Rondeliers Dance Club; November 2013 Veteran's Day

Did You Know? - Veterans Day is an official United States holiday which honors people who have served in armed service also known as veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11.

It coincides with other holidays such as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark the anniversary of the end of World War I.

(Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, when the Armistice with Germany went into effect.)

Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving.

Did You Know? - World War II was the first conflict to take place in the age of electronically mass distributed music. By 1940 96.2% of Northeastern urban households in the United States of America had radio. The lowest group to take up, Southern Rural families still had 1 radio for every two households.

During the Nazi rule radio ownership in Germany rose from 4 to 16 million households.

As the major powers entered war millions of citizens had home radio devices that did not exist in the First World War. Also during the pre-war period sound was introduced to cinema and musicals were very popular.

Quotation To Remember: It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.  ~Author unknown

Quotation To Remember: When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?  ~George Canning

Did You Know These WWII Songs? -

• " (There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover " - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra (1942)
• "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive" - Johnny Mercer (1944)
• "Be Careful, It's My Heart" - Composer: Irving Berlin - From: Movie Holiday Inn (1942)
• " Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy " - Andrews Sisters (1941)"
• "Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer" - The Song Spinners
• "Der Fuehrer's Face" - Spike Jones and his City Slickers (1943)
• "Remember Pearl Harbor" - Sammy Kaye (1942)
• "Don't Fence Me In" - Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters (Cover)
• "Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Never No Lament)" - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
• Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) - Composer: Lew Brown, Sam. H. Stept, and Charlie Tobias (1942)
• Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Composer: Cole Porter - From: Musical "Seven Lively Arts" (1944)
• " G.I. Jive " - Johnny Mercer
• "I Don't Want To Walk Without You" - Harry James & His Orchestra Composer: Frank Loesser and Jule Styne - From: Movie Sweater Girl (1942), performed by Betty Jane Rhodes
• "I Wonder" - Louis Armstrong
• I'll Be Seeing You - The Ink Spots/Bing Crosby Words by Irving Kahal, music by Sammy Fain
• "I'll Walk Alone" - Martha Tilton
• "It's Been A Long, Long Time" - Harry James & His Orchestra
• " Long Ago (And Far Away) " - Jo Stafford Composer: Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern - From: Musical "Cover Girl" (1944)
• "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" - Composer: Frank Loesser and Victor Schertzinger - From: Movie "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" (1941)
• " Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition " - Composer: Frank Loesser (1942)
• "Sentimental Journey" - Les Brown & His Orchestra; Composer: Bud Green, Les Brown, and Ben Homer – (1944)
• "Till Then" - Mills Brothers
  "Waitin' For The Train To Come In" - Peggy Lee
• "When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)" - Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra (1943)
• You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - Composer: Cole Porter - From: Musical "Something To Shout About" – (1942)
"Yours" - Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra

Did You Know? - "Lili Marlene" was perhaps the most popular song of World War II with both German and British forces. Based on a German poem, the song was recorded in both English and German versions. The poem was set to music in 1938 and was a hit with troops in the Afrika Korps. Mobile desert combat required a large number of radio units and the British troops in the North African Campaign started to enjoy the song so much that it was quickly translated into English. The song was used throughout the war as not only a popular song, but a propaganda tool.

Did You Know? - The 1940s were the apotheosis of American popular music. Swing, blues and country were all popular styles but, above all, it was the heyday of the seventeen-piece big band.

Names like Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Duke Ellington were as lionized as today’s rock groups and to this day, their theme songs—“Sing, Sing, Sing,” “In the Mood,” “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You,” and “Take the ‘A’ Train”—virtually define the entire musical period.

Vocalists like Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, and Ella Fitzgerald had their own cult following, but everything started with the song itself, and the names of the songwriters alone tell the story: Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Richard Rogers, Johnny Mercer, and Frank Loesser. The 1940s were the golden age of the American songbook.

Quotation To Remember: The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.  ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Song: Eternal Father, Strong to Save (The Navy Hymn)

Did You Know? - "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" is a hymn traditionally associated with seafarers, particularly in the maritime armed services. Written in 1860, its author William Whiting was inspired by the dangers of the sea described in Psalm 107.

It was popularized by the Royal Navy and the United States Navy in the late 19th century, and variations of it were soon adopted by many branches of the armed services in the United Kingdom and the United States. Services who have adapted the hymn include the Royal Marines, Royal Air Force, the British Army, the United States Coast Guard and the United States Marine Corps, as well as many navies of the British Commonwealth.

Accordingly, it is known by many names, variously referred to as the Hymn of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, the Royal Navy Hymn, the United States Navy Hymn (or just The Navy Hymn), and sometimes by the last line of its first verse, "For Those in Peril on the Sea."

The hymn has a long tradition in civilian maritime contexts as well, being regularly invoked by ship's chaplains and sung during services on ocean crossings.