Merry Singing Xmas from Your Son at Boot Camp in 1944

Two “audio letters” home, sent December 19, 1944, one in which Duncan has his friend Joe (“a good singer”) sing “White Christmas,” the other featuring Duncan singing “Oh Holy Night.” The discs themselves are very lightweight, and have not survived the years in very good shape, as you will be able to hear. I’ve cut both off at the end when they started skipping badly.

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  1. […] I’ll have more to say about that all later, either here or at my father’s site or both, but for now I’ll just post the selection of recordings we played for a rather captive audience, after the bagpiper was done, before the eulogies (there is a good explanation for the roughness of the first selection): […]

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