First World War.com - Vintage Audio

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Sheet music illustration for "Oh! It's a Lovely War!" Vintage Audio - Post-1919
Updated - Saturday, 16 August, 2003

This page of the Vintage Audio section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, skits and speeches from the years following 1919.

Each recording is titled along with its performer, together with the year of recording. 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.

	Stony Broke in No Man's Land (Lyrics & Listen) Frank Miller - Recorded 1921 (MP3 744kb)
	If You Want to Find the Sergeant... (Lyrics & Listen) Roosters Concert Party - Recorded 1929 (105 467kb)
	Oh! It's a Lovely War! (Lyrics & Listen) Jolly Old Fellows - Recorded 1930 (MP3 215kb)
	Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty (Lyrics & Listen) Jolly Old Fellows - Recorded 1930 (MP3 172kb)

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