Under a War-Torn Sky

Hear Music from WWII

Hear music Henry refers to in
A Troubled Peace and Under a War-torn Sky

Nat King Cole singing “Straighten Up and Fly Right” (click on the play arrow in the upper right box)
http://www.last.fm/music/Nat+King+Cole/_/Straighten+Up+and+Fly+Right

Bing Crosby singing “Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive”
http://www.truveo.com/Accentuate-the-Positive/id/406050740

“It's been a long, long time”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPP6FbbT4UI&feature=related

The Mills Brothers performing “Till Then”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPdidRreduM

“When the Lights Go On Again”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzlFaY0s_QI

Louis Armstrong and “I Can’t Give You Anything but Love”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvKEzc3JXo4&feature=related

“You are my sunshine”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDNDELFF1ok

Hear More

Andrew Sisters and “Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wiVkdVPGoY&feature=related

Vera Lynn singing “We’ll Meet Again” to an audience of British flyers, who join in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uHykTs-THg&feature=related

Andrew Sisters; “Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg7ymwFsMI0&feature=related

Glenn Miller's “Band In the Mood”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR3K5uB-wMA&feature=related

Benny Goodman and his orchestra (1942)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPBNQUoDKpM&feature=PlayList&p=6EAC6A2C32639B2C&index=23

Johnny Mercer singing “G.I. Jive”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TaSvfT_L3M

1940s swing with photo montage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FF7MDZ5T1Y

Count Basie and his band 1941
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLbrZAko7E&feature=related

Duke Ellington – “It don't mean a thing” (1943)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg