Fitzgerald: Interludes

Dear Robert,

60 Minutes is doing a segment on the plight of Iraqi Christians. This will air today on CBS at 7:00 eastern time (60 Minutes may be on a tad later due to football).

I am very surprised a mainstream media outlet is airing this story. Please watch this and give us your thoughts.

Thanks for all you do.

Hugh, give Robin McKelle a listen. She is young, but her voice will transport you back to 1942. Especially her smoking hot version of "Bei Mir Bist Du Schayn" It is played as a tango, and for a Yiddish song...it really works!

Ooooh, here she is, now!

Please Robert, let's have some Sandie Shaw. "Girl don't come" is one of the classics. Also, let's have some of the great music of the Sixties. The pleasure principle was certainly in swing in those days.

Interludes

“Put Your Records On” by Corinne Bailey Rae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNK_VDQY8I&feature=related

"L'Appuntamento" by Ornella Vanoni
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxIwLFeEHA0&feature=related

BANNED IN BOSTON!
Sorry, one week late; my favorite politically incorrect Thanksgiving Hymns (non-inclusive language, apocalyptic and "milataristic?" metaphors):

Warning: these hymns have been purged from the Pilgrim Hymnal and were banned by Obama's United Church of Christ.

I will work on a list of politically incorrect (i.e. traditional) Christmas hymns.

"Come, ye Thankful People, Come"
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/c/o/comeytpc.htm

"For the Lord our God shall come, and shall take His harvest home;
From His field shall in that day all offenses purge away,
Giving angels charge at last in the fire the tares to cast;
But the fruitful ears to store in His garner evermore."

The "milataristic" hymn: "We Gather Together"
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/e/wegattog.htm

"The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing."...
"So from the beginning the fight we were winning;"
...
"O Lord, make us free!"

Editorial note: words such as He, Lord, King, Father and Son are politically incorrect and sexist. These and other opressive words have been censored from the "New Centry Hymnal". It's a travesty!

I went to a Thanksgiving service with my girlfriend at her UCC church in Simsbury, CT, USA. I had to listen to a sermon about the Israeli "occupation" of the opressed Palestinians.
--
CT Yank

Fabulous stuff. Thank you Hugh.

How 'bout some Dylan from Robert.

Robert may wish to take up your suggestion and, at his own version of Interludes, to put up songs by the completely-unknown, grossly undreappreciated Bob Dylan, who no doubt could benefit from more exposure here.

My Interludes, however, are based on the criteria stated by me. They have their own methodical madness behind them, and are intended to paint a certain picture, and to make certain points (some stated, some unstated), as well as to effect, or at least affect, that Revolution in Taste I mentioned, and that so many are hoping for and counting on. Instead of continuing to ignore the stated purpose, why not accept it, and see if possibly Lee Morse, or Silvana Mangano's astonishing performance, can take you away from the present, largely unappetizing, musical age or cultural moment or whatever the damn thing is called.

Despot. Indulge. Please.

In the postings above personal enthusiasm has caused some to ignore the stated criteria for inclusion in the "Interludes" (Musical and Cinematic Division). Those criteria were spelled out first at the time the original announcement of the “Jihad Watch Interludes” was put up on November 22 (and now to be found on the left under the photograph of Oriana Fallaci), then in a subsequent posted – not Post-It –note a few days later, and repeated, in the back-and-forth or badmintonish battibecchi, with a few indignant or uneasy visitors to this site, who didn’t like the idea of my being the sole arbiter of taste, even one who would be willing to accept, via e-mail, suggestions that met the stated criteria.

It became a pseudo-democratic free-for-all, attempting a coup that would replace my choices with a would-be karaoke of the air, with some posters chagrinned or even angry with my unwillingness to hop to it, on their terms. Welll, this does not happen to be run on the lines of that third-grade in some “progressive” elementary school where the kids get to decide whether they want to study dinosaurs, or Greek mythology, for their next “unit.” No sir. “Equality” has its points, as a political and legal ideal. But its proper application is limited to that. See Jacques Barzun (one hundred years old this past Friday), passim. See the history of Western thought, passim. See all of art, literature, music, passim.

