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Vintage Audio - 1918

George M. Cohan's "Over There" 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 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
Over There
Enrico Caruso
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Hunting the Hun
Arthur Fields
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You Can't Beat Us
Arthur Fields
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I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl...
Peerless Quartet
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Just a Baby's Prayer at Twilight
Henry Burr
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We Don't Want The Bacon
Peerless Quartet
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K-K-K-Katy
Billy Murray
Click to download as MP3
Would You Rather Be a Colonel...
Arthur Fields
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The Grand Peace Record
Military Band
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How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the...
Harry Fay
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Au Revoir But Not Goodbye...
Peerless Quartet
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The Events of August 1914
Lady Margot Asquith
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Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the...
Arthur Fields
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You're a Grand Old Flag
American Quartet
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When I Send You a Picture of Berlin
Arthur Field & Peerless Quartet
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Keep the Trench Fires Going for the...
Henry Burr & Peerless Quartet
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Oui, Oui, Marie (Wee, Wee, Marie)
Arthur Fields
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America Here's My Boy
Peerless Quartet
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The Rose of No Man's Land
Henry Burr
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The Navy is Ready
Josephus Daniels
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They All Look Alike in Khaki
Ella Retford
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Good Bye-ee
Courtland and Jeffries
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Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the...
Eddie Cantor
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I Don't Want to Get Well
Van & Schenck
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Gas Shells Bombardment
British Troops Advancing on Lille
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From the Battlefields of France
General John J Pershing, U.S. C-in-C
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Oh! It's a Lovely War!
Courtland and Jeffries
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Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land
Henry Burr
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The Yanks are at it Again
American Quartet & Billy Murray
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We'll Do Our Share (While...)
Peerless Quartet
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La Leggenda del Piave
Giovanni Martinelli
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Till We Meet Again
Vernon Dalhart and Gladys Price
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Good Morning, Mr Zip-Zip-Zip!
Arthur Fields
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La Canzone del Grappa
Inni della Patriain
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The Yanks Started Yankin'
Arthur Fields
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Italian Announcement of End of War
Armando Diaz, Italian C-in-C
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Prevalent dysentery among Allied soldiers in Gallipoli came to be referred to as "the Gallipoli gallop".

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