Peggy, The Pin-Up Girl - Glenn Miller & the Army Air Force Band
Peggy, The Pin-Up Girl - Glenn Miller & the Army Air Force Band
"He blesses the boys as they stand in line
The smell of gun grease and the bayonets they shine
He's there to help them all that he can
To make them feel wanted he's a good holy man
Sky pilot, sky pilot
How high can you fly?
You can never, never, never
Reach the sky"
Sky Pilot - Eric Burdon & the Animals
Battle Ship - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"If you're on shore leave, and your face is kinda cute
Perhaps, by your leave, I can be you passion fruit!"
An Occasional Man - Julie London
Weapon of Prayer - The Louvin Brothers [[1962)
A theme album on military/war [[Charlie Louvin was in the army at the end of WW2 and was recalled for the Korean war). I'll list the songs together here since they're all on the same album:
The Weapon of Prayer
There's a Grave in the Wave of the Ocean
At Mail Call Today
I Died For The Red, White and Blue
A Soldier's Last Letter
There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving
The Great Atomic Power
A Seaman's Girl
From Mother's Arms to Korea
Robe of White
Searching For a Soldier's Grave
Mother, I Thank You For The Bible You Gave
These songs are not sugar coated - for example, the young man in "From Mother's Arms to Korea" is killed on his first day on the front line, leaving a diary that his buddy finishes with "from a foxhole to a mansion on high" before it's sent home.
The Great Atomic Power is one of their best-remembered songs today, a real fire and brimstone number about the fear of nuclear war. The version on this album was a remake, I prefer the original single version from 1952 [[made just after Charlie's return from Korea):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5i4ZGVQGa8
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Blues for Sarge - Shirley Horn
Where Have All the Flowers Gone -- Peter, Paul and Mary [[1961)
The melody and the first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955
¨Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?´´
I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind -- Irving Berlin [[1918) for the Ziegfeld Follies
Billy, Don't Be A Hero - Paper Lace
The Battle of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton [[1959)
Mr. Lonely -- Bobby Vinton [[1962)
PT-109 -- Jimmy Dean [[1962)
Suicide is Painless [[theme from M.A.S.H.) -- The Manic Street Preachers [[1988)
Wild Blue Yonder/U. S. Airforce Song -- Late 1940´s, much debated and altered, not considered official. Used before sporting events.
Taps -- bugle call played at dusk, during flag ceremonies, and at military funerals by the United States Armed Forces. [[1874)
Harbour Lights -- Frances Langford [[1937)
Imagine -- John Lennon [[1971)
¨Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky¨
No Coward Soldier - Jackson Southernaires
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
When a Soldier Makes It Home -- Arlo Guthrie [[1994)
We Saw The Sea - Fred Astaire [[Follow The Fleet, 1936)
We joined the navy to see the world
And what did we see? We saw the sea
We saw the Pacific and the Atlantic
But the Atlantic isn't romantic
And the Pacific isn't what it's cracked up to be
American Soldier - Toby Keith
Old Soldiers Never Die - Vaughn Monroe
Ruby, Don´t Take Your Love to Town -- Waylon Jennings [[1966)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .also Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
The Unknown Soldier - Spyro Gyra
The Forgotten Soldier Boy - Bill and Charlie Monroe
Born in the U.S.A. -- Bruce Springsteen [[1984)
The Glory Of The Yankee Navy - John Philip Sousa
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
War - Edwin Starr
Warrior Charge - Aswad
Itś a Long Way to Tipperary -- John McCormack [[1914)
These Arms Of Mine - Otis Redding
God Bless the U.S.A. -- Lee Greenwood [[1984)
¨Proud to Be an American¨
"...They're sending me to Vietnam
I've got to fight a war
I don't know what for
Over there in Vietnam
I've got to leave you girl so far behind
To go fight on the front line
There's a sound of conflict in the air
So much confusion everywhere..."
What In the World's Going On - R. Dean Taylor
In album "A Cellarful of Motown Volume 5" [[September 2020)
You´re in the Army Now -- Dutch duo Bolland & Bolland, [[1982) and by British rock band Status Quo [[1986) where It charted in the UK. Also was charted in various other European countries.
Battlefield - Norman Hutchins
Machine Gun - Commodores
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads
Tiger In My Tank - Jr Walker
The Jeep Is Jumpin' - Duke Ellington
Front Line - Stevie Wonder
He'll be back-the players
Put Your War Clothes On - Virtue!
Love Gun - Rick James
Smoking Gun - Robert Cray
Happiness Is a Warm Gun - The Beatles
Semper Paratus -- U.S. Coast Guard [[1927)
Always Ready
Sailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main -- Written in 1880 by Godfrey Marks
"My Ship Is Coming In" - The Pacesetters
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