As an aide-memoire, here are the two Formal Announcemtns about the Interludes, with a few of my on-thread answers to those who didn’t cotton to my supposedly high-and-mighty, hogende-mogende ways:

#1.
“Thanksgiving Day seems as good a day as any to begin a new feature at this site: The Interlude. The Interlude is intended to be a relief, like the Relief of Khartoum or Mafeking, from a siege -- in the case of JihadWatch, the relentless mental siege of Islam, Jihad, Islamic Supremacism.

The relief provided may be literary, musical, cinematic, philological, historical, or anything-at-all in nature. Feel free to copy here every adjective Polonius offered Hamlet, and then some. There is only one firm requirement: the Interlude must have nothing to do with Islam, with Sharia. It must be forbidden by Islamic rigorists. It must have nothing to do with the very thing from which we are trying to deal with, and also trying, in several senses, to escape.

The Interlude’s appeal is thus to the well-known Pleasure Principle. And I have proof that it works. For as the only begetter of the Interlude, I have already derived pleasure from being the self-appointed principal who will choose what does the appealing.

So here, suitable for postprandial listening on Thanksgiving Day, when you have left the others sitting or sprawling or lying in various rooms, in various postures, exhibiting various states of contentment or distress, and have gone off by yourself (or possibly with a complicitous companion) for a furtive quick visit to the nearest accessible computer for your daily fix -- admit it, you’re an addict – is” [the list of “Interludes” then begins]

#2. After this was immediately ignored, by posters offering links to their own favorite songs of recent decades,the following was put up:

“While the offerings above are good, they present a problem. For many, no doubt, will be prompted to put up their own favorites, a poem or a song or a snippet of a movie (if retrievable on-line). The Interlude then would cease to be, as it was intended to be, a place to remind the audience of performers who have been forgotten or remain unknown or, if not entirely forgotten or unknown, then insufficiently appreciated because they were from another time, another space.

A thread full of links to music that is already well-known, and likely to consist mostly of American or rock-band English, from the last few decades, would defeat part of the incompletely-stated purpose. And too many pieces being offered, on the Interlude thread, even when individually good, can weaken the impact of what has been chosen for that day. However, those with a particular pressing request for an old favorite should send it in and if it meets the criteria of our stern panel of circuit-riding and incorruptible judges, it may see the light of pixillated day.

A new link will ideally be offered each day, placed at the top of an ever-lengthening cumulative list, and at some point -- possibly at the beginning of each month -- a new list will begin, the previous one having been removed to the archives, where it will remain, retrievable, and free from rust and the other ravages of time.

The aim, of course, is not only to remind visitors of things that have nothing to do with Islam, and that could never have been produced under Islam. It is also to engage in the refashioning of taste. If there is to be a revolution in taste, why not let it begin here?

[Posted by: Hugh at November 22, 2007 10:21 AM]

Then several more postings, mostly ignoring what I wrote at 10:21, were answered thus:

"Looks like we have been invited to contribute a posting on our tastes in music.
Well here goes."
-- from a posting above

No, not exactly. Please read carefully what I posted at 10:21 a.m., just after having deleted Pelayo's [a poster] posting of three lee-fortunes [a singer links to whose songs were put up by Pelayo], which was no more, though no less, a violation of the stated rule than all those that have been posted after. That deletion was done by way of demonstration. Why, Pelayo is now fuming, should his posting be the only one so deleted? Why indeed?

I don't wish to be a mean-minded ogre, dampening innocent enthusiasms. But I do wish the Interlude to reflect a single taste -- my taste -- and not to become a kind of open-mike or karaoke festival and free-for-all, where everyone puts up whatever he feels like singing along to, or wishes to inflict on others in the spirit of those delinquents who turn up the sound on their boomboxes or their car radios to make absolutely sure the entire neighborhood has to hear those hideous sentiments set to semi-demented "music."

