Below is some of the music that was popular before, during and after World War I and II. Also below are some radio broadcasts from World War II. All of these files are in the MP3 format. New audio files will be added to this page from time to time.
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- Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis (Written for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair) (Billy Murray - 1904) -- (511 KB)
- The Yankee Doodle Boy (Billy Murray - 1905) -- (509 KB)
- If Washington Should Come To Life Today (Billy Murray - 1906) -- (535 KB)
- Cuddle Up A Little Closer (Billy Murray / Ada Jones - 1908) -- (510 KB)
- I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad (American Quartet / Walter Van Brunt - 1911) -- (523 KB)
- Come Josephine In My Flying Machine (Billy Murray / Ada Jones - 1911) -- (580 KB)
- I'm Falling In Love With Someone (John McCormack - 1911) -- (725 KB)
- When I Lost You (Henry Burr - 1913) -- (719 KB)
- Oh, What A Pal Was Mary (Henry Burr) -- (800 KB)
- He'd Have To Get Under ... And Fix Up His Automobile (Billy Murray - 1914) -- (759 KB)
- The Aba Daba Honeymoon (Arthur Collins / Byron Harlan - 1914) -- (581 KB)
- Hello, Frisco, Hello (Celebrated first USA coast-to-coast telephone call, between New York and San Francisco) (Olive Kline / Reinald Werrenrath - 1915) -- (662 KB)
- When You Wore A Tulip (American Quartet / Billy Murray - 1915) -- (709 KB)
- M-o-t-h-e-r (Henry Burr - 1916) -- (738 KB)
- La Marseillaise (French National Anthem) (Frances Alda / New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus - 1917) -- (741 KB)
- Tiger Rag (Original Dixieland Jazz Band - 1918) -- (1.41 MB)
- Wait 'Til You Get Them Up In The Air, Boys (Billy Murray - 1919) -- (698 KB)
- Pretty Kitty Kelly (Charles Harrison - 1920) -- (694 KB)
- Broadway Rose (Original Dixieland Jazz Band - 1921) -- (2.27 MB)
- Second Hand Rose (Fanny Brice - 1921) -- (765 KB) [Lyrics]
- That Old Gang Of Mine (Billy Murray / Ed Smalle - 1923) -- (714 KB)
- Yes, We Have No Bananas (Billy Jones - 1923) -- (659 KB)
- Charley My Boy (International Novelty Orchestra / Billy Murray - 1924) -- (1.81 MB)
- If You Knew Susie Like I Know Susie (Eddie Cantor - 1925) -- (1.58 MB)
- Five Foot Two, Eyes Of Blue (The California Ramblers - 1925) -- (2.56 MB)
- Bye Bye Blackbird (Gene Austin - 1926) -- (1.74 MB)
- Baby Face (Jan Garber - 1926) -- (1.61 MB)
- Side By Side (Paul Whiteman Orchestra / The Rhythm Boys - 1927) -- (2.08 MB)
- Ain't She Sweet (The Radiolites - 1927) -- (2.17 MB)
- The Varsity Drag (George Olsen Orchestra - 1927) -- (740 KB)
- Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi (Fred Waring Orchestra / Tom Waring - 1927) -- (1.70 MB)
- Lucky Lindy (Nat Shilkret Orchestra - 1927) -- (549 KB)
- Lindbergh - The Eagle Of The USA (Vernon Dalhart - 1927) -- (781 KB)
- My Blue Heaven (Don Voorhees Orchestra - 1927) -- (792 KB)
- In A Little Spanish Town (Paul Whiteman Orchestra - 1927) -- (1.78 MB)
- I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover (Ben Bernie Orchestra - 1927) -- (611 KB)
- Diane (Nat Shilkret Orchestra - 1928) -- (1.63 MB)
- Nagasaki (Nat Shilkret Orchestra / Frank Crumit - 1928) -- (841 KB)
- The Sidewalks Of New York (Nat Shilkret Orchestra / Lewis James - 1928) -- (1.83 MB)
- I'll Get By (Bing Crosby - 1928) -- (1.99 MB)
- My Mammy (Al Jolson - 1928) -- (741 KB)
- Keep Your Sunny Side Up (Leonard Joy Orchestra / Vic Endor - 1929) -- (1.04 MB)
- Button Up Your Overcoat (Helen Kane - 1929) -- (674 KB)
