUR KING AND COUNTRY WANT YOU Helen Clarke (1914)
19. IF YOU WERE THE ONLY GIRL IN THE WORLD Violet Lorraine & George Robey (1916)
20. BOYS IN KHAKI, BOYS IN BLUE F. Wheeler (1914)
21. NOW YOU'VE GOT THE KHAKI ON Marie Lloyd (1916)
22. HAVE YOU NEWS OF MY BOY, JACK? Louise Kirkby-Lunn (1917)
23. ROSES OF PICARDY Ernest Pike (1917)
24. THE GRAND PEACE RECORD military band (1918)

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