Besides, how can I affect this revolution in taste if I am not to be sole arbiter elegantiarum?

So please. Indulge a despot. Just this once?

[Posted by: Hugh at November 22, 2007 12:14 PM]

Still more complaints were answered thus:

“Three replies to three different postings:

1.
"a clash of generations?..."
-- from a posting by Pelayo, whose early posting (originally #3) I now see I should not have removed, and now apologize for so doing, since I have subsequently failed to remove others even more egregious

Nothing generational about it. Plenty of people my age or much younger are Deadheads or worse. Plenty of people far older than I are completely indifferent to what quickens me about certain songs that go back to the 1920s and 1930s. But “The Interlude” is not simply a place for everyone and his brother to put up whatever he feels like, because he wishes to “share” something, that something being well-known, easily accessible all day and all night, on a million radio and Internet channels. That would be an uncontrollable mess. Those who are indignant because they think that an Internet site is akin to a place of public accommodation, and that it should not only be open to all those who wish to visit, but also be willing to countenance any and all contributions by those visitors, no matter how that may cause long-laid plans to gang agley, have another think coming. Apparently there are some who want democracy, or still worse, equality in such matters. I don’t much care for that idea. The Interlude as conceived is intended to reflect, as I wrote, one person’s taste, my taste, my own sense of what is being overlooked undeservedly, or perhaps known (even well known) in one country, but hardly known outside that country. Everyone can suggest songs for posting by email, and if they meet the described criteria, they may well be posted. There is nothing unreasonable about that.

2. "Hugh has a thing for girl singers of the 20s and 30s..."
-- from another posting above

The statement might more accurately reflect my past propositions were “the” replaced by “their” and “of” replaced by a different preposition. In any case, it certainly reflects a rush to judgment. So far exactly two songs have been up. The haunting one by Jessie Matthews, and the amusing by Dorothy Lee. Nothing can be concluded from such a small sample. Give it a month. Last I looked, Al Bowlly, Sam Browne, Jack Buchanan, Bunny Berigan, Jean Sablon, Charles Trenet, Leo Monosson, Adam Aston, Bulat Okudzhava, Pyotr Leshchenko, Domenico Modugno, among the dozens who will appear, were never “girl singers.” And even the “girls” will not always be chosen because they are from the “20s and 30s.” The intent is to emphasize those who have been unjustly forgotten, sometimes because of the passage of time and the change in the musical weather, sometimes because their careers were cut short by war and its aftermath, sometimes because mere considerations of profit caused record publishers to ignore them. Until now it has not been technologically feasible to go outside the usual closed channels of distribution to find and then disseminate such material. But it is now possible, and that is what I am going to do.

3. “Ah, indeed, so this "interlude" is not a break from the reporting of the jihad and sharia menace at all, as it was originally billed and enthusiastically embraced, but actually a C. Montgomery Burns-style "revolution in taste" in defiance of all that "crap" one can find on "virtually any station". So basically, that means everything from ABBA to ZZ TOP and perhaps even the recent off-key caterwauling of those four mop tops on the Ed Sullivan Show.
And the point of this anti-pop music decree on Jihadwatch is what? If I want to hear the negative opinion of pop music, present and past, I can go to memri.org and listen to the imams rail.”
--- from a posting above

You are peeved that I choose not to put up the kind of music that is all around us. You even manage to drag in, as a point of absurd comparison, C. Montgomery Burns. When you see some of the “cinematic” interludes I intend to put up, especially those from Dennis Potter’s “Lipstick On Your Collar” you will realize just how absurd. Mr. Burns no doubt would regard all music as a waste of time, a distraction from the real business of living, which is for the Montgomery-burnses of this world is making money. I doubt he would see much to write home about in the Jessie Matthews song I put up, or in that [to be put up] by Dorothy Lee.

