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A D-Day thread about the music of 1944. Much of it expresses a wartime longing for home, if not explicitly. When the Mills Brothers sang "Till Then," everybody understood the message.
It was the same message expressed in the #1 song of 1944, "I'll Be Seeing You" by Bing Crosby.
Dina Shore provided a musical perspective of the women who waited on the home front with "I'll Walk Alone." Hard to not get a lump in your throat listening to these tunes when remembering the war.
But it wasn't all melancholy. Patty, Laverne, and Maxine's "Shoo Shoo Baby" gave a two-fisted high jive twist on wartime separation.
Some more morale-boosting 1944 boogie from Louis Jordan in "GI Jive," with some candid and funny takes on military life and military-speak.
But underlying it all was a sense of resolve that there was a job to be done. After D-Day Captain Glenn Miller and his Army Air Force Band released "Hot Time in Berlin."
Notable is the line about "the Brooklyn boys," a cheer out to Jewish GIs.
Notable is the line about "the Brooklyn boys," a cheer out to Jewish GIs.
