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Vintage Audio - 1915

Sheet music to "Keep the Home Fires Burning" 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 in MP3 and Adobe Flash format.

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.

Song and Artist Listen and Download
A Little Bit of Cucumber
Harry Champion
Click to download as MP3
Doctor Shelly
Harry Champion
Click to download as MP3
The Old Contemptibles
Robert Carr
Click to download as MP3
When We've Wound Up the Watch...
Lorraine and Thorne
Click to download as MP3
Mademoiselle from Armentieres
Jack Charman
Click to download as MP3
We Must All Fall In
Robert Carr
Click to download as MP3
Our Whistling Tommies
Royal Court Orchestra
Click to download as MP3
Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser
Mark Sheridan
Click to download as MP3
Widows & Orphans Fund
Emperor Franz-Josef I
Click to download as MP3
A Conscientious Objector
Alfred Lester
Click to download as MP3
On Submarine Warfare
Alfred von Tirpitz
Click to download as MP3
Here We Are, Here We Are Again!!!
F Wheeler
Click to download as MP3
We All Went Marching Home
Black Diamonds Band
Click to download as MP3
Till the Boys Come Home
Stanley Kirkby
Click to download as MP3
Laddie in Khaki
Robert Carr
Click to download as MP3
Somewhere in France, Dear Mother
Stanley Kirkby
Click to download as MP3
On German Government
Alfred von Tirpitz
Click to download as MP3
Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You
Billy Murray
Click to download as MP3
German Christmas in the Trenches
Descriptive Audio
Click to download as MP3
My Old Iron Cross
Harry Champion
Click to download as MP3

A "lazy liz" was a heavy artillery shell fired by the Allied battleship Queen Elizabeth.

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