OT: Memorial Day Music Thread

[TCC Kid]

Thanks Rocky--for my friends still at the Frozen Chozen! America remains in AWE of what the did.

 

[TCC Kid]

Julia Ward Howe's immortal anthem -

Thanks

 

[Aluminny69]

I may have missed it, but how is Danny Boy excluded? A message from a parent to a son going off to war.

Judy Garland had an early version of the song. 1940 Judy Garland Little Nellie Kelly soundtrack. Garland also sang it live at her concerts in Ireland and Scotland and most famously at her New York Palace Theatre debut in 1951.

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Aluminny69]

I must include this Judith Durham version, which includes a short introduction, and the second verse, which I believe is a soldier's response. (open to interpretation.)

I love this YT comment

I am 66 years old, and never in my life have I ever heard such a beautiful version of 'Danny Boy'. It gives me goosebumps, a lump in my throat, and tears in my eyes. Thank you Judith! And thank God for giving you to the world!

 

[Cedar]

War — Why Can’t We Be Friends?

 

[64Zcode]

Anti-war piece from Big Country - Where The Rose Is Sown-

We're at war All the papers say
We will win I read today
We are strong It wasn't us
We are right Who started this?

 

[64Zcode]

Very surprised that this hasn't been linked yet.
Dogs Of War - Pink Floyd-. From The Delicate Sound of Thunder tour

 

[UpstateNY]

I am a Vietnam Vet and there are a couple of songs that really resonate:
:
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) HD/widescreen ♫♥

 

[Kaizen]

 

[SalinasV]

Another great version of Danny Boy

 

[Sifaka]

 

[Bigboote]

I am a Vietnam Vet and there are a couple of songs that really resonate:
:
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town
The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (1965) HD/widescreen ♫♥

My late brother-in-law also served, and he concurred with you, said "We gotta get out of this place" was their anthem.

 

[Replicant]

 

[Replicant]

 

[Replicant]

Letter To Mrs. Bixby (Saving Private Ryan)



Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.

Dear Madam,--

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,

A. Lincoln

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Great thread, many, many excellent songs.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

The Greatest Generation NORMANDY

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

The Greatest Generation PACIFIC

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

World War II Veteran delivers a promise after 73 years...​

 

[Aluminny69]

Jackie Wilson
Another great version of Danny Boy

And yet another version by the recently deceased Harry Belafonte. This version is slower, but should bring a tear to your eye.

 

[UpstateNY]

A WW2 classic:

 

[Jackcatscal]

For a lot of years, I took this song as Dylan's indictment of jingoism and the American military-industrial complex. Then, I saw Dylan in concert singing this song not long after 9/11. It took on an entirely new meaning.

 

[Jackcatscal]

This speaks for itself.