Vintage
Audio - 1917
Updated - Saturday, 15 November, 2003
This page of the Vintage Audio section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, skits and speeches from the fourth year of the war, 1917.
This was a tumultuous year which saw America enter the war, the British sustain huge losses at Passchendaele and the French along the Aisne - and the onset of two revolutions in Russia, in February and again in October.
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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Don't Take
My Darling Boy Away
(Lyrics
& Listen) J Philips and Helen Clark (MP3 750kb) |
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Keep the
Home Fires Burning
(Lyrics
& Listen) John McCormack (MP3 457kb) |
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When I Get Back to the
U.S.A.
(Lyrics
& Listen) Billy Murray (MP3 938kb) |
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Pack Up
Your Troubles
(Lyrics &
Listen) Reinald Werrenrath (MP3 1,135kb) |
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Welcoming
U.S. Troops to France
(Background & Listen) Joseph Joffre (MP3 146kb) |
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Labor's
Service to Freedom
(Words
& Listen) Samuel Gompers (MP3 415kb) |
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There's a
Long, Long Trail A-Winding
(Lyrics
& Listen) John McCormack (MP3 751kb) |
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A Bachelor
Gay
(Listen) Peter Dawson (MP3 444kb) |
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Never Mind
the Food Controller
(Listen) Florrie Forde (MP3 483kb) |
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Send Me
Away With a Smile
(Lyrics &
Listen) John McCormack (MP3 961kb) |
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In the
Trenches
(Listen) Major A E Rees (MP3 531kb) |
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On the
British Empire
(Background and
Listen) Eleutherios Venizelos (MP3 772kb) |
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I've a Bit
of a 'Blighty One'
(Listen) Vesta Tilley (MP3 571kb) |
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At the
Front
(Words & Listen) Newton Baker (MP3 343kb) |
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I Don't Know Where I'm
Going But...
(Lyrics &
Listen) Peerless Quartet (MP3 797kb) |
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Liberty
Bell (It's Time to Ring Again)
(Lyrics &
Listen) Peerless Quartet (MP3 667kb) |
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Lloyd
George's Beer
(Lyrics &
Listen) Ernie Mayne (MP3 468kb) |
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Fundraising
(Words & Listen) John D Rockefeller (MP3 554kb) |
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Smoke
Clouds
(Listen) Herbert Payne (MP3 460kb) |
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Sugar
(Listen) Ernie Mayne (MP3 488kb) |
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Monte
Canino
(Lyrics & Listen) Italian Alpine Troops (MP3 1,259kb) |
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Have You
News of my Boy Jack?
(Lyrics & Listen) Louise Kirkby-Lunn (MP3 582kb) |
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The
Republic Must Awaken
(Words &
Listen) Warren G Harding (MP3 418kb) |
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Farmyard
on the Brain
(Listen) Ernie Mayne (MP3 430kb) |
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Take Me
Back to Dear Old Blighty
(Lyrics
& Listen) Florrie Forde (MP3 380kb) |
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Over There
(Lyrics & Listen) Nora Bayes (MP3 2,702kb) |
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I'd Feel at Home if
They'd Let...
(Background & Listen) Billy Murray (MP3 888kb) |
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Call of
America
(Words &
Listen) James Hamilton Lewis (MP3 533kb) |
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Roses of
Picardy
(Lyrics &
Listen) Ernest Pike (MP3 905kb) |
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It's a
Long Way to Berlin, But We'll...
(Lyrics
& Listen) Maurice Burkhart (WAV 54kb) |
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My
Meatless Day
(Listen) Ernie Mayne (MP3 475kb) |
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Somewhere in France is
a Lily
(Background & Listen) Henry Burr (MP3 1,288kb) |
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Over There
(Lyrics & Listen) Billy Murray (MP3 628kb) |
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Oh Johnny,
Oh Johnny, Oh!
(Lyrics & Listen) American Quartet & Billy Murray (MP3 1,013kb) |
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American
Rights
(Words &
Listen) William Gibbs McAdoo (MP3 413kb) |
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Loyalty
and German-Americans
(Words & Listen) James W. Gerard (MP3 415kb) |
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Where Do
We Go From Here?
(Lyrics
& Listen) Arthur Fields (MP3 1,131kb) |
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Announcing
Italian Defeat at Caporetto
(Listen) Luigi Cadorna (MP3 362kb) |
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French tanks were used for the first time in battle on 17 April 1917, when the 'Char Schneider' (as they were known) was used during the Second Battle of the Aisne. |
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