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Vintage Audio - Post-1919

Sheet music illustration for "Oh! It's a Lovely War!" This page of the Vintage Audio section of the website contains archive recordings of songs, skits and speeches from the years following 1919.

Each recording is titled along with its performer, together with the year of recording.

All files are in MP3 and Adobe Flash format.

Sound quality is, alas, sometimes poor, indicative of the state of the then art of sound recording.  Lyrics and the text of speeches accompany many files listed.

Song and Artist Listen and Download
Stony Broke in No Man's Land
Frank Miller - Recorded 1921
Click to download as MP3
If You Want to Find the Sergeant...
Roosters Concert Party - Recorded 1929
Click to download as MP3
Oh! It's a Lovely War!
Jolly Old Fellows - Recorded 1930
Click to download as MP3
Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty
Jolly Old Fellows - Recorded 1930
Click to download as MP3

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