The Thames Television series The World at War had some of the most distinctive music, both original and period, of any documentary ever presented on television on either side of the Atlantic. The original material was the work of transplanted American composer/conductor Carl Davis, while the source music was comprised of some of the more entertaining popular numbers of the 1930s and 1940s (mostly British and French), some from recordings, and others from radio broadcasts. Producer James Fitzpatrick has assembled new recordings of Davis with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, which has been doing excellent recordings for more than a decade and doesn't disappoint here, with a brace of period-popular sides, into a 75-minute CD -- the main title theme, "France Falls" (a ten-minute mini-suite with a killer alto sax solo surrounded by haunting strings in its front-end section), "Red Star," "Blood, Sweat And Tears," and "Red Star" (with its haunting bass clarinet opening), are all among the best music ever written to accompany a documentary film presentation, or any body of genuine history, and are worth the price of the disc by themselves. But in addition to Davis' best work, we're also treated to period recordings by Gracie Fields ("Wish Me Luck as You Wave Goodbye"), Arthur Askey ("(We're Gonna Hang Out) The Washing on the Siegfried Line"), Charles Trenet ("Boum"), The Billy Cotton Band ("Adolf"), Lale Anderson ("Lili Marlene"), Anne Shelton ("Coming In on a Wing And a Prayer"), and Noel Coward ("London Pride"), among others -- one delightful find is Irving Berlin's own 1943 London recording of "This Is the Army, Mr. Jones." And those are intercut with very brief speech excerpts by Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, and Dwight Eisenhower, among others. The sound quality is excellent throughout, on the old tracks as well as the new -- the producers recorded and mixed from digital into analog to give all of the new material a warmth that is often lacking in digital-to-digital sides. - AllMusic



1. A State of War (Speech) - Neville Chamberlain (0:44)
2. The World at War: Main Theme/German March - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (3:56)
3. Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye - Gracie Fields (2:34)
4. (We're Gonna Hang Out) The Washing on the Siegfried Line - Arthur Askey (2:33)
5. Boum! - Charles Tr�net (2:32)
6. Suite: The Maginot Line/Paris Demo/Mobilisation/The Ardennes/Panic/France Falls - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (10:53)
7. We Shall Go to the End (Speech) - Winston Churchill (0:31)
8. Adolf - Billy Cotton & His Band (2:47)
9. Lili Marlene - Lale Andersen (3:14)
10. Red Star - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (4:07)
11. The Red Army Is the Strongest - The Red Army Choir (2:41)
12. El Alamein Address to the Troops (Speech) - Field Marshal Montgomery (0:28)
13. This Is the Army, Mr. Jones - Irving Berlin (2:19)
14. G.I. Blues - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (3:05)
15. Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer - Anne Shelton (2:44)
16. D-Day Announcement (Speech) - Dwight D. Eisenhower (0:21)
17. Arnhem Airlift - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (1:03)
18. Warsaw Aftermath - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (2:34)
19. Run Rabbit Run - Flanagan & Allen (2:44)
20. I'm Going to Get Lit Up (When the Lights Go up in London) - Carroll Gibbons / Savoy Orphans (2:32)
21. Turkey Shoot- City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (4:44 )
22. London Pride - No�l Coward (3:24)
23. When They Sound the Last "All Clear" - Vera Lynn (3:21)
24. Blood, Sweat and Tears - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (3:46)
25. Their Finest Hour (Speech) - Winston Churchill (0:23)
26. Reckoning: Freed Prisoners/Missing People - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (3:20)
27. The World at War: End Titles Theme - City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (1:07)

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