Songs about historical events (1 Viewer)

[Jack]

You Englishmen and your love for anything that sounds like a dance hall song!!

How about a song associated with an historical event - Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No, I don't regret anything), recorded by Édith Piaf, which has such a strong connection to the French Foreign Legion and Algeria?

Lili Marlene, The White Cliffs of Dover, We'll Meet Again and A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square have song emotional connections with WW2. Its a Long Way to Tipperary and Pack Up Your Troubles would be the same for WW1.

 

[waynepoo]

This one I like a lot, another one of the Civil War.
Wayne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIHrjsy4nNs

 

[Jack]

Christmas in the Trenches - the song about the Christmas Truce of 1914.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9coPzDx6tA

 

[waynepoo]

A great thread Jack, some wonderful tunes...this is one of the most haunting pieces of music I have heard, the main track of Ken Burns brilliant doco of the Civil War.
Wayne.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZASM8OX7s

 

[The Military Workshop]

My contribution - Goodbye Dolly Grey

This song was composed for the Spanish-American War in 1898 and has been used in wars since. This version is sung by Edward Woodward born 1st June 1930 and died on 16th November 2009. Remembered as a fine actor and singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoMf3_wT1rA

 

[BLReed]

Not exactly an event per se......................

SSgt Barry Sadler - "The Ballad of the Green Berets" (1966)

 

[johnnybach]

Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major - Billy Cotton and his Band.

What?^&confuse

 

[Ken & Ericka Osen/H&A Studio]

My three favourite songs with historical references would have to be "Done with Bonaparte" by Niamh Parsons (written by Mark Knopfler), a haunting song about the harshness of the Napoleonic wars
http://www.myspace.com/niamhparsons/music/songs/done-with-bonaparte-39562671

followed by Ian & Sylvia's version of the traditional "Brave Wolfe" about the French & Indian War death of Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham.
http://www.myspace.com/iansylviamusic/music/songs/brave-wolfe-34490815

and the Mark Knopfler & James Taylor duet "Sailing to Philadelphia" about the surveying of the Mason/Dixon line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrLdKYRBOEE

All the Best,
Ken

 

[GICOP]

THE LONGEST DAY - PAUL ANKA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Fa1yUAal0K4

 

[johnnybach]

The Dam Busters March

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=K32Adi8nmzA#t=0s

 

[GICOP]

Remember Pearl Harbor - Sammy Kaye and his Orchestra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL80E6E916C0A4E388&feature=player_detailpage&v=suuN6bkYiug

^&cool

 

[johnnybach]

Over the Hills and Far Away.
by John Tams - who plays Dan Hagman in the Sharpe series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-Fy3tSim3to#t=2s