@[email protected] I hope this is ok even though it’s a video. It seems like the perfect community for it. Totally understand if you delete it.
Anyway…
This is a bizarre short musical film telling Americans what to do in an air raid, obviously made shortly after America entered WWII. I thought it was absolutely fascinating and the sort of bit of history none of us would have known about otherwise, which is why I decided to post it.
It was apparently a song by Tony Pastor and his Orchestra and was also released as a record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPDuBfze5PU
I cannot find much more information about it. Even the Wikipedia page on Tony Pastor is not very helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Pastor_(bandleader)
Wild. 1, I was not expecting the song. Totally was expecting the “voice of god” style 2, the smoking while singing. lol
Brilliant. Thanks
Did you know that cigarettes were part of standard military rations in WWII? Smoking-related illnesses that those cigarettes led to killed far more people than bullets and bombs in the war.
In fact I did.
I saw something last night. About it’s hard to explain to kids today that yes before the 80s everything smelled like cigarettes.
Or something to that effect