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The World At War: 30th Anniversary Edition (CD)

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DISC 1 for The World At War: 30th Anniversary Edition (CD) Album By Various Artists
1   Speech - Neville Chamberlain (The World At War-Theme)
2   World At War Theme, The
3   Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye - Gracie Fields
4   We're Gonna Hang Out The Washing On The Siegfried Line - Arthur Askey
5   Boum - Charles Trenet
6   Suite - France Falls
7   Speech - Winston Churchill
8   Adolf - The Billy Cotton Band
9   Lili Marlene - Lale Andersen
10   Red Star
11   Red Army Is The Strongest, The - The Red Army Choir
12   Speech - Field Marshal Montgomery
13   This Is The Army Mister Jones - Irving Berlin
14   G.I. Blues
15   Coming In On A Wing And A Prayer - Anne Shelton
16   Speech - General Eisenhower
17   Arnhem Airlift
18   Warsaw Aftermath
19   Run Rabbit Run - Flanagan & Allen
20   I'm Going To Get Lit Up (When The Lights Go On In London) - Carrol Gibbons
21   Turkey Shoot
22   London Pride - Noel Coward
23   When They Sound The Last "All Clear" - Vera Lynn
24   Blood, Sweat And Tears
25   Speech - Winston Churchill
26   Reckoning
27   Theme - The World At War
 

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Uncut (1/04, p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[E]erily moving."

Title Note

The Thames Television series The World at War had some of the most distinctive music, both original and period, of any documentary ever presented on television on either side of the Atlantic. The original material was the work of transplanted American composer/conductor Carl Davis, while the source music was comprised of some of the more entertaining popular numbers of the 1930s and 1940s (mostly British and French), some from recordings, and others from radio broadcasts. Producer James Fitzpatrick has assembled new recordings of Davis with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, which has been doing excellent recordings for more than a decade and doesn't disappoint here, with a brace of period-popular sides, into a 75-minute CD -- the main title theme, "France Falls" (a ten-minute mini-suite with a killer alto sax solo surrounded by haunting strings in its front-end section), "Red Star," "Blood, Sweat And Tears," and "Red Star" (with its haunting bass clarinet opening), are all among the best music ever written to accompany a documentary film presentation, or any body of genuine history, and are worth the price of the disc by themselves. But in addition to Davis' best work, we're also treated to period recordings by Gracie Fields ("Wish Me Luck as You Wave Goodbye"), Arthur Askey ("(We're Gonna Hang Out) The Washing on the Siegfried Line"), Charles Trenet ("Boum"), The Billy Cotton Band ("Adolf"), Lale Anderson ("Lili Marlene"), Anne Shelton ("Coming In on a Wing And a Prayer"), and Noel Coward ("London Pride"), among others -- one delightful find is Irving Berlin's own 1943 London recording of "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." And those are intercut with very brief speech excerpts by Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Dwight Eisenhower, among others. The sound quality is excellent throughout, on the old tracks as well as the new -- the producers recorded and mixed from digital into analog to give all of the new material a warmth that is often lacking in digital-to-digital sides. And the annotation is extraordinarily thorough and interesting.Your only complaint may be that the producer didn't find room for George Formby and his recording of "Imagine Me on the Maginot Line," which was used on the series, but the and the Billy Cotton and Arthur Askey tracks are good alternatives, and the Trenet track is in a class by itself, capturing everything that was right about France as a place to live in 1939, and wrong with it as a focus of anti-Hitler strategy in that same era. ~ Bruce Eder

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