Vintage
Audio - 1915
Updated - Saturday, 1 November, 2003
This page of the Vintage Audio section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, skits and speeches from the first full year of the war, 1915.
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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A Little
Bit of Cucumber
(Lyrics
& Listen) Harry Champion (MP3 434kb) |
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Doctor
Shelly
(Listen) Harry Champion (MP3 378kb) |
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The Old
Contemptibles
(Listen) Robert Carr (MP3 704kb) |
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When We've
Wound Up the Watch...
(Listen) Lorraine and Thorne (MP3 460kb) |
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Mademoiselle from Armentieres
(Lyrics
& Listen) Jack Charman (MP3 683kb) |
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We Must
All Fall In
(Lyrics &
Listen) Robert Carr (MP3 701kb) |
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Our
Whistling Tommies
(Listen) Royal Court Orchestra (MP3 616kb) |
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Belgium
Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser
(Lyrics
& Listen) Mark Sheridan (MP3 663kb) |
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Widows &
Orphans Fund
(Background and Listen) Emperor Franz-Josef I (MP3 204kb) |
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A
Conscientious Objector (Listen) Alfred Lester (MP3 711kb) |
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On
Submarine Warfare
(Background & Listen) Alfred von Tirpitz (MP3 917kb) |
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Here We
Are, Here We Are Again!!!
(Listen) F Wheeler (MP3 781kb) |
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We All
Went Marching Home
(Listen) Black Diamonds Band (MP3 447kb) |
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Till the
Boys Come Home
(Lyrics
& Listen) Stanley Kirkby (MP3 679kb) |
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Laddie in
Khaki
(Listen) Robert Carr (MP3 729kb) |
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Somewhere
in France, Dear Mother (Listen) Stanley Kirkby (MP3 730kb) |
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On German
Government
(Background & Listen) Alfred von Tirpitz (MP3 522kb) |
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Don't Bite
the Hand That's Feeding You
(Lyrics &
Listen) Billy Murray (MP3 465kb) |
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German
Christmas in Trenches
(Background & Listen) Descriptive Audio (MP3 288kb) |
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My Old
Iron Cross
(Lyrics &
Listen) Harry Champion (MP3 437kb) |
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A "lazy liz" was a heavy artillery shell fired by the Allied battleship Queen Elizabeth. |
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