Vintage
Audio - 1918
Updated - Saturday, 16 October, 2004
This page of the Vintage Audio section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, skits and speeches from the final year of the war, 1918.
This year saw each of the Central Powers capitulate to the Allies, with resultant revolutions in Germany and Austria-Hungary. Meanwhile U.S. President Woodrow Wilson continued to press the case for a post-war League of Nations - a proposal ultimately vetoed by Congress.
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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Over There
(Lyrics & Listen) Enrico Caruso (MP3 421kb) |
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Hunting
the Hun
(Lyrics &
Listen) Arthur Fields (MP3 1,170kb) |
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You Can't
Beat Us
(Background &
Listen) Arthur Fields (MP3 440kb) |
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I'm Gonna Pin My Medal
on the Girl...
(Lyrics & Listen) Peerless Quartet (MP3 1,169kb) |
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Just a Baby's Prayer
at Twilight
(Lyrics & Listen) Henry Burr (MP3 1,186kb) |
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We Don't Want The
Bacon
(Lyrics & Listen) Peerless Quartet (MP3 951kb) |
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K-K-K-Katy
(Lyrics & Listen) Billy Murray (MP3 1,288kb) |
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Would You
Rather Be a Colonel...
(Lyrics & Listen) Arthur Fields (MP3 1,032kb) |
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The Grand
Peace Record
(Listen) Military Band (MP3 471kb) |
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How Ya
Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the...
(Lyrics & Listen) Harry Fay (MP3 395kb) |
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Au Revoir
But Not Goodbye...
(Background &
Listen) Peerless Quartet (MP3 1,095kb) |
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The Events
of August 1914
(Background &
Listen) Lady Margot Asquith (MP3 582kb) |
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Oh! How I
Hate to Get Up in the...
(Lyrics
& Listen) Arthur Fields (MP3 1,013kb) |
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You're a
Grand Old Flag
(Lyrics &
Listen) American Quartet (MP3 613kb) |
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When I Send You a
Picture of Berlin
(Lyrics &
Listen) Arthur Field & Peerless Quartet (MP3 1,178kb) |
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Keep the
Trench Fires Going for the...
(Lyrics &
Listen) Henry Burr & Peerless Quartet (MP3 1,034kb) |
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Oui, Oui, Marie (Wee,
Wee, Marie)
(Lyrics &
Listen) Arthur Fields (MP3 998kb) |
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America Here's My Boy
(Lyrics &
Listen) Peerless Quartet (MP3 2,543kb) |
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The Rose
of No Man's Land
(Lyrics &
Listen) Henry Burr (MP3 1,145kb) |
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The Navy
is Ready
(Words &
Listen) Josephus Daniels (MP3 367kb) |
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They All
Look Alike in Khaki
(Listen) Ella Retford (MP3 676kb) |
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Good Bye-ee
(Lyrics & Listen) Courtland and Jeffries (MP3 406kb) |
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Oh! How I
Hate to Get Up in the...(Lyrics
& Listen) Eddie Cantor (WAV 254kb) |
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I Don't Want to Get
Well
(Background &
Listen) Van & Schenck (MP3 1,102kb) |
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Gas Shells
Bombardment
(Listen) British Troops Advancing on Lille (MP3 331kb) |
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From the
Battlefields of France
(Words &
Listen) General John J Pershing, U.S. C-in-C (MP3 67kb) |
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Oh! It's a
Lovely War!
(Lyrics &
Listen) Courtland and Jeffries (MP3 683kb) |
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Hello
Central! Give Me No Man's Land
(Lyrics &
Listen) Henry Burr (MP3 1,202kb) |
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The Yanks are at it
Again
(Background &
Listen) American Quartet & Billy Murray (MP3 949kb) |
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We'll Do Our Share
(While...)
(Background &
Listen) Peerless Quartet (MP3 1,234kb) |
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La
Leggenda del Piave
(Lyrics &
Listen) Giovanni Martinelli (MP3 487kb) |
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Till We
Meet Again
(Words &
Listen) Vernon Dalhart and Gladys Price (MP3 733kb) |
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Good
Morning, Mr Zip-Zip-Zip!
(Lyrics &
Listen) Arthur Fields (MP3 905kb) |
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La Canzone
del Grappa
(Lyrics &
Listen) Inni della Patriain (MP3 669kb) |
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The Yanks
Started Yankin'
(Background
& Listen) Arthur Fields (MP3 1,073kb) |
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Italian
Announcement of End of War
(Listen) Armando Diaz, Italian C-in-C (MP3 569kb) |
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Prevalent dysentery among Allied soldiers in Gallipoli came to be referred to as "the Gallipoli gallop". |
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