compilation record including : "Hearts of Oak" , The Old Brigade, The Lads in Navy Blue , Here's a Health unto his ]Majesty, Rule Brittania, Soldier's of the King, Tommy Atkins, British Grenadiers and Red white and blue
0:39 Hearts of Oak 1:19 The Old Brigade 2:34 The Lads in Navy Blue 3:15 Here's a Health unto his Majesty 3:54 Rule Brittania 5:07 Soldier's of the King 6:11 Tommy Atkins 7:15 British Grenadiers 7:48 Red white and blue I think that should about right
I first read about Peter Dawson in a footnote about most recordings made by singers in a 1977 book about million selling discs. It said that Dawson had made over 2500 recordings. I soon found a ‘78 of Waltzing Matilda, and have been listening to him ever since.
What a great Aussie Bass-Baritone. I love his songs and as a Bass-Baritone myself I can easily sing along to them. I liked his songs so much as a kid I have had a chap in Europe produce a backing track so I can sing it to the elderly in Retirement Villages and Nursing Homes in Canberra, Australia. Long may his music last
WONDERFUL recording! Inspirational! Added to my list of FAVORITES. I have some Edison cylinders of Dawson. He must have made an extraordinary number of recordings. Any idea of the total number? Thanks much for this video.
Just watched The Iron Lady movie of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the last great PM of Britain since Churchill, she put the Great back into Great Britain. During the Falklands War section of the film "Soldiers of the Queen" was played in the soundtrack and even hearing it in the background of the movie gave me chills when they showed the brave soldiers returning from the campaign. God Save the Queen and Long Live Great Britain, from Canada!
Thatcher was an appalling prime minister who destroyed British industry and was ready to hand over the Falklands to Argentina. All the problems the UK has today date back to her decisions and time in office. Don't give any credit to Thatcher for the Falklands; that credit belongs to the military who extricated Thatcher for the mess she created.
My fathers favourite.He was a bass baritone himself and had a lovely voice but unfortunately his years in the colliery left his lungs damaged so his breath control suffered. I remember him singing these songs when Britain was a united land and the British were still patriotic and not a mongrel conglomoration of aliens. Wish we were still that safe country of steady, sensible people when it was possible to safely walk anywhere in the land at any time of the day and night. Hard times but hard times forge people of tough character not snowflake idiots who give away their heritage without a second thought .
There has been some controversy as to whether "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" is an appropriation of a similar, British patriotic song, "Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean" or whether the latter song is, in fact, an appropriation of "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean". Both songs have occasionally been referred to by the alternate name "The Red, White and Blue". In a 1919 analysis of the song's lyrics, Arthur Johnston stated that "Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean" had come first, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" being adapted from it. Johnston claimed that "the phrase, 'the service united' referred to the United Service Club, for which the song was written, the members of which belong both to the army and the navy". Johnston also opines that, to refer to the United States as "the gem of the ocean" would be "an absurdity" and the phrase more likely was an original reference to Great Britain.
