Vintage
Audio - 1916
Updated - Wednesday, 8 February, 2006
This page of the Vintage Audio section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, skits and speeches from the third year of the war, 1916, a period which saw the titanic struggles at Verdun and along the Somme.
Each recording is titled
along with its performer. All files
are either in MP3 or WAV format; the file size is indicated in kilobytes. Sound quality
is, alas, sometimes poor, indicative of the state of the then art of sound recording.
Lyrics and the text of speeches accompany many files listed.
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Sergeant
Solomon Isaacstein
(Listen) Gus Harris (MP3 426kb) |
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Pack Up
Your Troubles
(Lyrics &
Listen) Murray Johnson (MP3 421kb) |
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Marching
Back To Blighty
(Listen) Harry Cove (MP3 693kb) |
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The Rose
of No Man's Land
(Lyrics &
Listen) William Thomas (MP3 735kb) |
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In
Summertime on Bredon
(Lyrics
& Listen) Gervase Elwes (MP3 408kb) |
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When
You're a Long Way From Home
(Listen) Kirby & Cove (MP3 751kb) |
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British
Troops in France
(Background and Listen) Descriptive Audio (MP3 5,870kb) |
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Military
Order of the Day
(Listen) Conrad von Hotzendorf (MP3 284kb) |
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Now You've
Got the Khaki On
(Listen) Marie Lloyd (MP3 733kb) |
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Widows &
Orphans Fund
(Background and Listen) Emperor Karl I (MP3 922kb) |
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The Tanks
That Broke the Ranks
(Background and Listen) Fanning and Fortune (MP3 623kb) |
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If You
Were the Only Girl in the World
(Lyrics
& Listen) Violet Lorraine and George Robey (MP3 983kb) |
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With Our
Boys at the Front
(Listen) Sergeant E. Dwyer VC (MP3 487kb) |
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Down in the U-17
(Background and Listen) Billy Murray (MP3 839kb) |
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Don't Bite
the Hand That's Feeding You
(Lyrics &
Listen) Walter van Brunt (MP3 953kb) |
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Military
Order of the Day
(Background and Listen) Emperor Karl I (MP3 1,695kb) |
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Who Bashed
Bill Kaiser?
(Listen) Tom Clare (MP3 659kb) |
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Description of Trench Life (1)
(Background and Listen) Julius Salay (MP3 766kb) |
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Description of Trench Life (2)
(Background and Listen) Julius Salay (MP3 752kb) |
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German
Trench Scenes
(Background and Listen) Descriptive Audio (MP3 845kb) |
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"Lance corporal bacon" was the name used by Anzac soldiers to describe very fatty bacon with a sliver of lean meat running through it. |
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