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Here's to the Vets

From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Patterns in Music
Length: 01:40:15

Commemorating Veteran's Day with this edition of Patterns in Music—a fitting musical tribute to those who served. Read the full description.

Veterans_day_2_small "Patterns in Music" with host, Mike Whorf, celebrates veterans of recent and past years. Included are medleys of the songs we heard during WWII and the Korean & Vietnam wars, as well as a reading of the poem "In Flanders Fields."

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"Patterns in Music" with host, Mike Whorf, celebrates veterans of recent and past years. Included are medleys of the songs we heard during WWII and the Korean & Vietnam wars, as well as a reading of the poem "In Flanders Fields."

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Wonderful

Terrible history. Memories and Wonderful songs. What can they do to me---send me to VietNam? (already there!)

Broadcast History

WJR Detroit - "Patterns in Music" - 11/07/99

Timing and Cues

Full Version

[Part 1]

SEGMENT 1: (14:27)
incue: theme music
outcue: "...a Yankee Doodle Boy"
editing notes: 1:10 "this Sunday morning"

HOLE @ 14:34

SEGMENT 2: (44:43)
incue: music "Over There"
outcue: "...his name, Irving Berlin"

[Part 2]

SEGMENT 1: (30:43)
incue: "These are the songs..."
outcue: "...in Vietnam"
editing note: 9:40 "Sunday morning..."

HOLE @ 30:50

SEGMENT 2: (10:00 )
incue: music "Green Berets"
outcue: music end "Wonderful World"

PROGRAM OUT @ 40:58

* "Full" version incorporates 4 seconds of tape silence at the head and tail.

Segmented Version

* Segments created at program holes.

edits required @ 1:10 (pt1_seg1); 9:40 (pt2_seg1)

Musical Works

Title Artist Album Label Year Length
In My Life Unknown 00:00
Anchors Away Unknown 00:00
Over There Unknown 00:00
No Man's Land (Green Fields of France) Unknown 00:00
Looks Like No One Gives a Damn About GI Joe Unknown 00:00
(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover Unknown 00:00
God Bless America Unknown 00:00
I'll Be Seeing You Unknown 00:00
We'll Meet Again Unknown 00:00
White Christmas Bing Crosby 00:00
Long Ago and Far Away Unknown 00:00
Let's Dance Unknown 00:00
In the Mood Glenn Miller Orchestra 00:00
You'll Never Know Unknown 00:00
Raining On My Heroes Unkown 00:00
The Ballad of the Green Berets Unknown 00:00
Beyond the Wall Unknown 00:00
What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong 00:00