One more time: I have no intention of offering here what is already on offer everywhere on radio, AM, FM, shortwave, Internet, or on television, with dozens of MTVish channels. That refusal hardly constitutes a “negative opinion” of “pop” or any other kind of music. Some pop singers produce versions of old songs better than, or as good as, the original. One example: Mama Cass’s version of “Dream A Little Dream Of Me.” But I’m not going to put it up here because it is so well known and relatively recent. And I’m certainly not going to jettison my own clearly-stated criteria in order to satisfy yours.

[Posted by: Hugh at November 22, 2007 7:15 PM]

Even after this, there were complaints, and one case of outright nastiness that had to be put out of its misery.

I decided, then, that another explanation of the purpose of the Interludes was necessary:

“The Jihad Watch Interludes are now to be found, collected for easy clickable reference, on the upper left of the homepage, under the photograph of Oriana Fallaci. That link leads here, where you will find an explanation of why they're on the site. In order to make more likely that these selections do not lie neglected in the outer ether, they will now be posted also as part of the ever-changing group of new offerings, with each new entry placed at the bottom of the ever-lengthening cumulative list of previous entries.

These songs and excerpts from movies, and occasional poems, constitute “Interludes” that, like a dish of sherbet to cleanse the palate, are offered for sampling between one bout, and another, of grim and disturbing discussion of the nature and menace of Islamic supremacism. A means of mental escape over the North Wall, while the warden is not only deliberately averting his gaze, but also made sure to leave the ladder which you are expected to use. If, however, you find yourself unable to derive unalloyed pleasure from such offerings, and need metal more attractive, something in the uplift or enlightenment line, then you can, after having listened to a song or two or twelve, analyse away, to your heart’s content, what it was about that song, or singer, or sentiment expressed, that is so ineluctably un-Islamic in every way, and surely could never have been produced in a state or society suffused with Islam.

You can then add to the list of things not to be tolerated in Islam almost all of American, and West European, popular music. One more recognition of what we think of as harmless and is in Islam deemed haram and condemned with ferocity. Thus you can add to the lengthening list of things not to be tolerated in Islam, which obviously includes most forms of artistic expression, the free and skeptical inquiry without which the enterprise of science is not possible, the solicitude for individual rights and for the autonomy of the individual that is such an important part of advanced Western democracies, these harmless and pleasure-giving and laugh-provoking ("There is no humor in Islam" -- Ayatollah Khomeini) songs and movie excerpts, the mere insects of an hour. Insects of an hour they may be, but those insects keep chirping on the hearth, by the fireside, in the gloaming.

Those who stay to listen, and allow themselves to be amused or moved by the musical files so assiduously assembled by a harried staff of one, may be impressed to learn that that staff, in order to save time and conserve energy, has taken to wearing roller-skates so as to more quickly shoot from one part of the room in which the site’s musical and movie files are stacked and stored, to another.
Here, doled out daily by that sometimes accommodating, and occasionally truculent staff, as the tastiest if not always the most nutritious part of the panem quotidianum [n.b. “doled out daily” implies, and to me justifies, the deliberate accusative here, for it contains, wholly, the ghost of an unstated, but even for the Latin-less once mandatory “da nobis hodie”], to be found placed each day in your lunch-bag, the one that contains the viaticum for each visitor's long day's journey, whatever time he arrives by unannounced click, into the remains of that day, is that list of Interludes: [here follows a list of Interludes]

Even after this, posters continued to ignore the rules and offered up all kinds of suggestions, forcing yet another weary reply or two, such as that below:

Before posting suggestions here, please click on the "here" in the first sentence above, a link to the original explanation of what prompted the "Interludes" feature, and what criteria must be met in order to be considered for inclusion as an Interlude. Those criteria were spelled out both in the original announcement, and in repeated replies, on the thread that followed, to those posters who refused to heed what had already been clearly spelled out.
Then, please, instead of posting them here, email those suggestions so that they can be considered by our Panel of Judges for possible inclusion.

