{"id":1446,"date":"2014-06-29T22:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T03:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2014-06-29T22:31:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T03:31:46","slug":"its-a-long-way-to-berlin-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dismuke.org\/blog\/?p=1446","title":{"rendered":"“It’s A Long Way To Berlin” – 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“It’s A Long Way To Berlin”
\nFred Fairbanks, vocal
\n1917 \u00a0(Pathe 20266)
\nIt’s A Long Way To Berlin<\/a><\/p>\n

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This weekend was the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand<\/a> which sparked the start of World War I – aftershocks of which continue to be felt even into our own time.<\/p>\n

Here is a song that was popular in the United States soon after it had joined the war a few years later. \u00a0 It was composed by\u00a0Leon Flatow, a pianist who also wrote theme songs for silent films, with lyrics by vocalist Arthur Fields<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This recording is from a vertically cut Pathe<\/a> record. \u00a0Such records had a different type of groove\u00a0than the\u00a0standard disc records of the day and require specialized playback equipment. \u00a0I have written about the difference between Pathe records and more conventional records in my August 2, 2011 posting<\/a>. \u00a0 You can hear more selections from Pathe discs in that posting as well as in my June 26, 2013<\/a> posting.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate any information at all as to who Fred Fairbanks might have been – nor have I found any sort of indication that he made any other recordings besides this one.<\/p>\n

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