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The great war : An American musical fantasy

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CD 1: There's a long long trail / Stoddard King ; Zo Elliott (John McCormack, tenor) (3:17) -- It's a long, long way to Tipperary / Jack Judge ; Harry Williams (American Quartet) (3:04) -- Keep your eye on Uncle Sammy / Abner Greenberg (Peerless Quartette) (2:59) -- War talk at Pun'kin Center / Cal Stewart (Cal Stewart) (4:31) -- I didn't raise my to be a soldier / Alfred Bryan ; Al. Piantadosi (Morton Harvey, tenor) (2:56) -- Die Wacht am Rhein (in German, excerpt) (Manhattan Quartet) (1:39) -- President Wilson's historical message, part III (excerpt 1) (Anon.) (0:43) -- Schwertlied : Du Schwert an meiner Linken / Karl Theodor Körner ; Carl Maria von Weber (Arion, Brooklyn) (1:56) -- Don't bite the hand that's feeding you / Thomas Hoier ; Jimmie Morgan (Irving Kaufman, tenor) (2:37) -- America, I love you! / Edgar Leslie ; Archie Gottler (American Quartet) (3:11) -- Stay down here where you belong / Irving Berlin (Henry Burr, tenor) (2:54) -- Don't take my darling boy away / Will Dillon ; Albert von Tilzer (Sam Ash, tenor) (1:37) -- President Wilson's historical message, part III (excerpt 2) (Anon.) (0:39) -- What kind of an American are you? / Lew Brown ; Chas. McCarron ; Albert von Tilzer (Arthur Fields, baritone) (2:46) -- Let's all be Americans now / Irving Berlin ; Edgar Leslie ; Geo. W. Meyer (American Quartet) (2:57) -- Long boy / William Herschell ; Barclay Walker (Byron G. Harlan ; Peerless Quartet) (2:43) -- The ragtime volunteers are off to war / Ballard MacDonald ; James F. Hanley (Van and Schenck) (2:22) -- I'd feel at home if they'd let me join the army / Jack Mahoney ; Albert Gumble (Billy Murray) (2:31) -- (Good bye; and luck be with you) laddie boy / Will D. Cobb ; Gus Edwards (Nora Bayes, soprano) (3:13) -- I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way / George Fairman (Peerless Quartet) (2:19) -- Arrival of the American troops in France / Hager (Prince's Band ; Columbia Male Quartette) (2:54) -- When you come back (and you will come back, there's the whole world waiting for you) / George M. Cohan (Raymond Dixon, tenor ; Orpheus Quartet) (3:07) -- When we wind up the watch on the Rhine / Gordon V. Thompson ; William Davis (Peerless Quartette) (3:07) -- Throw no stones in the well that gives you water / Arthur Fields ; Theodore Morse (Arthur Fields, baritone) (2:54) -- Paul Revere / Joe Goodwin ; Halsey K. Mohr (Vernon Dalhart, tenor) (3:21) -- Lafayette (We hear you calling) / Mary Earl (Reinald Werrenrath, baritone) (3:12) -- Somewhere in France is the lily / Philander Johnson ; Joseph E. Howard (Charle Hart, tenor) (3:01) -- I'm going to follow the boys / Howard Rogers ; James V. Monaco (Elizabeth Spencer, soprano ; Henry Burr, tenor) (3:10) -- Over there (1st verse: English, 2nd verse: French) / French words by Louis Delamarre (Enrico Caruso, tenor) (2:45)
CD 2: From the battlefields of France (Gen'l J. Pershing) (0:28) -- Hello central, give me no man's land (from N.Y. Winter Garden production "Sinbad") / Sam M. Lewis ; Joe Young ; Jean Schwartz (Edna Brown, contralto) 3:28) -- I want to be a soldier like my dad / Morse (Robert Lewis, tenor) -- What are you going to do to help the boys? / Gus Kahn ; Egbert van Alstyne (Charles Hart, tenor ; Shannon Four) -- The makin's of the U.S.A. / Vincent Bryan ; Harry von Tilzer (Peerless Quartette) (2:44) -- Indianola / Frank Warren ; S.R. Henry ; D. Onivas (Billy Murray) (3:14) -- They'll be mighty proud in Dixie of their Old Black Joe / Harry Carroll (Albert Campbell and Henry Burr, tenor) (3:07) -- Won't you say a word for Ireland? / Wm. J. McKenna (Irving Kaufman, tenor) (3:01) -- When Tony goes over the top / Billy Frisch ; Archie Fletcher ; Alex. Marr (Billy Murray) (2:48) -- There's a little blue star in the window (and it means all the world to me) / Paul B. Armstrong ; F. Henri Klickmann (Henry Burr, tenor) (3:16) -- My sweetheart is somewhere in France / Mary Earl (Elizabeth Spencer, soprano) (3:14) -- If he can fight like he can love (Good night, Germany) / Grant Clarke ; Howard Johnson ; Geo. W. Meyer (Farber Sisters) (3:10) -- Tell that to the Marines / Harold Atteridge ; Jean Schwartz ; Al Jolson (Al Jolson) (2:44) -- Let's Bury the Hatchet / Burkhardt (Arthur Fields, baritone) (2:41) -- What'll we do with him boys? (The Yanks made a monkey out of you) / Andrew B. Sterling ; Arthur Lange (William J. "Sailor " Reilly) (2:56) -- On patrol in no man's land / Noble Sissle ; James Reese Europe (Liut. Noble Sissle ; with Liut. Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Inf. "Hell Fighters" Band) (2:19) -- Fun in Flanders : part 2 / Gitz Rice (Gitz Rice, Henry Burr) (3:08) -- The rose of no man's land / Jack Caddigan ; James A. Brennan (George Gordon ; Robert Bruce, tenor) (2:40) -- Rainbow Division march / Danny Nirella (Arthur Pryor's Band) (3:14) -- Oh! What a time for the girlies when the boys come marching home / Sam M. Lewis ; Joe Young ; Harry Ruby (Avon Comedy Four) (3:01) -- How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? (after they've seen paree) / Joe Young ; Sam M. Lewis ; Walter Donaldson (Nora Bayes) (2:26) -- Dixie is Dixie once more / Wm. Tracy ; Maceo Pinkard (American Quartet) (2:58) -- Johnny's in town / Jack Yellen ; Abe Olman ; Geo. W. Meyer (Arthur Fields) (2:44) -- The boys who won't come home / Harry Hamilton ; Ed. Thomas (Harry Burr, tenor) (3:23) -- What has become of "hinky dinky parlay voo" / Al Dubin ; Irving Mills ; Jimmy McHugh ; Irwin Dash (Al Bernard and J. Russell Robinson (The Dixie Stars)) (2:44) -- Don't steal daddy's medal / Adler ; Tobias ; Glogau (Arthur Fields, tenor) (3:04) -- My dream of the big parade / Al Dubin ; Jimmy McHugh (Peerless Quartet with Billy Murray) (3:26)

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