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• CD 1: There's a long long trail / Stoddard King ; Zo Elliott (John McCormack, tenor) (3:17)
• It's a long, long way to Tipperary / Jack Judge ; Harry Williams (American Quartet) (3:04)
• Keep your eye on Uncle Sammy / Abner Greenberg (Peerless Quartette) (2:59)
• War talk at Pun'kin Center / Cal Stewart (Cal Stewart) (4:31)
• I didn't raise my to be a soldier / Alfred Bryan ; Al. Piantadosi (Morton Harvey, tenor) (2:56)
• Die Wacht am Rhein (in German, excerpt) (Manhattan Quartet) (1:39)
• President Wilson's historical message, part III (excerpt 1) (Anon.) (0:43)
• Schwertlied : Du Schwert an meiner Linken / Karl Theodor Ko¨rner ; Carl Maria von Weber (Arion, Brooklyn) (1:56)
• Don't bite the hand that's feeding you / Thomas Hoier ; Jimmie Morgan (Irving Kaufman, tenor) (2:37)
• America, I love you! / Edgar Leslie ; Archie Gottler (American Quartet) (3:11)
• Stay down here where you belong / Irving Berlin (Henry Burr, tenor) (2:54)
• Don't take my darling boy away / Will Dillon ; Albert von Tilzer (Sam Ash, tenor) (1:37)
• President Wilson's historical message, part III (excerpt 2) (Anon.) (0:39)
• What kind of an American are you? / Lew Brown ; Chas. McCarron ; Albert von Tilzer (Arthur Fields, baritone) (2:46)
• Let's all be Americans now / Irving Berlin ; Edgar Leslie ; Geo. W. Meyer (American Quartet) (2:57)
• Long boy / William Herschell ; Barclay Walker (Byron G. Harlan ; Peerless Quartet) (2:43)
• The ragtime volunteers are off to war / Ballard MacDonald ; James F. Hanley (Van and Schenck) (2:22)
• I'd feel at home if they'd let me join the army / Jack Mahoney ; Albert Gumble (Billy Murray) (2:31)
• (Good bye; and luck be with you) laddie boy / Will D. Cobb ; Gus Edwards (Nora Bayes, soprano) (3:13)
• I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way / George Fairman (Peerless Quartet) (2:19)

• Arrival of the American troops in France / Hager (Prince's Band ; Columbia Male Quartette) (2:54)
• When you come back (and you will come back, there's the whole world waiting for you) / George M. Cohan (Raymond Dixon, tenor ; Orpheus Quartet) (3:07)
• When we wind up the watch on the Rhine / Gordon V. Thompson ; William Davis (Peerless Quartette) (3:07)
• Throw no stones in the well that gives you water / Arthur Fields ; Theodore Morse (Arthur Fields, baritone) (2:54)
• Paul Revere / Joe Goodwin ; Halsey K. Mohr (Vernon Dalhart, tenor) (3:21)
• Lafayette (We hear you calling) / Mary Earl (Reinald Werrenrath, baritone) (3:12)
• Somewhere in France is the lily / Philander Johnson ; Joseph E. Howard (Charle Hart, tenor) (3:01)
• I'm going to follow the boys / Howard Rogers ; James V. Monaco (Elizabeth Spencer, soprano ; Henry Burr, tenor) (3:10)
• Over there (1st verse: English, 2nd verse: French) / French words by Louis Delamarre (Enrico Caruso, tenor) (2:45).
• CD 2: From the battlefields of France (Gen'l J. Pershing) (0:28)
• Hello central, give me no man's land (from N.Y. Winter Garden production "Sinbad") / Sam M. Lewis ; Joe Young ; Jean Schwartz (Edna Brown, contralto) (3:28)
• I want to be a soldier like my dad / Morse (Robert Lewis, tenor)
• What are you going to do to help the boys? / Gus Kahn ; Egbert van Alstyne (Charles Hart, tenor ; Shannon Four)
• The makin's of the U.S.A. / Vincent Bryan ; Harry von Tilzer (Peerless Quartette) (2:44)
• Indianola / Frank Warren ; S.R. Henry ; D. Onivas (Billy Murray) (3:14)
• They'll be mighty proud in Dixie of their Old Black Joe / Harry Carroll (Albert Campbell and Henry Burr, tenor) (3:07)
• Won't you say a word for Ireland? / Wm. J. McKenna (Irving Kaufman, tenor) (3:01)
• When Tony goes over the top / Billy Frisch ; Archie Fletcher ; Alex. Marr (Billy Murray) (2:48)
• There's a little blue star in the window (and it means all the world to me) / Paul B. Armstrong ; F. Henri Klickmann (Henry Burr, tenor) (3:16)
• My sweetheart is somewhere in France / Mary Earl (Elizabeth Spencer, soprano) (3:14)
• If he can fight like he can love (Good night, Germany) / Grant Clarke ; Howard Johnson ; Geo. W. Meyer (Farber Sisters) (3:10)
• Tell that to the Marines / Harold Atteridge ; Jean Schwartz ; Al Jolson (Al Jolson) (2:44)
• Let's Bury the Hatchet / Burkhardt (Arthur Fields, baritone) (2:41)
• What'll we do with him boys? (The Yanks made a monkey out of you) / Andrew B. Sterling ; Arthur Lange (William J. "Sailor " Reilly) (2:56)
• On patrol in no man's land / Noble Sissle ; James Reese Europe (Liut. Noble Sissle ; with Liut. Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Inf. "Hell Fighters" Band) (2:19)
• Fun in Flanders : part 2 / Gitz Rice (Gitz Rice, Henry Burr) (3:08)
• The rose of no man's land / Jack Caddigan ; James A. Brennan (George Gordon ; Robert Bruce, tenor) (2:40)
• Rainbow Division march / Danny Nirella (Arthur Pryor's Band) (3:14)
• Oh! What a time for the girlies when the boys come marching home / Sam M. Lewis ; Joe Young ; Harry Ruby (Avon Comedy Four) (3:01)
• How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? (after they've seen paree) / Joe Young ; Sam M. Lewis ; Walter Donaldson (Nora Bayes) (2:26)
• Dixie is Dixie once more / Wm. Tracy ; Maceo Pinkard (American Quartet) (2:58)
• Johnny's in town / Jack Yellen ; Abe Olman ; Geo. W. Meyer (Arthur Fields) (2:44)
• The boys who won't come home / Harry Hamilton ; Ed. Thomas (Harry Burr, tenor) (3:23)
• What has become of "hinky dinky parlay voo" / Al Dubin ; Irving Mills ; Jimmy McHugh ; Irwin Dash (Al Bernard and J. Russell Robinson (The Dixie Stars)) (2:44)
• Don't steal daddy's medal / Adler ; Tobias ; Glogau (Arthur Fields, tenor) (3:04)
• My dream of the big parade / Al Dubin ; Jimmy McHugh (Peerless Quartet with Billy Murray) (3:26).

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Contributors:

Ash, Samuel , singer

Baker, Elsie, 1886-1958 , singer

Bayes, Nora, 1880-1928 , singer

Burr, Henry , singer

Campbell, Albert, 1872-1947 , singer

Caruso, Enrico, 1873-1921 , singer

Dalhart, Vernon, 1883-1948 , singer

Fields, Arthur , singer

Gordon, George, 1916-1982 , singer

Harlan, Byron G. , singer

Hart, Charles, 1884-1965 , singer

Harvey, Morton , singer

James, Lewis, 1892-1959 , singer

Jolson, Al, 1886-1950

Kaufman, Irving, 1890-1976 , singer

McCormack, John, 1884-1945 , singer

Murphy, Lambert, 1885-1954 , singer

Murray, Billy , singer

Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948 , singer

Reilly, William J. (William John), 1899-1970 , singer

Rice, Gitz , singer

Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975 , singer

Spencer, Elizabeth, 1871-1930 , singer

Stewart, Cal, 1856-1919

Werrenrath, Reinald, 1883-1953 , singer

American Quartet , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Avon Comedy Four , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Columbia Quartette , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Dixie Stars , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Farber Sister , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Jim Europe's 369th Infantry Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Manhattan Quartet (Vocal group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Orpheus Quartet (Vocal group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Peerless Quartet , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Prince's Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Pryor Band , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Shannon Four (Musical group) , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Van and Schenck , performer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Languages:

English
German
French

Language Notes:

Sung in English (principally), German, and French.

Related Works:

Back in your own back yard [by Jolson, A.]

Subjects:

Popular music — 1911-1920

Popular music — 1921-1930

War songs

World War, 1914-1918 — Songs and music

World War (1914-1918)

1911-1930

Popular music

Genres:

Songs and music

General Notes:

Originally issued as compact discs.
Program notes, bibliography, and discographic information (73 p. : some col. ill., ports.) from original container.
Songs with orchestral acc. (principally).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file)

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

audio file

Call Numbers:

Online Audio

OCLC Numbers:

697954613

Other Control Numbers:

556473 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP556473/amso