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Track(s) taken from CDH55156

God be with our boys tonight

composer
Wilfred Sanderson (1878-1935)
author of text
Fred G Bowles (?-?)

Robert White (tenor), Stephen Hough (piano)
Recording details: June 1995
Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: November 1995
Total duration: 3 minutes 37 seconds

Cover artwork: Poetry. Wiiliam Affleck (1868-1943)
 

Wilfrid Sanderson wrote the stirring music to this quintessentially English song of The Great War. McCormack (who else?) made a thrilling recording of it in 1918 and sang it throughout the War, raising huge sums of money for the Red Cross.

from notes by Robert White © 1995

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