Oh, one more thing. Unlike the boilerplate rules for all those contests that offer financial rather than esthetic rewards, relatives and friends of those serving on the Panel of Judges are not merely not forbidden from participating, but are encouraged to do so. Just one more feature that distinguishes the "Interludes."

Thank you.

The Management.

[Posted by: Hugh at November 28, 2007 12:34 PM]

Let me plaintively repeat what I put up on November 22, Thanksgiving Day, just a little after noon [see: Posted by: Hugh at November 22, 2007 12:14 PM], as my thoughts naturally turned toward the preparation of the traditional Bouffetance of Bird:

“…how can I affect this revolution in taste if I am not to be sole arbiter elegantiarum?

So please. Indulge a despot. Just this once?”

One more time:

Please. Indulge a despot. Just this once?

From Huge: "the present, largely unappetizing, musical age or cultural moment or whatever the damn thing is called."

The Zeitgeist of Blandness, fueled by the Weltanschaaung of Wimpdom

What a surprise. I've been trying to get hold of "El Negro Zumbon" for years. Even in midi.

I love that song. It goes under another name "La Negra Leonor." Thank you. Thank you.

"I love that song..."
--from a posting above

I like the song. I love Silvana Mangano.

I was looking for tribal music of Sudan To see what the northern foreigners (You can imagine who they are!) are trying to erase. It's all about the djembe drum beat, the same beat as the heart. The Schumann resonance of the Earth.

African dances are alternately cooperation friendly challenges betw. dancer and drummers and betwe. drummers and drummers (no words needed)- most sequences show this.

Then I found more and more from other countries. I've never been exposed to pure tribal music like this - REAL tribal music. I love it. So do other foreigners!

If you can't have music that resonates in the SOul - you might as well go into a corner and die.

Hope you enjoy it as well:

I started with African Music in Disney:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ecgQgrLdiEI&feature=related

Dogon (Mali) Funeral Dance ( they resemble the Apache headresses - and the ones on stilts look like the Clowns of the Pueblos in the Amer. Southwest):
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sVcxM8viKpA

A graceful young man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y8q_-qCfB0

Djembe drummers on stage - drum challenges while keeping the beat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql6o703Vrnk&feature=related

Israelis dancing tribal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z78_rKp86I&feature=related

Israeli women on dancers on stage- HOT!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB2blbL4Lug&feature=related

Male Israeli drummers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tULZDNJ7NeE&feature=related

This one is special and very funny, with tourists taking part. The chief dancer just directs them s with his whistle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lop4EApbKE&feature=related

A Sangoma (short) shamanic ceremony - only the parts allowed to be filmed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjelSaHZAlE&feature=related

A Dance Festival in Ethiopia - where all diverse tribes (so many different dances!) came to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NaYDH9Js7Y

Tribal women dancing on stage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1X4EtR8Kk8&feature=related

Women Dance group at a fancy city wedding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90j8szEimgc&feature=related

Young White dance group dancing Africa tribal dance. THEY'RE HOT!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKzfKgGrQI&feature=related

Enjoy!

Cleverly appealing to that part of my aim that consists of "See-What-Is-Lost-Under-Islam" the poster above, by way of "looking for tribal music of Sudan To see what the northern foreigners (You can imagine who they are!) are trying to erase" gives us various drummers. Well, he can post it here but that is not what I had in mind, as popular music that has been overlooked, or underappreciated outside its country of origin.

There is an intelligent quasi-samaritan group that organizes performances, often of performers from distant lands, called "World Music." Throat-singers of Tanu Tuva and other marvels. To be seen, to be enjoyed. I certainly enjoyed the throat-singers of Tanu Tuva. But that is not what the "Interludes" are about.

But Messr. Hugh, you're the only one that can find the singers of the 20's (alsetto at that).

Can't you extend the venue a bit more?

