War songs

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Les Cleveland and the D-Day Dodgers, ‘The Songs We Sang’, Kiwi Record, LA-3, 2959, 33 1/3 RPM LP. (Two copies).

Scope and Contents Sectioned off within the folder is a collection of handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, publication release forms and both the original and photocopies sheet music for ‘Billjim’s Aussie Song’ by Meta Maclean. The collection is primarily focused on popular culture and folklore of world war periods. The publication date range is c. 1926-2007. The subject matter date range is c. 1914-2008. Separate to this subcollection is a series of email correspondence between LC and...

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“Bawdy Songs current in WW2, Sung by Les Cleveland, June 2005, Wellington, New Zealand. Tape 1.”

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A series of correspondence between LC and Andrew R. T. Campbell of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd. regarding Campbell’s publication of ‘Bawdy New Zealand Songs’. The topic, Campbell highlights, is one that LC broaches in ‘Songs We Sang’ and he therefore asks LC to contribute some of the songs as well as a chapter of writing about them. The correspondence occurred when LC was at the Smithsonian Institute in California. The date range is November 1987 – August 1988.

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A collection of correspondence, signed contracts, handwritten notes and the accompanying information for ‘The Songs We Sang’ LP. The correspondence is primarily between LC and Kiwi-Pacific Records and the signed contracts are those of the accompaniment musicians. The publication date range is 1959-1989. The subject matter includes events from c. 1939.

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Contains the sheet music and lyrics for ‘Hell No! I Ain’t Gonna Go!’, ‘Last Drink with Don’ and a contents page. The documents are extracted from Barbara Dane + Irwin Silber, ‘The Vietnam Songbook’, (New York: The Guardian Press, 1969).

Scope and Contents Contains two series of correspondence, the first is between LC and David M. Watt, and the second is from Watt to Lydia Fish at Buffalo State University. The correspondence between LC and Watt discusses LC’s publication of ‘Dark Laughter’ and Watt’s collection of Red Cross material. The second series of correspondence is from an earlier date and includes a song sheet that Watt had collected from his tours of service between 1965 and 1971. The first series of correspondence occurred during...

Scope and Contents Contains photocopies of the cover and the record of ‘Bull Durham’s Songs of SACk’, and the cover of ‘Bull Durham’s Songs of S.E.A.’. Also includes correspondence from LC to Major Scott McElvain, in which LC enlists McElvain’s help in tracking down Bull Durham for an interview about his Vietnam experience and his musical background. The Records were released in 1965 and 1971 respectively, and a date on a catalogue included in the correspondence suggest that it occurred c. 1984 or...

Scope and Contents Contains an entire printed copy of Ed Cray, ‘The Erotic Muse: American bawdy songs’ (London; New York: Omnibus Press, 1978). Also includes a series of correspondence with Ed Cray about a new edition of the publication and personal material, dated c. 1988. Within the publication is another folder titled ‘Bernys, Women’s Songs’ in which is the typed manuscript of Diane Bernys, ‘Army Life Songs’, Folklore Archive, Department of Anthropology, State University College, Buffalo, New York, December...

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Contains a copy of Major Joseph F. Tuso, Associate Professor of English, United States Air Force Academy Colorado (ed.), ‘Folksongs of the American Fighter Pilot in Southeast Asia, 1967-68’. Also contains some handwritten notes and a letter from LC to the Sales Department at the Texas A and M University Press, retrieving the piece of work. The letter is dated March 26, 1991.

Scope and Contents Contains the ‘Inferno’ manuscript collection of Robert Winslow Gordon, a series of songs from the early half of the 20th century, along with his correspondence with the donors. The songs often speak about WWI experiences, as well as various tales of the U.S. lifestyle. Also included is a small photographic print of an unknown soldier. The collection date range (by Gordon) is c. 1923-1927. The subject matter date range is unclear. However there is mention of some songs being “hundreds of...

Scope and Contents Contains a photocopy of ‘Songs our Mothers Never Taught us’ by Jim Henderson, recollected for publication [still unpublished] by LC and titled ‘The Songs of Gunner Inglorious’. The dates of the original songs are unspecified [See the folder ‘Songs of Gunner Inglorious’ for a dated correspondence between LC and Henderson that suggests that LC collected Henderson’s songs c. 2004]. Also included is the article of Mackenzie, Craig, ‘Hospital in the Valley’, (Wellington: Dunmore Press, 1983)....

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Contains a printed copy of ‘The Songs of Gunner Inglorious ~ Collected by Jim Henderson’, along with accompanying correspondence and handwritten notes. The correspondence is predominantly between LC and Laura [surname unspecified] who appears to be from Steel Roberts Publishers. The publication is dated from 2005 and the correspondence from 2006. The subject matter includes dates from c. 1939 onwards.

Scope and Contents A collection of W.A.C. songs, originally compiled by Hazel Meyers, and retrieved by LC from the Library of Congress. Also included is the correspondence that occurred with the acquisition at the Library of Congress between Charles L. Todd of the New York Port of Embarkation and Harold Spivacke of the Library of Congress. The songs are often patriotic, pious and much less obscene than the parodies included in other war song collections. The correspondence is dated September 14, 1943. The...

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Contains some hand written songs that were sourced from an interview with Arch Scott, a former P.O.W. IN 1987. The songs, in Italian, are from Belluno Partisans. Photocopies also included. The dates of the original songs are unspecified. Contains the music score of Marcelo Manni, ‘Le Canzoni Del Fascismo’, (Firenze: Manno Manni, 1921).

