Salt Lake Telegram | 1922-05-01 | Page 12 | Haunting Tunes

T Haunting Tunes . j "; VV7HAT has become of "Over There," "Tip- Yperary" and the other martial tunes that vere so popular during the war? You rarely tear them any more. When you do, chances are, some one yells out to turn the record over "" or put on some jazz. With Memorial day com-- com-- Ing, there will be a revival of "Dixie," "March-': "March-': Inf Through Georgia" and other songs that call up In. memory the Civil war. Musicians are wondering what particular song Americans will always associate with the World war. The interesting in-teresting possibility looms that they will not remember re-member any tong in this connection unless lt . written later. The popular song during the Revolutionary war was "Yankee Doodle." After nearly a cen-: cen-: ( tury and a half It's "still going strong." "Hail, Cohrnibial" was first sung April 25, 1798, by a young actor named Fox, in Philadelphia's Chest-V Chest-V nut street theatre. While not exactly a war song, " it was In the nature of a reaction from the war, 1 . expressing young America's exuberance at its ! Independence. In 1814 ttie spirit of the war of 1812 saturated sat-urated the blood and brain of Francis Scott Key. Anrewith..jniU , ; Star-Span-lged Banner." The Civil war left the -country with a whole flood of songs, some of ' them surefire today, others good on occasion. The Spanish-American war dug up the oldtimers. . Including "Hot Time ki the Old Town Tonight' This gem, however, dates back to the Chicago fire; whldi it commemorated. The war with t Spain produced no song typical of Its period. Maybe some one, later on, will burst forth with the song that Americans always will asso- ciate with their part In the World war. The chances, however are against It, for the national ' Complex is to keep the war buried in memory. It Is dawning on people that modern war is nothing to sing about. War is being stripped of . Us band-playing, catchy melodies, flag waving and other hypnotic devices of organized militarism. Get rid of war's glitter and glamor, expose It In its hideous nakedness and "drumming up a' war" will not be so easy for the designing diplomats. diplo-mats. That is the tendency not only in the United States, but alt over the world. I