But Messr. Hugh, you're the only one that can find the singers of the 20's (falsetto at that).

Can't you extend the venue a bit more?

Here's one:

Nobody know You When You're Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_odSSNFbdE&feature=related

Here's what Islam will forbid, because of the title, yes, but the attitude, mainly:

"Goodbye Porkpie Hat"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8IpODcXezU

Here's the Great Ethel Waters:

Am I Blue?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2b5eM7lrDw

Stormy Weather
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMTPhlNYf1E&feature=related

also, a Rag by Armand J. Piron:

I Wish I could shimmy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGhpWjbcvVA

The original upbeat version from the 1920s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8OWnvBDZpo

I meant to put this one instead, the is the upbeat version of I Wish I Could Shimmy.
I include it, because there is no modern version in Youtube, and if you want to hear the real version, this is it. This is the reason, a reference to the song, keeps appearing in fiction and movies - it's a catchy and memorable tune:

http://www.smickandsmodoo.com/lyrics/shimmy.htm

Allat --

Several songs by Ethel Waters, especially the early, naughty, My-Handy-Man Ethel Waters, are already on the list, including the two songs tyou suggested, though one of them ("Stormy Weather") is from later on, when her songs became more obviously respecable, and she could and did show up to sing at one of Billy Graham's Crusade for Christ rallies If, however, I find a version of "Am I Blue" by, say, Libby Holman, and have already put up a lot of Ethel Waters, who is well known, and I must choose between them, I'm likely to select the Holmam. No, for god's sake, I'm free to put them both up, and I suppose I will, but with some golden lapse of time between them.

I had forgotten about "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate." Thank you for reminding me. Up, eventually, it will go, especially if someone up-loads a version from the 1920s. If not, then I will have to choose among the current versions, all of them good, but the one closest to what I have in mind is that by Frances Faye.

Anything more contemporary...or are all the interludes the product of a obscurist ( by virtue of their vintage) fan club.

Here's one I never heard of before:

Cooking Breakfast sing by Fanny Brice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzJJpiXUog

Oh, ok, Messr Hugh, this gives me a chance to take out and dust all my memorabilia, and learn of others. I used to watch all these old movies in tv:

fr. "On the Road to Morocco"- in retrospect, Lamour does look like a Moorish girl) :
Moonlight Becomes You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUmkz95E7mw

Rum and Coca Cola by the Andrew Sisters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNQaS37X7_o&feature=related

Will You Remember ( sung by Nelson and MacDonald)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qygv8klwLrI

Lili Marlene by Marlene Dietrich
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nfllUtxDriA&feature=related

(These are classicals, my mother used to go to the movies in Central America to see them - it was a treat. I had a Jamaican friend that told me, that when she was a child, they would dress up like in the movie and sing all the songs.)

This is a very obscure composition - played as an entree in a Latin Music station:

Danza Lucumi by Ernesto Lecuona
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rcLN4iAOpLg&feature=related

here is the original recorded in the 1930 in a midi form:

http://www.carlinamerica.com/titles/titles.cgi?MODULE=DETAIL&ID=735&terms=___terms___

Lucumi was/is an African Tribe in Ethiopia, the carving - BELOW - shows the strong Ancient Egyptian influence:

http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/ethiopia.jpg

And another, same composer:

Y La Negra Bailaba (And the Negress Danced)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_VS6fcI6TGM

Hugh,

Two days late and a million pounds short--this may not be what you're looking for today, but how's this for a suggested Cinematic Interlude:

--An epic of earth-shaking proportions, Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier in KHARTOUM (1966)?

Is there a more jaunty sight than soldiers of the Queen heading south to fight the dervishes, to the martial step of a stirring Scottish air?

Filled with irony--in retrospect, an uncannily prescient insight into today's Islamist worldview and jihadist mindset. Think about these in light of today's events--a roused British public, an ambivalent British P.M., his government shamed into action? Just imagine where the Mahdi would be in today's climate, how far he could get with a free hand? Object lesson or Muslim miracle, indeed!

