The US and British navies nurture their relations with the Indian Navy as supplies are built for the return. Victory at Sea is a documentary television series [1] about warfare in general during World War II, and naval warfare in particular, as well as the use of industry in warfare. Still, the German submarine war increases its crescendo thanks to new French bases. Essential information is conveyed about how some deaths are caused not just by battle but also by malaria. The movements and approximate timings in the RCA Victor Symphony performance are as follows: The score was a favorite of U.S. President Richard Nixon, who was a Navy veteran himself, and part of it was played at his funeral. This is often a source of confusion. 2 people found this helpful Helpful Report abuse Jan in the North Woods Lucky to have this music On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The images, the script, the narration by Alexander Scourby, and the music of Richard Rogers combine to produce the best documentary I have seen. It's the battle of the South Atlantic between the British ship Devonshire and the German ship Atlantis. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. "Navy Plans to Present War History on Video" Chicago Tribune, 12 March 1951. Still, the Americans are resilient. Everyone with any historical interest in the 20th century, and WWII in particular MUST see, hear, and own this series. Rodgers's "Beneath the Southern Cross" theme was given words by Oscar Hammerstein, titled "No Other Love", and put into their 1953 musical, Me and Juliet. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. background-color: #FBECD5; Meanwhile, the United States exerts it's influence to keep the Vichy French from turning ve Read allThe British Navy engages German U-Boats and the pocket battleship Graf Spee in the South Atlantic. Still played by many orchestras and radio programs on Veterans Day and Memorial Day, the guns and strings of Victory at Sea continue to resonate in the twenty-first century. Often overshadowed by the Battle of Midway, the hard-fought carrier naval battle in May 1942 in the waters of the Coral Sea north of Australia marked the end of the phase of Japanese triumphs in the Pacific War and proved to be of strategic significance. Victory At Sea: Douglas Dauntless Flights. We dont have an album for this track yet. Meanwhile, the German Luftwaffe attacks Malta, but the Maltese remain determined to keep fighting. , Alexander Scourby, Harold Alexander, Alan Brooke, Studio : Instead Kunzel limits himself to the most popular numbers, "The Song of the High Seas," "Guadalcanal March," "Beneath the Southern Cross" (better known as "No Other Love" from "Me and Juliet"), "Hard Work and Horseplay," and "Victory at Sea." I bought it again for the reason the price is outstanding and this edition also included the 2 hour feature film assembled from all 13 hours of the original documentary. It was Robert Sarnoff who championed Salomon's proposal, won its approval and saw it through to completion. The Japanese invade China in 1937, but the Japanese are not satisfied and they invade Indochina and Thailand, enabling the invasion of Burma. Training in twin engine B-25 Mitchell bombers, the 477th never actually saw combat overseas, but fought another battle here in the United States. Victory at Sea is a documentary television series[1] about warfare in general during World War II, and naval warfare in particular, as well as the use of industry in warfare. The aircraft carriers of the US Navy attack in the Central Pacific Ocean at the Gilbert and Marshall Islands, destroying Japanese installations. 18, for example, is entirely of Bennett's creation, and uses none of Rodgers's twelve themes. Seeking a decisive battle, the Imperial Japanese Navy began an operation against Midway Island in June 1942. Cafe Songbook would like to further note that song titles cannot be copyrighted. 7/2017, posted anonymously: "This song is attributed to being composed by Richard Rodgers when it was really composed by Chopin. But the Allies fight back with new bases in countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean, new anti-submarine techniques and the new escort, or "jeep", carrier. I waited for this digitized version for a long time. Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2021. A well-produced feature -length version of the TV documentary series with actual footage from the battles described, it's emotional and provides a good look at what our men . The project was conceived by Henry Salomon,[2] who, while a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander during World War II, was a research assistant to historian Samuel Eliot Morison. Rodgers are a group of mostly elderly misfits from Svartlamon, Trondheim, Norway. The series premiered on the last Sunday of October 1952, and subsequent episodes played each Sunday afternoon through May 1953. Entertainer Nol Coward's flamboyant lifestyle and defiance of social conventions masked a fierce determination to defeat Nazi Germany. Excellent movie based on the award winning 26 episode TV series of 1952. (This episode was re-broadcast on 7 December 1952the anniversary of the attack.). (with the title "Beneath the Southern Cross") for the NBC television series Victory at Sea (1952/1953). [9] Victory at Sea has been released on VHS, Betamax, LaserDisc, DVD and Blu-ray. The film is fast-paced with excellent narration featuring Alexander Scourby, and legendary music by Richard Rodgers. album: title, Notes: of the 1952 World War II TV documentary Victory at Sea. Bennett then timed the music to match the documentary film, even incorporating sounds of gunfire and airplane engines, as well as jungle sounds. Richard Rodgers' haunting tango in Episode 10, Beneath the Southern Cross, is likely the very first made-for-TV original orchestral work (and perhaps the only one) to be converted into a song in a Broadway musical. After approaching longtime friend Robert Sarnoff at NBC, Salomon was able to secure approval in January 1951 for creating a television series, with a budget of half a million dollars and a designated team to cull 60 million feet of film for what would eventually be a 26-part television series utilizing some 60,000 feet of film. Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2015. Guam, a US territory, is invaded by Japanese a few days after Pearl Harbor and remains occupied for two and a half years. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon. 1989 Preview 1 The Song Of The High Seas (From "Victory At Sea") A fine overview of the 26-episode television series that chronicles World War II through the use of newsreel footage. The atomic bomb is detonated, and its effects demonstrated at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ", As Salomon began devising the themes and writing the narration for each half-hour episode, NBC executive Pat Weaver approached Broadway composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), already famous for his award-winning work onCarousel, South Pacific,andThe King and I. : I used to play the sound track when we were cruising on my sail boat. October 26 marks the National Day of the Deployed. This page was last edited on 9 February 2023, at 16:14. . There is one more bit of Rodgers here: a brief, handsomely played suite from another TV documentary series, [RoviLink="VW"]The Valiant. 1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts in August 1953. The narration and film footage were reminiscent of wartime newsreels, but shocking scenes of combat at sea and on land and the soaring music elicited an entirely new and powerfully emotional dimension of the war experience. British forces have the unenviable position of guarding the sea as they escort convoys from Gibraltar to Malta. [8] Episode No. Unquote: \r Lyrics:\r No other love have I,\rOnly my love for you!\rOnly the dream we knew,\rNo other love!\r \rWatching the night go by,\rWishing that you could be,\rWatching the night with me,\rInto the night I cry!\r \rHurry home,\rCome home to me!\rSet me free,\rFree from doubt,\rAnd free from longing!\r \rInto your arms I'll fly,\rLocked in your arms I'll stay,\rWaiting to hear you say,\rNo other love have I,\rNo other love!\r\r(Instrumental break)\r \r(Into the night I cry! In addition, the Imperial Japanese Navy possessed a powerful battleship force, which included the largest and most powerful battleships in the world, the Yamato and the Musashi. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. $25.00 USD. This segment marked the near inevitability that the Japanese would accept defeat and surrender to the Allies. Peter C. Rollins, "Victory at Sea: Cold War Epic"Gary R. Edgerton/Peter C Rollins (eds.). Rodgers also received a Distinguished Service Award from the US Navy. The albums were popular, probably due in part to the fact that a lot of veterans owned stereo systems in the late '50s, and these recordings took full advantage of stereo's two-channel sound separation. Defend your friendly convoys and keep your supply lines open. Buy Also Available At: . Credits for Videomakers of custom videos used on this page: Borrowed material (text): The sources of all quoted and paraphrased text are cited. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site. Japan surrenders, signing the surrender documents aboard the USS. So there can be any number of songs with the same title. The best WWII doc ever.narration in this condensed 2hr version is done beautifully by Alexander Scourby (a different narrator was used in the individual half hour episodes of the Vic At Sea series). And as the scene of the recent Mount Suribachi memorial appears, viewers are once again reminded of the price that comes before true victory can be achieved. Please try again. The Japanese are ascendant as they invade the East Indies, Singapore and the Philippines. Deering Library, Northwestern University, Evanston IL. The 1952 NBC series Victory at Sea was one of the earliest network documentary series to capture the public's imagination in a serious way, and one of the more enduring offshoots was the music by Richard Rodgers, which was recorded by RCA-Victor in what ultimately became a series of four LPs. The series, which won an Emmy award in 1954 as "best public affairs program", played an important part in establishing historic "compilation" documentaries as a viable television genre. (Notes from "The Incomparable Como" Readers Digest UK compilation 1975)Quote: Composer Richard Rodgers borrowed from himself for the melody for this lovely b. , Release date Richard Rodgers' haunting tango in Episode 10, Beneath the Southern Cross, is likely the very first made-for-TV original orchestral work (and perhaps the only one) to be converted into a song in a Broadway musical. by Paul Kennedy. , Product Dimensions But there is still a slow campaign (Salerno, Cassino, Anzio) until victory is achieved by the liberation of Roma, where Romans celebrate freedom waving American flags, and the Pope addressing the audience. Rodgers devised a straightforward melodic score whose most inspired moments (such as the main title theme) seem to have been lifted from the early work of Ralph Vaughan Williams. The film is fast-paced with excellent narration featuring Alexander Scourby, and legendary music by Richard Rodgers. Excerpts from the music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, were re-recorded and sold as record albums. 3 by Frederic Chopin" and bears no connection to the song under discussion on this page. Victory at Sea is a documentary television series about naval warfare during World War II that was originally broadcast by NBC in the USA in 1952-1953. With bitter and egomaniac lyrics about love and pain, but also histories of everything from real larger than life-characters and from their neighbourhood to the murder o, Rodgers are a group of mostly elderly misfits from Svartlamon, Trondheim, Norway. Plenty of footage of South America, both as sympathizers to the Nazi cause and, much later, as American allies willing to aid their northern neighbor's causeMore compelling footage of sea battles accompanied, as always, by the stirring music of Richard Rodgers and likewise that of Leonard Graves' narration. : Video and sound quality are very good. German U-Boats come through and manage to destroy some of ships along the way. Rodgers would con- tribute twelve 'themes' - short piano compositions a minute or two in length - while Robert Russell Bennett did the scoring and conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra on the soundtrack recording sessions. Cafe Songbook replies: In a quick survey of the literature, much mention is made of the melody for the song "No Other Love" (from the score of the 1953 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Me and Juliet) having originally been written by Rodgers (with significant editing by arranger Richard Russell Bennett) for the episode "Under the Southern Cross." Note that the More Victory at Sea album also includes "Special Effect Battle Sounds" as part of many of the tracks. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. A rather dramatic sounding song and is very obviously taken from a musical. But the US Navy and Marines are ready for them with their guns, and they fought heroically against the onslaught. The British Navy engages German U-Boats and the pocket battleship Graf Spee in the South Atlantic. Meanwhile, to the tune of Richard Rodgers' most famous march from the series, America's men and materiel are mobilized against the ultimate struggle that is World War II. Victory at Sea - The Legendary World War II Documentary (History Channel), Victory at Sea - The Complete 26 Episode Series - Plus 6 Bonus War Documentary Programs - Collector's Tin. MPAA rating The Japanese Navy is ascendant in its conquests, of which its main base is on Rabaul in the New Britain Islands. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Still, they have their relaxing moments, especially the daily mealtimes: Morning cocoa, breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper. Portions of the score were played at Nixons funeral. 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