Vintage Audio - 1918
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.
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| 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 |
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| 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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