Here's an off-screen irony--the film was released the year preceding the Khartoum Resolution, the famous Three Noes.

Quite coincident with today's news, would you not agree?

Oh, I forgot--while cinema is definitely un-Islamic, the film hits too close to home to qualify as an Interlude. Still, a stirring martial tune and images of past glory are a captivating interlude for me! Deus vult!

A great movie, though.

Hugh,

Would you happen to have something with a martial flavor, a quickstep or spirited march, for a pick-me-up, por favor?

Besides, who better to break the rules but he that makes the rules? Muhammad (not The Bear) emphatically agrees!

I also forgot about the precipitating event (6dW) to the Khartoum Resolution; now, talk about Putting the Cart before the Horse!

[I also neglected to mention the obligatory image of the cheering crowd waving the Union Jack, now that I think of it.]

I have a song, "Sapogi" (Boots) by the singer Bulat Okudzhava, that I intend to put up. But you have given me an idea. Perhaps there are clips, from "Gunga Din" and "The Man Who Would Be King," that can be found on-line. I'll start with YouTube and Google.

This is a composition from the 1920-30s- in 3/4 time by a Peruvian woman composer Chabuca Granda -(She wrote this for her father after his death). The music is well-known and sung throughout Latin America.

Fina Estampa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ4pEd1qWZk&feature=related

Una veredita alegre (A happy little lane
con luz de luna o de sol ( filled with
moonlight or of sun
tendida como una cinta (like ribbon
con lazos de arrebol. (wound thru streets

Arrebol de los geranios (Ways filled w/geraniums
y sonrisas con rubor (and rosy smiles
arrebol de los claveles (rosiness of
carnations
y las mejillas en flor. (and ruddy cheeked

Perfumada de magnolias (Perfume of magnolias
rociada de mañanita (with dawn's light
la veredita sonríe (Smiling path
cuando tu pie la acaricia (when your steps
caressed it

Y la cuculí se ríe (and the doves coo
y la ventana se agita (curtains at windows
wave
cuando por esa vereda (when by this path
tu fina estampa, pasea. (your fine steps pass.

Fina estampa, caballero (Fine Looks, Gentleman
caballero de fina estampa,(Gentleman of Fine Look,
un lucero. (a Light.
Que sonriera bajo un sombrero (Who smiled 'neath
a hat,
no sonriera (no smile
más hermoso ni más luciera (more beautiful nor
more bright
caballero (A Gentleman
Y en tu andar, andar (and in your walk, your
walk
reluce la acera (ennobles the ground
al andar, andar. (as you go, as you go.

Te lleva hacia los zaguanes (Taking you to gates
y a los patios encantados (and courtyards
enchanted
te lleva hacia las plazuelas ( Taking you towards
small plazas
y a los amores soñados. (and loves ever you
dreamed.

Veredita que se arrulla (Pathways edged
con tafetanes bordados (with tafetta 'broidered,
tacón de chapín de seda (heels of silk
y fustes almidonados. (and of linens starched

Es un caminito alegre (It's a happy little lane
con luz de luna o de sol (with light of moon or of
sun
que he de recorrer cantando (which I follow with
song
por si te puedo alcanzar. (In hopes of catching
you.

Fina estampa, caballero (Fine Looks, Gentleman
quién te pudiera guardar (Who could compare,
Fina estampa, caballero (Fine Looks, Gentleman
caballero de fina estampa, (gentleman of fine
looks,
un lucero. (a light
Que sonriera bajo un sombrero (Smiling 'neath a
hat,
no sonriera (no smile
más hermoso ni más luciera (more beautiful nor
more bright
caballero (gentleman
Y en tu andar, andar (And in your step,
your step
reluce la acera (brightens the ground
al andar, andar. (as you go, you go.

****

This is another composition by Chabuca Granda of Peru.