- Shine (Boyd Senter and His Senterpedes / Paul Small - 1929) -- (769 KB)
- Happy Days Are Here Again (Ben Selvin Orchestra - 1930) -- (774 KB)
- Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella (Roger Wolfe Kahn - 1930) -- (700 KB)
- Beyond The Blue Horizon (George Olsen Orchestra - 1930) -- (1.66 MB)
- I'm Yours (Bert Lown - 1930) -- (744 KB)
- Stein Song (University Of Maine fight song) (Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees - 1930) -- (767 KB)
- Georgia On My Mind (Mildred Bailey - 1931) -- (1.53 MB)
- Love Letters In The Sand (Ted Black - 1931) -- (1.63 MB)
- Lonesome Valley (The Carter Family - 1931) -- (631 KB)
- A Shanty In Old Shantytown (Gene Kardos Orchestra - 1932) -- (720 KB)
- She's Just An All-American Girl (George Olsen Orchestra - 1932) -- (2.21 MB)
- All Of Me (Louis Armstrong - 1932) -- (1.67 MB)
- Mimi (Maurice Chevalier - 1932) -- (1.38 MB)
- Brother Can You Spare A Dime (Bing Crosby - 1932 Depression-era song) -- (1.79 MB)
- It's Gonna Be You (Ozzie Nelson Orchestra / Ozzie Nelson & Harriet Hilliard - 1932) -- (679 KB)
- Mad Dogs And Englishmen (Go Out In The Midday Sun) (Ray Noble Orchestra / Noel Coward - 1932) -- (2.04 MB)
- Dinah (The Mills Brothers / Bing Crosby - 1932) -- (2.01 MB)
- Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee (Enric Madriguera's Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra - 1932) -- (758 KB)
- It's Only A Paper Moon (Paul Whiteman Orchestra - 1933) -- (794 KB)
- You've Got To Be A Football Hero (To Get Along With The Beautiful Girls) (Ben Bernie Orchestra / Manny Prager - 1933) -- (661 KB)
- You're The Top (Paul Whiteman Orchestra / Healy & Hauser - 1934) -- (700 KB)
- Inka Dinka Doo (Jimmy Durante - 1934) -- (1.72 MB)
- On The Good Ship Lollipop (Shirley Temple - 1934) -- (909 KB)
- When My Ship Comes In (Eddie Cantor - 1934) -- (716 KB)
- Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life (Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald - 1935) -- (2.43 MB)
- When I Grow Too Old To Dream (Nelson Eddy - 1935) -- (787 KB)
- Can The Circle Be Unbroken (The Carter Family - 1935) -- (738 KB)
- Heut' Ist Der Schönste Tag In Meinem Leben ("Today Is The Finest Day Of My Life") (Joseph Schmidt - in German - 1935) -- (757 KB)
- Is It True What They Say About Dixie? (Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra / Bob Eberly - 1936) -- (696 KB)
- The Way You Look Tonight (Fred Astaire - 1936) -- (723 KB)
- They All Laughed (Fred Astaire - 1937) -- (644 KB)
- Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff - 1938) -- (661 KB)
- Thanks For The Memory (Bob Hope / Shirley Ross - 1938) -- (1.42 MB)
- California Here I Come (Al Jolson - 1939) -- (1.67 MB)
- Swanee (Al Jolson) -- (450 KB)
- Home On The Range (Bing Crosby - 1939) -- (740 KB)
- Scatterbrain (Frankie Masters Orchestra - 1939) -- (631 KB)
- Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Al Bowlly - 1940) -- (2.16 MB)
- Behind Those Swinging Doors (Spike Jones Orchestra - 1941) -- (1.78 MB)
- Smiling Through (Webster Booth - 1942) -- (1.44 MB)
- For Me And My Gal (Judy Garland / Gene Kelly - 1943) -- (587 KB)
- Muskrat Ramble (Wild Bill Davison & His Commodores - 1943) -- (792 KB)
- There's No Business Like Show Business (Cast of 'Annie Get Your Gun' - 1946) -- (1.44 MB)
- Sioux City Sue (Bing Crosby / The Jesters - 1946) -- (2.49 MB)
- Give My Regards To Broadway (George M Cohan Jr - 1947) -- (1.86 MB)
- The Bluebird Of Happiness (Jan Peerce - 1948) -- (2.77 MB)
- My Daddy Is Only A Picture (Eddy Arnold) -- (1.80 MB)
