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The band performed with the US Air Force Band during the “Forth of July in the District” concert in Washington D.C.
This song, released in 1942, has the honor of being one of the first war songs to catch the attention of music lovers all across the U.S. Written by Paul Roberts and Shelby Darnell, ...
The War and Treaty: Healing songs 05:44. On stage, Army veteran Michael Trotter Jr. is fearless. Together, he and his wife Tanya perform as the duo The War and Treaty.
Last week the war song bottleneck appeared to be broken. Three were going great guns: > Lyricist Frank Loesser's Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! (inspired by a Navy Chaplain's ...
The war in Iraq is prompting musicians including Madonna and the Beastie Boys to use their songs and videos to speak out against the conflict. Here’s EW.com’s breakdown of what some are saying ...
Some of the 20th century’s most defining pop music emerged from the period during which the Vietnam War was fought — and in the installment of the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick docu-series The ...
RELATED: 10 Great Country Music Songs About World War II The military draft during Vietnam had so many exemptions that the nation ended up taking a disproportionate number of troops from the ...
The war songs of the 21st century have been sober and earnest, pragmatic rather than fanciful. Immediate responses to 9/11 and to the invasion of Iraq arrived along familiar lines.
War, as it turns out, is good for absolutely nothing when it comes to anti-war songs. At the risk of sounding like Bill O'Reilly (who, no doubt, listens only to Wagner), it's time to protest the ...
NEW BRITISH WAR SONGS; Conflict with Boers Has Resulted in a Varied Assortment. THE ANGLO-SAXON "ALLIANCE" Ballad Writers Take It for Granted, but Songs Written in This Country Are Pro-Boer.
At a time when the country is getting entangled more deeply into one war while it is... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo. ... Music Review: Bloody War: Songs 1924-1939.