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Vintage Audio - 1917

Sheet music to "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" 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 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
Don't Take My Darling Boy Away
J Philips and Helen Clark
Click to download as MP3
Keep the Home Fires Burning
John McCormack
Click to download as MP3
When I Get Back to the U.S.A.
Billy Murray
Click to download as MP3
Pack Up Your Troubles
Reinald Werrenrath
Click to download as MP3
Welcoming U.S. Troops to France
Joseph Joffre
Click to download as MP3
Labor's Service to Freedom
Samuel Gompers
Click to download as MP3
There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding
John McCormack
Click to download as MP3
A Bachelor Gay
Peter Dawson
Click to download as MP3
Never Mind the Food Controller
Florrie Forde
Click to download as MP3
Send Me Away With a Smile
John McCormack
Click to download as MP3
In the Trenches
Major A E Rees
Click to download as MP3
On the British Empire
Eleutherios Venizelos
Click to download as MP3
I've a Bit of a 'Blighty One'
Vesta Tilley
Click to download as MP3
At the Front
Newton Baker
Click to download as MP3
I Don't Know Where I'm Going But...
Peerless Quartet
Click to download as MP3
Liberty Bell (It's Time to Ring Again)
Peerless Quartet
Click to download as MP3
Lloyd George's Beer
Ernie Mayne
Click to download as MP3
Fundraising
John D Rockefeller
Click to download as MP3
Smoke Clouds
Herbert Payne
Click to download as MP3
Sugar
Ernie Mayne
Click to download as MP3
Monte Canino
Italian Alpine Troops
Click to download as MP3
Have You News of my Boy Jack?
Louise Kirkby-Lunn
Click to download as MP3
The Republic Must Awaken
Warren G Harding
Click to download as MP3
Farmyard on the Brain
Ernie Mayne
Click to download as MP3
Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty
Florrie Forde
Click to download as MP3
Over There
Nora Bayes
Click to download as MP3
I'd Feel at Home if They'd Let...
Billy Murray
Click to download as MP3
Call of America
James Hamilton Lewis
Click to download as MP3
Roses of Picardy
Ernest Pike
Click to download as MP3
It's a Long Way to Berlin, But We'll...
Maurice Burkhart
Click to download as MP3
My Meatless Day
Ernie Mayne
Click to download as MP3
Somewhere in France is a Lily
Henry Burr
Click to download as MP3
Over There
Billy Murray
Click to download as MP3
Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!
American Quartet & Billy Murray
Click to download as MP3
American Rights
William Gibbs McAdoo
Click to download as MP3
Loyalty and German-Americans
James W. Gerard
Click to download as MP3
Where Do We Go From Here?
Arthur Fields
Click to download as MP3
Announcing Italian Defeat at Caporetto
Luigi Cadorna
Click to download as MP3

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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