Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Today, September 2, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, when the delegates of the United Nations and the Empire of Japan met to formally sign the articles of Japanese surrender, September 2, 1945. To commemorate this momentous milestone, I present another collection of fifteen speeches and fifteen songs, which together, weave a tapestry of courage, heroism, life, death, defeat, victory, and remembrance.
#worldwar2 #vintagemusic #1940s #history #vjday #veday
Recognition must be given to the YouTube channels that brought some of these sounds to light. Audio courtesy of the following channels:
@worcesterjonny
@RomanStyran
@timgracyk
@4TheRecord
@ChuckOwl
@warholsoup100
@literallynothinghere9089
@zenoobi
@JLStanton1968
@arpakeun579
@BlondieJohnsonMusic
@orions34ss
@AlliedWorldWar2Archive
@newaj_
@Croonr1
@brians78s94
@britishpathe
Many of these sound recordings are subject to copyright. All rights are reserved to their respective owners. These recordings are presented here for educational and historical purposes, as a collection of primary sources of the deadliest war in human experience.
Full speeches can be found on the following playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49s0OKRAivzSTQQmcRMeZU5oIk-fFgBa&si=vgWTtZFOZ2mylT58
My World War I version of this video:
youtu.be/vaL3rodjCQo?si=ZocOOTW09sMUyN-a
More Music From the Second World War:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLMkuz4vEFoPw8wS-nAPvB521n0G-dCAT&si=N2-26ZrwsJ90llGa
Today, September 2, 2025, marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, when the delegates of the United Nations and the Empire of Japan met to formally sign the articles of Japanese surrender, September 2, 1945. To commemorate this momentous milestone, I present another collection of fifteen speeches and fifteen songs, which together, weave a tapestry of courage, heroism, life, death, defeat, victory, and remembrance.
#worldwar2 #vintagemusic #1940s #history #vjday #veday
Recognition must be given to the YouTube channels that brought some of these sounds to light. Audio courtesy of the following channels:
@worcesterjonny
@RomanStyran
@timgracyk
@4TheRecord
@ChuckOwl
@warholsoup100
@literallynothinghere9089
@zenoobi
@JLStanton1968
@arpakeun579
@BlondieJohnsonMusic
@orions34ss
@AlliedWorldWar2Archive
@newaj_
@Croonr1
@brians78s94
@britishpathe
Many of these sound recordings are subject to copyright. All rights are reserved to their respective owners. These recordings are presented here for educational and historical purposes, as a collection of primary sources of the deadliest war in human experience.
Full speeches can be found on the following playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL49s0OKRAivzSTQQmcRMeZU5oIk-fFgBa&si=vgWTtZFOZ2mylT58
My World War I version of this video:
youtu.be/vaL3rodjCQo?si=ZocOOTW09sMUyN-a
More Music From the Second World War:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLMkuz4vEFoPw8wS-nAPvB521n0G-dCAT&si=N2-26ZrwsJ90llGa
![When Dewey Comes Sailing Home (1899) by Kerry Mills [Sung by Frank C. Stanley]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yGhonsc8tvc/mqdefault.jpg "When Dewey Comes Sailing Home (1899) by Kerry Mills [Sung by Frank C. Stanley]
A post-Spanish-American War recording which patriotically praises Admiral George Dewey, the only U.S. naval officer to achieve the rank of Admiral of the Navy. He is best known for the overwhelming victory he achieved over the Spanish Pacific Fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.
Kerry Mills, composer of the hit cakewalk, At a Georgia Campmeeting, and other songs like ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’, ‘Rastus on Parade’, and ‘Happy Days in Dixie’, was an accomplished composer of the 1890s and early 1900s. Though his career continued into the 1910s and 20s, those songs are mysteriously obscure.
More Kerry Mills:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbGAQvbfY3Z3EyNHtLw2oc7kl0sRbzo1n&si=FRnUoiOSf596c3IA")
![Valse Bleue (1900) by Alfred Margis [Played by FELIX ARNDT in 1917]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zT690M08j0s/mqdefault.jpg "Valse Bleue (1900) by Alfred Margis [Played by FELIX ARNDT in 1917]
A Felix Arndt piano solo that bizarrely gets little attention compared to his other piano recordings.
Valse Bleue translates to Blue Waltz.
Felix Arndt, a relative to French Emperor Napoleon III, was the father of novelty piano. His song Nola from 1915 is regarded as the very example of this genre. But aside from that, he was no stranger to one steps, fox trots, waltzes, and popular songs. Clover Club, Toots, and Marionette are examples of these. But you cant forget his ragtime arrangements of classical medleys, Desecration Rag and Operatic Nightmare. Unlike most ragtime composers of the era, he recorded piano solos of most of his songs and others, as well as piano rolls. I find these to be very valuable to the ragtime community.
Felix Arndt died young before the novelty era formally arrived, at the height of his career. He contracted the infamous Spanish Influenza and died in 1918 at the age of 29.
More Felix Arndt: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLMkuz4vEFoMGlLb94xnPjmcULthr04AI&si=gXyys7p0BddriV0g
More Felix Arndt piano and celeste recordings:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbGAQvbfY3Z2evd3Ws5JDn_CrgrohpzDQ&si=6CIyJp5Mqs_cRabz")
![In the Hall of the Mountain King [1905 RECORDING by Arthur Pryors Band]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zv-HyW55lb8/mqdefault.jpg "In the Hall of the Mountain King [1905 RECORDING by Arthur Pryors Band]
Edvard Griegs 1876 piece from Peer Gynt, recorded by Arthur Pryor, of Sousas Band fame.
First recording of Pachelbels Canon in D:
https://youtu.be/KFz9fpqinNU?si=hMhCa2Z0hv7TtKu6")
![When Other Hearts Have Closed Their Doors (1909) by Ted Snyder [Sung by the Columbia Quartette]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zwlRRTIBTvY/mqdefault.jpg "When Other Hearts Have Closed Their Doors (1909) by Ted Snyder [Sung by the Columbia Quartette]
Ted Snyder, famous for writing Wild Cherries Rag and The Sheik of Araby, and for collaborating with a young Irving Berlin, wrote this pop tune early into his career.
Lyrics by Benjamin F. Barnett
More Ted Snyder:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLMkuz4vEFoONJBZmq6FnxD2tNzV5Y5a2&si=XirlHGr8zkmaHKy9")
