Find out as much as you can about wartime songs.
Why were they important? How did they help people?
Who were some famous singers during the 1940s? What facts can you find out about them?
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Some singers were Vera Lynn, George Formby, Gracie Fields and Glen Miller
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I found out that the role of ww2 songs were to help adults In the war to cope with either someone dying or soldiers sent away in the war. Also to cheer them up when they are miserable or lonley
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1940 Richard Himber
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Mainly the top hits were jazz ,swing or big dance music . These are some of the top songs in the charts :
Run Rabbit Run – Sung by Flanagan and Allen (1939)
There’ll Always Be An England Sung by Vera Lynn.
We’ll Meet Again Sung By Vera Lynn
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War times songs are very fun and my sing Blue Orchird when I listened to the song it was on bass guitar and was really cool and felt it was like my style of song and when listened it to on Glen Millers orchestra it was really slow and it was really soothing and relaxing.
This is link Mrs.Underwood
This is the bass one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuFH3s-yrI
This is the glen miller one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-f8jX2eYv4
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Most songs were meant to lift people sunken spirits because their fathers have went to fight in the War.
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In March and April the best no 1 song was by Glenn miller it was called In the mood and he own orcestra
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Americans adopted radio and long playing records en masse.By 1940, 96.2% of Northeastern American urban households had raido.The lowest American demographic to embrace mass distributed music, Southern rural families, still had 1 radio for every two households.Similar adoption rates of electronically mass distributed music occurred in Europe.Similar adoption rates of electronically mass distributed music occurred in Europe. During the Nazi rule, radio ownership in Germany rose from 4 to 16 million households.
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Singers sung these songs to cheer spirits up of people who have fathers,brothers,sons and husbands who were fighting in the war
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These wartime songs helped the people at war to raise their spirits
Here is the song that was the no. 1 hit in August the month that I was born in!
Jimmy Dorsey Green eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI7U2Ys4DM0
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I found out that a song was written on my birthday and it is called I’ll never smile again it makes me feel happy in a way but a little sad as well!
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In march and April the best number one song was Glenn miller in the mood on 1940.Glenn miller had his own orchestra and they did just music.90,671 views
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Glenn Miller – In The Mood and I had the woodpecker song from Glenn miller
Glenn miller is important because he was the first pop music superstar. He helped people be happy and get them dancing. Glenn miller disappeared and people were set out to find him.
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9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980.
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“South of the Border” is a popular song describing a trip to Mexico, written by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr and published in 1939 for the film of the same name starring country star Gene Autry.[1]
In the lyrics, a man looks back with regret and pain for having lied to the woman he can’t forget (“…and now as I wander, my thoughts ever stray…”) and returned for too late, just as she was preparing for marriage. The lyric is in juxtaposition with the music, which swings with syncopated joy.[citation needed]
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During the world war people sang songs to make them happy or you can say lighted up their spirit ! If anyone was upset a song would always cheer them up.
Vera Lynn made a very famous song called We’ll Meet Again in February. In the 1940 Vera Lynn was a great, popular singer whilst the world war 2. She was born in March 20, 1917 and now she is 97 years old.
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Here is a link for some world war 2 songs which cheered people up
http://www.allmusic.com/…/101-songs-that-won-world-war-ii-mw0001313416
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Wartime songs were important because they encouraged soldiers to not be worried or scared about the war.In march 1940 the hottest song was south of border by joe loss orchestra.
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Most songs were meant to encourage people to never give up and always have a smile even though there is a war going on.
The song “Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover” was a hit for Dame Vera Lynn in 1941. In the song there is reference made to a little boy.
Bing Crosby recorded this Irving Berlin song in 1942. It became a smash hit and remains to this day one of the most popular holiday tunes ever written.
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Vera Lynn made a song called The White Cliff of Doves.
Vera Lynn is age 97 and was born in March 20 1917.
Vera Lynn made an album called ” We Meet Again” and a mood for love.
By Musa Idriss
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ke9XzafuRG0
That is the song made by Bing Crosby and his song was supposed to lift peoples spirits up at Christmas time because the war was going on
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Glenn miller was singer in 1940 he made a song called Elmer’s tune in December 20th and on the 27th December also in1940 called Chattanooga Choo Choo. This singer made people feel happy.
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My song is I ‘ll never smile again by Glenn Miller.
Here is the link to the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il7DWoLySW8
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This article is about the US number-one songs chart held during the 1940s.
Billboard number-one singles chart (which preceded the Billboard Hot 100 chart), which was updated weekly by the Billboard magazine, was the main singles chart of the American music industry since 1940 and until the Billboard Hot 100 chart was established in 1958.Most Played by Jockeys (debuted February 1945) – ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys and radio stations.
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There is a song called run raddit
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On Friday December zain had a snow fight
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