Flor de Canela ( Blossom of the Cinnamon)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5uIN1oqdtQY&feature=related

(She wrote this to the Lima of Colonial times at the end of the 1800s. This was the city she came to know thru her father, of the area of Barranco, with great houses in the French style, with immense portals and winter gardens.)

Spanish lyrics :
http://www.amautaspanish.com/amautaspanish/learning/lyrics/song.asp?CodSong=28

Translation:
Let me tell you, Limeno
Let me tell you of the glory
Of dreams the past evokes
Of the old bridge o'er river to wooded pathways

Let me tell you, Limeno
Now, while memories still perfume
Now, while rocked in the dream
Of the old bridge o'er river to wooded pathways

Refrain):
Jasmine in her hair and roses in her cheeks
Light scent of the Cinnamon flowers
Leaving a piquancy, her passing leaving
Aromas, of bouquets which in the heart were carried

From the bridge to grove, small foot which carried her
Thru path which moved in rhythm
Of her walk, carrying the laughter of the breeze
of the river and to the winds would flow
From bridge to wooded pathways

Let me tell you, Limeno
Ay! Let me tell you, dark one, my thoughts,
In hopes that you'll awaken from the dream, a dream
which holds, dark one, your emotions.

Breathe of the piquancy of the Cinnamon
Adorned with jasmines tinting the beauty
Carpeting the bridge anew, and adorning wooded pathways.
The river moving in rhythm with your steps by wooded pathway

And remember the..

Refrain

****

This is another composition by Chabuca Granda of Peru.

Flor de Canela ( Blossom of the Cinnamon)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5uIN1oqdtQY&feature=related

(She wrote this to the Lima of Colonial times at the end of the 1800s. This was the city she came to know thru her father, of the area of Barranco, with great houses in the French style, with immense portals and winter gardens.)

Spanish lyrics :
http://www.amautaspanish.com/amautaspanish/learning/lyrics/song.asp?CodSong=28

Translation:
Let me tell you, Limeno
Let me tell you of the glory
Of dreams the past evokes
Of the old bridge o'er river to wooded pathways

Let me tell you, Limeno
Now, while memories still perfume
Now, while rocked in the dream
Of the old bridge o'er river to wooded pathways

Refrain):
Jasmine in her hair and roses in her cheeks
Light scent of the Cinnamon flowers
Leaving a piquancy, her passing leaving
Aromas, of bouquets which in the heart were carried

From the bridge to grove, small foot which carried her
Thru path which moved in rhythm
Of her walk, carrying the laughter of the breeze
of the river and to the winds would flow
From bridge to wooded pathways

Let me tell you, Limeno
Ay! Let me tell you, dark one, my thoughts,
In hopes that you'll awaken from the dream, a dream
which holds, dark one, your emotions.

Breathe of the piquancy of the Cinnamon
Adorned with jasmines tinting the beauty
Carpeting the bridge anew, and adorning wooded pathways.
The river moving in rhythm with your steps by wooded pathway

And remember the..

Refrain

****

Hugh,

Thanks for taking our input. You don't, BTW, know of anything memorable or stirring from the Great Patriotic War, do you, Comrade Chairman?

"....You don't BTW, know of anything memorable or stirring from the Great Patriotic War, do you, Comrade Chairman?
Posted by: John C
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This is the nearest to the date he wants:

Marcha Alegre ( Marche Joyeuse)
http://www.epdlp.com/compclasico.php?id=977

I like little known music. These are not played often:

Hands Across The Sea March - by J.P. Souza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGm665UezTI

Gallant 7th March
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAwrKIZrlqg

Thanks a lot, allat, for thoughtfully serving up these marches. Alas, Monsieur Chabrier predates that conflict which is better known as the Second World War by 45 years. Good music, however, is ageless,

The Great Patriotic War between the Soviet Union and the Axis Powers, June 22, 1941 - May 9, 1945--not to be confused with the Great War (World War I) 1914 - 1918.