Primary Sources: World War I

"... 350 digitally-restored audio recordings, documenting recordings featuring Canadian composers and performers released during the Great War. In addition there are a series of articles and images explaining the period and the music, as well as biographical sketches of the major Canadian musical personalities. Of particular note is the extensive coverage for Canada's premier entertainment troupe of that era, the Dumbells."

"The Collection includes a variety of popular music from marches to rag-time to jazz, pieces made popular by the top performers of the era, themes of patriotism, love, the many roles of women, and the war itself, often with humor, as well as the story of music publishing in the U.S., in particular. " University of South Carolina

Recordings 1914 - 1920
Digital transfers by F. Reeder from original 78rpm discs
(High bit rate)

Over There. Send Me a Curl. We're All Going Calling on the Kaiser. Oh Frenchy. Goodbye Broadway; Hello France. Throw No Stones in the Well That Gives You Water. Somewhere in France is Daddy. So Long Mother. What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys? Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware. If I'm Not at the Roll Call. They'll Be So Proud in Dixie of Their Old Black Joe. Do Something. Liberty Bell. When You Come Back and You Will Come Back. What a Wonderful Message from Home. I Don't Want to Get Well. Long Boy. When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France. I'm Going to Pin a Medal on the Girl I Left Behind. Don't Try to Steal the Sweetheart of a Soldier. The Dixie Volunteers. Let's All Be Americans Now. When I Send You a Picture of Berlin. Cheer Up Father; Cheer Up Mother. Bring Me a Letter from My Old Home Town. That's a Mother's Liberty Loan. There's a Green Hill Out in Flanders.

Goodbye Broadway, Hello France. Where Do We Go From Here? Cheer Up Mother. When the War is Over, I'll Return to You. Au Revoir But Not Goodbye. A Baby's Prayer at Twilight. Lorraine. Watch, Hope, Wait Little Girl. Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep. My Daddy's Star. Belgian Rose. Laddie Boy. Somewhere in France is Daddy.