- MacNamara's Band (Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians) -- (1.84 MB)
- I Never See Maggie Alone (Kenny Roberts - 1949) -- (1.73 MB)
- Dear Hearts And Gentle People (Bing Crosby - 1949) -- (1.21 MB)
- La Vie En Rose (Edith Piaf - in French - 1950) -- (721 KB)
- Play A Simple Melody (Bing Crosby and son, Gary - 1950) -- (1.65 MB)
- Goodnight Irene (Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Judy Garland sing humorous version of this popular song of the day - 1950) -- (1.49 MB)
- Kisses Sweeter Than Wine (The Weavers- 1951) -- (2.05 MB)
- My Heart Cries For You (Guy Mitchell - 1951) -- (1.84 MB)
- Tennessee Waltz (The Andrews Sisters - 1951) -- (2.04 MB)
- Mockingbird Hill (Les Paul / Mary Ford - 1951) -- (1.57 MB)
- Look For The Silver Lining (Mario Lanza - 1951) -- (1.37 MB)
- I Taut I Taw A Puddy Tat ("I Thought I Saw A Pussy Cat") (Mel Blanc - 1951) -- (1.69 MB)
- Maybe (Perry Como / Eddie Fisher - 1952) -- (1.97 MB)
- Changing Partners (Bing Crosby - 1953) -- (1.24 MB)
- Y'all Come (Arlie Duff - 1953) -- (1.50 MB)
- Grandfather's Clock (Burl Ives) -- (1.58 MB)
- Waltzing Matilda (Burl Ives) -- (1.10 MB)
- Friends And Neighbors (Sammy Kaye Orchestra - 1954) -- (583 KB)
- The Happy Wanderer (Frank Weir - 1954) -- (1.54 MB)
- Oh My Papa (Eddie Fisher - 1954) -- (2.11 MB)
- The Man With The Banjo (The Ames Brothers - 1954) -- (1.65 MB)
- The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (Fess Parker - 1955) -- (1.54 MB)
- True Love (Bing Crosby / Grace Kelly - 1956) -- (2.10 MB)
- Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On (Hank Locklin - 1958) -- (1.68 MB)
- I Want To Be Loved By You (Marilyn Monroe - 1959) -- (1.37 MB)
- The Wonder Of You (Ray Peterson - 1959) -- (1.76 MB)
- The Battle Of New Orleans (Johnny Horton - 1959) -- (1.72 MB)
- Sukiyaki (a Japanese love song) (Kyu Sakamoto - in Japanese - 1963) -- (2.09 MB) [Lyrics and description]
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1) Speeches and News Broadcasts (in chronological order)
- Winston Churchill, before becoming British Prime Minister and before the war began, urges democracies to arm themselves to preserve peace (October 16, 1938) -- (1 MB)
- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declares war on Germany (September 3, 1939) -- (697 KB)
- U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares U. S. neutrality as war begins in Europe (September 3, 1939) -- (2.92 MB)
- Former U. S. President Herbert Hoover speaks out against the Nazi invasion of Poland but opposes U.S. intervention in the European war (week of September 3, 1939) -- (1.96 MB)
- A news broadcast tells of the first Nazi blitzkrieg attacks on Holland, Belgium and France (May 11-12, 1940) -- (1.89 MB)
- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's first radio address as Prime Minister (May 19, 1940) -- (1.74 MB)
- British PM Winston Churchill speaks about the successful troop evacuation at Dunkirk (May, 1940) -- (2.80 MB)
- Comments by British PM Winston Churchill at the start of the Battle of Britain (June 17, 1940) -- (383 KB)
- In the midst of the Battle of Britain, PM Winston Churchill praises British airmen (August 20, 1940) -- (765 KB)
- Pres. Roosevelt pledges material aid to Britain in his 'Great Arsenal of Democracy' Fireside Chat (December 29, 1940) -- (8.61 MB)
- Charles A. Lindbergh, speaking on behalf of the America First Committee, delivers a controversial anti-war speech (September 11, 1941) -- (2.12 MB)
Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly an airplane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris, in 1927. Listen to some songs written at the time to celebrate his historic flight:
- Regular programming is interrupted for the first news reports of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941) -- (3.97 MB)
- Pres. Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan (December 8, 1941) -- (1.77 MB)
- Pres. Roosevelt, through a spokesman, asks Congress to declare war on Germany and Italy (December 11, 1941) -- (629 KB)
- Pres. Roosevelt's first wartime State of the Union Address (January 6, 1942) -- (9.90 MB)
- 'This Is War', a radio program broadcast simultaneously by the 4 major U. S. radio networks several months after the Pearl Harbor attack, was meant to help the American people better follow and understand the war and to prepare them for the hardships yet to come (February 14, 1942) -- (3.73 MB)
- News report of possible Japanese air attack on the Los Angeles area (February 25, 1942) -- (833 KB)
- Comments by PM Winston Churchill just after British victory at El Alamein in North Africa (November 10, 1942) -- (954 KB)
- British PM Winston Churchill speaks of the special bonds between Britain, the Commonwealth countries and the USA (June 30, 1943) -- (3.29 MB)
- Newsman Edward R. Murrow reports on a British bombing raid on Hamburg, Germany (July 25, 1943) -- (508 KB)
- British PM Winston Churchill, speaking at the Anglo-American Conference in Quebec, praises Canada for its contributions to the war effort (August 31, 1943) -- (2.68 MB)
- British PM Winston Churchill speaks at Harvard University about Anglo-American unity (September 6, 1943) -- (3.77 MB)
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks to the troops just before D-Day invasion (June 6, 1944) -- (800 KB)
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower addresses the people of Europe on D-Day (June 6, 1944) -- (892 KB)
- Pres. Roosevelt offers a prayer for D-Day success (June 6, 1944) -- (1.46 MB)
- A broadcast by Glenn Miller to German soldiers, a month before his death, in which he attempts to speak German (in German and English) (November, 1944):
- Newsman Edward R. Murrow describes his visit to the Buchenwald concentraton camp, shortly after it was liberated by U. S. forces (April 15, 1945) -- (7.06 MB)
- Read The Story of William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw"), a long-time UK resident who broadcast pro-Nazi propaganda to the UK from Germany during the war, and listen to his last radio broadcast, made on April 30, 1945
- British PM Winston Churchill speaks on the radio on V-E day, marking the end of World War II in Europe (May 8, 1945) -- (2.94 MB)
- Winston Churchill speaks to a crowd in London on V-E day (May 8, 1945) -- (370 KB)
- U. S. President Harry S. Truman speaks to the nation on V-E day (May 8, 1945) -- (2.48 MB)
- Col. Paul Tibbets, pilot of the B-29 'Enola Gay', which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, makes a brief statement shortly after the bomb was dropped (August 6, 1945) -- (172 KB)
- Col. Paul Tibbets and several other crew members of the B-29 'Enola Gay' are interviewed less than a week after they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and just two days before the Japanese surrendered (August 12, 1945) -- (1.26 MB)
- Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, the top-ranked World War I American pilot (26 enemy aircraft shot down), speaks about the death of Richard Bong, the top-ranked World War II American pilot (40 aircraft shot down in his P-38), who was killed six days earlier while test-piloting the first U. S. jet fighter over the Los Angeles area (August 12, 1945) -- (848 KB)
