Various Artists - Blast Off Big Shot: History House 2 / Var - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

CD41 is pleased to announce the fourth volume of Oh! It's a Lovely War, the popular series devoted to archive recordings of songs, marches and descriptive records from the First World War. Almost all of the 50 tracks included on this beautifully packaged double CD set were recorded between 1914 and 1918, and have been carefully digitally restored and remastered from original 78 rpm sources. Volume 4 comprises two full length CDs, featuring 150 minutes of popular songs (There's a Tramp Tramp Tramp, a Perfect Day, K-K-K-Katy), patriotic appeals (The Bulldog's Bark, for Empire & for England, Save Your Kisses 'Till the Boys Come Home), comedy numbers (The Corporal's Ditty, I Want to Be a Hero Too, We Shall All Do the Goose Step) and military marches. Among the rarest recordings are Ten Little Zeppelins by Harry Bluff, Wait 'Til You Get 'Em Up in the Air Boys by Harry Fay, and No More Bully Beef & Biscuits and Plum & Apple, both bemoaning the monotony of rations at the Front. Spoken word selections include the somewhat brutal descriptive sketch Capture of a German Spy, and a rare 1917 recording of a British prisoner of war singing Tipperary, recorded in Germany. An appeal made by the Prince of Wales on behalf the British Legion in 1930 closes the album Oh! It's a Lovely War Vol 4 is a must-have collection for anyone with an interest in the Great War, as well as military and social historians, and vintage music buffs. Featured artists include Peter Dawson, Stanley Kirkby, Harry Champion, Courtland and Jefferies, Harry Lauder, Robert Carr and Zona Vevey. The booklet includes detailed historical and recording notes by CD41 editor James Hayward.

As we reflect on Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons, we are all too likely to overlook the fact that there were six sons from two marriages who Inchinclined towards MusicInch. True, Maria Barbara's third son Johann Gottfried Bernhard, born in Weimar in 1715, more or less disappeared from view in 1737, and it is plain that Anna Magdalena's first son Gottfried Heinrich, born in 1724, was mentally handicapped InchA great Genius, which however was never developed,Inch wrote his half-brother Carl Philipp Emanuel in the family chronicle. For thirty years, making and writing music, he had been the musical front-runner in Saxony and Thuringia the vanguard was located wherever he was, in his hands and at his writing-desk. Increasingly, twenty-year-olds and a few late starters in their thirties were coming on to the market and showing Bach a new way forward the galant style, spreading north from Naples ever since 1715, and the flamboyant, ever more richly ornamented music of the late Baroque, constantly threatening to break down under the weight of emblematic connotation and religious symbolism, in contrast to that simpler form, written by mortals for mortals, distinguished by it's slow, easily comprehensible harmony and it's truly singable melodies in what was at most an expanded two-part structure.

A thoughtfully compiled collection of progressive House music in three volumes from the cutting edge, Toronto based Blast Off and Big Shot labels, started by Andrew Komis (Komix) and Nick Fiorucci in 1988. They gained early success through tracks licensed to various UK labels which proved highly influential in the development of House Music as we know it today.. [Note This product is an authorized CD-R and is manufactured on demand].