[78-L] Hate songs directed to Axis leaders

Tue Mar 31 03:29:59 PDT 2020

And we also have Flanagan & Allen's "Run Rabbit Run", with slightly 
changes lyrics used for propaganda purposes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Rabbit_Run

It's interesting that German popular music, or "Schlager" in the Third 
Reich, didn't make use of anti-British or anti-American rhetoric. The 
lyrics were also free from direct references to war themes. This was a 
deliberate policy on behalf of propaganda minister Goebbels who regarded 
"Unterhaltungsmusik" (popular music) as a necessary oasis for recreation 
and joy. Dance music was favored, because of its use for young people to 
meet and mate. So the percentage of popular music in the Reichssender 
was dramatically increased during the war years.
"Hate songs" were reserved for marches and patriotic Lieder, and, in 
popular music, for the repertory of Charlie & His Orchestra, the swing 
band organized by the German shortwave station KWS and its mission to 
play swing music to British and European listeners, with lyrics like 
this: "Blackhouse Blues", based on "St Louis Blues":

I hate to see the evening sun go down
hate to see the evening sun go down
'cause the German he done bomb this town

feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
feelin' tomorrow like I feel today
I pack my train and make my getaway

That Churchill badman, with his wars and things
Pulls pork round by his apron strings
One for Churchill and his bloody war
I wouldn't feel as so doggone sore!

Got the Blackout Blues, as blue as I can be
Dat man got a heart like a rock cast in the sea
He won't let folks live as they want to be.
Doggone it!