- First radio reports of Japanese acceptance of surrender terms, effectively ending World War II (August 14, 1945) -- (912 KB)
- An eyewitness describes the execution of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany (October 16, 1946) -- (2.56 MB)
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2) Miscellaneous Radio Interviews and Entertainment Programs (in chronological order)
- A Corsair pilot in the Pacific war zone tells of his harrowing experiences after his plane was shot down by the Japanese (July 25, 1943) -- (677 KB)
- The leader of the WAC (Women's Army Corps) is interviewed (January 16, 1944) -- (1.04 MB)
- A newsman just back from the European war zone discusses the current state of the air war in Europe (January 16, 1944) -- (1.10 MB)
- Football star and fighter pilot Tom Harmon tells of being shot down while flying a P-38 fighter (January 30, 1944) -- (832 KB)
- The Women's Welding Championship of the World is described and winners are interviewed; also includes some news of the day and an interview with a serviceman on anti-submarine duty (January 30, 1944) -- (2.09 MB)
- A British train engineer discusses driving a locomotive in wartime Britain (January 30, 1944) -- (496 KB)
- A British serviceman, 69 years old and still active, is interviewed (February 6, 1944) -- (676 KB)
- The method of sending mail to the troops, called 'Vmail', is described (February 20, 1944) -- (667 KB)
- The 'Thunderbomber' (a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter used for bombing) is described and a pilot is interviewed (February 20, 1944) -- (753 KB)
- A B-26 Marauder bomber navigator, the first U.S. airman to complete 50 bombing missions over Europe, tells of his experiences (February 27, 1944) -- (776 KB)
- A U.S. airman in the Pacific war zone describes his experiences while flying a Ventura bomber (February 27, 1944) -- (1.28 MB)
- A P-38 Lightning fighter pilot is interviewed (March 5, 1944) -- (761 KB)
- A member of a B-24 Liberator bomber anti-submarine patrol in the South Atlantic describes his experiences (March 12, 1944) -- (1.17 MB)
- A B-26 Marauder bomber crewman describes precision bombing over Florence, Italy to avoid hitting historic sites (March 12, 1944) -- (957 KB)
- One of the first members of the WAC (Women's Army Corps) to arrive in the Pacific war zone is interviewed (March 26, 1944) -- (703 KB)
- A B-17 Flying Fortress bomber ground crewman describes his job (March 26, 1944) -- (709 KB)
- Listen to the sounds of a typical bomber attack, as would have been heard by people on the ground, starting with the sound of the warning sirens and followed by the sounds of the approaching planes, anti-aircraft fire and then the sound of falling bombs (762 KB)
- A radio show broadcast to servicemen overseas, with Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, and Harpo Marx (June 17, 1944) -- (5.14 MB)
- A P-51 Mustang long-range fighter pilot tells of his experiences in the European war zone (August 6, 1944) -- (1.31 MB)
- A flight training session for teenaged students is broadcast live from inside a B-24 Liberator bomber flying over Long Island, New York (September 3, 1944) -- (906 KB)
- Classic comedy routine Who's On First by comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello (1947) -- (2.03 MB)
- A 1962 interview with some crew members of the two planes that dropped atomic bombs on Japan during World War II (October, 1962) -- (6.09 MB)
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