British wartime songs

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Al Bowlly Jack Leon Band - Goodnight, Sweetheart 1931

George Formby - I Did What I Could with My Gas Mask

Flanagan and Allen - Run Rabbit Run.wmv

Carroll Gibbons - I'm Gonna Get Lit Up (When The lights Go On In London)

Get in Your Shelter - Arthur Askey

Wish Me Luck - Doreen Stephens with Jack Hylton Orchestra

Anne Shelton - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 1940

Powder Your Face With Sunshine (1949) -- on 1927 HMV 101

Adolf - Billy Cotton & His Band

( It`s Just Too Bad For ) Nasty Uncle Adolf - Ambrose & His Orchestra

Jack Hylton:- "Painting The Clouds With Sunshine"

Praise The Lord & Pass The Ammunition - Harry Kaye

The Fleets In Port Again by Alan Breeze

This Is The Army , Mr Jones - Irving Berlin

 

[Llew]

I remember them well in our Morrison shelter. And this one...

 

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War was declared at 11:00 on September 3rd 1939

BBC ON THIS DAY | 3 | 1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany

 

[PaulR]

My late father was a fan of Al Bowlly and rated him higher than many of the now better known names.

 

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I was given this cd & dvd, but it's true people had to have talent back then, unlike some of the modern "artists"

 

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And please stand for

 

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XIT!

 

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I was also given this today.

 

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I remember them well in our Morrison shelter. And this one...

Which naturally leads to

 

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