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Stanley Kirkby 'Somebody's Boy' Acoustic 1914 78 rpm


Playing Next: Paul Williams of "The Temptations"
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1 I will be uploading a song from the time every day this week ending with Armistice Day on Sunday'
The flip side to Stanleys' propaganda recuiting song 'Won't You Join The Army' tells the other side of the story of parents sat at home with an empty chair. But still has an optimistic tone expcting their boy to come home.
Again the singer is Stanley Kirkbywho made many patriotic, propaganda, or melancholic records during the war years.
The drum gives it almost a battlefield atmosphere.


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