Fighting Music of World War II

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Mon May 31, 2004 at 9:44 pm PDT • Views: 268

One of my idols, Les Paul, remembers the Fighting Music of World War II. (Hat tip: Geepers.)

Showtime approaches, and there is a light, respectful tapping by band members at his dressing room door. But Paul isn’t quite finished talking about his memories of the war era. “We were all so united to win that war,” he reflects. “We’ll probably never see anything like it again. That unity. That togetherness. We were all willing to fight, whether it was in battle or whether it was at home on the swing shift working all night.”

Has anyone noticed that, in the three years since the US homeland suffered its worst attack in history, Hollywood has not produced one single film that advocates the American side in the War On Islamic Fascism?

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 Frank says:

The manner in which Americans "consume" music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie -- it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it was made. -- From "The Real Frank Zappa Book" (ch. 11)