What are the Briefing music track names & performers ?

[blahblah3502]

I would love to know for both Axis and Allies!

[blahblah3502]

I looked this up and it turns out that "Lili Marleen" was actually a German song (originally written as a poem in 1915 by a German conscript soldier during WWI but not set to music until 1938) that became hugely popular for BOTH Axis and Allied sides (to the point where some American bomber crews were naming their B-17s and B-24s "Lili Marleen") ! Apparently it was a particular favourite of the British 8th Army in North Africa, so maybe it'll ( or the BBC / Vera Lynn version) make it to Crisis in Command's El Alamein campaign....

the history of the song and its variants is fascinating...
http://flgrube1.tripod.com/id303.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/musi ... rlene.html

http://lrdg.hegewisch.net/lrdglilimarlene.html ( note the SAS / North Africa version)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Marleen

"By 1941, the Germans were broadcasting to their troops in North Africa from a radio station in Belgrade. When the station was shelled, most of its records were smashed and the station was desperately short of music to play. One day the station's military director, Lieutenant Karl-Heinz Reintgen, came across a dusty box in which a few records had survived - and right at the bottom was Lili Marlene. Officially the recording had been banned, but Reintgen knew that a buddy of his in the Afrika Korps had liked the song, and they had precious little else to play, so Lili Marlene was broadcast.
It was a turning point. The German troops asked for the recording over and over again, and non-military people also requested it. Field Marshal Rommel didn't agree with Goebbels and asked Radio Belgrade to play the song every night. Goebbels was forced to retract, and to pretend that the Nazis welcomed the song. Schultze and Andersen were brought in from the cold and sent around Germany to perform the song.
Allied troops in Africa could also hear the German broadcasts, and the plaintive song soon crossed enemy lines and became a favourite with the Eighth Army, who sang it with its original German words. American troops followed suit."

[Miguel_TSS]

Hello, thanks so much for enjoying the selections in the Briefing.

Allied Forces
Four or Five Times - King Oliver's Dixie Syncopators
Alexander, Where's That Band? - Parham-Pickett Apollo Syncopators, 12-1926, Chicago, Illinois

Axis Forces
Hittepetit - Performed by Willy Derby
Scheiden doet lijden - Performed by Willy Derby
Lili Marleen (1939v) - Performed by Lale Anderson

Four or Five Times and Hittepetit are my favorites.

[blahblah3502]

Thanks for doing a super job on the sound design and music, Miguel!

maybe Panzerlied ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=YPzTGx96P6U ) could be a future Axis addition (not a banned song, and still in official use by the German military today according to http://cdn2.toucharcade.com/showpost.ph ... tcount=160

[jeffd]

I'm glad you looked up the history of "Lili Marlene"- it was the one song I really wanted included in our soundtrack, because it was so popular with both sides during the war. Honestly, I think it's because the song's about home, and love, and wanting just a little more time with them before having to return to the war- I think that's something every soldier, everywhere can relate to.

As for the "Panzerlied", it's also a favorite song of mine- I've been known to listen to it when I need something to get me going in the morning! I know it's not a Nazi song in the least (as you note, it was written before the Nazis came to power and survived them in the modern German Army), but it also has a martial feel to it that wasn't what we were really going for in the soundtrack. We wanted it to sound like 1940s popular music, like somebody left on a radio in the background of the command post, not like you're on a troop review. So I don't think it quite works with the mood we were trying to set.

Really gratifying to see some love for Lili Marlene, though!