Details
- Ensembles:
- Brass Ensemble
- Genres:
- Contemporary
- Composers:
- Jimmy Kennedy
- Publishers:
- Kevin P Holdgate
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Set of Parts Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Artist:
- Jimmy Kennedy
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Number of Pages:
- 20
SKU: A0.791035
Composed by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr. Arranged by Kevin P Holdgate. Contemporary. Score and parts. 20 pages. Kevin P Holdgate #4889985. Published by Kevin P Holdgate (A0.791035).Versatile Brass 'Old Time Favourites' Collection
"We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line" is a popular song by Ulster songwriter Jimmy Kennedy, written whilst he was a Captain in the British Expeditionary Force during the early stages of the Second World War, with music by Michael Carr. It was first published in 1939
The Siegfried Line was a chain of fortifications along Germany's Western border, analogous to the Maginot Line in France.
At the first big wartime variety concert organized by ENSA, which was broadcast by the BBC from RAF Hendon in North London on 17 October 1939, Adelaide Hall performed the song accompanied by Mantovani and his orchestra. A rare newsreel of this concert exists, and the footage is thought to be the earliest surviving film of a performer singing the song.
The song was used as a morale-booster during the war, particularly up to and during the Battle of France.
This is a simple arrangement of the song with a vocal line added if required.
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- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Artists:
- Jimmy Kennedy
- Ensemble:
- Brass Ensemble
- Publisher:
- Kevin P Holdgate