D-Day 80: A Concert Commemorating the Normandy Landings
Vernon Kay with the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra and 大象传媒 Big Band and special guests performing some of the best loved and most enduring music of that era at Portsmouth's Guildhall.
As dawn broke on the morning of the 6th of June 1944, hundreds of Allied Warships made their way towards the coast of Northern France. D-Day had finally arrived. Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare, was underway, heralding one of the most decisive campaigns of World War 2. More than 150,000 troops would land on 5 beaches in Normandy.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Radio 2 marks this occasion with a special concert from Portsmouth's Guildhall. Presented by Vernon Kay and featuring the combined musical forces of the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra and the 大象传媒 Big Band performing some of the best-loved and most enduring music of that era.
Featuring classic film scores including The Longest Day, Attack on the Iron Coast, A Bridge Too Far and Band of Brothers. Musicians also played an important role during those times, most notably Glenn Miller鈥檚 United States Army Air Force Band. They arrived in England in 1944, and over the next year, would make more than 500 broadcasts and 300 live performances attended by more than one million military personnel. Among their classics to be performed are In The Mood, Tail End Charlie and Moonlight Serenade.
The concert also features guests, including the acclaimed soul voices of Vanessa Haynes and Tony Momrelle, who perform some of the biggest hits of 1944, including Duke Ellington鈥檚 Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Louis Jordan鈥檚 Is You Is Or Is You Ain鈥檛 My Baby and Nat 鈥楰ing鈥� Cole鈥檚 Straighten Up And Fly Right. 9-piece vocal ensemble The D-Day Darlings revisit those Vera Lynn favourites, We鈥檒l Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover, and singer / pianist Kate Garner takes a nostalgic look back at Now Is The Hour and I鈥檓 Gonna Get Lit Up When The Lights Go Up In London.
During the interval Jacob Millin tells the story of his grandfather Bill Millin, the D-Day piper of Sword Beach.
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Music Played
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大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
The Longest Day: March
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The 大象传媒 Big Band
In The Mood
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The 大象传媒 Big Band
Tail End Charlie
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The 大象传媒 Big Band
Convoy
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The D-Day Darlings
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree
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The D-Day Darlings
The White Cliffs of Dover
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Vanessa Haynes
Straighten Up and Fly Right
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Vanessa Haynes
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
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Vanessa Haynes
Evil Gal Blues
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大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
A Bridge Too Far
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Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Mist Covered Mountains
- The Best of Scotland.
- Bandboy.
- BB 4.
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Jacob Millin
Highland Laddie
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The Cape Town Highlanders
Road to the Isles
- Scotland The Brave.
- Scotdisc.
- CDITV740.
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The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Flowers of the Forest
- The Great Big Scottish Songbook.
- EMI.
- VTDCDX 909.
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Seattle Symphony
Schindler's List
- Hollywood '94.
- Varese Sarabande.
- VSD-5531.
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Gordon Highlanders Drums and Pipes
A Scottish Soldier
- Scotland The Brave.
- OPP.
- OPP 3020.
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大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
Attack On The Iron Coast
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Tony Momrelle
Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
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Tony Momrelle
Till Then
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The 大象传媒 Big Band
Moonlight Serenade
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The D-Day Darlings
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
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The D-Day Darlings
The Longest Day
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大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
Band of Brothers - Main Title
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Kate Garner
The D-Day Dodgers
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Kate Garner
Medley: Now Is The Hour, When They Sound The Last All Clear, I'm Gonna Get Lit Up
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The D-Day Darlings
We'll Meet Again
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大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
Evening Hymn and Sunset
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