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Contains an entire photocopied version of Sandee Shaffer Johnson (ed.), ‘Cadences: The Jody Call Book, No. 1’, (Canton, Ohio: Daring Books, 1983). The publication has a variety of songs and chants that are for military use.

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Contains three photocopies of James W. Kellogg, ‘Fighter Pilot Songs’, English 325F, January 22, 1963. Some editing in places, and the printing is often faint, sometimes illegible.

Scope and Contents Contains the manuscript of LC’s ‘Kiwis in Vietnam’, along with a handwritten note and a letter of correspondence between Lydia Fish and Journal of American Folklore editor, Bruce Jackson. The manuscript details “songs of professional New Zealand soldiers in Vietnam” and general folklore surrounding the soldiers. The correspondence details why Jackson believes the manuscript is insufficient for journal use. The date of correspondence is April 23 1989. The subject matter date range is c....

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A collection of unpublished material of which only two titles are specified, ‘If You’ve Been to Cairo’ and ‘Leadership and Morale’. The subject matter of the collection is consistent across the documents. The central topic is New Zealand soldiers’ group dynamic, songs and general downtime activities during the North African and Italian campaigns (WWII). The subject matter date range is c. 1940-1945.

Scope and Contents A collection of correspondence, handwritten notes and a newsletter and order form produced by the Society of the First Division. The correspondence between LC and Mike Staggs of Anchorage, Alaska, establishes LC’s quest to learn more about a Vietnam war tune titled “The Iron Brigade” and the ‘Merrymen’ who performed it. The handwritten notes discuss the information provided by correspondents Staggs and William Hammill. The correspondence with Staggs also suggests that the collection is part...

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A collection of photocopied sheet music, a guitar notation guide, handwritten notes, printed articles and a ‘Maoriland’ Christmas 45 RPM record. The songs are about war, frontier life and the general back country experience. They are separated by source. The handwritten notes demonstrate the processes of research and obtaining the sources of the music. Including the original dates of the sheet music, the publication date range is c. 1915-1985.

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Contains two photocopies of articles on war music; ‘War Songs of World War II’, Variety, November 10, 1965, p 86 and Gustav Klemm, ‘The Fighting Man and His Music’, Etude, Vol. 61, No. 11, November 1943, pp 711, 755. The articles discuss the repurposing of war songs from the first world war, the popularisation of war songs and how war songs have been researched.

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Contains pages 177-220 of, Kurt Adler, ‘Songs of Many Wars: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century’, (New York: Howell, Soskin Publishers, 1943).

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Contains a full photocopy of Les Winstock, ‘Songs and Music of the Red Coats: A History of the War Music of the British Army 1642-1902’, (London: Lee Cooper, 1970) [abridged]. Page 187, featuring the song of ‘Here’s the Last to Die’ has an extra photocopy.

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Contains the sheet music and lyrics for the songs ‘Bombed Last Night’, ‘The Bastard King of England’, ‘If You Want to Know Where the Privates Are’ and ‘A Poor Aviator Lay Dying’. The songs are taken from J. J. Niles, D.S. Moore and A. A.A. Wallgren, ‘Songs my Mother Never Taught Me’, (New York: Macauley, 1929).

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Contains a series of excerpts from John J. Niles, ‘Singing Soldiers’, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927). This includes the front matter and the songs ‘Going Home’, ‘Whale Song’, ‘Crap-Shootin’ Charley’, ‘Diggin’’, ‘Lordy Turn You Face’, Good-bye, Tennessee’, ‘I Don’t Want Anymore France’, ‘For I’se Weary’, ‘Scratch’, ‘We Wish the Same to You’, ‘Ghost Song’, ‘Jail House’, ‘Roll, Jordan , Roll’, ‘Clean Clothes Song’, ‘Destroyer Song’, ‘Georgia’.

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A collection of correspondence, printed articles, handwritten notes and typed manuscript. The collection demonstrates LC’s relationship with the New York Folklore Society, it includes many renewed membership letters and correspondence with the editor about LC’s articles and reviews. Also includes mutiple copies of his article ‘Soldiers’ Songs: The Folklore of the Powerless’ and ‘Frontier New York: A Personal Experience’. The publication date range of the collection is 1984-2010.

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Contains a full photocopy of ‘Kiwi Songs Collected by – NZERS MEF’, (Cairo, Egypt: NZERS, 1945 [?]).

Scope and Contents A collection of photocopied sheet music. Titles included are: ‘Victory V’ (1941); ‘The V Song’ (1941); ‘A Broken Doll’ (1941); ‘Blue Smoke’ (1947); ‘For I Love But You’ (c. 1914-1918); ‘Where are the Lads of New Zealand To-Night’ (1914); ‘When We Get Back to New Zealand’ (date unknown); ‘When you Return’ (date unknown); ‘The N.Z. Boys are Marching’ (1940); ‘Satan’s Vassals’ (c. 1940-1949); ‘Sing a Song for Victory’ (1943); ‘Freedom’s Army’ (c. 1939-1945); ‘Lads of New Zealand’ (c....

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Contains chapter 12 ‘Singing Servicemen’, from Charles Brand, ‘Ballad Mongers’, (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, Readers Digest, 1962).