Kristjan

On 2020-03-31 06:19, Darrell Lehman wrote:
> Perhaps not exactly on point but here's a list of what I call "WWII 
> Propaganda" tunes. Treasury Department War Finance Division Radio 
> Recording red/white/blue    No #    ...     No artist    ... Don't Beg 
> Them, Uncle Sam Columbia 1940's/1950's red    36516    ...     ...     
> President Roosevelt's War Message To Congress and the Nation / --- 
> (Completion) Bluebird blue/silver    B-11586    ...     Spike Jones 
> and His City Slickers    ...     Der Fuerher's Face / I Wanna Go Back 
> To West Virginia Hit black/silver    7023    ...     Arthur Fields - 
> w/ orch    ... Der Fuerher's Face / Gee But it's Great To Meet A 
> Friend Okeh purple/silver    6691    ...     Johnny Bond and His Red 
> River Valley Boys    ...     Der Fuerher's Face / I'm A Pris'ner Of 
> War Okeh purple/silver    6556    ...     Carl Hoff and His Orch    
> ... You're A Sap, Mr. Jap / We Did It Before Decca blue/silver    
> 4144    ...     Dick Robertson and His Orch    ...     You're A Sap, 
> Mr. Jap / Remember Pearl Harbor Columbia 1940's/1950's red    36502    
> ... Orrin Tucker and his Orch ...     You're A Sap, Mr. Jap / Goodbye 
> Mama Bluebird blue/silver    B-11459    ...     Carson Robison - w/ 
> orch ...     Mussolini's Letter To Hitler / Hitler's Reply Too 
> Mussolini Bluebird blue/silver    B-11460    ...     Carson Robison - 
> w/ orch ...     "1942 Turkey In the Straw" / "Here I Go To Tokio", 
> Said Barnacle Bill, the Sailor Bluebird blue/silver    B-11414    ... 
>     Carson Robison - w/ orch ...     Remember Pearl Harbor / We're 
> Gonna Have To Slap the Dirty Little Jap (And Uncle Sam's the Guy Who 
> Can Do It) Bluebird blue/silver    B-11546    ...     Carson Robison - 
> w/ orch ...     Plain Talk / Don't Let My Spurs Get Rusty While I'm 
> Gone Bluebird blue/silver    B-11415    ...     Carson Robison - w/ 
> orch ...     Get Your Gun and Come Along (We're Fixin' To Kill A 
> Skunk) / I'm In the Army Now Caribbean blue/silver (Los Angeles)    No 
> # ...     Sir Lancelot and his Trinidad Serenaders    ... We'll Avenge 
> Pearl Harbor / The Defenders Of Stalingrad Decca black/gold    
> 18554    ...     The Song Spinners    ...     Stalin Wasn't Stallin' / 
> (Watch Out) Love Is Goin' To Be Rationed Okeh purple/silver    6712    
> ...     Golden Gate Quartet    ... Stalin Wasn't Stallin' / Dip Your 
> Fingers In the Water Okeh purple/silver    6713    ...     Golden Gate 
> Quartet    ... Comin' In On A Wing and A Prayer / Run On Decca 
> black/gold    18553    ...     The Song Spinners    ...     Comin' In 
> On A Wing and A Prayer / Johnny Zero Decca blue/silver    4450    ... 
>     Freddie "Schnickelfritz" Fisher and His Orch    ...     Main 
> Street / Taps For the Japs Bluebird blue/silver    33-0528    ... 
> "Texas" Jim Robertson - w/ orch    ...     Last Page Of Mein Kampf / 
> You'll Never See Blue In A Blue Uniform Recola (Recording Company of 
> Los Angeles) yellow/black    9/10    ...     G.W. Bielman, words by - 
> Bob Carleton, music by    ...     I'd Like To Know / They Don't Forget 
> Pearl Harbor In Hell Decca blue/silver    6094    ...     Denver 
> Darling and His Texas Cowhands    ...     Rosalita / When Mussolini 
> Laid His Pistol Down RCA black/silver "circle" label    20-1528    ... 
>     Duke Ellington and His Famous Orch    ...     A Slip Of the Lip / 
> Sentimental Lady Bluebird blue/silver    B-11527    ...     Carson 
> Robison - w/ orch ...     The Story Of Jitterbug Joe / It's Just A 
> Matter Of Time Okeh purple/silver    6608    ...     Frankie Masters 
> and his Orch ...     Here's To You, MacArthur / The Yanks Are Comin' 
> Again Harmonia red/silver (N.Y.)    H-1075    ... Allen Werner - w/ 
> orch ...     The Song Of the Polish Underground / Polish National 
> Anthem - Poland Has Not Perished Yet Clark red/blue (N.J.)    No #    
> ...     Glee Club Of the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment    ...     
> Songs Of the 10th Mountain Division: Oola / Sven Clark red/blue 
> (N.J.)    No #    ...     Glee Club Of the 87th Mountain Infantry 
> Regiment    ...     Songs Of the 10th Mountain Division: Two Boards / 
> Ninety Pounds Of Rucksack Underneath the Takeoff Allied black/orange - 
> embossed on reverse    No #    ...     36th Armored Regiment Band    
> ...     Marching Song for The U.S. Armored Force Men Of Iron - Theme 
> Song of the Westinghouse Tank-Gun Stabilizer Training Films King 
> maroon/silver    908    ...     Jimmie Osborne - and Trio    ...     
> The Old Family Bible / Thank God For Victory In Korea RCA 
> "Circle/Ring" label    20-1665    ... Carson Robison - w/ orch ...     
> Hirohito's Letter To Hitler / Hitler's Last Letter To Hirohito 
> Bluebird blue    30-0810    ...     The Four Vagabonds    ...     
> Rosie the Riveter / I Had the Craziest Dream Decca blue/silver    
> 6043    ...     Denver Darling and His Texas Cowhands    ...     1942 
> Turkey In the Straw / The Devil and Mr. Hitler Columbia red    
> 36881    ...     Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys    ...     White 
> Cross On Okinawa / Empty Chair At the Christmas Table Decca 
> blue/silver    6028    ...     Denver Darling and His Texas 
> Cowhands    ...     Mussolini's Lettter To Hitler / Hitler's Reply To 
> Mussolini RCA black    20-2237    ...     Rosalie Allen and The Black 
> River Riders    ...     Hitler Lives / I Can't Tell That Lie To My 
> Heart Bluebird blue    B-11410    ...     Abe Lyman and his 
> Californians ...     Let's Put the Axe To the Axis / Baby Boogie 
> ====================================================================== 
> Donna Halper wrote:
>> On 3/30/2020 11:32 PM, Lloyd Davies wrote:
>>> I recall someone asking (as far back as 10 years ago) for WWII songs 
>>> imprecating the Axis leaders.
>> When I was a kid, everyone in my house (including my father, a 
>> decorated WW2 veteran) loved Spike Jones' version of Der Fuehrer's 
>> Face.  The 78 came out circa 1942, and this movie film version  is 
>> from 1943: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWF8iRCan7I
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